Burn Out the Barrows with Sellswords and Spellslingers.

 Here's a Sellswords and Spellingers scenario you might like to try. It is intended for a moderately experienced party (Expert level in the original rulebook), say around 120-140 XP.

The party have found employment at a town that has been suffering problems with undead. The mayor had seemed somewhat harassed when he briefed you for your mission.

“I want you lot to go and clear out an old burial site on the North Road into town. A bunch of travellers got themselves killed on the road and we’ve had strange reports coming in from outlying farms up that way. The Merchant's guild are complaining about the interruption of trade and want something done. We have had an alchemist mix-up some flammable devices to burn the monsters out."

"The pay is 50 silver coins each and you can keep any loot you find in the old barrows."

"Oh, and do not open the chest with those fire bombs in, until you are well out of town."

" Apparently they are delicate!” he added with a grin.

Terrain:

This scenario is played on a 3’ x 3’ table.

There are 3 barrows (burial mounds) in each of 3 corners of the table, 12” away from the centre.

In the centre area of the table, is a small circle of standing stones with a rough-hewn sacrificial altar in the middle.

The PCs enter from the empty corner. The party have been equipped with a 3 containers of flammable liquids, with a warning to take great care in using them!

Foes: Place one wraith knight within 3” of each mound, not closer than 6” to one another. Place a horde of 4 ghouls within the stone circle.

CARDS

Remove:  Traps, He’s Loaded and 1 Wandering Monster card from the deck.

At Our Back:  1d6 ghouls

Reinforcements: 1d6 ghouls

Things Could Get Worse: A Succubus appears on the altar.

Scenario Event: The stones in the circle glow with eerie light. No spells will work within the circle and no magic can pass across the stones (including spell attacks, teleport etc).

Wandering Monster: A wraith knight enters from a random barrow.

Barrows: The PCs need to destroy the 3 barrows by setting them alight with their flammable devices. For Two consecutive actions a PC can prime and set fire to a Barrow.

If a PC spends an action searching the barrow before destroying in roll 1d6.

1: They disturb a wraith knight which immediately attacks.

2-6: Roll on CQB hideout table*.

 

Altar: If a PC touches the altar after the stones begin to glow, the anti-magic stops and the PC is filled with the magical energy absorbed by the stones.

A non-magic using PC will feel a strange tingling.

A magic item carried by the PC will gain a +2 to it’s effects for the rest of the game.

A spellcaster will gain +2 to casting rolls for the rest of the game.

 Experience

4 XP per player if at least 1 barrow is destroyed

+2 XP per player if all barrows have been destroyed

1 XP per PC who burns a barrow

1 XP per PC killing the Succubus or performing a heroic act (eg carrying off the body of a friend).

* Close Quarter Battles. If players do not have the Close Quarter Battles campaign book, roll 1d6

1-3 = 6d6 SP, 4 = Potion, 5= Scroll, 6 Random weapon +1 to hit

Foes 

Ghouls	DL 9	HP 1	DMG 1	MOVE 4”	LOOT None
Minion, Undead
Undead Nature: Immune to poison, disease, mind effecting spells. Poison: perform DL8 Constitution Roll to resist their poison or suffer -1” movement, if movement reaches 0 PC is paralyzed.

 

Wraith Knight	DL 10	HP 2	DMG 1	MOVE 4”	LOOT 2d6 SP
Loner, Undead
Undead Nature: Immune to poison, disease, mind effecting spells. Nocturnal: Immune to darkness modifiers. Shroud of Mist: All perception rolls and ranged attacks are at -2 whilst there are any wraith knights in play. If a Storm spell is cast, the shroud disappears, but will reappear if a new wraith knight enters play.

 

Succubus	DL 14	HP 3	DMG 1	MOVE 6”	LOOT 5d6 SP
Loner, Demon, Evil
Energy Drain: Any PC spending more than 3 turns in melee combat with a succubus without wounding her must perform a Will roll vs her DL or be unable to attack her anymore. If this happens the PC loses 1 HP and the succubus gains 1Hp and +2 to DL. Flying: Succubus ignores any terrain. Demonic, Vulnerable to Holy Water.

 

 Ian and I ran this with 2 PCs each, a Wizard, a Cleric, a Barbarian and a Fighter. We gave all the flammable devices to the Cleric and used the rest of the party to run interference while he set fire to the barrows. Here are a few pictures from our game.

It didn't start well, by the time we had burnt out the first barrow, all 4 PCs were down to 1 HP each! The Succubus turned up early and inflicted some damage before the Fighter managed to kill her. Fortunately we had a couple of healing potions, so two of the characters could regain some hits. The stone circle's magical exclusion zone meant that the Wizard's Teleport Others spell wasn't as much use as it might have been at this stage.

A Wraith Knight waits at the entrance to a barrow.

A pack of ghouls lurk by the altar.

The party assault a Wraith Knight, distracting it....

...whilst the Cleric sneaks around behind the creature to get to the barrow.

Once that barrow was aflame, the Wizard used a Teleport Others spell to move the Cleric on to the next barrow.

Which he quickly sets on fire. 

Unfortunately we had some unlucky combat rolls and both the Barbarian and the Wizard were knocked OOTF as we tried to escape. The Fighter and the Cleric managed to fight off the assailants and drag their comatose bodies off the table. 

If you do try playing this through, I would appreciate your feedback on how it went.