(See also Seed of Worlds' read of the oracle - a spider-infested ancient scientific facility!)
Click on me twice; your setting is at the border between those two places
My world is at the edge of these two places. Very numinous! A fissure that bubbles up dragons and a big pole stretching into the heavens, so maybe a bit Freudian too.
Click on me thrice for the kinds of things that live there
Things aren't what they seem; living illusions or those who create them are at least as common as natural creatures. The Tree and the Canyon make things more real; storms bubble up from them - the famous dragons are only a particularly strong manifestation of this. Some mages come to make illusions that this place of power makes into reality, others to simply ride the wave of its raw power.
Maybe nothing natural (aside from the supernatural tree.)
Click on me twice for faction leaders
There's a spirit who doesn't like the mages coming in here. And he's going to fuck with your gear! And a clan of Minotaurs who come here for rasslin' against fearsome illusion-spirit-dragon-things of the area. They gotta go defeat something fierce to prove their worth. Strictly rasslin', though, no weapons, which is why the gear-hating spirit lets them come in regularly. Maybe they can help be your guide through the area, but you'll owe them a favor - they don't take cash.
Click on me once for a fearsome beast
Well, we all know what the tallest and oldest tree is, right? Only this gargantuan beast is big enough or respected enough to eat from its leaves. You can have a very linear brontosauruscrawl hiking up from its tail to its forehead - battle or battle of wits spirits along the way. Maybe it has magic poop?
Click on me once for legendary loot
A legendary blade - the reason the loot-hating spirit hates loot! If it kills something in the area, you can go summon it even outside the area. (Most things that become substantial here are simple ephemeral elsewhere, but this is a way aroound that.)
Um, this is AWESOME.
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ReplyDeleteThis blog post of yours has really helped me get ideas or my games. I even tweaked your process on my blog to use your links to get adventure ideas.
DeleteHere's some links if you're interested.
https://santanonsdmcorner.blogspot.com/2021/08/use-random-mtg-card-generators-to-for.html
and here's a second adventure idea example
https://santanonsdmcorner.blogspot.com/2021/08/another-adventure-idea-inspired-by-mtg.html
A big thanks for thinking up this idea to use MTG cards for campaign ideas. It's really helped me brainstorm new ideas I normally wouldn't think of.
If you're wondering why the first comment was deleted I'm new to using a blog and for some reason the kept my screen name as 0 but after deleting the comment it seemed to update my screen name. I still got a lot to learn about this, never ran a blog before but your post inspired me to try.
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