This is the follow-up to the SagaBorn Starter Kit adventure, The Inheritance. It is meant for four to six level 1 characters and is the start of a campaign that will bring heroes to level 8.
CH001 The Lay of the Land Part I
This is an intro adventure to the Sagaborn Roleplaying Game. This adventure takes full advantage of the new SagaBorn rules for Strongholds, Allies, and Factions. The adventure is set up loosely, giving you and the players an open sandbox to play in. We provide a goal, a secret, and information on the area where it takes place while giving the players the flexibility to choose their own path.
The heroes have inherited the lands around the remote village of Craven’s Hollow, and now they must rise to the occasion to protect their land and its people.
| Date: Ces the 9th, 5707 You find yourself living in an abandoned guard tower. It is supposedly haunted, but no spirits have yet chased you away. Others in Craven’s Hollow succumb to their fears and burrow away in small shacks or tents across the small valley. Sure, the tower is old and bloodstained, and yes, there are some strange noises that come up out of the well every once in a while, but it’s a comfortable place. Well, as comfortable as you can get in the Hollow. “Good bones,” says Vrede, the only other occupant of the tower. Vrede is an Ishian man who has lived in the Hollow as long as anyone. And that’s about all he will tell you about that. He is right, though. The tower was built by dworvs, so the walls are thick and solid, and the roof’s tiles still turn away the rain and snow. The tower has a long history of violence and death. It was built to keep out the demons of the forest back in the days of the Warlock King of the North. As the Uthgard Empire fell, the soldiers in the tower ran the area as a small fiefdom ruled by the soldiers as warlords. The Lord of Kowal wiped out the warlords, and for years, the blood-soaked ground lay empty. In more modern days, as the Lord and his cronies brought down a more iron-fisted grip on the city, Craven’s Hollow has been given a second life as a place of escape for those who do not fit into the “civilized” world. These are the forgotten, living among the ghosts of the past. So this is where it all starts: living like pauper kings in an old tower built by a long-dead empire. |
