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    Building the Barbarian Library

    A world only comes to live through the story that take place in it. But comming up with good stories is hard, so it's a lot more effective to salvage plots from other places. For the Lands of the Barbarian Kings, stories need to be about actions and not peoples minds, as it is primarily intended for RPGs, and they also need to not be about preventing the end of the world/universe/kingdom, because I want the setting to be explicitly not about this, because it makes the individuals rather exchangeable.
    I want to compile a list of stories, that would work very well in the Barbarian Lands, just by switching out the people and places. If you have any suggestions, please contribute.

    Raiders of the Lost Arc: Prevent a bad person to get his hands on a magic artifact that helps him doing more evil than he already does.
    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Prevent a bad person to get his hands on a magic artifact that helps him doing more evil than he already does.
    Princess Mononoke: Stop whatever is causing spirits to turn into monsters.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: It's complicated.
    The Seven Samurai: Defend a village against a large gang of bandits.
    Conan, the Barbarian: Find the warlord who destroyed the village and kill him.
    The City of Dreaming Books: A mysterious work of art leads to the search for the artist, whose trail leads to a strange city of exotic sites and eventually ancient catacombs, while apparently helpful locals try to sabotage the effort.
    Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (comic): Escape from your masters who killed all their students and want to get you as well, while also finding proof that you are not the murderer.
    The Witcher: Get back the magic items stolen by a sorcerer, that can be used to create monsters for an army.
    Icewind Dale: Det out to investigate what is threatening a remote village during a harsh winter.
    Dragon Age - Broken Circle: Find out what killed the mages of a tower and stop it before it breaks out into the outside world.
    Dragon Age - Nature of the Beast: Kill the creature that sends monster attacking locals (and discover why it does it).
    Dragon Age - A Paragon of her Kind: Find a missing noble who can end the dispute for the kingdoms crown.
    Dragon Age - The Urn of Sacred Ashes: Search for a lost artifact to save a dying lord (which happens to be be in the possession of a dangerous cult).
    Mirror's Edge: An outlaws sister gets framed for the murder of a politican and needs her innocence proven, while someone is hunting down the outlaw gang.
    Bad Company: A group of soldiers deserts and tries to steal a treasure from the dictator their army is about to defeat.
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