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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 5074106" data-attributes="member: 20323">I was just jotting notes down about the same thing. Great minds. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I'm doing an adventure where the PCs compete in the tournament, but their reason for doing so is to recruit allies against a wicked prince trying to seize power. Interspersed throughout the adventure is a complex social skill challenge where certain minor quests during the tournament count as successes in addition to skills.Here's one example...Mead Hall MysterySomeone stole a barrel of the Baron’s reserve mead, and the Baron has promised to share a bottle with whoever recovers it.The Facts: Ale-wife had extra-marital relations with the Baron, and he gives her hush money. Cellar-keeper served Baron faithfully for 30 years after Baron saved him from bandits. Porter’s livelihood depends on honest work and his cousin in the guard would turn him in. Ale-wife has alibi – she was serving Baron’s guests. Cellar-keeper is too frail to lift barrels. Porter only had access to the reserve chambers when the mead was brought up to rest of cellars, and all barrels were accounted for then. Visiting merchant was drinking with Baron as they discussed shipping plans for an order of elderberry wine. Guards moved the rest of the reserve mead to the Baron’s treasure vault. Searching cellars reveals a siphon hidden under a flagstone.The Truth: Ale-wife, cellar-keeper, and porter are in cahoots. Ale-wife got shipping manifest from visiting merchant. Cellar-keeper used siphon to swap reserve mead into different barrels, then disassembled one barrel and burned it. Porter disguised as guard checked one barrel left with reserve mead as convincing bluff. So reserve mead is actually still in cellar about to be stolen from merchant (porter signed on with him) once it is traded as “elderberry wine”.Reward: +1 action point and +1 success with Baron Lorgan in the skill challenge</blockquote>

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