Throw Together Adventures

So what do you do when two of your seven players fail to show up for the campaign? Do you call it for the night and try again later? Or do you pull up that random character generator, run a random dungeon creator, and laugh at the guy who gets the six levels of commoner? If you chose option B, congratulations you are reading the perfect blog! Conflicting alignments and a nonsense dungeon layout, and a party that offers no sense of balance,  quickly leads to a deteriorating situation of player on player violence, and the commoner of course gets pushed into a pool that turns him into a goblin.

The system: D&D 3.0, because that's what the generators use.
Tools:

• Characters: http://www.hailscape.com/
• Dungeon: http://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/
• Players: As many as you can fit at your gaming table. The more the merrier. 

Basis for the story, in a very small back woods town, a group of adventurers listens to the ramblings of drunken man as he reveals to them a dungeon filled with riches and wonder on the outskirts of town in an abandoned and broken down temple. The temple is a one hour horse ride from town, which is always an uneventful journey.

This is a very good way to force players to move outside of their comfort zone and also a great way to practice enforcing things like languages and alignment restrictions. If the players can some how muster together long enough to accomplish something, they will find an collapsed entrance at the back of the temple that will reveal the random dungeon's entrance.