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<blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 6025721" data-attributes="member: 54707"><p><span style="color: white">Below is the Campaign I am writing to playtest the 5E system. It is partially based upon a horror story I wrote called, <em><strong>The Last Samhain</strong></em>, and partially upon a long poem I wrote caleld <strong>Caer Sidi</strong> (the haunted city that rises from the sea on Halloween).</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: white">As each adventure proceeds the storyline will become (hopefully) scarier and spookier up until the last adventure which takes place on the night of Samhain (halloween.) </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Occasionally the Bard Taliesin (one of the NPCs and a Half-Elf who understands what is happening) will give clues in verse and recite parts of Caer Sidi to the players to help them along.</span></span></p><p> </p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">The Red Moon of Samhain</span></span></span></p><p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">Red Moon Rising (The Tower Under Nowhere)</span></span></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">If the Dead Be Not (Cairn of the Stalkers)</span></span></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">Where Evil Walks (A’tha Omeirtyn, or, the Black Road of Midnight)</span></span></span></span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: white">The Last Samhain (The Black Old Stones of Sharn)</span></span></span></span></li> </ul><p></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Red Moon - I now have the outline for my Red Moon series. The party will start at the Keep of a local Welsh Lord named Wargesthyn who resides at Aberystyth, on the coast (of Wales). The lord and his port town have suffered numerous recent raids from Irish pirates and even apparently some hired Norsemen mercenaries (possibly freeboot Vikings). No one is certain as to exactly why but it seems to do </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">with some ruins at Bay, which lie under the lord's protection and domain. </span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">One of the possible rumors for the raids is that the Celtic Druid Slynirn and the Jute Sorcerer Achilln think they have discovered something about the Grael (not the Holy Grail, but the ancient Celtic Grael, a huge iron cauldron filled with Skee Waters, said to be able to raise the war-dead again to a sort of half-life) and are searching Bay for what they seek. The lord thinks the raids are a diversion to keep his forces tied up defending the keep and town while Slynirn and Achilln ransack the ruins at Bay.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">So the Welsh lord hires the party (my wife and kids characters) to head South and intercept Slynirn and Achilln, or whoever they have hired, and either stop the Druid and Sorcerer, or preemptively recover whatever they really search for. Wargesthyn gives the party a small marshalling of men at arms and helps equip the team for the mission.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Should they survive the first adventure at Bay they will then have to sail North to the Isle of Wight as the days darken and autumn deepens, to see what has taken up home there, and why.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">If they survive that they will then have to go to Arklow in Eire (Ireland) and explore beneath the sea cliffs and old ruins of the Feylaird.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">Finally, if they succeed to the last adventure then they must sail down to Cardiff during Samhain (Halloween) to a final confrontation with whoever or whatever is really behind the Red Moon.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="color: white">There will be totally unique treasures, some very interesting NPCs, some fascinating and very dangerous opponents, monsters, and beasts, and I've got some real surprises in store. </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack7, post: 6025721, member: 54707"] [COLOR=white]Below is the Campaign I am writing to playtest the 5E system. It is partially based upon a horror story I wrote called, [I][B]The Last Samhain[/B][/I], and partially upon a long poem I wrote caleld [B]Caer Sidi[/B] (the haunted city that rises from the sea on Halloween).[/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]As each adventure proceeds the storyline will become (hopefully) scarier and spookier up until the last adventure which takes place on the night of Samhain (halloween.) [/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Occasionally the Bard Taliesin (one of the NPCs and a Half-Elf who understands what is happening) will give clues in verse and recite parts of Caer Sidi to the players to help them along.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white][/COLOR][FONT=Verdana][CENTER][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]The Red Moon of Samhain[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] [COLOR=white][/COLOR] [COLOR=white][/COLOR] [LIST] [*][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]Red Moon Rising (The Tower Under Nowhere)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]If the Dead Be Not (Cairn of the Stalkers)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]Where Evil Walks (A’tha Omeirtyn, or, the Black Road of Midnight)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [*][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=3][COLOR=white]The Last Samhain (The Black Old Stones of Sharn)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/LIST][COLOR=white][/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Red Moon - I now have the outline for my Red Moon series. The party will start at the Keep of a local Welsh Lord named Wargesthyn who resides at Aberystyth, on the coast (of Wales). The lord and his port town have suffered numerous recent raids from Irish pirates and even apparently some hired Norsemen mercenaries (possibly freeboot Vikings). No one is certain as to exactly why but it seems to do [/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]with some ruins at Bay, which lie under the lord's protection and domain. [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]One of the possible rumors for the raids is that the Celtic Druid Slynirn and the Jute Sorcerer Achilln think they have discovered something about the Grael (not the Holy Grail, but the ancient Celtic Grael, a huge iron cauldron filled with Skee Waters, said to be able to raise the war-dead again to a sort of half-life) and are searching Bay for what they seek. The lord thinks the raids are a diversion to keep his forces tied up defending the keep and town while Slynirn and Achilln ransack the ruins at Bay.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]So the Welsh lord hires the party (my wife and kids characters) to head South and intercept Slynirn and Achilln, or whoever they have hired, and either stop the Druid and Sorcerer, or preemptively recover whatever they really search for. Wargesthyn gives the party a small marshalling of men at arms and helps equip the team for the mission.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Should they survive the first adventure at Bay they will then have to sail North to the Isle of Wight as the days darken and autumn deepens, to see what has taken up home there, and why.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]If they survive that they will then have to go to Arklow in Eire (Ireland) and explore beneath the sea cliffs and old ruins of the Feylaird.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]Finally, if they succeed to the last adventure then they must sail down to Cardiff during Samhain (Halloween) to a final confrontation with whoever or whatever is really behind the Red Moon.[/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Verdana][COLOR=white]There will be totally unique treasures, some very interesting NPCs, some fascinating and very dangerous opponents, monsters, and beasts, and I've got some real surprises in store. [/COLOR][/FONT][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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