Monday, September 21, 2009

Epithalamium

One of my players and good friends is getting married. This coming weekend there is going to be a bachelor party. Not your traditional bachelor party mind you, drinking beer and playing video games was mentioned. One of the other attendees who has not played with us mentioned D&D. The groom would actually like to game. So I am trying to throw something together in a week, not even sure who will be there and if they all are interested in gaming.

In poetry there is a kind of occasional poem written specifically for a wedding, so I figure why not an adventure? Have you ever written an adventure for a special occasion?

I was thinking about the whole marriage theme and came up with some ideas for an adventure locale:
  • A "bride" offered to something scary and powerful, à la, King Kong
  • A palace or temple devoted to a spouse, à la: The Taj Mahal'
  • A temple of some sort of demon with 666 brides
  • A mating ground of some awesome and dire beasts, perhaps dragons or chimera
  • An alchemical theme, where marriage is metaphorical and various compounds are combined to create something grand à la: philosophers's stone
Maybe my guys can be escorting a bride to her groom, or delivering a gift to an unsavory destination. Thoughts?

5 comments:

  1. the old favorite, rescuing a damsel in distress?

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  2. 666 brides

    Holy Crap! That is scary! Somehow you have managed to capture the very essence of the average wedding here.

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  3. Didn't LotFP publish just this sort of module recently?

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  4. @A Paladin, yep Three Brides, that would probably be appropriate but I don't have it yet. I was sort of more interested if you all had made your own occasional adventures, maybe for a birthday or Halloween or something.

    @Bullete, I'm thinking now there will be many damsels in distress

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