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This is a small collection of townsfolk to ad some color to your towns. None of these are meant to be the center of an adventure, they are there to add color.

1. Lady Karska is a wealthy widow who collects ‘magic scrolls’, she has dozens of them and almost all are complete fakes as the local con men have figured out that Lady Karska can’t tell a fake from a real scroll, however if needed one or more can be real scrolls to aid the group at the right moment. As for the Lady herself you can meet her at the inn where she will offer to buy scrolls from adventurers. She cannot use them, but that doesn’t stop her from trying and she will spend hours trying to get a scroll to work once she has purchased it, when she fails she puts them into a large chest in her home which is jammed with old scrolls. read more »

Here are some NPC guardsmen to give a little flavor to a town or city district. None are meant to be a story in themselves, just color to add to a story. Pick the one that fits best or roll a d10 when you need a bit of flavor.

1. Bjorn Biskoff: Bjorn is the town bully. In a lonely town like this he is the big man, at least as far as strength goes. Unfortunately the strongest PC is stronger, Bjorn will try to prove he is stronger, but in an honest match of strength he will lose. He hates losing and will constantly bad mouth the PCs and the stronger PC in particular at every opportunity. Every time the PCs destroy something in town or miss a stealth roll he will be there and will be a constant thorn in the PCs side. He isn’t looking for a fight, but he is very bitter and can’t be bought off. read more »

I will be taking a break from running a completely homebrew game for awhile and switching to a vendor published storyline. This made me choose between companies putting out adventure paths, I looked at two, Wizards of the Coast’s (Wotc) Scales of War, being published currently in Dungeon, and the Paizo Pathfinder Adventure Paths. I will be using D&D 4e to run, but that really didn’t factor into my choice as conversion is pretty easy for me. read more »

Wizards of the Coast's photo of one of the figures. Copyright Wizards of the Coast, Used for review purposes.

One of the guys in my group picked up the entire Player Handbook Heroes Series One Miniatures set this week. The figures look good, I am not a huge fan of the prepainted figures, but I am pleased that with this set you can at least pick the figures you want. Some very odd choices for race/class combinations. I don’t think I have ever seen a Dwarf Rogue in the wild but I am sure they are out there somewhere along with Halfling Clerics. The sculpting and paint jobs are a mix on the figures, some are pretty good, some are pretty meh, and a couple are dogs.

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