Hopeless
2013-04-10, 06:41 AM
So just bought this on dvd and once I can watch the Hobbit it'll be the next movie I'll try to watch.
Now I've been thinking and having listened to the Postcards from the dungeon podcast on this I don't expect much from it but it has given me a couple of ideas I'd like to discuss and see what you think.
I'll avoid specifying a game system so I'll get to the point(s)
1) Snow White is the villain of the game, her mother being very evil died supposedly died in childbirth in fact she possessed her newboen child and has grown up keeping her true identity a secret even as her "father" has remarried.
Being evil she began a campaign to turn everyone against ehr stepmother intending to use her as a scapegoat once she's old enough and will kill her father implicating her stepmother so she can gain sole control over the throne.
The Seven Dwarves are servants from her previous life and are aware who she is and live to serve her whims allowing her to commit misdeeds without anyone tracing it back to her.
The Huntsman was selected because her stepmother befriended his wife and her dwarves murdered the huntsman's wife and family as part of her scheme to blame them for her father's murder.
He however is aware the dwarves are responsible but not about their mistress which is where the PCs come in...
If one of them is running a dwarf they will recognise any one of the dwarves for their very evil reputation, any arcane spellcaster who is told about this will know who their mistress was and that she supposedly died forty years ago after a (supposedly) failed attempt to escape retribution by stealing the body of a newborn child via her magic.
Of course evidence suggests the stepmother is this evil sorceress and that the Huntsman is her loyal servant but why is he asking for their help to hunt down the dwarves?
If they don't have a dwarf PC then they might become suspicious if the Hunstman is arrested even though he had been with them the entire time and their protests only get them jailed too as accessories leading to them having to find a way to escape and prove their innocence all the meanwhile the true villain of the piece plans her next move...
2) She's still evil but her father is also and he married his new wife to gain her wealth and fortune and its coming to the time he plans to get rid of her and is seeking a suitable catspaw...
He originally planned on the Huntsman but his daughter is apparently in love with him so even though he had the man's family killed he is thinking of blaming the dwarves who witnessed the event but then those PCs come wandering into view and he has this funny idea he can kill two birds with one stone not that the PCs are going to like what he plans to do about them though...
Now I've been thinking and having listened to the Postcards from the dungeon podcast on this I don't expect much from it but it has given me a couple of ideas I'd like to discuss and see what you think.
I'll avoid specifying a game system so I'll get to the point(s)
1) Snow White is the villain of the game, her mother being very evil died supposedly died in childbirth in fact she possessed her newboen child and has grown up keeping her true identity a secret even as her "father" has remarried.
Being evil she began a campaign to turn everyone against ehr stepmother intending to use her as a scapegoat once she's old enough and will kill her father implicating her stepmother so she can gain sole control over the throne.
The Seven Dwarves are servants from her previous life and are aware who she is and live to serve her whims allowing her to commit misdeeds without anyone tracing it back to her.
The Huntsman was selected because her stepmother befriended his wife and her dwarves murdered the huntsman's wife and family as part of her scheme to blame them for her father's murder.
He however is aware the dwarves are responsible but not about their mistress which is where the PCs come in...
If one of them is running a dwarf they will recognise any one of the dwarves for their very evil reputation, any arcane spellcaster who is told about this will know who their mistress was and that she supposedly died forty years ago after a (supposedly) failed attempt to escape retribution by stealing the body of a newborn child via her magic.
Of course evidence suggests the stepmother is this evil sorceress and that the Huntsman is her loyal servant but why is he asking for their help to hunt down the dwarves?
If they don't have a dwarf PC then they might become suspicious if the Hunstman is arrested even though he had been with them the entire time and their protests only get them jailed too as accessories leading to them having to find a way to escape and prove their innocence all the meanwhile the true villain of the piece plans her next move...
2) She's still evil but her father is also and he married his new wife to gain her wealth and fortune and its coming to the time he plans to get rid of her and is seeking a suitable catspaw...
He originally planned on the Huntsman but his daughter is apparently in love with him so even though he had the man's family killed he is thinking of blaming the dwarves who witnessed the event but then those PCs come wandering into view and he has this funny idea he can kill two birds with one stone not that the PCs are going to like what he plans to do about them though...