Saturday, May 23, 2020

El Páramo de la Cobra



This is the map I gave the players on my last session. The game never went past the first session but I wanted to share it here. The whole zone west of the bridge is an old battlefield filled with restless dead. The rumors talk about a bandit lair hidden on one of the buttes, which's leader has a bounty over his head, payable on the town at 3B (the shit at 2A is a factory). The southern road is practicable (only 1/20 encounter rate, thats where the caravans come through) but any square north of it has it at 1/2.

The old battle destroyed the town at 1E and there are rumors of a temple dedicated to a snake god (door at 1G) which is actually guarded by giant snakes.

The treasure at H3 is actually already stolen by the bandit to whom this map belonged, and taken to his lair.

The random encounter is arranged so the first time you roll a number you get the first thing listed, and all the other times you get the second thing.

1 - Ghost fire, will guide you to another encounter if followed / Wraith (will posess and turn you into a zombie if he defeats you, with lots of HP)

2 - Recent corpse with bite marks, you find this map on him / possessed giant wolf (zombiefied by wights, very tough, covered in arrows). Going over the stairs north will automatically lead you to him.

3 - Foreign thieves looting corpses / Possessed thief with ancient sword, bathed on the other thief's blood

4 - Local thieves performing ritual burials of the ancient dead to appease their wraiths / Local thieves heading to their lairs

5 - Local goth kids. They want to record evidence of wraiths in a cassette tape recorder. / 1d4 zombies

6 - Creepy musical mutterings. If investigated, will attract the pcs to a small radio receptor playing this music, in the roots of a tree (the bandit king is actually broadcasting the session live, as he does every night). The device it's covered with poisonous snakes as the music seems to attract them (It works on giant snakes too) / Old corpse with treasure, a wraith lurks nearby.

2 comments:

  1. Glad to see you around! You entries inspire me so much. I love minimalist DIY d&d, I carry a copy of Maze Rats everywhere I go.

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  2. Whoa man, thanks for saying that!

    Yeah, this minimalist rules are like a drug for a some of us, but I'm realizing little by little that we are more than I though at first XD

    Also Maze Rats looks awesome. But I'd totally keep a fixed spell list, making them up every time you roll them looks a little "rule-less" for my taste XD

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