This room is clean, holding 2 statues and a small alter with a chest on top of it…. Encounter Level 1 (375 xp) In my home campaign the adventure after this was B7 Rahasia, and it was here that the Heroic Tier villain hid the Black Opal from that module to ensure the co-operation of …
“Cursing in common can be heard through the door, and shouts of pain…” Encounter Level 1 (500XP) A simple encounter to reinforce the story point that goblins and orcs are working together, and that the orcs are pushing the goblins around. Much of the danger of the encounter rests on the orcs toughness and accuracy …
“You hear the squeak of, is it a multitude of rats…” Encounter Level 1 (400xp) In the Winter’s Reach campaign the goblins that live near the starting location use rats as pets, and dire rats and such as guard animals usually. This room is where they keep and breed their rats. Room At A Glance …
“Defaced statues march in twin columns down this filth covered room…” Encounter Level 2 (700xp) This is the first encounter inside a goblin lair, and is set up assuming the alarm was not raised (so nothing comes immediately to the monster’s aid) and is intended to give the PCs a choice at its conclusion. The …
Reading the human racial write up in Heroes of the Fallen Lands gave me stark picture of the problem with Nerath: it lacks culture. In this case I mean it lacks a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices to characterize it. Nerath, even when described vaguely is described in such a way as …
Encounter Level 2 (550xp) After the Attack on Tralvaile the PCs should have been attacked on The Road to Taslatia until at last they reach the entry to the goblin’s lair where they expect to find the kidnapped girl. Unfortunately due to the actions of Baldwin and Faustine, and the goblin’s own participation in the …
Encounter Level 2 (550xp) Once the PCs and the villagers had driven off the orcs in Winter’s Reach – Attack on Tralvaile they learn that the daughter of the village’s leader (Chief Caladar Man’Morth in my game) has been captured by the invaders and taken away. Baldwin and Faustine both express concern over this, it …
Encounter Level 3 (600xp) This is the first encounter of my current home DnD game. The campaign assumes that the PCs have lived in the same small frontier village (Tralvaile) for at least a couple of years and thus have come to know each other. Their abilities make the valued members of the community, be …
Today I was working on the NPCs for a couple of my campaigns, both of which are based on published adventures (Village of Hommlet by TSR & WotC, and Legacy of Fire from Paizo) by making a simple list of the NPCs that the characters of each campaign had met, or could readily meet. This …
Ryoko Owari (Journey’s End City) is more commonly known as the City of Lies and it is from this classic Legend of the Five Rings boxed set that much of the information for this campaign will be drawn. Opening the boxed set reveals: A Map of the city (of course) – black and white approximately …