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Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Giveaway - Adventure Outlines!

Want to win free copies of those books? Keep reading!

A few months ago I asked on Google+ if people would be interested in participating on a small giveaway of printed SS&SS books, where participants would use the Adventure Idea Generator and the Adventure Title Generator from Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Core Book and Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Addendum, respectively, to write a quick Adventure Outline.

The response was impressively good, so here it is!

If you want to have a chance to win printed versions of booth Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Core Book and Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells - Addendum, all you gotta do is get the PWYW PDF of them at DrivethruRPG or RPGNow, and use the Adventure Idea Generator (in the Core Book, page 39) and Adventure Title Generator (in the Addendum, page 84) and write a brief outline of an adventure with somewhere between 100 and 200 words, while listing the results. Each entry will look like this:

Adventure Title: Dive in the Primeval Map

Goal: Steal Magic Artifact
Location: Ruins of a Small Village
Antagonist: Intelligent Monster - Powerful Undead
Supporting Character: Powerful Person - Local Noble
Complication: Revelation - Treason Discovered
Reward: Treasure - Large Sum of Silver and Gold

The adventurers somehow acquire an ancient magical map that leads to a very precious treasure, but to reach it, they will need to literally dive inside a pocket dimension created by the map itself.

 There, in the ruins of a small village surrounded a fort, a powerful death knight keep guard of the buried treasure. The ghost of the local noble, who was betrayed in battle by the knight might know a way of defeating his former ally, but has since them lost confidence in anyone. Will the party of adventurers find a way to defeat the undead knight and bring the gold back to their own world? Or will they be stuck in the magical map forever?

All entries will end up in a free PDF book, and I will be drawing a number of lucky contestants to win a Core Book and the Addendum of SS&SS depending on how many participants we get. If we get up to 20 entries, I will be giving 1 bundle. If we get from 21 to 50, I will give 2 Bundles. If we get from 51 to 100, I will give 3 bundles! If we get more than 100, I will give 4 and will think if something else!

So that’s it! I hope we get some cool ideas! All entries should be posted publicly on Google+ with the hashtag #SSnSSGiveaway2017 or emailed to me at diogoarte at gmail dot com! I will post them publicly though! It will all end up in a PDF anyway!

Entries can be sent until January 31st! Let’s create some cool adventures!

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