This week I continued with the creating a shortened Zine, something that fits on a single A4 sheet of paper with just enough information to set the scene, plot and hook with some NPCs sprinkled through that it could be used in any system.
I think its still working well so without any further waiting I present The Stained City, in the short format, as a fun one-shot to assist GMs when they need a night out of the books whether you run Pathfinder, Open Legends RPG, D&D or any other RPG System.
There is references to the blog nights which are D&D centric (regarding Friday night’s Stat-blocks) but this adventure can be used system agnostic more so than my regular Zines. As always Kobold fight club can be used to quickly balance an encounter for Dungeons and Dragons and Tetra-cube provides the stat-blocks for many of my D&D creatures.
So I hope you enjoy this weeks adventure, The Stained City, and that your rolls are made with advantage.
The Stained city
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The Red Robin in is a lively establishment at the heart of Olorus, The Stained City. Once a city of honourable nights and proud people, it declined with the departure of the royal family and the rise of the merchant elite who assumed control over the city. After which their focus on commerce and pushing the city forwards to gain more renown, wealth and power caused rifts to appear in the demographics as the people began to mirror the desire of those in power.
With so many people focused on power and wealth, gangs sprung up in the city and started to fight for power on the streets. The blood from these gang wars gave the city its name, The Stained City.
The party had been to the Red Robin several times before many years ago for various jobs. On this occasion one of their old acquaintances, a man known as “Mims” was drunk and dancing on the table. When he noticed the party he recalled the times they had together fondly and shared his ale with them. However it was not long until he asked them for a favour, and it was a big one.
The party gets to work by watching the local guard to understand their numbers, movement and anything else that they could gain benefit from. They tend to blend in well and no one wants to bother them after they witness a heated dispute with the party as a small number of thieves try to rob them. This earns them a curious nod from the guard, thanks and an introduction to Alistare Guzo, the captain of this part of the city guard. He asked them to keep an eye out for anything suspicious as they had a large number of attempted burglaries lately and they suspected it would continue for another few days, when the local church of Tyr would be removing a particularly cursed item.
The party says farewell to Alistare and hangs back as he meets with a few other guards and strolls off. However they notice a man who is either pretending to be drunk or very much so who watches and follows Alistare and his group for a few blocks before disappearing into an alley.
PDF adventure – The Stained City
Thanks for joining me today for another Zine this year. This is a condensed version of the Zine, but I hope the format works and is good to look at! Please feel free to leave comments if this format is appealing – so make sure to grab a copy of the PDF.
Next time you get a party together consider running this adventure and I hope that you enjoy it.
I hope you don’t miss a thing so come back daily in the coming week and year. This is so you can experience the creation of the next adventure as it evolves and shapes out. And as always, don’t forget to roll with advantage,
The Brazen Wolfe
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