We ran a game table on 10-11 September at the "Goblin's Fest Breizh" a geek and mangas convention in Pordic (near St-Brieuc, Brittany, France). Ruleset: Argad!
On the first day we did short demo games. On the second day I had prepared a scenario (RPG-like) for two players who had taken part in another game one year ago and wished to play the same characters again; so this new adventure is a sequel to "The Valley of the Sad Dragon"
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=77336.msg951870#msg951870After this last adventure, people hear that the captain of the local garrison, Sir Grosvalde, ran away and headed north with a few men and two loaded mules; he probably feared to be punished by the king because of his misconduct and corruption.
– Dwarf player: the captain owes a large sum of money to the Dwarves. But there's something more important: since a long time the Dwarves have been looking for a magical red stone which had belonged to Dwarven kings of the past. They believe that this stone was a part of the Sad Dragon's treasure; but it was not found after the dragon's death. The Dwarves thought that some local humans had hidden a part of the treasure but they had no proof of that. Then they hear that, just before going away, the captain has stolen things hidden under the Priestesses' house…
– Human adventurers player: exploring the abandoned Goblin village, "Hans Stahlarm" and his group of adventurers find a very old Goblin sitting in the forest eating bugs. He tells them that the other Goblins went north and have abandoned him there by kindness of heart – it is cruel to force old Gobs to walk when the tribe moves away. He his quite happy now, but he his worried that bugs will be more difficult to find when winter comes. After some talking and mumbling he mentions that the Goblin group is carrying some newly acquired wealth. The adventurers spare him and give him a bottle of hard liquor.
The table (view from the south). The mountains on the right are far north of those in the previous game. The seashore can be seen in the background. Knights of the Royal Watch are patrolling the plain.
The table (view from the north). There is a small village (not appearing on the previous pic) in the south-west.
The human village:
A group of Dwarves, and a group of humans, walk in the morning fog.
The Dwarves walk proudly, as per custom.
Their leader rides a pony. He has sworn to find the red stone that the Dwarves call "The Eye of the Dragon".
The humans look like a troop of adventurers from two different ethnic backgrounds and cultures.
Half of them are probably from the western kingdom, as Gretchen Derweise the lantern bearer and Hans Stahlarm the leader:
The other half have an eastern appearance, as this monk and this swordswoman:
The adventurers hear a voice in the fog. The monk and the swordswoman cross a small stream, and find a muscular woman wearing a mail skirt (in fantasy terms: a barbarian) squatting for a natural need. When she sees them, she swiftly stands up with a sword in her right hand and a shield in the other hand, and faces them. A few seconds later, a male barbarian holding a two-handed sword comes walking.
The two barbarians seem very suspicious but they accept to talk with the adventurers. They speak with a strong northern accent, they say their names are Kønarl Dunørl and Kønnett Dunørl.
They are bored because they can't find big monsters to fight; so they accept to follow the groups of adventurers. They say they will walk behind the group because they don't trust anybody.
The group crosses a rocky pass, then climbs a hill… and meets some other humans who look like thieves. Both groups are surprised and a fight starts for no reason. Some men fall on both sides, the surviving thieves ran away but two longbowmen in the adventurers group have been killed. Hans Stahlarm is furious and tells his eastern friends to get revenge. The thieves are caught in a sunken lane…
…two of them, including their leader (who looks like a renegade nobleman) die there; the other two manage to escape.
The other adventurers, followed by the barbarian couple, climb a mountain path (the strange half-naked man holding a snake is an eastern shaman who is a member of the group).
…but… some creatures are hiding in the mountain heights… are they Goblins?