Adventure - Five Orchards, Intro

For those who have visited my blog, you may have noticed that I have a tab right next to the "Home" button entitled; "Five Orchards" This button currently leads to nowhere, but that will soon change.

Five Orchards is an adventure that I came up with, with the help of Rory's Story Cubes.  I have to admit that this adventure is not totally fresh in my memory, as I created this about a year ago, and no longer have my scrawling (notes).  Nonetheless, I am going to develop it up from what I do remember, with the intent of creating a full-fledged adventure, in as professional a format as possible, for both the D100, and OSR systems.

The General Idea;

• Small town beleaguered by frequent visits from....
• Main form of commerce is five orchards which have recently....
• Adventurers may find an unusual connection beneath...
• Their actions may help, or worsen the situation

I am still working out he details of the adventure, and considering the layout - so it may be some time before we actually see this in any form. Still - I am excited to have a project ahead of me, and look forward to any insights or constructive criticism from the Community.

Story Cubes! A new way to create your adventures?

I want to share a cool scenario generating tool I came across, while looking for a game for the kids. They are called Rory's Story Dice (not the same Rory from Doctor Who)

How it works
In a nutshell, there are 9, six-sided dice; each with a different image on each side. You roll all 9 dice, and arrange them in any order you want, to help you tell a story using the images as a guide.

I bought these originally for me and the kids to have some fun telling crazy stories, but I also have used them to develop some interesting ideas for scenarios. I just roll a number of dice, and see what develops.

I have found that even if I do not use all of the images on the rolled dice, that this really helps get the brain working in different, creative ways. I have come up with scenarios that I'm pretty sure I would not have come up with on my "own".

I bought mine for around $8, which I thought was very reasonable.

Anyway, I thought I would share this cool, imaginative tool with everyone.