Help Me Remember That Encounter

[Rechan]

I have a habit where I'll remember a single element of something - a name, a scene, an image - and I will obsessively hunt for it until it's found.

Well, it's happened again, and in this case it's a single encounter.

The encounter is a single encounter, a side-trek or stand-alone lark. The PCs are hired by some well-to-do merchant or politician's wife - either she thinks he's cheating on her, or (I think) she hires them as bodyguards for him. When the guy is making his usual routine rounds about the market, he gets jumped by some thugs who are specifically intent on giving him a thumping.

I think the art and battle map accompanying this was black and white, which suggests either early 3e or maybe a third party thing.

If anyone can remember that, I'd appreciate it; while not important it will relieve my sanity.

 

[SuperZero]

It's sounds kinda like the Bugbear Brawl encounter while the PCs are visiting the Darguun Bloody Market in the 3.5 Eberron Adventure Shadows of the Last War.
Some details don't quite match, though--are you certain of those?

 

[Rechan]

Yeah, I never read "Shadows of the Last War".

 

[skelekon]

This sounds exactly like 'A Picture Tells 1000 Words: Spurned' from Level Up Magazine, Issue 1 (A 4E magazine by Goodman Games).

The party are hired by a philandering merchant's wife to be undercover bodyguards, while at the same time she hires a hit squad to kill him with an 'escaped' Rage Drake.

It's a single encounter + Skill Challenge inspired by some black-and-white art of the merchant in the marketplace.

 

[haakon1]

My guess would be an early 3e pamphlet style adventure, from AEG perhaps. But I don't remember that specific scenario

 

[Rechan]

This sounds exactly like 'A Picture Tells 1000 Words: Spurned' from Level Up Magazine, Issue 1 (A 4E magazine by Goodman Games).

The party are hired by a philandering merchant's wife to be undercover bodyguards, while at the same time she hires a hit squad to kill him with an 'escaped' Rage Drake.

It's a single encounter + Skill Challenge inspired by some black-and-white art of the merchant in the marketplace.

YES! YES that's it! Thank you!