Need plots for campaigns without (or at least little) violence.
Setting is typical medieval fantasy.
Did you tell your players about your idea already
You should do that before you bother planning anything.
>>47474747
That was the idea of the players, not my idea.
>>47474727
>Need plots for campaigns without (or at least little) violence.
>Setting is typical medieval fantasy.
What system are you typically playing? :curious:
>>47474772
Gurps.
>>47474727
What background would the players be from?
Nobility, city folk, farmers/peasants?
Not soldiers or mercenaries, I presume.
>>47474727
TRADE THE FUCK OUT OF THIS KINGDOM
GRAB THE MONOPOLY OF REDSANG OR SOME SHINY ORE OR PIXIE BLOOD OR TROLL HIDES
AND THEN BUY OUT THE OTHER INDUSTRIES
BUY THE CROWN
BECOME THE FIRST OLYGARCHY IN DIS SHITHOLEBECOME BBEGS FOR THE NEXT CAMPAIGN
OR
PLAY SOMETHINGSOMETHING CALL OF CTHULHU
YOU CAN'T APPLY VIOLENCE TO THE CREEPY VOICE IN YOUR HEAD
OR
DETECTIVE NOIR STUFF, SHERLOCK THE CLUES OUT OF THE PLACE
OR
THIEVES GUILD
JUST STEAL THIS SHIT, BONUS POINTS IF NO CORPSES MADE
>>47474747
>47474747
NICE BIRD BY THE WAY
>>47475045
AKAKAK
>>47474727
Two possibilities:
1. Go full intrigue. Everyone is scheming and backstabbing, but there's very little literal backstabbing.
2. Classic dungeon crawl, except all the monsters in the dungeon are way too hard for the party to kill, so they have to either get around them, trick them, or bargain with them.
>>47474997
>Thieves' Guild
Literally this. The best heists are the ones where nobody suspects a thing until they find something's missing.
Which preferably should be several hours after you've found a buyer for it.
>>47475045
Keep your hands off my post number, fuckhole.
>>47474803
>Gurps.
Fuck me. That will keep the "plots" open.
>Need plots for campaigns without (or at least little) violence.
Give me an example.
>>47474747
>>47474727
>intrigue (political finesse such as framing people, escorting NPCs, Cover ups, etc)
>aid quest (players are there to save life, not take it.) like WWII Red Cross Medics.
>Journey(think like Banner Saga, but less world ending, and more save your people from famine/drought)
A few ideas
Violence is a choice of the characters, not of the game.
>>47476337
Not really
>>47474727
>Need plots for campaigns without (or at least little) violence.
Phantom Thieves. Your players are cops/investigators trying to catch a elusive gentleman thief who always leaves his calling card at the scene, yet no one can stop this guy.
>>47474803
Fuck man, check in with the gurps general thread yo
Seen the movie A Knight's Tale? That but with dragon racing replacing jousting
>>47474727
You grow tulips. They are very rare tulips. You have to get rare treatments for them, look over them, protect them from the rain and snow. Maybe even craft a small greenhouse.
Small town drama/politics. Put enough strong egos in a small area and it's only a matter of time before the pressure starts rising. Throw in some threats to stress everyone out and put them at cross motivations: a disastrous storm brewing, a mysterious illness, a power vacuum springing up in the local government/church/guild/etc.
Look at any American "drama hour" show and you'll know what I mean. No BBEGs, no questline, just a collection of shitty people forced to coexist under stressful circumstances.
>>47474727
A druid/wizard/friendly neighbourhood cult leader requests someone(s) to retrieve a particularly rare specimen of flower/fungus/whatever for research/components/incense etc. Good payout. Sounds like an easy job.
But it's rare for a reason. It grows in very inhospitable conditions (where no wild animal/bandits/raiders would bother treading), a long way from civilization, and is particularly fragile. It's probably near-extinct.
For added stakes, it's possible that more than one group was tasked with finding one (since they're so damn elusive), leading to conflict when 2+ groups find the same specimen.
>>47478682
And when your tulips have become the most popular and ubiquitous commodity around, you singlehandedly crash the tulip market and plunge Europe into depression.
>>47478814
It may also be easily confused with a similar, potentially poisonous plant, leading to psychedelic (possibly fatal) errors.
>>47474727
The players own a shop and another shop owner has moved to town and is undercutting their business.
>>47478464
>Not really
Do you want to elaborate? I can't possibly see how you can argue otherwise.
>>47474727
Are your players world-bopping nomads, or do they stay in one place for long periods?
If they stay in one place long enough, then it might be refreshing to deal with logistics and housekeeping. Especially if they run a business.
>fairy squatters
>leaky roofing in a world where wizards can flood shit on command
>dealing with a recession when the nearby crystal mines cave in
>holding a dedicated discussion with an intelligent superbeast because you know for a fact that it would overpower your town
>stealing/undercutting rival businesses to expand; working as moles, embezzling, heists, etc.
>being offered a large sum to operate as a front for thieves and stay quiet about it
>butting heads with the nosy sheriff
>old-fashioned politicking
>>47478894
>goblins jump out of the bushes and attack
"No guys lets choose to avoid violence"
>party murdered by goblins
"Good campaign everybody."
>>47479006
Oh yeah, and if the mines cave in there's room for a search-and-rescue situation. You could do similar stuff with residential fires (either natural/arson), or with actual flood warnings/preparation.
>>47474747
A post with such digits can't be wrong
>>47475142
>Intrigue
Easiest one desu.
There's a lot of this in Chinese history. Sima Qian wrote some on it, but even Xiang Yu, if the PCs aren't doing the violence part, could be an example. Xi Shi would be good, too.
Basically, Xiang takes over a bunch of kingdoms after sucking at everything in childhood, but ends up being an extremely good warrior and general, mostly because, he could read and write because he dicked around so much in his studies. He started studying writing, then swordplay, then warfare. Then he and his dad backstabbed some guys (well, decapitated really), and Xiang became the enforcer for the kingdom. Eventually there was a big conspiracy, his army was chased for a long time, caught out near a river, most of the foot soldiers are killed/routed in his retreat. Then he has this big last stand with his horsemen at a bridge. He donated his horse to the town's leader. Of course, he goes down in a blaze of glory, kills a lot of guys, and is dismembered. Then they divide up the body parts and it ends up getting passed around to show that they got the bounty.
Xi Shi is a little less violent. Basically, the king of Yue imprisons the king of Wu. Yue is later conquered by Wu. Yue must give tribute to Wu. The King trains a few women, one of whom Xi Shi was, as tributes but gets her to convince the king to execute one of his top generals. Xi Shi succeeds by convincing the king of Wu that the general is paranoid for thinking Yue would actually invade, so the general of Wu is ordered to kill himself and carries it out (asking for his eyes to be removed and placed at the gates afterwards, so that he may always watch over them). Yue then invades, the king and Xi Shi then get on a boat and live happily ever after, except in the version where she falls off the boat and drowns.
So basically, indirect killing is best. Helps if suicide is an option for drama purposes.
>>47474727
Go full Recettear on them.
>player's relative ran off leaving them to pay off their debt
>qt companion fairy optional
>>47480746
>qt companion fairy optional
>>47475142
>Classic dungeon crawl, except all the monsters in the dungeon are way too hard for the party to kill, so they have to either get around them, trick them, or bargain with them.
I have always loved this idea, but my players will, without fail, fight to the death with every single enemy they come across
>>47480960
Why? Do you not like Jewish faries?
>>47481281
>optional
>>47474747
oh my god
>>47481346
>wanting a tsundere Jewish faerie
>>47474747
God has spoken.
You must tell your players at once.
>>47474727
If you want -action-, but not -violence-, then three plots come to mind: mystery, heist, and travel.
In mysteries, you often get chase scenes and dramatic showdowns, but in most mysteries there are no actual fights. I'm not sure if you count murder mysteries as a form of violence, but there's other forms of mysteries. The Lord Darcy series is an excellent fantasy mystery series with little out-and-out vioelnce.
Some forms of heists work well, too, and most of them have many a good chase scene - just have the guards be after you! More Oceans Eleven than Leverage, if you see what I mean. Especially if the heist involves social engineering / a con, more than brute force. The Lies of Locke Lamora has lots of violence, but the non-violent heist bits are my favorite and I recommend looking to those for inspiration. I'm sure there's others, but none come to mind.
A travel story is another great possibility. You get man vs. nature, battles against the elements and the weather, and if you wanted to be really nasty, you could have the party be hunted or pursued by packs of wild monsters, or a massive monster. You don't even need monsters, though; intrigue along the way, and nature itself, will provide plenty of interesting obstacles.
>>47475056
Birds are very important
I've got one that I'm yet to test myself. I've started playing dungeon world with an all-girl group. I discovered that, while they enjoy combat, they don't enjoy grim stuff. At one point they even started arguing if they shouldn't have killed the nasty goblin creature that came at them with a rusty knife.
To amp up the good vibes, I want to focus on magical monsters that are being imprisoned or hunted. Very few monsters they encounter will be evil. I figure that with some help from NPC's, they'll feel the urge to create a magical animal shelter.
