Not very original, but:
One sentence:
The player reaches a patrol of several guards and has to find a way past them.
Where:
On the edge of the town
Trying to do:
Get past the patrol without dying, preferably even without getting hurt
Meaningful choice:
Take on the guards either all at once or one by one, or find a way to avoid them altogether.
One Sentence
Player approaches a little village being ransacked and the only way through is to defeat the ransackers.
Where
A village in the middle of the forest
Trying to Do
Defeat the men and stay alive
Meaningful Choice
Attack by lurining or attack all at one.
One sentence:
Falsely imprisoned, the player has lost all their equipment and must sneak past the guards, retrieve their items, and escape the prison.
Where:
The city prison.
Trying to do:
Avoid the guards, stay alive. Avoid fighting until items are retrieved.
Meaningful choice:
Sneak out of the prison with minimal combat, or retrieve your weapons and make the guards pay.Our hero needs to retrieve food and supplies from the barn before heading out into the wild. But evil people are searching for them.
On the farmstead where the hero lives.
Outmaneuver or overwhelm the guards in order to reach the inside of a building
Do you want to fight the guards, sneak past them or lure them away?
Overview:
The player needs to escape the village past the curfiew hour to meet the rebels that live in the forest.
Location:
The village where the hero lives.
What is the player trying to do:
Go out of the village and reach the forest
Meaningful choice:
Fight the guard, sneak behind them, or run for the forest and hope to live.
Hello!
First of all, I have read some of the submissions and it is amazing how creative people are!
Anyway here is my idea.
This should be practically at the beginning of the game so it is expected that taking on even a relatively small group of bandits can be challenging especially if Strength was not invested in. Even the reward is modest since the herbology guide reveals the most common location of basic plant ingredients. Exploring the region on your own will eventually garnish your personal maps.
1-On your quest to earn the title of Sentinel, you come across a village occupied by bandits
2-The mountainous region of Altima
3-Get a copy of the region’s Herbology Guide from one of the residents, a renown herbalist
4-
First moment
In order to obtain important information from an NPC, the player has to find his daughter, who hasn’t been seen for a while…before leaving town, the mayor asks if the player can find his son, a guard who has also gone missing, in return the player will be given anything he needs (gold, equipment…)
The moment takes place in a forest, where the daughter can be found
The player is trying to rescue the daughter from the rogue guards who captured her
After hearing the story of the guard and the daughter, the player can choose between rescuing the daughter or letting the guard have his way with her…
One sentence overview of the moment:
The player accidentally drops an expensive cup of tea given to him by the royal family
and is immediately surrounded by the nearby soldiers
Where is the moment taking place?
The town square
What is the player trying to do?
Run away from the guards and find glue to fix the broken tea cup
What is one meaningful choice you can give the player?
Attack guards or have a delightful conversation with them
My first moment:
Skeletons are wandering the streets searching for the living.
An old town with wooden houses with no defense.
Defeat all skeletons to free the town, so people can leave their homes again.
Some skeletons are waiting longer at the waypoints and watching the patrol route
gives the player a window , when to attack and fight one by one.
One Sentence: Our protagonist wanders into a small village, unsure of where he is, or… who he is… but before he can wonder any further, the screams of villagers sends him leaping into action, as a cackling horde of skeletons assaults the villagers.
Where: A small, medieval village.
Goal: Destroy all the skeletons before they breach the houses.
Meaningful Choice: Take them little by little and risk their breaching the doors, or wade into the fight and try to take them by slaughter.
One Sentence
Guards have come to the village to kidnap a small child.
Where
your village
Trying to do
Protect the child
Meaningful Choice
Fight or runaway
one sentence
after arriving at the village, the captain (pirate) that brought you here demands tribute be paid.
where
village docks
trying to do
get to the village
meaningful choice
pay the tribute, or battle the pirate - if you pay, he will be back for more, if you battle, he will return with his crew.
One Sentence: Having won, and lost, fortunes during a lifetime of adventuring our protagonist returns home to tell tales and enjoy a quiet retirement but the screams and bandits in the distance suggest otherwise. Fortunately he’s all out of bubblegum.
Where: A small, quaint medieval village surrounded by tall hills that our hero grew up in many years ago
Trying to: Beat your way in, through or around the “bandits” and discover what’s going on.
Meaningful Choice: Take them head on or sneak around them. Watch out for patrols and that big ugly one looks like a handful.
One sentence: The protagonist returns home from hiding in his hometown, unfortunately, he forgot to pay taxes and now the IRS is on his tail and trashing his little village, he now has to contend with blind, unarmed tax collectors.
Where: A small village with a forest and hills surrounding it.
Trying to: kill the tax collectors and make sure everyone’s alright
Meaningful choice: pick the ignorant tax collectors off 1 by 1, avoid each other’s patrols, and strike when no one’s looking
overall (prototype) map:
prototype town:
