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Name: Joe Smith
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Requested Dates: Anytime in the next two weeks, Except Tuesdays
Adventuring Group: Kad, Bremen, Grael, Roe
Region: E5
Goal: To further explore the caverns discovered there.
Ferric was a shop owner in Kowal. His shop specialized in buying rare and strange objects. He had received warning from the Wanderer’s that his shop was targeted by the Red Guard. Fleeing in the middle of the night, he escaped the Elmhearth.
He has now opened up a shop, called the Supply Tent, which is just that, a tent that deals in the supplies and items of the Elmhearth refugee camp.
Helfen
Race: Human Age 51
Class: Fighter 4
Challenge Rating: 3
Size: Medium
Initiative: +1
Defense
Hit Points: 38
Armor Class: 17, touch 11, flat-footed 16
Saves: Fort +7 Ref +5 Will +2
Weakness: Hurt ankle (slower movement, can not travel over long distances)
Offense
Speed: 25
Base Attack: +4
Melee: Mace +6 (1d6+2)
Ranged: —
Special Attacks:
Mana: —
Statistics
Abilities: STR 14, DEX 12, CON 15, INT 13, WIS 11, CHA 10
Skills: Acrobatics +2, Athletics +4, Awareness +4, Endurance +5, Knowledge +3, Persuasion +3, Spellcraft –, Survival +1, Thievery +2
Talents: Investigator
Special Qualities: —
Equipment:
Background
Helfen traveled as a caravan guard before he joined the Wanderers. He was not a thrill-seeker and worked mainly as a guard for Wanderer tasks. As soon as a way arose for him to get off the road, he jumped at the position. During the rebuilding of Elmhearth, he fell from the second story and severely damaged his ankle.
Characteristics:
Optimistic, Hard-working, Rigid
The inn is tall for a two-story building. Its stone walls have aged from the weather. The two large metal doors open easily into a large common room. A quick look around shows an assortment of people, and all the tables and chairs are taken, save for a round table in the corner, near the hearth.
Innkeeper Baralt (Commoner 1): Owner of the tavern. He is pudgy and a big beard hangs below a smile that splits his face.
Menu:
Overnight prices:
Some rules for the Sagaborn West Marches Campaigns.
There are 3 watches per day, each lasting 8 hours. The standard day includes 1 watch for travel, 1 watch for downtime, and 1 watch for rest. Traveling more than 1 watch leads to fatigue.
Activities that can be done during a watch.
You can travel up to your standard day travel in 8 hours (1 watch) over non-difficult overland terrain. If you travel more than one Watch a day, you become fatigued.
You can navigate, finding the best route towards your goal. Unlike most other activities, Navigation can be done during Travel with no penalty. The main skill is Navigate, but other adventurers can use their skills to help with this skill roll. Failure: If you fail to navigate the hex, you are stuck in that hex and must spend another watch trying to leave.
You can be alert for threats and watch over the safety of the group. You can do this during Travel with no penalty.
You can survey a hex by marking trees, laying down pathways, creating a map, and exploring the hex for any features. A hex becomes Safe when it has been successfully surveyed 8 times and a completed expedition report submitted. A single adventurer can use any pertinent skill that the SG approves to survey. Surveying can be done while traveling.
You can forage for food. With a successful Survival check, you find food and water enough for 2 people for a day (2x rations, 2x water). A critical or special gets double that amount. You can Forage while traveling, but it becomes difficult.
You can hunt for food. A successful Survival check provides enough food for four people for a day (4x rations). A critical or special gets double that amount. However, you can not hunt while traveling.
Anyone with mobile crafting or repair stations can craft during a watch. Crafting can not be done during travel unless you are in a vehicle and not participating in its operation.
You can use your First Aid to help any injured person. Attempting to do this during travel becomes difficult.
You can rest to regain health and mana. It can not be done during travel unless you are in a vehicle and are taking no part in its operation.
There are three watches. Each watch uses this timeframe:
If a Hex is marked as Safe, it means that the Road crew has built the road and that there are guards who patrol the hex, meaning you no longer have random encounters or need to navigate the hex.
To mark a Hex as safe, it must be fully explored, and then Elmhearth must begin to build a road. To fully explore a hex, it must have been successfully surveyed 8 times.
Leveling
A hero gains a Talent point after every 3 play sessions.
The SagaBorn living campaign is a bit different then your normal TTRPG campaign. This is based on a West Marches style game (see more from Matt Colville https://youtu.be/oGAC-gBoX9k). We want to have many players, like 20-30. Players, when they want to adventure, form a group, picking from any of the other players to form a 3-6 person group. They then decide where they want to venture, or what quest they want to fulfill off the Task Board. The group then petitions one of the GMs (Mike in the first couple of months) to make an adventure and they all schedule a time.
Rule One:
You are an adventurer because you feel a strong call in your bones to adventure. The boredom of a calm life doesn’t appeal to you – you are driven to leave behind the safety of civilization and explore the wilds to make your name. Regardless of what drives you, you are driven. You choose where to go and what to do. There will be a handful of obvious choices, but you don’t by any means need to take them. The adventure is in your hands.
Other “rules”:
The Current Campaign is The Road West
Lisabeth is an independent and inquisitive young woman who is trying to learn about the world and herself.
I am a grizzled and scarred Half Dwarf, with shoulder length black hair and a beard halfway down my chest. My blue eyes peer out from under thick black eyebrows. My nose has been broken multiple times, and there is a white streak through my beard where a scar runs from the edge of my mouth down to my neck.
I appear to be what a human would consider middle aged, and am 5’5″ in height. A keen observer would notice that I walk much lighter on my feet than any of my full-blooded Dwarven brethren. I wear cobbled together hide armor/clothes, and carry a pickaxe across my back.
My gruff/grouchy demeanor is not easy to be around. Mostly I attempt to keep quiet while spending time around others, but my deep angry voice issues forth short terse answers when forced into conversation.
Despite his height of 6’4, Matrick, still looks more like a boy than a man at only 18 years of age. A gangly pencil-necked boy with a desperate attempt for a beard growing on his face and a head of hair that looks like a pile of springs that bounce wildly with every movement. His clothes are of good quality and designed for utility rather than appearance. He has a leather-wrapped notebook strapped to his thigh at all times. If you have seen him around town, he always seems to be in a hurry.
Human, Male, around 40 years. Wylder Battle Mage. For hire, but when the family calls for aid, will leave party for the time it takes to settle the need. Wanderer, doesn’t try to form lasting bonds but won’t deny them if they happen.
Tilda stands about two inches shy of five feet tall, with a ruddy brown complexion and shockingly bright blond hair. Her eyes are deep blue and have a perpetual look of sadness about them. She is well-muscled, especially about the arms that look to have been worked at a Dwarven Forge. She perpetually carries a forging hammer that looks older than she is.
The Road West is a campaign that takes place in the Eastlands of Atheles. It centers on the stronghold of Elmhearth, and the Wanderers Guild, of which all adventures in the campaign are a part of.
Elmhearth was once just an outpost for the Wanderers, an adventurers guild. The nearby metropolis, Kowal, has fallen to dark times. You and others have fled to Elmhearth as a sanctuary. But for Elmhearth to survive, you must help its overseer, Helfen. The refuge needs food, protection, and especially gold. The Wanderers, the adventurers guild, wants a road out of Uthgard into the West. So besides helping supply the encampment, you are also tasked with taking expeditions into the wilds. You should map the best routes for roads, establish strongholds, and tame the wilderness so that there is a safe road west.
The Road West is also a way to test the newly designed SagaBorn Basic Roleplaying Edition. The game was submitted to Chaosium for their designer contest and needs people to help test it and refine the system.
You find yourself in Elmhearth, an outpost for the Wanderers. Kowal has become too dangerous for those who don’t fit within the city’s narrow cultural norms. You have come here for sanctuary and, hopefully, to start a new life away from the oppressive city.
Shadows of the Swordspyne is a living campaign, which will be run much like a West Marches campaign ( see Matt Colville’s video on it: https://youtu.be/oGAC-gBoX9k). Adventures will be player driven, and as we grow, we will add new SGs, new strongholds, and new players.
Elmhearth is a encampment which has become refuge for people leaving the turmoil of the city. The players will all work for the Wanderers, but the game will hinge on their participation. The players have to form a group, decide what they want to do, and contact a GM about setting up a session time. Plans must be submitted at least one week before the game session to give the GM time to develop an adventure.
Here is our Road West West Marches campaign rules page.
You should bookmark the SagaBorn BRP website (https://www.sagaborn.com/games/sagabornbrp/) and download Fantasy Grounds (free edition) (https://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/home.php). Join our Patreon (even at the free level) to stay up to date.
To be accepted, a player MUST submit a level 1 character sheet and fill out the Wanderer’s application.
We are keeping the StoryGuide pool small for now, but will expand in the future. You must play in at least 4 sessions within the campaign before you can apply to be a SG.
Shadows of the Swordspynes Adventurers
Shadows of the Swordspynes Non-player Characters
The Map
