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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaptain_Kantrip" data-source="post: 183969" data-attributes="member: 546">NOTE: The following may not make much sense to those of you not familiar with Harn...This is still in the early stages of development... I intend on using HarnWorld as the setting, though I haven't narrowed it down to the exact location yet. I am considering using the village and area from the Harn adventure "100 Bushels of Rye" (SPOILERS AHEAD RE: 100 BUSHELS), as well as that adventure itself as the introduction to the campaign, though I will probably replace the Nolah with something else even more hideous, the Taelda sun god with Shub-Niggurath and the hidden Khazdul forge with some kind of crazed human cultist's lair, perhaps with a crumbling old "forbidden book" or two. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS BEGINS HERE: I'll probably also toss in a wicked old "wise woman" in the woods who can serve as a source of info, herbs and perhaps as a patron for those interested in unlocking the secrets of "black magic." In a pinch, she could serve as an instigator for sending the PCs out to recover her "dear, departed husband's humble library" from the cultist's lair, which "holds sentimental value" to her. The body of her husband could replace the dead dwarf in the forge, and the books replace the magical sword Trueheart. Perhaps the witch and her husband had a cult going in the area decades ago but the Taelda tribe moved in and wiped them out... but then kept sacrificing one of their own to the monster in the pit of skulls to keep it away from them. The village could then have sprung up nearby many years later, driven off the Taelda and caused the creature from the pit to go roaming for its food (sacrifices) into the village... The witch could have been waiting all these years for the village to spring up and give her the chance at revenge against the Taelda "when the stars are right" (LOL)---perhaps she somehow was able to instigate the conflict between the village and the Taelda---and now she hopes to reclaim her husband's eldritch tomes and start her cult again using the villagers as converts and sacrifices!  Or maybe the husband wasn't really her husband but some guy who usurped control of the cult from her and then she arranged for the Taelda to massacre the cult but then couldn't get to her books. She received an insane vision to wait for the PCs (or one in particular she sees as a protege) to retrieve her books and renew the cult with her at its head. The vision told her only when that PC has come of age can the cult be renewed in earnest. I am thinking of replacing the existing Harnic pantheon with the Catholic Church (LOL). Everything not of the church is the work of the Devil and his demons. Unfortunately, Catholicism will have no real power to save anyone from the gibbering madness that Lurks Beyond... No offense intended. I was partially inspired by a HarnCthulhu document on Columbia Games site. The new d20 Cthulhu filled in the rest of the blanks. Plus, I paid $40 for it, so we're going to use it or else, LOL.</blockquote>

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