Note: This page contains editor's notes and any additional text of the Net Books of Plots.
Editors Note: This book was converted to a new format, made for conversion to HTML and for indexing. My enormous thanks go to Alexander Forst (no-valid-email) and to Soh Kam Hung (h.soh@trl.telstra.com.au) for their dedicated efforts in designing this tagging scheme and help in tagging and editing the plots. I hope all enjoy this new collection and dont forget to tell the authors how it went if you run a plot.
Joe Amato Paul Brinkley (Don't look now, but you did give a summary or two...) Richard L. Butler (The amazing forgotten man...) J. D. Frazer Evan A.C. Hunt Gwen Johnson (The only contributor with references) Kim Chr. Madsen Loren J. Miller David F. Nalle (Do you do Call of Cthulu? :-)) Chris Racicot (LOTS of good stuff, thanks) Phil Scadden (Again, and again, and...thanks a lot!) Aaron Sher (Couldn't let this go by without adding something myself...) Brett Slocum (A late addition to the credits) Jeff Vogel (Originator of the lich theme, author of most of the lich stuff) "Sam" (Who is this?)
Plus several others...if you contributed, and you're not listed, send me your name!
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Short Summaries
Eric Bohm (aka Gothmog)
Rob Crawford
Russ Gilman
Lesley Grant (A little PARANOIA's good for the soul...)
Todd O. Howard (Maybe Dungeon didn't accept it, but I did!)
Matt Hucke
Andrew Hummell
Geoffrey Kimbrough
Lisa Leutheuser
"matthew" (There's always one...)
D. J. McCarthy
Douglas McCorison
John McMullen (Wow!)
Rob McNeur (Wow again!)
Marc Midura (Material from Ralph LeBlanc, Mark Naper...you can never have
too much!)
John S. Novak, III
Bruce W. Onder
Ami Silberman (Janitor of Lunacy)
Brett Slocum (One of the more loyal contributors... :-))
Larry Smith (I did send you my form letter, didn't I? If not, thanks!)
Mark Thomas
Jim Vogel (No liches this time)
Dr Williams (I can ALWAYS use it...)
Jeff Williamson
Many thanks to everyone who contributed material to make the second volume bigger and better than the first. Apologies to Wayne, who sent mountains of stuff, but since the Net.Plots.Book is public domain I can't include copyrighted (or even copylefted!) material. I don't do PostScript, LaTeX, or anything but ASCII. If anyone would like to convert the Book and send me a copy, I'll distribute that as well. Enjoy, everyone!
----------========== The NET.PLOTS.BOOK ==========---------- Volume III Compiled by Phil Scadden and Aaron Sher
Editors Note:
Compilation of this volume was originally started by Aaron Sher and has been completed by me. It contains plot and scenarios for mostly for fantasy RPGs but some from other genres have also been submitted. (Come on other-genre players - get you contributions in for Vol IV). Plots have been presented in no particular order but there is a large Appendix which is a compilation of the responses to the "On the road you meet..." thread in rec.games.frp.misc. I have made only minimal changes (spelling usually) to the material as received. I hope everyone finds this enjoyable and useful.
Authorship of individual plots have been accredited individually with email address where I had them (missing from some collected by Aaron - if you can supply please email me). Author attribution is at the top of each plot.Authors appreciate feedback - if you use any of these try telling the author how you did. IT MAY WELL ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTRIBUTE MORE PLOTS TO THE NEXT VOLUME.
Finally, my thanks to all who submitted these plots and especially to Aaron Sher who dreamt up the Net.plot.books in the first place.
Phil Scadden P.Scadden@LHN.GNS.CRI.NZ 18/2/94
APPENDIX- "On the road you meet..."
----------========== The NET.PLOTS.BOOK ==========---------- Volume IV Compiled by Phil Scadden
Editors Note:
Here at last is volume 4, the latest attempt to keep GM's supplied with inspiration. It contains plot and scenarios for mostly fantasy RPGs but at last I have some cyper plots. (Now for some more horror and space adventures for Vol 5). Plots have been presented in no particular order - if it isnt written for your genre, try thinking of translating the core idea. I have made only minimal changes (spelling and removal of trademarks etc. of a certain gaming company) to the material as received. I hope everyone finds this enjoyable and useful.
The book includes a very large appendix of ideas for starting out campaigns. (seems to be the theme for this volume). Should be no excuse for the tired old "you meet these people in a bar" hack.
Authorship of individual plots have been accredited individually with email addresses. Author attribution is at the top of each plot. Authors appreciate feedback - if you use any of these try telling the author how you did. IT MAY WELL ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTRIBUTE MORE PLOTS TO THE NEXT VOLUME.
Finally, my thanks to all who submitted these plots. You make the net.*.books possible. Of course my mail box is now open for contributions to vol 5...
Phil Scadden P.Scadden@GNS.CRI.NZ 7/3/95
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APPENDIX I HOW TO START A CAMPAIGN
A perennial favorite question on the net is ways to start a campaign. A recent incarnation of this was from Joshua Felsteiner (phr01ya@techunix.technion.ac.il) who wrote: [edited slightly] " Hi , I am a new GM who has formed a group. The problem is how to have the players start. I don't know how to tell the story of their arrival to the world! I mean how they met or born? or are they already formed as a grouped from the beginning and I should start from that point? I want to make it better than that. Any help?"
Here is collection of responses to this question and similar. Have fun.
Editors Note: This book marks the first in a new format, made for conversion to HTML and for indexing. My enormous thanks go to Alexander Forst (no-valid-email) and to Soh Kam Hung (h.soh@trl.telstra.com.au) for their dedicated efforts in designing this tagging scheme and help in tagging and editing the plots. I hope all enjoy this new collection and dont forget to tell the authors how it went if you run a plot.
Editors Note:
The plots of this book were collected by Phil Scadden and edited by Phil, Tom Zunder and Alexander Forst-Rakoczy, that's me
The complete collection of the Net Book of Plots is available at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/Handbooks/index.html
All of the plots are tagged, see the file "plot-tags.txt" or go to the HTML version of the Net Book of Plots at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/Handbooks/WWWPlots/index.html
You can also find submission guidelines there at http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/alex/Handbooks/WWWPlots/submission.html
We have permission of Qubrak Shata to include the adventure ideas from his AD&D.com web pages in this book. The plots are marked with "(AD&D.com)" in the title. The AD&D.com site is located at AD&D.com (1) and AD&D.com (2)
Another set of plot ideas (namely non-monster wilderness encounters) was posted to the newsgroup "rec.games.frp.dnd". These plots are marked with "(News)".
I hope all enjoy this new collection and dont forget to tell the authors how it went if you run a plot.