Sample Hideout

[Adminenkainen]

I'm up to this part of the basic rulebook now. The 1st ed. books had part of one level of a mega-hideout as the sample, but I was thinking going smaller and including a self-contained hideout of maybe 15 encounter areas this time.

Any thoughts as to what should go in the sample hideout? Things that would make it stand out from a D&D dungeon?

[archersix]

robots, mad scientist(s), hidden machinegun nests, shrinking rays, enbiggening rays, sleazy crooks, gun molls, hidden hangar with a sea plane, and aliens

[Adminenkainen]

Yeah, that won't be hard to fit into 15 rooms!

[order99]

Alien/Terrestrial Mothership piloted by a Mechanical Great Brain tractors the Heroes aboard for (insert or randomly roll purpose here). Fourteen rooms serve various needs (crew quarters,kitchen, lab, cells,reactor,etc) and/but now contain (roll Encounter from H&H supplements of choice) with the Great Brain in the Central Core. The Mothership is headed for (roll terrain) at the bequest of (random Mastermind).

Re-usable and Scalable to Player Level if needed!

Purpose:
1) Building a Zoo
2) Need Heroes to Fuel ship with powers/magic (oh, we picked up some Fighters too? Oh well...)
3) Capture Rich or Skilled Hostage and picked up Heroes in process
4) Need rare blood type from Hero/Unusual tissue sample from Superhero/artificial organ from Android etc
5) Thought Radio Play was real, looking to make war upon Captain Midnight and all his allies...
6) Rare element in area, picked up Heroes as a side effect
7) Recruiting Heroes for really REALLY important mission, sorry about the weird creatures I picked up on the way...
8) Help HELP my beautiful vessel has been contaminated by strange alien lifeforms! I will give you shiny beads (TROPHIES!) if you will only help me...
9) I am the spearhead of an Invasion Force! Let's see what a random sampling of Earth Natives are capable of....WHAT THE HECK THAT ONE IS ON FIRE AND MY INNER BULKHEADS JUST GOT WRECKED CALL OFF THE INVASION AAAIIIEEEEEE!!!!!
10) We are settling a bet er I mean WELCOME TO THE INTERPLANETARY OLYMPICS! GO MAKE YOUR PLANET PROUD...do you think they bought it?

Secret Base:
1) Wild West desert mesa
2) Secret Base in a Metropolis
3) Lost World near the an Antarctic volcano
4) Magic ruins in African Jungle
5) Underground Base of the Mole Men/Derro/Morlocks
6) Sunken domed city
7) The Moon
8) Mars
9) Venus
10) Counter-earth/Alternate Earth/The Mirror Lands

Mastermind:
1) Mad Wizard
2) Mad Scientist
3) Perfectly Sane Explorer who hit the wrong buttons
4) A gang of adorable Half-Pints who are gleefully playing with the shiny toys
5) Aliens
6) Mermen refugees who desire a new kingdom
7) Undead conquerer returned from Eternal Sleep with new ambitions
8) Race of Androids carrying out dead Master's plan from Beyond The Grave
9) Evil Duplicates of the Heroes
10) A comatose child hooked up to machinery and dreaming strange playful dreams


OH NO I AM OUT OF COFFEE!!!! Must...recharge...caffeine levels...

[order99]

Ahhhhhhh......COFFEE is ready! Energy...returning...

Original Purpose of Room in Vessel:

1) Galley
2) Storage
3) Medical
4) Science Lab
5) Crew/Guest quarters
6) Holding Cell
7) Navigation/Sensor Suite
8) Engine Room
9) Weapon Arrays
10) Engineering/Repair

  Yes, you can get a ship without an Engine Room,Sensors, Weaponry etc. Just assume that either the ship does not have a Hero Accessible version of same (mechanised, part of bulkheads, Magic etc) or-more Weirdly-that it doesn't have one ("That's right sir, the giant War Balloon had half the City at its mercy, but luckily for us that heavy storm sent it reeling North by Northwest...God help Boise though...")

 Okay, I think our Compact Adventure as is ready as it needs to be! Scott, as always you are free to use anything you want of mine gratis if you like it-but don't expect me to illustrate it unless you like hunchbacked and twisted Stick Figures!

[Adminenkainen]

Love it! I have been quietly gathering material for a special anniversary edition of The Trophy Case. I think you just made a submission, Order!

[order99]

I am honored. Do you need a cleaned-up Doc or PDF, or did you just want to cut and paste from post?

[Adminenkainen]

No hurry, so if you want to take the time to polish it up and add any, feel free and send it to me privately. Otherwise, I'll cut and paste as needed (and still pay you the old going rate either way).

[order99]

AAAAUUURRRGHHHHLLLLLL....what effen' day is it? I swear I think Per Degaton put me in a repeating time loop this week-can't he just let bygones be bygones? Word to the wise, don't ever critique his Fanfic, you'll never hear the end of it...

At any rate, PM sent. Hopefully i'm still in 2017 and-waitaminnit we have WHO in the White House? But that means....Oh Heck YOUR copy of Order99 is probably wondering why he's receiving missions from President Macho Man Randy Savage (OOooooh Yeah!). I better go find that Portal Generator and let HIM deal with THIS Reality...

 Oh BTW I didn't see a way to Attach in the PM so here's a copy in OpenOffice using this Post instead: Look to your Skies.odt (62.93 KB)

[Adminenkainen]

I love the idea of Per Degaton being a fanfiction writer. I imagine he would write stories where the JSA always loses...

[order99]

It wasn't the fact that they often lost(the guy's got enough Drama to at least give them some temporary victories) but he mischaracterizes every member of the JSA to the point of legal slander! It's as if he believes in the whole "History Belongs to the Victors" schtick even though he's already met them, learned their secrets,read their personal Journals and-

You know what? Let's pretend I didn't have this conversation. The last time I tried an honest critique of Per Degaton's work I ended up thousands of years into Possible Future #77 with nothing but the clothes on my back, a folding bicycle and three expired vials of Professor Potter's Elastic Lad serum...do you have ANY IDEA how hard it is to sell Morlocks on the ideas of Sunscreen, Sunglasses and Veganism? In Pictograms and Power of Charades? Worse yet I learned enough Morlock to find out that the Name they gave me translated roughly to "Eloi too Crazy to Eat"! AAAArrrrrggglll...NEVER AGAIN. And to this very day I turn into a molten glob of flesh every time I load a Power Slot with Nigh Invulnerable Skin-I mean the bullets still bounce off like rain, but....eeeeeeewww.