I love reading the adventures for WFRP but I also like to make some changes so the players (even when they got the opporunity to read it) will have many suprises. So this is my idea of playing with a lot of humor and fun. I use it with my first team, the second also and now I'm going to use it with 3rd but not from the begining. I will decribe it all but not with many detailes. Use Your imagination .

The first thing is that the team will have a BN he's name is Samwise Gamgee - he is a halfling. A good cook and a gradner. He does not have many skills in battle but he is a trustfull friend. He got a letter from his old companion - Frodo Baggins who has a problem in his Hunting Lodge (use the maps and descriptions of Grunewald Lodge - it could be in any place of the Empire if You wish). Frodo is and adventurer and He is a little bit different then others halflings - He likes to travel a lot. But after many adventures He married with Rosy and settled in the Lodge. A month ago something happened - the servant one by one got missed. Frodo does not know why - he payed them good and treated them well. So why they run away. And a couple days ago Rosy got sick. Why and what happened, this is a mystery. She was full of life and suddenly She is not getting out of bed. She does not want to eat, and she is so pale - it looks like the life was drained out of her. So Frodo wrote a letter to Sam asking for help. Sam is comming but with friends (the players team).

What really happened - the Cult that's hidding was draining blood out of Rosy and used it in his rituals under the Lodge. They awoke a demon that was slliping in the painting. But they can't control his. The Demon wants blood, so Gregor Pierson, Berthof Granhof, Otto Geizhals and Karla Wagner made a aliance and were sacreficing other members of the cult and servants to the demon but He wanted more and more. They can't refuse His - He has power over them. So Gregor Pierson is made a pact with Him - no other memeber of the Cult know about it but Gregor is goigng to sacrifice all of them and release the Demon for gold and power in the final Ritual. Karla does not know that Gregor is going to use Schlaf against them all.

The Lodge is full of suprises - it looks as the Grunewald Lodge but there is one more secret room - Frodo is hidding there his most precious tresure - a gold magic ring. No one knows about it - only Frodo. The Lodge was also full of servants - other halfling (use the stats from Eye for an Eye but with a Str -1 becouse those are only halfling) but now the only survivers besides Frodo and Rosy are Gregor Pierson, Berthof Granhof, Otto Geizhals and Karla Wagner. The adventure is almost the same it start with a beastman attack (but a smaller group) and theres a importent change - it end with the sacrifice of Rosy and Frodo and Sam must live. It's important if You would like to use my next adventure.

After this Frodo is asking for one more favour. He wants to bury Rosy on and Old cemetery. There is an old Pierst living there who is traveling the souls of the dead to the other side. So The team agrees that's a good idea. Bucouse Sam got heavy wounded he is traveling to the nearest town (maybe even Stromdorf ). So Frodo and the team are alone on this mission. The rainy and old cemetery is setteled in a scarry, dark forest with on a swamp with many barrows. Players can meet there many dangers. But thegreatest suprose is waiting for them on the cemetery. The old priest of Morr is a blind hermit. He lives alone for a special reson - this cemetery is one of those places in the Empire where the world of the living and the dead are connected. So when the ritual beging the dead are gathering and the dead Rosy awakes. What will players do? The only smart anwser is to run away and cut your way out of there. But Frodo is staying with his love. What happins to his - who knows.

Those where the first adventures I run. Now I'm working on a little bit changed version of The Gathering Storm. Sam is Stromdorf, he is makeing buying beer in Thunderwater Inn and is trying to get the recipe for the famous beer. Everything goes fine until the city is closed for a quarantine. People are getting sick from water. Who is poisoning the wells and why the clouds are getting darker with every day? My new heroes must find the anwsers and quickly before the great Storm that's comming!

First of all, thank you for sharing your work. I also like to read the official scenarios and modify them for my own needs. I often use written scenarios as a start for my own ideas. What I can not understand is why you use so many lord of the rings references. It must surely be a conscious choice. I guess my question is why?

The Lord of the Rings references are just here for fun. But I like to use them form time to time to see those suspicious smiles on my players faces. I started with those characters when I got the adventure Eye For an Eye and did not have to much time to work with it. So I figured out this could be fun. But the main reason is that my players know those characters and they are connecting them with special elements form Tolkien - and they always get a nasty suprise at the end. And one more thing - It's easier for them to remeber the names and they like that little connection between adventure even when the previous characters are dead. You know that keeps the Old world always moving forward when they want.

Oh and I just remebered one more thing - some time ago I made a session when my players where chasing there previous characters. That was fun! If You clould see there faces when in the end they saw there own character and had to kill them. That was a nasty suprise.