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Dungeon World / Front Help? Trolling for Ideas
« on: January 17, 2013, 10:21:58 PM »
So, I'm sort of kicking around ideas right now, working on a Front. Right now, I've got the Main Danger of the front, the partially-embodied spirit of a great wyrm/dragon god/scary elder evil. I know what his motivation is and the sort of things he plans to do. What I don't have are other Dangers to round out the story yet.
The idea, so far is that the Evil Dragon was incompletely resurrected by a spell interrupted by the players. Now a weak shade of its true glory, it has to fly around putting itself back together, consuming arcane power (I'm thinking one of the next few adventures will be in a haunted keep where he's eating ghosts to refuel his ecto-batteries), finding its Name and maybe its Heart or stuff like that. Along the way, it will be summoning weaker dragons and drake-like beings to itself - probably getting a lizardman army or a horde of orcs (probably not orcs, too cliche) or something. Anyways, I'm fine with that.... I need other Dangers to throw into the mix, other actors to complicate the story.
I started off with some notes about a group of Dragon Hunter Knights who seek power through dragon-eating, but I found it sort of silly (and am only NOW just seeing the Skyrim in it, hilarious). Beyond that, I'm drawing a blank, so I thought maybe if I toss it out into the crowd, somebody might, at least, spark my own brain juices.
Or maybe I should just wait until I'm not so tired... either way.
Anyway, here's what i have of the Front so far:
THE RETURN OF THE STORM WYRM
DANGER
THE NAMELESS DRAKE (LORD OF THE UNDEAD/DRAGON)
Intent: to seek true immortality
GRIM PORTENTS
The idea, so far is that the Evil Dragon was incompletely resurrected by a spell interrupted by the players. Now a weak shade of its true glory, it has to fly around putting itself back together, consuming arcane power (I'm thinking one of the next few adventures will be in a haunted keep where he's eating ghosts to refuel his ecto-batteries), finding its Name and maybe its Heart or stuff like that. Along the way, it will be summoning weaker dragons and drake-like beings to itself - probably getting a lizardman army or a horde of orcs (probably not orcs, too cliche) or something. Anyways, I'm fine with that.... I need other Dangers to throw into the mix, other actors to complicate the story.
I started off with some notes about a group of Dragon Hunter Knights who seek power through dragon-eating, but I found it sort of silly (and am only NOW just seeing the Skyrim in it, hilarious). Beyond that, I'm drawing a blank, so I thought maybe if I toss it out into the crowd, somebody might, at least, spark my own brain juices.
Or maybe I should just wait until I'm not so tired... either way.
Anyway, here's what i have of the Front so far:
THE RETURN OF THE STORM WYRM
DANGER
THE NAMELESS DRAKE (LORD OF THE UNDEAD/DRAGON)
Intent: to seek true immortality
GRIM PORTENTS
- The Lesser Flights converge
- The Drake consumes power
- The Name is uncovered
- The Drake returns to Life