When looking to generate an interesting twist while creating an adventure module for D&D, one of the most complicated things nowadays is to be able to generate an interesting twist throughout the adventure or at least at the very end. Since resorting to the classic, monster at the end of the cave, is not bad, but I believe that it could generate a feeling of being ripped off to the person who bought your material. And although some people will always complain about everything, I want to feel satisfied when I deliver something that is at least strange or a little curious.
So what I look for is always to take two elements when building a story, whether it's a song, movie, book, another module. I always integrate two elements and try to combine them with some of the settings that have official D&D material. And I have always found the results to be enjoyable.
On this occasion, I took one of the main plots of the book "Les contes de la rue Broca" (stories with their own caricature). To join them with some of the towns surrounding the ring city of Sigil in the Planescape setting.
And I think I'm going to do the same with all 26 stories created by Gripari, as they are completely crazy and I love them. Such kind of approach are not innovative or so flashy within the SLO scene, but then I see that D&D players get very stuck in the typical and although many interesting things can emerge from such niche, I feel that they fail in the aspect of crazy, surprising or bizarre.
So I like to add the weirdness to the formula of the D&D world, that was the reason I started publishing adventures in the DMG. Of course, a lot has to do with the huge audience it enjoys and the fact that even though I don't love the system, I understand it and find it functional.
As we say in my country "some of whitewash and others of sand".
