Hawkmoon hunters of Granbreten

Tal

Mongoose
This was up as well on a online store for a January preorder looks like an adventure. Here is the discription that was up on the site:
Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Köln, has recently passed over the Silver Bridge into Europe on his long journey to Persia as part of his forced mission from the King-Emperor. The black-market city of Karlye barely even knew he had come and gone, before he already had done so. Shortly after his passing, another special adventurer from Granbretan follows. This man, a refugee from the bull-masked Tauran Lords, carries with him a very special sword and gauntlet that he claims must never fall into the hands of his former captors. Wounded, poisoned and exhausted…the man dies, leaving the interesting artefact in the hands of the players. Now they are the ones that are being hunted for possessing it, and they can only hope to escape the city and the many soldiers of the Tauran Lords – unless they can find someone foolish enough to take the mighty weapon off their hands (literally) so they can avoid capture and torture by the Taurans. Everywhere the players go they will find that Karlye is a dangerous and deadly place when it wants to be, and the powerful magic at work in the artefact is doing little to help them in staying unnoticed.
This with Elric the Dream realms and RQ Glorantha dwarves in Jan. If it's true Jan. looks like a good month for RQ fans.
 
The adventure is in the back of the Granbretan book. It is fun watching the players scramble around trying to escape from a city with something that everyone is looking for.
 
Swampy said:
The adventure is in the back of the Granbretan book. It is fun watching the players scramble around trying to escape from a city with something that everyone is looking for.

Yes, but personnaly it is (very) far from being the best Hawkmoon adventure I've read... In fact, I think this adventure is the weak point of a quite good Granbretan supplement.

Why?
(héhéhé, this is a good reason to make a kind of Sabbak's report here!)

1) One can make (many) more in terms of fun and adventure in 30 pages! Read any old french adventures by Oriflam or the new Secrets of Tragic Europe by Mongoose to be convinced.

2) The players' introduction is everything but interesting and original ("you are in a tavern and receive a piece of paper from someone unknown..."). Sorry but my players are not 15yrs old anymore. They need more subtle introductions.

3) The sword magistrate and its hand is... how can I say that... just misplaced in an Hawkmoon adventure in my humble opinion (but this is subjective, I know).
It's just another kind of "magic sword" (one more...) whatever blabla you put to justify it.

4) The "prisonners in a unpleasant city" mood has been depicted quite well (good point!) and some ideas to put emphasis on the stress beeing "trapped" in Karlye are interesting... but some passages are weaker (the sewer part is very "déjà-vu", some situations aren't very reallistic,...).

5) Risidious story and motivations are not very credible in my opinion.

Conclusion: not a bad scenario but not really a good one either. Lower-average for old time gamers, perhaps average or slightly above average for newbies.
 
I also assumed that the scenario in the back of the Granbretan book was this scenario (strangely enaugh Bryan Steele, author of this adventure, confirmed that).
But now there is an announcement for "Hunters of Granbretan" for January 2009!
Maybe that book isn´t "Hunters of Granbretan", but "Across the Silverbridge", the other once announced campaign that was never heared of again?
 
No osentalka,

I think its exactly the same scenario that appears originally in Granbretan. I bought this sourcebook just a few months ago. It is a softcover book thats missing the adventure. So it has only 96 pages instead of the 128 pages of the hardcover version. I asked Mongoose about that and they said that the adventure was outsourced and will be published very soon.

greetings
taubenschlag
 
taubenschlag said:
I bought this sourcebook just a few months ago. It is a softcover book thats missing the adventure. So it has only 96 pages instead of the 128 pages of the hardcover version. I asked Mongoose about that and they said that the adventure was outsourced and will be published very soon.

Very odd!
Unless Mongoose make a real improvement on the scenario, I can't encourage someone to buy it "alone"...

Let's see.
 
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