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swaghauler 07-24-2020 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Raellus (Post 84318)
Technically, I probably didn't use the term MacGuffin correctly in the OP/Poll, but there's definitely a difference between "an object or device in a movie or a book that serves merely as a trigger for the plot" and a mission like "gather stuff", or a patron that sends the character on missions, like "the collector". A MacGuffin is almost always one really important thing. How and/or why it's important usually doesn't matter to the character charged with finding/retrieving/destroying the thing, but it still manages to drive the main plot line.
That's why I posted my two examples. In the first one, the PC's needed to retrieve the Blood Diamonds to develop an "in" with a local warlord to insure their client's safe passage through his area.

In the second one, they needed equipment to take a job and the only way to get that equipment with a STRONG UN arm's ban was to do a job for the UN Commander to get the equipment.

Legbreaker 07-24-2020 10:12 PM
Three definitions from different sources, all basically the same.
Make of it what you will.
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Definition of MacGuffin:
an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking intrinsic importance
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MacGuffin
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MacGuffin
Also: McGuffin
an object, event, or character in a story that lacks intrinsic importance but serves to set and keep the plot in motion
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/MacGuffin
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MacGuffin
something in a film that moves the plot (= story) forward but is not important itself
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...lish/macguffin

pmulcahy11b 06-20-2021 07:03 PM
The Tac Nuke in the Challenge Magazine's "Shell Game" mini-module.

Mahatatain 06-21-2021 02:44 PM
The Last Submarine to set up a different kind of campaign to nromal where the PCs are still members of a functioning military and act as the ops team aboard, going ashore on missions. Handled right it can work well, providing a command structure to guide the PCs without restricting their ability to make their own decisions on how they resolve the missions they are asked to undertake, potentially even refusing them.

ToughOmbres 06-28-2022 02:34 PM
Maguffin
 
The SRS/Strategic Reserve Stockpile in Allegheny Uprising just barely edges out Pirates of the Vistula, Going Home and Airlords of the Ozarks.
It was too hard to beat a cache of documents, fuel and five (5) Bradley fighting vehicles plus other essentials needed to get some semblance of civilization back.
The Last Submarine definitely deserves honorable mention and is a good plot hook/twist IMHO.


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