[The same three adventurers look to make some money clearing out the Watch Tower of goblins. It does not go as planned.]
[This game uses a modified version of the first ever roleplaying game. These rules will be released as the Adventures in the Green RPG in the (far) future. Game session happen once a month. This is the second half of the session that happened September 28, 2019.]
Player Characters:
Bigz Bigguns of the Big’uns Clan – female goblin Adept
Tiny – male minotaur Veteran
Smols Wedge – male “gnome” Medium
Added Later:
Porkins – male human Medium
Hernesday, Quintilis 25th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
After killing a bunch of goblins at the old Watch Tower and capturing one of them for questioning, the three outcast adventurers hauled their captive back to Smolberg. [See Part 1 for details.]
Back in town, the adventurers turned their feral goblin captive over to a sergeant of the town guard. They explained they found feral goblins in the Watch Tower and killed some, but they were not certain if there were more. The sergeant took their captive to see if there were any specific rewards and asked the adventurers to come back in a couple days.
Magusday, Quintilis 26th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Bigz cast Cure Light Wounds on Tiny while Tiny and Smols rest and heal from their wounds.
Cromsday, Quintilis 27th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Tiny and Smols finished resting and healing from their wounds.
Freysday, Quintilis 28th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
All healed up, the adventurers checked the town public announcement pillar for anything interesting. There was a notice from the Smolberg Town Guard offering a reward to get the feral goblins to leave the Watch Tower. Intrigued by the word “reward,” the adventurers went to the Town Guard headquarters to get details. There they learned that the reward was 50 gold coins, a serious amount of money.
Bigz decided to go to the Land Office to find out who owns the land the Watch Tower is on. Maybe it might be available for purchase or the current owners might pay an additional reward for removal of the goblin squatters. The bureaucrat at the land office was not especially helpful, but did tell Bigz which form to fill out. Bigz spent an hour filling out the form and turned it in, only to be told that a reply would be available in a week. Bigz shrugged and left.
With nothing else to do in town, the adventurers took the ferry across the river and then walked south, through the woods, to get to the Watch Tower. This time, the adventurers decided to sneak up the hill to the watch tower. Finding the entry hall much as they left it, minus the goblin bodies, plus blood stains. Tiny once again approached the door on the right, but kicked it open rather than knock.
The room beyond was an impromptu goblin barracks, full of once-sleeping goblins who were now awake. Smols immediately cast his Sleep spell and put all 14 goblins back to sleep! Tiny entered the room and started using his axe to kill the sleeping goblins. Smols hopped down from Tiny’s back and used his knife to cut throats. Bigz tied up one of the sleeping goblins to question and take back to town later.
Unfortunately, the noise of kicking open the door drew alert goblin guards from the room across the entry hall. They snuck up on the slaughtering adventurers and threw spears at Tiny. Two of the spears hit, heavily injuring Tiny [5 of 7 hit points in damage].
This fight went much worse than the previous fight. The adventurers faced 10 awake goblin guards and had only killed 5 of the 14 sleeping goblins before the noise of the combat started waking those goblins up. The adventurers were surrounded and fighting for their lives, trying to kill the goblins before the goblins got a lucky shot in on them. Bigz cast Cure Light Wounds on Tiny to heal him up while all three adventures did their best to kill goblins.
Tiny attempted to force an opening through the goblins for Smols and Bigz to follow, but took a big hit from a spear as more goblins could now target him [6 points of damage from a single hit]. Smols wanted to follow, but two goblins skewered him with their spears, killing him [two critical hits, back to back]. Bigz also took a major injury and saw death. She instead surrendered, hoping the goblins would accept it. She also called out to Tiny to surrender. Tiny was angry with the goblins for killing his friend Smols and bellowed loudly, but eventually surrendered as well.
The feral goblins, still in shock about the suddenness of the fight accepted the surrender. [The goblins knew they could kill the two adventurers but the adventurers had killed 8 of them in the short fight and none of them wanted to be the ones who died taking down the adventurers.] The goblins made the adventurers strip to their small clothes and then leave, allowing them to take Smols's body and keep Bigz's holy symbol [the goblins didn’t want to get a deity angry at them for stealing it].
Despondent but alive, the adventurers fled the Watch Tower for the nearby forest. There Bigz attempted to revive Smols, but he was gone. [Rolled low on the Mortality Table and received the result “That’s a bad way to go.”] Bigz and Tiny dug Smols a shallow grave and buried him in the forest before returning to town.
Quintilis 28th through Sextilus 4th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
The remaining two adventurers, sans gear but burning with a desire to get even, took jobs for a week to earn enough money to replace their gear and heal up.
Tiny, heavily injured but still strong, spent his time chopping wood. After subtracting the the cost of renting an [over-priced] axe, Tiny earned 4 silver coins. [Tiny has an INT of 6 and WIS of 6, so he felt this was a good deal.]
Bigz found a wealthy and [after I mis-read the rules] generous patron who hired her as a healer for a princely sum of 300 gold coin. While working for her patron, Kismi the Sybaritic Sorcerer, Bigz met a human Medium named Porkins. While Bigz mostly ignored the humans working for her patron, but one day she was angry and cursing in Mü, the language of minotaurs, and one of the humans snorted at her comments. This sparked an interest in Bigz. She and Porkins took to talking [in Mü , of course] and he wanted to be an adventurer, but wasn’t willing to strike out on his own. Bigz smiled wide. She had such a deal for Porkins.
Sextilus 5th through the 8th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
With pay in hand and a new adventuring partner, the group spent several days re-equiping with gear and armor, especially plate armor that fit Tiny. Bigz also used Cure Light Wounds to finally heal up Tiny as all the wood chopping he had done kept him from healing naturally.
Magusday, Sextilus 6th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Geared up, healed up, and well fed, the adventurers decided to check the job board for something that would pay well but wasn’t going after the goblins yet. Bigz felt the group needed some additional experience before going after the “gnawers” at the Watch Tower. Besides, the reward for removing the goblins was now up to 100 gold coins. If they waited another week it might go up even higher.
The adventurers checked the town public announcement pillar and found a job protecting a merchant taking goods to Grossestadt [a large city down the Weser River] from river pirates. This seemed like a good job for the group of adventurers. After tracking down the merchant [who liked the visual deterrent a minotaur would bring] they negotiated pay of 100 gold coin each for the trip down river and back. The merchant, Aron Kalteswasser, explained that the dangerous part of the trip was the trip back when the boat would be poled upriver, against the current and at the boat’s slowest speed. As a result, they would not get paid until the group returned to Smolberg. The adventurers were fine with this.
Cromsday, Sextilus 7th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Early in the morning the adventurers climbed aboard the river boat at the Smolberg docks. The boat set sail shortly thereafter, following the current down the Jeetzel River. Late in the afternoon, the boat transitioned from the Jeetzel to the Waser River and sailed down the Waser.
Sunday, Sextilus 10th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Early in the morning the boat arrived at Grossestadt. The Aron instructed the adventurers to stay onboard the boat while he delivered the cargo.
Later in the day Aron returned to the boat and told them they would be staying in the city overnight. The adventurers could get off the boat but should stay in the vicinity of the docks. The merchant had arranged sleeping space at a hostel in the docks area for them and the boat crew and paid for it. They were on their own for food.
Moonday, Sextilus 11th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Late in the day Aron returned to the boat with a chest he locked up in the hold. The boat’s crew poled the boat out of the city docks and started the laborious process of poling the boat upstream.
Magusday, Sextilus 13th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Mid-afternoon, a group of river pirates pushed a skiff into the Waser River from a concealed spot on shore. Two of the pirates rowed in quick conjunction while three of the pirates pointed loaded crossbows at the crew, calling out, “Ahoy! Prepare to be boarded!”
Bored out of their minds, the adventurers sprung to attention. Bigz started slinging rocks at the pirates with the crossbows while Tiny and Porkins waited for the pirates to close. Bigz killed one of the crossbowmen just as the skiff pulled up to the boat.
With a bellowing warcry, Tiny, clad in plate armor, leapt from the boat to the skiff and attacked the skiff’s bottom. The skiff nearly capsized and immediately started taking on water. This caught the pirates off-guard and their crossbow shots went wide of their marks.
Tiny, satisfied the skiff would sink, attacked what he perceived to be the lead pirate, cutting in half the man and his crossbow [critical success]. Bigz killed the third and final crossbowman with her sling while Porkins waited – it seemed to him Tiny had things under control and casting a spell would have been a waste. The rowing pirates jumped from their skiff and started swimming away. Tiny jumped from the sinking skiff onto the pirate swimming upstream, grabbing the pirate and pulling him under the water. This attack drove the air from the pirate’s lungs and he immediately drowned. The last pirate, swimming with the current and staying under water as long and as often as he could, escaped.
Tiny, still holding his breath, slogged along the bottom of the river to shore. The boat pulled over to pick him up and he spent the rest of the day cleaning and oiling his armor to keep it from rusting.
Yggsday, Sextilus 16th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
The boat arrived back at the Smolberg docks. Aron gladly paid the adventurers for work well done. Bigz asked for and received a letter of recommendation from Aron for the group.
End of Session
Behind the Greens
[Yes, I will be using Kisme later as an adventure hook – assuming Bigz lives long enough for it to happen.]
[What does Mü sound like? Imagine every scene in a MCU movie with Groot in it, but shorten his dialog to the word “Mü”. That’s exactly what it sounds like. The players started using it in play and it became the defacto language of the adventuring group, especially since it is the only language Tiny speaks.]
[After the near-TPK, the players greatly enjoyed the fight with the river pirates. It was running late, so I only ran the one attack. Perhaps word got out. The players wanted to level their characters before going back after the goblins, plus they wanted to wait for the next session when the fourth player would be available. I’m fine with this, but pointed out that direct assaults on the front door where all the goblin guards are might not be the best plan and maybe they should do some thinking before returning to the Watch Tower. I think they took the hint.]
Outcasts
Session 01, Part 1
Session 02, Part 1 [Not Written Yet]
[This game uses a modified version of the first ever roleplaying game. These rules will be released as the Adventures in the Green RPG in the (far) future. Game session happen once a month. This is the second half of the session that happened September 28, 2019.]
Player Characters:
Bigz Bigguns of the Big’uns Clan – female goblin Adept
Tiny – male minotaur Veteran
Smols Wedge – male “gnome” Medium
Added Later:
Porkins – male human Medium
Hernesday, Quintilis 25th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
After killing a bunch of goblins at the old Watch Tower and capturing one of them for questioning, the three outcast adventurers hauled their captive back to Smolberg. [See Part 1 for details.]
Back in town, the adventurers turned their feral goblin captive over to a sergeant of the town guard. They explained they found feral goblins in the Watch Tower and killed some, but they were not certain if there were more. The sergeant took their captive to see if there were any specific rewards and asked the adventurers to come back in a couple days.
Magusday, Quintilis 26th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Bigz cast Cure Light Wounds on Tiny while Tiny and Smols rest and heal from their wounds.
Cromsday, Quintilis 27th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Tiny and Smols finished resting and healing from their wounds.
Freysday, Quintilis 28th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
All healed up, the adventurers checked the town public announcement pillar for anything interesting. There was a notice from the Smolberg Town Guard offering a reward to get the feral goblins to leave the Watch Tower. Intrigued by the word “reward,” the adventurers went to the Town Guard headquarters to get details. There they learned that the reward was 50 gold coins, a serious amount of money.
Bigz decided to go to the Land Office to find out who owns the land the Watch Tower is on. Maybe it might be available for purchase or the current owners might pay an additional reward for removal of the goblin squatters. The bureaucrat at the land office was not especially helpful, but did tell Bigz which form to fill out. Bigz spent an hour filling out the form and turned it in, only to be told that a reply would be available in a week. Bigz shrugged and left.
With nothing else to do in town, the adventurers took the ferry across the river and then walked south, through the woods, to get to the Watch Tower. This time, the adventurers decided to sneak up the hill to the watch tower. Finding the entry hall much as they left it, minus the goblin bodies, plus blood stains. Tiny once again approached the door on the right, but kicked it open rather than knock.
The room beyond was an impromptu goblin barracks, full of once-sleeping goblins who were now awake. Smols immediately cast his Sleep spell and put all 14 goblins back to sleep! Tiny entered the room and started using his axe to kill the sleeping goblins. Smols hopped down from Tiny’s back and used his knife to cut throats. Bigz tied up one of the sleeping goblins to question and take back to town later.
Unfortunately, the noise of kicking open the door drew alert goblin guards from the room across the entry hall. They snuck up on the slaughtering adventurers and threw spears at Tiny. Two of the spears hit, heavily injuring Tiny [5 of 7 hit points in damage].
This fight went much worse than the previous fight. The adventurers faced 10 awake goblin guards and had only killed 5 of the 14 sleeping goblins before the noise of the combat started waking those goblins up. The adventurers were surrounded and fighting for their lives, trying to kill the goblins before the goblins got a lucky shot in on them. Bigz cast Cure Light Wounds on Tiny to heal him up while all three adventures did their best to kill goblins.
Tiny attempted to force an opening through the goblins for Smols and Bigz to follow, but took a big hit from a spear as more goblins could now target him [6 points of damage from a single hit]. Smols wanted to follow, but two goblins skewered him with their spears, killing him [two critical hits, back to back]. Bigz also took a major injury and saw death. She instead surrendered, hoping the goblins would accept it. She also called out to Tiny to surrender. Tiny was angry with the goblins for killing his friend Smols and bellowed loudly, but eventually surrendered as well.
The feral goblins, still in shock about the suddenness of the fight accepted the surrender. [The goblins knew they could kill the two adventurers but the adventurers had killed 8 of them in the short fight and none of them wanted to be the ones who died taking down the adventurers.] The goblins made the adventurers strip to their small clothes and then leave, allowing them to take Smols's body and keep Bigz's holy symbol [the goblins didn’t want to get a deity angry at them for stealing it].
Despondent but alive, the adventurers fled the Watch Tower for the nearby forest. There Bigz attempted to revive Smols, but he was gone. [Rolled low on the Mortality Table and received the result “That’s a bad way to go.”] Bigz and Tiny dug Smols a shallow grave and buried him in the forest before returning to town.
Quintilis 28th through Sextilus 4th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
The remaining two adventurers, sans gear but burning with a desire to get even, took jobs for a week to earn enough money to replace their gear and heal up.
Tiny, heavily injured but still strong, spent his time chopping wood. After subtracting the the cost of renting an [over-priced] axe, Tiny earned 4 silver coins. [Tiny has an INT of 6 and WIS of 6, so he felt this was a good deal.]
Bigz found a wealthy and [after I mis-read the rules] generous patron who hired her as a healer for a princely sum of 300 gold coin. While working for her patron, Kismi the Sybaritic Sorcerer, Bigz met a human Medium named Porkins. While Bigz mostly ignored the humans working for her patron, but one day she was angry and cursing in Mü, the language of minotaurs, and one of the humans snorted at her comments. This sparked an interest in Bigz. She and Porkins took to talking [in Mü , of course] and he wanted to be an adventurer, but wasn’t willing to strike out on his own. Bigz smiled wide. She had such a deal for Porkins.
Sextilus 5th through the 8th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
With pay in hand and a new adventuring partner, the group spent several days re-equiping with gear and armor, especially plate armor that fit Tiny. Bigz also used Cure Light Wounds to finally heal up Tiny as all the wood chopping he had done kept him from healing naturally.
Magusday, Sextilus 6th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Geared up, healed up, and well fed, the adventurers decided to check the job board for something that would pay well but wasn’t going after the goblins yet. Bigz felt the group needed some additional experience before going after the “gnawers” at the Watch Tower. Besides, the reward for removing the goblins was now up to 100 gold coins. If they waited another week it might go up even higher.
The adventurers checked the town public announcement pillar and found a job protecting a merchant taking goods to Grossestadt [a large city down the Weser River] from river pirates. This seemed like a good job for the group of adventurers. After tracking down the merchant [who liked the visual deterrent a minotaur would bring] they negotiated pay of 100 gold coin each for the trip down river and back. The merchant, Aron Kalteswasser, explained that the dangerous part of the trip was the trip back when the boat would be poled upriver, against the current and at the boat’s slowest speed. As a result, they would not get paid until the group returned to Smolberg. The adventurers were fine with this.
Cromsday, Sextilus 7th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Early in the morning the adventurers climbed aboard the river boat at the Smolberg docks. The boat set sail shortly thereafter, following the current down the Jeetzel River. Late in the afternoon, the boat transitioned from the Jeetzel to the Waser River and sailed down the Waser.
Sunday, Sextilus 10th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Early in the morning the boat arrived at Grossestadt. The Aron instructed the adventurers to stay onboard the boat while he delivered the cargo.
Later in the day Aron returned to the boat and told them they would be staying in the city overnight. The adventurers could get off the boat but should stay in the vicinity of the docks. The merchant had arranged sleeping space at a hostel in the docks area for them and the boat crew and paid for it. They were on their own for food.
Moonday, Sextilus 11th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Late in the day Aron returned to the boat with a chest he locked up in the hold. The boat’s crew poled the boat out of the city docks and started the laborious process of poling the boat upstream.
Magusday, Sextilus 13th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
Mid-afternoon, a group of river pirates pushed a skiff into the Waser River from a concealed spot on shore. Two of the pirates rowed in quick conjunction while three of the pirates pointed loaded crossbows at the crew, calling out, “Ahoy! Prepare to be boarded!”
Bored out of their minds, the adventurers sprung to attention. Bigz started slinging rocks at the pirates with the crossbows while Tiny and Porkins waited for the pirates to close. Bigz killed one of the crossbowmen just as the skiff pulled up to the boat.
With a bellowing warcry, Tiny, clad in plate armor, leapt from the boat to the skiff and attacked the skiff’s bottom. The skiff nearly capsized and immediately started taking on water. This caught the pirates off-guard and their crossbow shots went wide of their marks.
Tiny, satisfied the skiff would sink, attacked what he perceived to be the lead pirate, cutting in half the man and his crossbow [critical success]. Bigz killed the third and final crossbowman with her sling while Porkins waited – it seemed to him Tiny had things under control and casting a spell would have been a waste. The rowing pirates jumped from their skiff and started swimming away. Tiny jumped from the sinking skiff onto the pirate swimming upstream, grabbing the pirate and pulling him under the water. This attack drove the air from the pirate’s lungs and he immediately drowned. The last pirate, swimming with the current and staying under water as long and as often as he could, escaped.
Tiny, still holding his breath, slogged along the bottom of the river to shore. The boat pulled over to pick him up and he spent the rest of the day cleaning and oiling his armor to keep it from rusting.
Yggsday, Sextilus 16th, 523rd year of the Aegean Kingdom
The boat arrived back at the Smolberg docks. Aron gladly paid the adventurers for work well done. Bigz asked for and received a letter of recommendation from Aron for the group.
End of Session
Behind the Greens
[Yes, I will be using Kisme later as an adventure hook – assuming Bigz lives long enough for it to happen.]
[What does Mü sound like? Imagine every scene in a MCU movie with Groot in it, but shorten his dialog to the word “Mü”. That’s exactly what it sounds like. The players started using it in play and it became the defacto language of the adventuring group, especially since it is the only language Tiny speaks.]
[After the near-TPK, the players greatly enjoyed the fight with the river pirates. It was running late, so I only ran the one attack. Perhaps word got out. The players wanted to level their characters before going back after the goblins, plus they wanted to wait for the next session when the fourth player would be available. I’m fine with this, but pointed out that direct assaults on the front door where all the goblin guards are might not be the best plan and maybe they should do some thinking before returning to the Watch Tower. I think they took the hint.]
Outcasts
Session 01, Part 1
Session 02, Part 1 [Not Written Yet]
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