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Hello All,
I am looking into running Wardens, and the first book features a Campaign Timeline with these two events occurring in 4721 AR:
"Violent events like the Broken Bridge Incident and the brief Seven-Stump War drive even greater tension."
Does anybody know if these two events are published in any Paizo material? I can't seem to find anything besides the town of Broken Bridge in Taldor. I was thinking that these would be excellent prequels or pre-adventures to run for the party before beginning the campaign.
Thanks in advance!
Yea I am wondering about this as well. I haven't found anything on them either.
Ah... I think they refer to the FREE RPG DAY scenarios...
If you mean the two Free RPG Day modules set in the Verduran Forest, 2022's A Fistful of Flowers and 2023's A Few Flowers More, no, those incidents did not happen in those modules. I played those two modules, chronicled at Playtesting in A Fistful of Flowers with 7 Leshies.
A Fistful of Flowers starts in an unnamed section of the Verduran Forest in Taldor near a small river. The leshies later walk to the human village of Petalbrook.
The village of Petalbrook is friendly enough to visitors, and safe enough for its citizens to ensure the classic feel of small town comfort. This close to the Verduran Forest, and with several productive fields nearby, the villagers have no trouble securing food. The wildflower fields also make Petalbrook an ideal place for beekeeping. The village produces a considerable surplus of honey, which it trades with other villages in exchange for crafted goods.
I like to play with maps, so I put Petalbrook 40 miles upstream on the Verduran River from Belhaim. Really, it has no location on any map.
... the next step for them is the trip to the nearby town of Rosentry. The trip itself is uneventful, and the PCs should be able to safely rest and recover to full strength before arriving. The town of Rosentry is little more than a glorified vacation town—pandering to the many nobles who keep seasonal homes away from home in the area is the settlement’s primary industry.
The town of Rosentry is also unmapped. It could be near Broken Bridge, but Broken Bridge is not mentioned in the module. Furthermore, calling the events there the "Rosentry incident" would make more sense than the calling them the "Broken Bridge incident." Nevertheless, the Rosentry incident with a Taldoran noblewoman kidnapping leshies as garden ornaments would be a good incident to mention at the Moot of Ages.
Nothing in A Fistful of Flowers or A Few Flowers More involves seven stumps nor a place named Seven Stumps.
I have been planning to ask my players to play their leshy PCs from A Fistful of Flowers in Wardens of Wildwood. For now, I am instead sending those leshy PCs to the Magaambya Academy in the Mwangi Expanse via the module Pathfinder Quest (Series 2) #18: Student Exchange as a crossover with my current Strength of Thousands campaign.
So I wonder what would make a good thing for these two events? are there any society adventures that we could draw upon or any details that we can look at?
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Ah... I think they refer to the FREE RPG DAY scenarios...If you mean the two Free RPG Day modules set in the Verduran Forest, 2022's A Fistful of Flowers and 2023's A Few Flowers More, no, those incidents did not happen in those modules. I played those two modules, chronicled at Playtesting in A Fistful of Flowers with 7 Leshies.
A Fistful of Flowers starts in an unnamed section of the Verduran Forest in Taldor near a small river. The leshies later walk to the human village of Petalbrook.
just ran Fistful of Flowers on Tuesday.
It starts out with a broken bridge.
Yes, a rope bridge was found broken at the beginning of A Fistful of Flowers. But that broken bridge was not the inciting incident for the story nor was the place named after the broken bridge. The inciting incident was missing leshies. My players repaired that bridge before they left the area, since the lotus leshy Monet could walk on the river to pull the pieces together for splicing.
... [Years ago] Popcorn returned the next morning and used vines and fallen branches to build a leshy-sized rope bridge strung between a pair of trees on opposite banks. In the years since, many local leshys have learned of the rope bridge and come to appreciate its convenience, and particularly enjoyed using the bridge as a sort of swing to sit on and sway back and forth over the river. When the PCs arrive, Popcorn’s carefully crafted handiwork lies in ruins. All that remains of the rope bridge are fragments of vines hanging from the trees on both banks.
The module named that section "The River Crossing" rather than "The Broken Bridge."
There is a famous broken bridge on the edges of the Verduran Forest, Broken Bridge.
Broken Bridge is a massive ruined causeway that once crossed its namesake Brokenbridge River. Located halfway between the city of Yanmass and the start of the Verduran Fork, it was destroyed by a silver dragon sometime during the Dragon Plague between 3660 and 3672 AR. Rather than rebuild the bridge, locals left it as a memorial to the destruction and horrors of dragonkind's decade-long rampage across the country. Instead, the locals built a smaller wooden bridge next to the original Broken Bridge, along with a small stone fort made from some of the remnants of the destroyed bridge. The fort now houses members of the River Guard.
All that remains of the original Broken Bridge are the pilings and a few spans. Local youths sometimes dare each other to try to cross the bridge by leaping between these, a feat seemingly physically impossible and not achieved within living memory.
The phrase "Broken Bridge Incident" made me think of the famous Broken Bridge. The kidnapped leshies in A Fistful of Flowers would not be named "the Broken Bridge Incident" because the deliberately-cut rope bridge was not the scandal.
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Yes, a rope bridge was found broken at the beginning of A Fistful of Flowers. But that broken bridge was not the inciting incident for the story nor was the place named after the broken bridge. The inciting incident was missing leshies. My players repaired that bridge before they left the area, since the lotus leshy Monet could walk on the river to pull the pieces together for splicing.
... [Years ago] Popcorn returned the next morning and used vines and fallen branches to build a leshy-sized rope bridge strung between a pair of trees on opposite banks. In the years since, many local leshys have learned of the rope bridge and come to appreciate its convenience, and particularly enjoyed using the bridge as a sort of swing to sit on and sway back and forth over the river. When the PCs arrive, Popcorn’s carefully crafted handiwork lies in ruins. All that remains of the rope bridge are fragments of vines hanging from the trees on both banks.The module named that section "The River Crossing" rather than "The Broken Bridge."
There is a famous broken bridge on the edges of the Verduran Forest, Broken Bridge.
...Broken Bridge is a massive ruined causeway that once crossed its namesake Brokenbridge River. Located halfway between the city of Yanmass and the start of the Verduran Fork, it was destroyed by a silver dragon sometime during the Dragon Plague between 3660 and 3672 AR. Rather than rebuild the bridge, locals left it as a memorial to the destruction and horrors of dragonkind's decade-long rampage across the country. Instead, the locals built a smaller wooden bridge next to the original Broken Bridge, along with a small stone fort made from some of the remnants of the destroyed bridge. The fort now houses members of the River Guard.
All that remains of the original Broken Bridge are the pilings and a few spans. Local
It's certainly possible that Fistful is the intended 'Broken Bridge Incident'
It might not be, but it's a Taldan intrusion on the forest in violation of, what I would assume, are the terms of the treaty. Plus, you can play in it, so that's better for a table than something you can't.
Headcanon-wise, I think it makes sense.