Well Amber, you've done it again. Another article with information so useful I can't ignore it.
That Rooftop Scrambler background is going to be perfect for an NPC I'm building for our spring Selgaunt campaign. I can't wait to see the PC's reactions when they watch the NPC skipping along the ledge making his/her escape.
Maybe I'll suggest one of them take a look at becoming the Masked Avenger. That'll balance things out ... maybe.
*blushes madly* Thanks, Troy! I hope to do some more "background" articles this year.
The really funny thing is, that background was inspired by a yearlong campaign I ran based in Saerloon. :-)
-Amber S.
Wait a sec ...
Out of 133 pages of geographic entries for the Forgotten Realms, you and I are running campaigns set in adjacent paragraphs?
That is too weird.
Really weird.
Ah well, maybe we should form a society: DMs who make Sembia safe for greedy, unprincipled merchant princes.
You can be the president and I will be the treasurer. Don't worry, I am as trustworthy as Mirabeta Selkirk when it comes to membership fees.
(Evil laugh fills the air)
Sembia rocks. :-D My campaign has actually ended already (rockingly, I might add), so if you need any tips or adventure ideas, I'm your girl. ;-)
-Amber
Sembia rocks. :-D My campaign has actually ended already (rockingly, I might add), so if you need any tips or adventure ideas, I'm your girl. ;-)
-Amber
I've got the first five or so sessions worked out. I'm still playing with a couple of ideas for the overall story arc and the environment/adversary for the final showdown. But I'm waiting for the PCs to build their characters. I prefer their backgrounds to at least drive a portion of the campaign, including the resolution. If you have anything that plays off the gothic overtones of the region I'm all ears.
Mine was actually a solo game. The lone PC was the spoiled third son of a minor noble merchant's house. An embarrassment to his family, he liked slumming with the rogues of the dark quarter and the other disaffected noble youth. That is, until the day his father asked him to attend a special dinner at home. Martek (the PC), not being able to think of anything more boring than a family dinner, blew them off. The next day he learned his entire family had been cut down at the dinner table, and witnesses claimed it was Martek who had slain them.
Thus began a campaign of mystery, deception, double-crossing and vigilante justice where Martek strove to uncover the truth behind his family's massacre and hunt down the guilty party. It was sort of a cross between Punisher and the Crow, only in a fantasy setting. If I may be so humble as to say so, it kicked some serious ass.
I'll look over the campaign notes and see if I can come up with anything useful for you. :-)
-Amber S.
That is, until the day his father asked him to attend a special dinner at home. Martek (the PC), not being able to think of anything more boring than a family dinner, blew them off. The next day he learned his entire family had been cut down at the dinner table, and witnesses claimed it was Martek who had slain them.
As good as reason as any not to pass on any of mom's home cookin'.
Aristocratic intrigues! Always interesting. All my PCs will be servants-employees to Selgaunt's well-chronicled House Uskevren. Of course, things will go a touch differently than in the novels .... Stormweather Towers is a great environment for Selgauntian intrigue.
Selgauntian? Is that a word? Selgauntenese? Selgauntonian? Selgauntite?
Anyway, a second reading through some of my collection of Lankhmar stories has also yielded some valuable urban adventure ideas. "The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar" being just one of them.