Florence Medieval Monster Hunter - Page 2

valerio.crini · 12-07-2015, 09:52 AM

Hi,
I'm trying to launch a "demo" session to convince my players' group to switch from a super campaign to a fantasy/monster hunters campaign set in Florence, Italy, anno domini 1348.
I'd like to share with you in order to model better this pilot.

April 1348, in "Four Lions" square a group of children (the player characters) find a dying sparrow. They take care of the poor bird but after a few hours it dies by black plague - the children are patient zero of the contagion that will decimate Florence (from 100.000 down to 40000).

Adventure start here:

Illness is supernatural, and it hit Florence because magical barriers that prevent evil forces to overwhelm the city have been eroded when a statue of God of War Mars (named Marzocco) was carried away by a flood of the Arno river in 1333.
The children - the pg - have black plague (TODO where can I find GURPS stats for this illness?) and they have a week or less before dying they need to do something to save the city from collapse.
They have an external help, Marzocco from the Arno's deeps, calling them to recover it to awake it's defensive magic to protect Florence from the Plague.
They'll have

find Marzocco in a dungeon under the Arno river protected by evil beings (they'll need to avoid confrontation because ill children are not good monster hunters).
after Marzocco is found they'll be granted Monster Hunter status - so they'll grow up to 400 points characters so they'll be able to fight the evil.
at the end the children will die from the illness but having awakened Marzocco and his legacy will live forever letting generations of Monster Hunters to protect Florence from evil. This means that in the next episode they'll play a "reincarnation" of the Monster Hunters that cleaned dungeon of Marzocco.

Some notes:

Evil endangering Florence is not yet clear: it can be a devil or a curse that afflicts Florence generating the plague.
Monster Hunters are taken from Monster Hunters 1 - Champions downgrading from TL8 to TL4
Guns are present but primitive (I need to create a subset from Low Tech)
Next episodes could happen during events described in Hot Spots: Reinassance Florence
This pilot must be played in a session in order to give the idea of the campaign so I need to keep it small and quick to play.

Any idea, suggestion or criticism?

12-07-2015, 09:52 AM	#1
valerio.crini Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Florence, Italy	Florence Medieval Monster Hunter Hi, I'm trying to launch a "demo" session to convince my players' group to switch from a super campaign to a fantasy/monster hunters campaign set in Florence, Italy, anno domini 1348. I'd like to share with you in order to model better this pilot. April 1348, in "Four Lions" square a group of children (the player characters) find a dying sparrow. They take care of the poor bird but after a few hours it dies by black plague - the children are patient zero of the contagion that will decimate Florence (from 100.000 down to 40000). Adventure start here: Illness is supernatural, and it hit Florence because magical barriers that prevent evil forces to overwhelm the city have been eroded when a statue of God of War Mars (named Marzocco) was carried away by a flood of the Arno river in 1333. The children - the pg - have black plague (TODO where can I find GURPS stats for this illness?) and they have a week or less before dying they need to do something to save the city from collapse. They have an external help, Marzocco from the Arno's deeps, calling them to recover it to awake it's defensive magic to protect Florence from the Plague. They'll have find Marzocco in a dungeon under the Arno river protected by evil beings (they'll need to avoid confrontation because ill children are not good monster hunters). after Marzocco is found they'll be granted Monster Hunter status - so they'll grow up to 400 points characters so they'll be able to fight the evil. at the end the children will die from the illness but having awakened Marzocco and his legacy will live forever letting generations of Monster Hunters to protect Florence from evil. This means that in the next episode they'll play a "reincarnation" of the Monster Hunters that cleaned dungeon of Marzocco. Some notes: Evil endangering Florence is not yet clear: it can be a devil or a curse that afflicts Florence generating the plague. Monster Hunters are taken from Monster Hunters 1 - Champions downgrading from TL8 to TL4 Guns are present but primitive (I need to create a subset from Low Tech) Next episodes could happen during events described in Hot Spots: Reinassance Florence This pilot must be played in a session in order to give the idea of the campaign so I need to keep it small and quick to play. Any idea, suggestion or criticism?