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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:14:59 No.43363297 View Reply Report Delete

My party have been following a 'destroy the macguffins' questline for a while now. each adventure ends up following the same formula of a bad guy/boss monster sitting on top of a macguffin, until the party rolls up, makes their way through the dungeon, and geeks the boss. they haven't started complaining but they're definitely used to the way it works by now.

what are some ways i can make a dungeon with a boss monster and a divine artifact more interesting?

Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:18:14 No.43363350 Report Delete

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The "boss monster" is systematic oppression of minorities.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:28:48 No.43363567 Report Delete

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Someone will have worked out that they're systematically working through the macguffins.

Therefore, the boss is not an idiot. He escapes, taking the macguffin with him. The players roll up, and the dungeon is empty, just enough evidence (fireplaces still warm, etc) that they've only just left.

rest of the session is a chase, be it on horseback, boats down a river, or something, chasing down the target.

the Boss, not being an idiot, realises he's fucked, they are relentless... so splits, chucks his minions at them to try to slow them down, and when that fails, he sticks the macguffin on a boat/horse/whatever, and goes in a different direction, so the players will chase it.

He then becomes a returning nemesis, by arming up, gathering minions, and preparing to ambush the party enroute to the next Macguffin, to retrieve his own possession - and perhaps, succeeding and resulting in a further conflict, outside of the dungeons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:28:20 No.43364415 Report Delete

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The PCs mistakenly destroy the wrong MacGuffin

It wasn't important at all (to the PCs), so whatevs

But there's this other adventuring party

And they're REALLY pissed about it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:20:38 No.43365144 Report Delete

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there's lots of little things you could do that don't actually change the formula. have a more interesting dungeon (pocket dimension, time travel, etc.) or a more interesting macguffin (one that walks/talks, inside the body of a person, something the party really wants to keep, etc.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:33:50 No.43365328 Report Delete

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>>43363297
The next macguffin is the only thing keeping an innocent child alive

The macguffin was stolen from the boss monster, who is now laying siege to the town where it is hidden, trying to find the theif

The "boss monster" IS the dungeon

The boss monster is in a moving fortress

There is no boss monster, there is only Zul

The macguffin is sapient and doesn't want to die

The macguffin is a prize at a tourney

The macguffin is something the PCs want, but still have to destroy because plot

Read more and put more effort into your DMing

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:43:13 No.43365448 Report Delete

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Instead of a bad guy, it's a rich guy who's keeping the thing because it's hella sweet, and he offers to give it to the party if they go to a building he's rented out and collect rent from the strong tenants.

Or since they know it's in his house, they go to rob him, but while they're there they encounter his honorable ninja security who promise not to tell him the party broke in if they fight the ninja.

The key is to change it from 'guy sitting on macguffin' to 'how does the party obtain the macguffin'

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