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Evil One-shot (lemmy.today)

submitted 4 days ago by mushroommunk@lemmy.today to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

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Howdy folks.

A friend of mine has been itching to play some DnD and I drew the short straw to run it. I don't think we have time for more than a one shot so I come for ideas.

Normally I'm good with coming up with stuff but she wants to do something where they get to play as evil instead of your typical heroes. My problem is everything I come up with just feels like typical hero quest but called evil. Like "kidnap the princess" just feels like a re-skin of "rescue the princess". Hoping y'all have something more to get me thinking.

I am aware of the Critical Role Mordor one shot that I'll take some inspiration from.

Thanks in advance y'all

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[–] pteryx@dice.camp 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thing is, your typical clear-out-the-humanoid-tribe dungeon crawl could be considered pretty evil in its own right by modern standards. Just putting an emphasis on how much that old trope would actually involve disrupting lives and destroying families could be enough, depending on what she's going for.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago

I love doing this to my players. They go to loot a goblin body in a cave and find a baby rattle or something. They always get so upset.

I could see taking that to it's max as a fun thing. An evil king wants a town cleared out so he can build a highway through it. It's the players job to clear the town