Trying to gradually post links to Planarch materials that are in-progress. Here’s what That Ancient Serpent looked like in March. I’ve written about 8 more pages since then, but they haven’t been typed up yet. Hopefully I get to those soon and there might be enough to start playing through the mini-campaign (especially since a lot of the jobs and events are optional or contingent anyway). https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B97yCSbV-HGiTGM0am93YUpJYWc/edit?usp=sharing
The original draft outline of this booklet looked like this:
1. Dragonblood heritage/patron
2. Slayer Family heritage/patron
3. Blood Cults heritage/patron
4. Properties of Dragon blood/parts
5. Record of St. Jessarine
6. Church of the Font heritage/patron
7. JOB: The Blood Bank (for Slayers/random)
8. Diagram of relations between Dragonblood/Slayers/Cult/Church
9. JOB: Desert Tomb
10. JOB: Initial Outbreak
11. Using Jobs in this Campaign
12. PC Becomes Infected; Cure?
13. NPC Becomes Infected
14. Transformation (body horror)
15-16. Dragons: rules, behavior, habits
17. Tracking the Contagion’s Spread
18. JOB: Quarantine Part of the City (wardens, etc.)
19. JOB: Hunt Down the Infected Before They Turn
20. JOB: Dragonslaying (defense, offense, capture for parts, clean out an area)
21. JOB: Dragon Has Been Slain (aftermath, cleanup)
22. JOB: Recovery of Goods/People/Etc. Taken by Dragons
23. How Jobs Change in the Infected City (huge refugee flow)
24. If You Don’t Take This Job
25. Vulnerability to Plague
26-27. Dragonslaying Gear
28. JOB: Draconic Races Need Protection
29. JOB: This Never Happened (time travel)
30. JOB: Find the Sultana
31. JOB: Dis (or some crazy entity) is Infected
32. Dragon Ritual Magics
That’s really amazing!
Glad you like it! The concept is that you could introduce a couple of jobs or patron/target organizations from That Ancient Serpent into the other jobs available to your crew, and then advance the “What happens if you don’t take this job?” move if they decide not to deal with the plague. They might never decide to take a plague- or dragon-related job! But that stuff is still going on in the background and affecting the tone of the city (and neighboring planes) and the jobs that are available.
Also, major inspirations for this one are crusaderpunk stuff like Kingdom of Heaven (movie), Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, Rifts: Wormwood, the German game Engel, Thou Art But a Warrior, and also Princess Mononoke, the Dark Crystal, and Jurassic Park (the book).