sanseveria
Mongoose
We usually play for about 8 hours on Saturdays. After 6 hours, all I had planned had come to pass and had 2 hours to kill. I'm usually pretty at running things off the wrist. I just happened to have the Aquilonia book opened to the page about fairs and tournments.
I decided that as it was late in the fall, to have a fair, in Schondara, a three day affair with lots of drinking, dancing and other shenaniggans. It turned out to be great !!! The guys liked it, they all had a blast.
This accomplished a few things, first off it gave some of the players a reputation boost, which I thought was needed. It gave the Scholar a chance to lock himself up (After placing a few bets on the other players of course) and do some studying and research, something he'd been wanting to do for a bit. The other thing it allowed me to do, was get the character's slightly attached to the town.
The reason I wanted them attached to Schondara is that next session I'll be running the campaign out of AtTR, and if the character feel a bond with the town, it'll be even more dramatic when the initial action begins.
One thing I noticed about the tournement suggestions in the book however, was that there was allot of archery contests, but very few melee contests, or other individual contests in general. I know there's the joust, but in my game that's reserved for those of Noble blood, and pretty much the same goes for the grand melee. I had an unarmed combat challenge, wrestling contest and a wooden sword combat contest.
What other suggestions do the rest of you have about these kinds of challenges? I hope to run another of these types of scenarios in the future seeing as it was such a big hit.
SS
I decided that as it was late in the fall, to have a fair, in Schondara, a three day affair with lots of drinking, dancing and other shenaniggans. It turned out to be great !!! The guys liked it, they all had a blast.
This accomplished a few things, first off it gave some of the players a reputation boost, which I thought was needed. It gave the Scholar a chance to lock himself up (After placing a few bets on the other players of course) and do some studying and research, something he'd been wanting to do for a bit. The other thing it allowed me to do, was get the character's slightly attached to the town.
The reason I wanted them attached to Schondara is that next session I'll be running the campaign out of AtTR, and if the character feel a bond with the town, it'll be even more dramatic when the initial action begins.
One thing I noticed about the tournement suggestions in the book however, was that there was allot of archery contests, but very few melee contests, or other individual contests in general. I know there's the joust, but in my game that's reserved for those of Noble blood, and pretty much the same goes for the grand melee. I had an unarmed combat challenge, wrestling contest and a wooden sword combat contest.
What other suggestions do the rest of you have about these kinds of challenges? I hope to run another of these types of scenarios in the future seeing as it was such a big hit.
SS