Now with this weeks fight amongst salt and smoke we are taking a step back from map creation and going with good old Theatre of the mind. But let’s see if we can get enough of a description of what the battlefield looks like in order to drive the encounter regardless. So let’s sit down, grab a coffee and read on!
Salt and Smoke
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The seaside town of Nigrun consists of around three dozen small homes, two warehouses, a tavern-come-inn and a general store. Most of the buildings are built out of wooden planks that encase mudbrick walls. There are two main streets that create an intersection that split Nigrun into three sections with a warehouse, store and tavern being the smallest section that is fenced off.
The main street that flows from these central buildings passes houses and smaller buildings as it moves down towards the sea and the three piers that form the docks. The second warehouse is located here and stores non-Nigrun produced goods which they use as trade and barter with other seafaring people. However this leaves the warehouse quite open to all sides and so there is a thirty feet tall watch guard tower here.
Most homes are occupied by a family or people that live together. Most of the people in this town are either farmers who create the grain and straw or fishermen who take out small boats to the bay that they have found themselves in. A few larger houses are positioned along the pebble beach opposite the warehouse.
Currently there are some hastily made barricades that face outwards from the city protecting the warehouse, general store and tavern primarily but a ramshackle group of hastily made walls have been erected. Some parts of the wall lay smouldering where what looks to be a small tower was constructed but otherwise all is quiet in the city like the town before the storm.
The barricades are about eight feet tall with small holes periodically around the base for people to shoot arrows through or to jab with spears out. There are a few places that are open where there is no wall but the gap appears to be about as big as a wagon or cart and one lays nearby ready to be pushed into place to block it once more.
The land outside of the barricade is mostly flat with some hill scattered around but from the vantage of a roof, tower or taller perch you could see for a few thousand feet if there was something large approaching. The waters are clear except for the large merchant boat in the dock and none of the fishing boats are out on the water leaving it a very full dock presently.
That’s about it for now and this weeks town description. The encounter planned this week will be a bit of a surprise, I hope, so make sure to come back for that. Don’t forget this weekend should see more Tabletop content as we push through to the end of the year. And lastly, as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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