Tournaments and fairs

[Knightcrawler]

I also found Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns extremely useful. It is very well written and fills a place that is very lacking in the D&D gaming system.

Right now I'm using that and stuff fromthe Quint Fighter to come up with one hell of a tournament for my players. Should keep them busy for a while. Lots and lots of twisting intrigue with many red herrings.

<very evil grin>

 

[Cedric]

Never forget to include games for the kids and the commoners.

Commoners wrestle pigs in a pit of mud...they are willing to do this, cause you win the pig and 20 gp. The object is to get the pig (greased of course) into a barrel faster then other people can.

Commoner women, if they so chose, can compete in a bakeoff. The ingredients they'll need, within reason are provided. The bakeoff is limited to only 20 commoner women though...the 20 being decided upon by the women's circle. (Basically the local Lord isn't going to pay for every commoner's wife to bake something...so only the acknowledged best get to participate in the bakeoff).

Winning pies chosen from the final three are decided upon by the Lord. The winning family get to dine at his table...albeit at the other end of his table after being bathed and clothed (their kids eat at a small table off to the side with the Lord's kids).

Kids have a few events too...

They have to chase around a goat and try to get a ribbon off it's tail...

They have watermelon eating and seed spitting competitions as well...

And don't forget the ever popular cow pie flinging contest (with dried cow pies of course).

All commoner and childrens events are free entry and prizes/event hosting is supported by the local Lord.

Cedric