Campaign Chronicles

Real life adventures are often a rich source of inspiration for fictional ones at the gaming table.   With that in mind, I present the following scenarios for your reading pleasure. My primary idea was to locate the mountain somewhere along the eastern seaboard of the United States , preferably during the War for Independence .   The group of player characters would be scouts for the Continental Army sent to survey the area for possible troop movements for an attack on a British held city.   The chief cartographer fell from one of the high cliffs when his muddy boots failed to find purchase on an expanse of exposed rock.   The rest of his group needs to retrieve his body and maps before they are discovered by Loyalist forces, alerting them to the rebels’ interest in the area. In a D&D-style campaign, we would take the same geographic features but we’d have to tweak the history some to prevent a wizard from simply casting Fly, Levitate, or Spider C...