I am looking to put together a series of quick and easy one-shot adventures for my group.

The basic setting is that of a security and investigation company, staffed by clued-in and talented individuals. They get jobs of an unusual nature, most are routine, but rarely, there is something more to the mission. These are the one which will be played out.

I'm not great at one-shots. adventures you sit down and play out in one hour and I could use some advice and suggestions. I am much better at super-detailed, long campaigns. And maybe we'll do one of those once the group in more into it, but I want some quick and fun (for me too) adventures i can put my players through.

I have one idea I need to flush out, for a regular client who has their child picked up from private school everyday and delivered home. The catch being that the kid if a changeling and the local fey want to kidnap him.

Beyond that I am kind of stumped and even that is pretty bare-bones. I had another idea of adventures inspired by Dresden files short stories. None of the group have read the short stories and only one have read the books.

As for power levels; it's an up to your chest campaign.

Thanks for your time

Bump. Any movement on this?

Huh. Gotta wonder how you pulled that off.

Maybe you spread your skills too wide? One Superb skill tends to be a lot more useful than five Average skills.

Generally speaking, if you put your highest skill slots in the skills you intend to use and then take some stunts to boost those skills you should be fine.

What did you do?

Couldn't tell you. We did everything up in word first, translating over from WoD characters from our campaign there (and we were very, VERY glad at the switch, even with my issues with FATE), copied them to character sheets and then as we played re-did them onto that TDF Character creation program that got abandoned.

The campaigns we ran tended to be long and busy. After a few major milestones and two computer crashes, I have no accurate idea what our characters originally looked like.

My buddy played an un-trained wizard, and his style was less concerned with covering his bases anyways. I stuck with my previous experience and laid down a point in everything I thought I needed, bulked out the right "stat" skills and then tried, badly to do justice to the skills I was supposed to have been good at and then re-did it with "stats" and vital skills first.

My vital skills being hurting people and my buddy being the kick-in-the-door kind of player, our campaigns followed the track-find-kill pattern and we couldn't handle anything else.

Really?

Because a Submerged mortal can be the world's greatest quantum physicist, an exceptionally-skilled medical doctor, an Olympic sprinter, a millionaire, and a skilled negotiator. They can do all that with enough room left in their build for the combat skills to kill vampires in duels. And they'll have half a dozen FP to spare.

I suspect that your standards might be unreasonably high.

I suspect one of us did his character creation wrong; probably me, since you sound confidant. The Character I built at submerged the first time was basically helpless.

I am expanding an old campaign me and my buddy used to do as a 2-player for my regular gaming group. But the problem is that most of these guys are totally new to TDF and their fantasy background is giving them a bad taste for one of my favourite aspects of TDF; the balance. Maybe I should not have led off with; "you can't play a vampire without being a bad guy, in general" But I did. These guys are more used to "catch-less" powers, so the give and take and consequences have sort of turned them off.

The general concept for the campaign is that the two PC from the previous campaign basically had their lives ruined by the adventure and formed a security and investigation company to make ends meat. They did the strange jobs, but the mundane weirdness and dealing with the paranormal and earned a good reputation and made inroads in several circles. Then the one PC character disappeared, the remaining PC THINKS this was with the local Warden who took him as an apprentice, but no one seems to know. To fill the gap the remaining PC, became more of an NPC character, taking a few more refresh to by some limited learned skill in enchantment and warding rituals in an attempt to level the playing field between his mortal skills and supernatural threats. He also hired a collection of experienced investigators and ex-soldiers and police officers to work for him. After a few brushes with the supernatural, they all quit and the company's once fine reputation is now seriously in question.

Enter the PC's;

Plan-B, because starving to death sucks; Hire people with supernatural powers or experience and train them to be security guards and investigators.

Our remaining PC is now totally an NPC; he interviews the PCs, trains them, equips them and tasks them on jobs, unless it's a huge deal he shouldn't be in a fight with the PCs; he's got his own work to do, but the PC's might have ot back him up on occasion, usually as part of a larger mission; PC; gets a call to come pick up the boss at this location and drive him to the hospital; oh by the way; here are some leads I want you to check out.

I have one player with a really cool idea for a high concept; Magic bodygaurd: Minor Talent (Wards)= magic shield and a revolver. He puts himself between danger and the principle and fires back.

I have another idea myself for an underage street kid payed under the table. She has no supernatural powers, but living on the street, she's seen some things. As a street kid she's culturally invisible in many environments and acts as a sneaker/spy. I'm not sure if anyone in the group would be interested in that though.

Beyond that no one really has any ideas. But generally i'm pretty open, with the only caveat being that the survival of the PC cannot hinge on victimizing innocent people due to the moral code The Boss NPC lives by.

So, what about the frankenstein idea? New life in old flesh?

I misread your post and thought you were looking for mini mouse 

Anyways,  D&D mini's has lots of wolves and worgs.  Do those not have the look you want?

Naw, i am looking for a floppy-eared, big hairy dog, really more like a newfoundland or some such.

I hate when this happens.

My last DFRPG campaign got shut down when the only other player joined the regular forces. I'm really proud of him by the way.

Currently I am running a GURPS-based Twilight-2000 campaign, but I think I am about to loose a key player because he has to move back to England, or at least it looks that way. If this person leaves, I feel like it kiboshes the campaign. even though there are several other players.

Feels like this has happened a lot to me. Was part of an epic WOD game when one of my best friends died, which made it worse because we not only lost him, but also the game and the group.

But it gave me an idea now that I am looking at it again; Before my last DFRPG campaign got shut down, my other player's PC, a burgeoning wizard had just been discovered by the local warden and there was talk of him being apprenticed. But him and the other character were just getting set up in their own security and investigation company.

My idea is this; PC1 was spirited away by the warden to train him and use him as another warden after a little while of helping run the company, establishing somethings of a reputation.

This leaves PC2 to have to deal with all the backlash of their recent adventures alone. I am going to have him have basically run the company solo for a bit, had his life destroyed by the backlash of the first two adventures, leaving nothing but the company and then had all the normal employees he hired quit on him after dealing with the supernatural.

This becomes the campaign lead-in with PC2 as an effective-NPC "The Boss" and the new PCs answering adds in a local undergound newspaper for individuals with unusual talents and experiences to be hired by this local security/investigation company with a developed, but tarnished reputation both in supernatural underworld and a reputation for dealing with the unusual in the normal world.

My original backup plan for is GURPS was too complicated for people was to run a mechwarrior campaign, but the guy leaving was one of the main interested parties in that regard.