And then they stop hassling you and actually start doing their job. And the city guard starts hassling you more, singling you out. As it gets higher the criminal element in charge of the city tells you to cool it. As it gets higher things in the neighborhood start to change, people get wary. The more people you kill, etc the higher the tension in the neighborhood. And, of course, not getting squished like a bug but those MUCH higher up on the ladder.Īnd that’s what this adventure is trying to do, and largely accomplishes, I think. It places back the social control of Keeping up with the Jones’s and not being ostracized by everyone else around you. How the other people in the city react and so on. No more wanderers, they get to learn of, and live with, the consequences of their actions. Uh, hopefully, anyway, since it IS the party. And I do LUV me a city adventure campaign!Ī city adventure campaign forces the party in to a more cautious play style. It ends with, perhaps, the party in charge of one of the gangs, setting up a fine fine city adventure campaign. Things go downhill in a series of strikes, retaliations, and escalating events that cause others from outside the neighborhood to notice. One gets uppity ands hires the pc’s to shake things up, he wants total control of the neighborhood. It has most of the gameplay elements down right, if flavorful, but doesn’t quite know how to present them in a way that makes it easy to run. This 32 page adventure outlines a gang war in a neighborhood slum. May Death himself have mercy on those who stand in their way. For when the first rule of thieves is to never kill the hen that lays brown eggs with ruby in the yolk, old hands know it won’t be long before the Thieves’ Guild moves to protect their interests. If they hope to survive, the PCs will need to be both deadly and cunning by turns. But as bodies begin to appear in the Hlal and the shadow war threatens to spill over into street violence, the price of blood favors those who trade in swordwork and black magic. The initial stakes are small as the gangs vie for control of a small slum.

It’s a Lankhmar story that’s been told a thousand times, and would be entirely forgettable, save for one key element: the characters. Each gang vies against the others, pitting beggar against bravo, slayer against thug, and gang lord against gang lord. The City of the Black Toga: Home to hundreds of back alley courts, rotting tenements, and an endless number of gangs, whose fortunes rise and fall as surely as the tides of the Inner Sea.

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