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Unofficial Game Accessory The Streets of Landfall Editor J. T. R. Table of Contents Referee’s Manual Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................2 History as the Immortals Know It................................................................................................................3 The Town of Landfall....................................................................................................................................8 Society...........................................................................................................................................................14 Regional Geography....................................................................................................................................21 Personalities .................................................................................................................................................26 To Catch a Thief ..........................................................................................................................................32 Adventures ..................................................................................................................................................34 Thieves’ Guild Worksheet ..........................................................................................................................42 Player’s Manual Overview.........................................................................................................................................................1 Creating Characters for Landfall ................................................................................................................2 Scoundrels for Every Class...........................................................................................................................3 Tools and Tricks of the Trade ......................................................................................................................7 Special Rules for Thieves and Thieves’ Guilds ...........................................................................................9 The Word on the Street...............................................................................................................................13 Credits: DUNGEONS & DRAGONS and D&D are registered Design: JTR trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. 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The artists and cartographer retain all rights to their works as typically construed for art. © 2007 JTR The editor retains all rights to the product “The Streets of Landfall.” INTRODUCTION Young Aleksandr peered through the Landfall and the Alternatively, Landfall can serve ship’s railing as the vessel pulled into the Kamminer Bay Area simply as the characters’ base or transit station as they hire out as smugglers, harbor. Dock workers scurried upon the Landfall is a squalid, crime-ridden town bounty hunters and thieving adventurers approaching wharf, while a chill wind on the Kamminer Bay of southern who recover items and people and touched all aboard ship. Norwold. For many, the town is a transport them across enemy lines. And a “Mama, it’s cold, and I don’t like it gateway to the “New World,” but for traditional goblins-and-gold campaign here,” complained the boy. others, it is a refuge from discovery. The can be had in the mountainous wilds. “Oh hush, child,” admonished his population is a riotous mix of people mother. “This will be a grand adventure. from the most distant reaches of the A new world to explore, just you see.” Known World and the great Empires. Who Should Play in “Your mother’s right, lad.” Landfall is technically a fief of the Landfall? Aleksandr and his mother startled at the Kingdom of Norwold, but its governor, While all classes and races can find voice and turned to face one of the Lernal the Swill, is owned by the fruitful adventure in Landfall, thieves and countless other passengers who had criminal guilds. their ilk will finally encounter a zone booked fare to Landfall. The man was The lawless character of the town has where their talents are in constant tall and gaunt, and his mouth stretched transformed it into an important nexus of demand. into a half-grin that did little to put the geopolitical maneuvering and smuggling. Native and foreign demihumans, plus boy at ease. Agents wage private wars on Landfall’s the occasional humanoid, coexist in the “Beri Antonovich, at your service. I streets, while local syndicates and more town with their fellow humans. The have visited Landfall many times before, base thugs conduct their own bloody individual races do not establish ghettoes, and I would be happy to show you what contests. Bounty hunters and assassins but certain areas do favor one group over the town has to offer.” pass through with great frequency, as do another. Outside of Landfall, The mother was charmed by the offer. accomplished thieves and adventurers. Foresthome elves inhabit the Rhienwald. “Oh why that’s quite kind of you, Mr. Beyond Landfall’s incomplete walls, Rumors of dog-head humanoids called Antonovich. See, Alek. I told you this aggression from humanoids had been an the Fox Folk have come out of this forest, would work out, and here we’ve already accepted fact, but now a new threat has but most assume these are simply gnolls. met our first friend in Landfall.” emerged. The Heldannic Order, a group of Hattian ex-patriates, conquered much Kudos and Corrections Foreword of the old Freeholds to the south. Landfall was introduced in CM1 Test of Welcome to The Streets of Landfall, the Resistance is faltering, and it’s a the Warlords by Niles Douglas along eighth entry in the popular fan-made line peculiarly Landfall game to bet upon with the gluttonous Lernal the Swill, of gazetteers describing the world of when the Order will claim the entire area. governor of Landfall and half-brother to Mystara – the only game world designed King Ericall. Additional NPCs were for the classic box-set series of Dungeons The Final Goal of the derived from AC1 Shady Dragon Inn by & Dragons™ by TSR/Wizards of the Campaign Carl Smith, and Saffir and Lighthall Coast™. There are three suggested directions for originated in AC10 Bestiary of Dragons The Sreets of Landfall continues the extended campaigns based around and Giants (Deborah Christian, editor) Norwold-cycle of gazetteers, and apropos Landfall and the Bay. and M4 Five Coins for a Kingdom (Allen to the town’s character, this gazetteer In a guild campaign, the characters Varney) respectively. focuses on the thief class and the criminal operate within the criminal organizations Faldron and Erise come from Rogues to underworld. Included among the of the town. The PCs are on a path to Riches, a First Quest novel, but the book highlighted rogue-topics are rules for become the top bosses of Landfall – if was not available for in-depth running a guild that harmonize with the they can survive the turf wars and hit- consultation during production of this existing rules for dominion rulership. men. gazetteer. Garald the Blue (Companion For ease of use, this product has been A vigilante or thief-hunter campaign Set by Frank Mentzer) and Olev the divided into manuals for both the referee takes the reverse approach. The party Black (X13 Crown of Ancient Glory by and the player. After reading through the stands outside the guilds and secretly Stephen Bourne) were hidden-gem Introduction on this page, it is advisable works to establish order and eliminate pirates. to skip to the Player’s Manual before crime. The precise cartographic relationship of continuing with the remainder of this Finally, in a spy-hunter campaign, the Norwold and the Known World has been booklet, the Referee’s Manual. characters are secret agents working for a problem since CM1, and the GazF I hope you enjoy reading The Streets of one of the regional or global powers. integration is but one possible solution. Landfall and using its numerous They undertake missions to advance their The editor is indebted to the Italian MMB adventuring opportunites in your own backer’s interests and thwart those of for topographic details of the region. campaigns. rivals. 2 HISTORY AS THE IMMORTALS KNOW IT Fear and horror gripped young gradually cracked. Floes and icebergs nation was plunged into a brief but Aleksandr. He lay bruised and limp in drifted into the Western Sea of Dawn, bloody civil war that was generally the alley-way, having been beaten and slowly feeding rising sea levels. resticted to the Skaufskogr Hills and the thrown against the walls, and in his A similar pattern could be seen inland Rhien Forest. feigned unconciousness,