JohnLokiBeard
Mongoose
Only 4 months left to plan, and if anyone has the inclination to write to write one of these hooks into a full adventure for S&P, that’d be great.
Burgling the tower of Zantaclus:
Whilst committing a fairly standard robbery, the PCs stumble upon the sorcerer’s plot to plant living-toy spies in the houses of prominent nobles. And there’s a stable full of demonic flying reindeer, the leader of which can breath fire from his nose…
Fetching a lamp for Abadnazar:
It’s a tomb-raid mission, you can keep all the treasure except for a battered old lamp, look out for the scholar’s idiot nephew Aladin. For an extra twist, the treasure cave is actually the den of a gang of thieves; 40 of them…
These are all opportunities in a Hyborian ripoff of the Christian Nativity story; and there’s no reason the father of the Divine Child has to be a nice god like Mitra…
Escorting/Raiding the Magi’s caravan:
Anyone know the market price for frankincense and myrrh?
Ale & whores at a very busy inn:
As you stumble outside to relieve yourself, you notice a lot of weird lights around the stables…
Help the Holy Family escape:
Just as well they can afford to hire some guards with that gold the Magi gave them; the king has sent a full company of soldiers to slaughter every baby in the land...
Rob the unusually rich carpenter:
Of course, this will annoy someone with powerful connections…
Stop the king’s men slaughtering innocents:
I think Conan would at least try, especially if there were some cute mamas…
Making “longspear shishkababies”:
The king might find it politically useful to employ mercenaries for this. Or, if using the Nasty Devine/Demonic Father option, it could be an Omen-style mission, just targeting the hellspawn…
Burgling the tower of Zantaclus:
Whilst committing a fairly standard robbery, the PCs stumble upon the sorcerer’s plot to plant living-toy spies in the houses of prominent nobles. And there’s a stable full of demonic flying reindeer, the leader of which can breath fire from his nose…
Fetching a lamp for Abadnazar:
It’s a tomb-raid mission, you can keep all the treasure except for a battered old lamp, look out for the scholar’s idiot nephew Aladin. For an extra twist, the treasure cave is actually the den of a gang of thieves; 40 of them…
These are all opportunities in a Hyborian ripoff of the Christian Nativity story; and there’s no reason the father of the Divine Child has to be a nice god like Mitra…
Escorting/Raiding the Magi’s caravan:
Anyone know the market price for frankincense and myrrh?
Ale & whores at a very busy inn:
As you stumble outside to relieve yourself, you notice a lot of weird lights around the stables…
Help the Holy Family escape:
Just as well they can afford to hire some guards with that gold the Magi gave them; the king has sent a full company of soldiers to slaughter every baby in the land...
Rob the unusually rich carpenter:
Of course, this will annoy someone with powerful connections…
Stop the king’s men slaughtering innocents:
I think Conan would at least try, especially if there were some cute mamas…
Making “longspear shishkababies”:
The king might find it politically useful to employ mercenaries for this. Or, if using the Nasty Devine/Demonic Father option, it could be an Omen-style mission, just targeting the hellspawn…
