Homecoming
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This game aid presents several linked scenes to serve as a centerpiece or inspiration for your own full adventure¸ or to fill in a sundry night's gaming between "real" episodes in your story arc. It could also help when your players zig instead of zagging. This supplement is not a completely fleshed-out scenario¸ but is nearly so. Because it is meant to be tied so intimately to the particular characters of your own story¸ there is no way to provide many of the details that you will need. This is the chief reason for presenting Homecoming as an interlude¸ rather than struggling to write a scenario that could never be complete or specific enough.
This interlude is centered on a visit to the home village of (at least one of) the characters¸ as a break between campaign installments. The first days are for errands of the players' choice¸ to advance other campaign threads¸ and perhaps to illustrate that "you can't go home again". After this rather subdued beginning¸ though¸ things go sideways¸ as they so often do in the adventuring life. Once the characters have begun to address the nominal reason for the return home¸ yet before they have concluded their business¸ circumstances confront them with a small mystery¸ which soon turns into a "whodunit" investigation with a classic horror element that could range from Gothic to Splatter¸ depending on the flavor of the larger game. How the characters identify (or misidentify) the perpetrator and resolve the threat could permanently change their reputations¸ and even the community itself. Homecoming has been crafted for the MYTHRAS gaming system¸ and should be rather compatible with other d100 systems as well.
You are free to use this material in your own game world¸ for fun. If you are interested in doing more than that¸ such as incorporating it into a scenario or campaign setting for publication¸ please contact us.
Interludes: Homecoming is offered as Pay What You Want. If you like it¸ please consider leaving a tip¸ but in any case it's yours for the taking. Happy gaming!
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