Can you help me create an adventure?
Hello!
My player joindes an adventurer's guild ans chose their first quest! Upon the choices, I added a wild card ''confidential - to be discussed with the guild master".
And of course, that is the one they chose!
I now need to chose what quest it is!
The guild has rules and would not accept any quest that asks something illegal (theft, even for a stolen object - the city guard should handle that) and they will not accept quests with political influence (they will not chose a side in a war between two kingdom, exept if one of them is clearly evil) maybe). The guild master choses if the quest is too political to be done.
Because this quest is confidential, it also needs a good reason to be so.
Here is my idea, but feel free to give any other idea you have or twist or addition on this one.
I tend to care a lot about if thing make sense, and the tone of the campaign is mostly serious.
An elderly noble is dying (old age? sickness or maybe poison?), he has no current heir, as his son disapeared? was kidnapped? ran away? a long time ago. But he now want to try and find his heir again before his death...
I feel like it could make a great quest, but i lack on the details and anything you could bring would be appreiciated!
I think it could be nice to have them trace the reasons of the diseaperance of the the heir, and I think it could be fun to add a red hearring that lead to the truth.
They easylly find a heir, turns out he was kidnapped by bandits and could not escape for years... But is strange and the PC uncover the truth : it was a scheme from the bandits to acces the noble man's wealth. They poisonned him and paid witnesses to place one of them as the new head of the House.
But now, they have to search - again- for the true heir and what happened to him...
Do you have any idea to improve this? Do not wory if your idea is a bit far from what I had, I do not mind changing the story for a better plot!
I plan to write it into a ready to play adventure and shere it here once I have something good enough for my game!
Thank you for anything you can think of!