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This week’s theme was gold and we had a few that we found quite fun:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears – Save the house of three Druidic brothers, who are dealing with a squatter in this Forest encounter for Party Levels 1-3.
- The Golden Girallons – Safely escort exotic, elderly apes to an animal sanctuary (Levels 8-11, Jungle)
- Silence is Golden – Sometimes, making noise can have fiery consequences. (Any level, Mountains)
- The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs – Support or scramble an undead’s get-rich-quick scheme
- Distrust The Midas Touch – A touch of gold, torture to behold. (Any level, Urban/Dungeon)
- Feel Good with Goldswägger – A perfumer’s new recipe has attracted unwanted attention (Levels 4-7, Urban)
Thanks again for checking out our encounters. Let us know in the comments below if you’ve got any other ideas based on the word gold.
Heart of Gold
- Heart transport operation with golden heart
- Dragon is hoarding gold to repair his broken heart, literally
- Using wealth to satisfy his loneliness
- Bring him gold to appease him temporarily or help him reconcile with his partner
- Construct and someone is smuggling gold inside them, gold hearts
- Construct feels guilty and wants to come clean
Streets paved with gold
- (town going broke because they thought gold streets was a good idea)
- Mayor wanted his town to enter a golden age
- He didn’t realize what it meant
- So all infrastructure dollars went to golden streets
- Attracting attention of a dragon
I’m Not Saying She’s a Gold Digger
- Archaeologist gets special permission to excavate an important historical site
- Party asked to help accompany her
- She’s actually part of a group of bandits who are just trying to grab the gold from the burial site
All that glitters is not gold
- Glittery sparkles, residual magic, fade quickly…townsfolk are bottling it and frantically trying to buy something/barter with it before the glitter peters out
- Sorcerers guild is complaining that townsfolk think the shimmering from their spellcasting is gold dust
- Trying to collect it and distracting sorcerers from their work
The Golden Oldies
- Kobold musicians are back!
- It’s been a long time, reunion tour (they’re old)
- Golden record/sheet music buried deep
- They play it and it summons something
Fool’s Gold
- Someone who is really dumb wins the lottery and needs a financial advisor
- Inherits a fortune
- OR Jester in a court for a king makes big bucks for his comedy
- He’s brilliant
- Only gets paid for fart jokes and other low-brow humor
- Wants to be a satirist…satyr-ist
- He only dishes out satyr…it’s all jokes that make fun of satyrs…what’s up with those goat legs?
- Satyrs are offended
And The Rest
- Silver and Gold – Mountain adventure with Yukon Cornelius
- Golden Calf
- Someone wants to run faster so the turn their calves to gold
- Can’t walk now
- The Golden Rule
- Spell—whatever happens to you (damage) hurts somebody else?
- Golden Ratio
- For each one piece of gold a bugbear brings, he gets a piece of food
- has struck a bad bargain with the townsfolk but doesn’t realize it
- Now he’s angry and will destroy the town unless he is justly compensated with lots of food…party can protect the town by defeating the bugbear (rude) or helping restore balance
