Durr...Sorry, my mistake.

Walking away before I embarass myself more.

(Not fast enough, apparently. LOL)

nah you're fine man

Hey, if you're doing a DnD game, why not add the Mongoose and Meerkat from Jim Breyfogle's series? They're characters in a series of sword and sorcery short stories published by Cirsova Magazine. Last year a collection of those short stories was produced and content for DnD campaigns drawn up. You can find out more about it here: https://cirsova.wordpress.com/2020/04/21/and-almost-finished-with-game-content/

I'll have to look at it later, built a west marches that I'm trying to get off the ground

when you spend a month worldbuilding a west marches campaign and no one will play it

Heh. I spent two months putting together a short Ghostbusters run last year, two days before we were supposed to start, everyone bailed.

west marches have no set schedules it's literally just a "Play as you go" kind of deal, and even then

Wait, ronin, I know you.

Height, hair color, eye color, and favorite firearm. What are they?

LOL

I don't like guns.

Yeah, well, the story has guns and you ain't runnin' around with a katana.

What story?

why not be a weeb?

You're right, he could totally be a weeb. Should I give him a type 99 Arisaka then?

With a sword Bayonet?

Okay, lost now.

I don't even care where I am I'll just keep going

This is an old file I've had for years. Big list of RPG plots and hooks.

No. I literally don't like guns.

I love reading plothook Ideas

Damn. I'll need to find someone else, then.

my favorite thing with west marches is building the NPC's

got a few good ones built

a barbarian cleric that worships with the same energy as a barbarian raging, a drow "princess" that treats men like playthings

what do you need?

@Kanobiobiwan I believe I took care of Armed Trow. See the same post but in <#806143039215108116>

what was the question/need?

Ok so
P l o t p i t c h

This is a faith based horror film I'm considering writing as a first feature film, despite having barely any experience writing much of anything in a long format.

It basically follows a six year old girl (considering changing it to a boy; idk. I don't want the inspiration, Poltergeist's Carol Anne, to show through too much.) in the 1960s or 1970s (maybe 90s. I need candles to be a plausible thing versus nightlights) who is essentially tricked into befriending a little demon in the woods.

The demon presents itself as the spirit of a little girl who starved to death after her parents died in a fire in the late 1800s. She is my attempt to take the tired old "creepy little ghost girl with dirty white dress and long black hair that covers her face" and make it into something actually frightening and fresh - basically, I changed her into a feral child dressed in rags and covered in mud who crawls on all fours and eats raw squirrels.

She's "nice" at first and manipulates the main character, Agnes (name in progress) into bringing her "offerings" in the form of various toys and trinkets. She then guilt trips/blackmails Agnes from making new friends by scaring her, giving her nightmares, and breaking her things if she hangs out with other kids her age. It starts with things like hair clips and dolls and escalates to straight up stealing.

As a way to combat the nightmares, Agnes's mom tells her that if she keeps a candle lit next to her bed, the nightmares will stop. The demon has a habit of knocking at her window and opening it at night and Agnes decides that the candle will keep her at bay. The parents have no idea their daughter is interacting with something that is real and they think she's just sleepwalking or something. So, they tuck Agnes in, pray that she stay safe, and they light the candle without a thought. To Agnes's delight, the candle works - but only at the window.

Here's where the main "memorable" part begins

Basically, this family ends up having candles placed at every single window and every single doorway in the house. (Major fire hazard and kind of stupid, but these parents are desperate.)

Agnes continues to be harassed by the demon as she distances herself from it and she starts lying to her parents about why she can't go to sleep at night. She routinely gives it power by offering her toys to it in hopes that it will go away, but it keeps getting stronger.

There's a brief potential subplot where they try to get medications for Agnes (something I'll have to look into as this is a historical setting and meds may not have been a thing at that point, especially at such a young age)

The climax occurs when Agnes goes to a sleepover and the parents neglect to light the candles in their house. The house is trashed and the demon realizes Agnes isn't there. Meanwhile, one of her sleepover mates snuffs her candle and Agnes gets literally dragged off towards the cave as the demon can now get to her. The parents call in a priest that has been showing up earlier in the plot (I have some vague ideas of scenes to introduce him in and make him important to the plot) and the demon tries convincing Agnes that it's just a lonely spirit. Agnes is buying it but the demon really just wants to kill her.