Inn at the Last Bridge: a Five Leagues From The Borderlands Campaign

I have had a go at converting a short role-playing campaign into one suitable for Five Leagues From The Borderlands (I am still using the old 1e at present). 

 

 

 

 For my first attempt, I have used a very short campaign: the campaign included in the old Middle-Earth Roleplaying Game rulebook. 

 

 

 

It is described as an 'adventure' but really it is a short campaign since it has two unrelated adventures going on in the same area: one is the rescue of a boy who has been captured by trolls (and potentially the elimination of these trolls); the other is the raiding of an orc hold (and potentially the unmasking of their boss, a human spy in the local area).

 

Campaign Details:

Region: The Borderlands

Villages: One (The Last Inn)

Threat Levels: Outlaws 2, Border Tension 2, Dark Secrets 1

Activities: Study is not possible in this campaign

Common Goods: No armour is available to buy; and only hand weapons and missile weapons are available

Typical Terrain: Woods, Hills, Streams

 

Short Summary: The group is based at The Last Inn, a large inn in the wilderness and one of the only inhabited locations between Bree and Rivendell.  The area is currently dangerous and unsettled: Trolls are marauding in the area and are feared to have taken one of the sons of the family running the inn captive; whilst a small Orc band are making a nuisance of themselves in the area.  There is believed to be, by some of the local farmers, a castle hidden in the woods which hides both great riches and an evil sorceror.  The group must eliminate the threat of the trolls and the orcs as best they can...

Main Encounters:

ROLL               ENEMY                    BRIBE

01-15                Brigands                   Silver jewelry

16-30                Thieves                     Silver jewelry

31-50                Orc Slavers               -

51-70                Outcasts                    Rations

71-80                Hillmen barbarians    - 

81-100              Trolls                         -

 

Leaders (Brigands, Thieves, Outcasts, Hillmen barbarians)

ROLL                LEADER 

1,2                   Commander

3,4                      Brute

 5                        Killer

 6                        Warrior 

 

Leaders (Orc Slavers)

1,2                    Orc Brute

3                       Orc Killer

4,5                    Orc Commander

6                       Human Sorceror 

 

No more than one Human Sorceror, one Orc Commander, two Orc Killers and three Orc Brutes can be encountered during the campaign.  Orcs use standard statistics.

 

Leaders (Trolls)

1,2,3                Troll Brute

5,6                   Troll Commander 

 

Trolls are Numbers:0, Speed 8", Combat Skill +1, Toughness 6, Armour 0

Troll Brute is Speed 8", Combat Skill +2, Toughness 7, Armour 0, +1 to penetrate armour

Troll Commander is Speed 8", Combat Skill +2, Toughness 6, Armour 0, Morale Boost & +1 to penetrate armour

No more than one Troll Commander and Troll Brute can be encountered in the campaign.

 

Encounter Types:

1                    Attacked by Enemy

2,3,                Encounter while travelling

4                    Located camp

5                    Located troll lair

6                    Located orc lair

 

Lairs:

The Orc lair is a partially ruined castle of four towers and one keep. The lair has, in addition to the standard loot roll, one set of Evidence (Problem 4), one Personal Item (Problem 4), one Sack of Valuables (Problem 5) and one set of Battered Weaponry (Problem 3)

The troll lair is a small cave system of 5 caverns. The lair automatically has the Prisoner, Victims, Battered Weaponry and Sack of Valuables (Problem 2) finds.

Other Campaign Notes:

If 'Dark Secrets' is reduced to 0, then the Human Sorceror can only be encountered in the orc lair (his cover is blown and he is lying low)

The campaign is automatically won if:

Both lairs are taken

The Human sorceror and both troll leaders OR the troll lair are eliminated