Thu 21 Feb 2019, 18:48
I started a new game with my group, who had done a previous one-shot in the Hollows (they never left), so this time I wanted to showcase the survival elements.
I had them create characters using the Adventurer's Booklet, and based on their "How Did You Meet" rolls, I started them off having been captured by Saurians, but recently escaped. They each got to choose one single item that they rolled up in chargen (they all choose weapons over resources), and threw them onto the map at the start of a summer Morning, having spent the previous night escaping the marshlands. Oh, and they all had the Sleepless condition, of course.
So the session basically involved them travelling to a nearby forest, hunting/foraging (they found a fox and a spring), setting up camp and sleeping one night, and then starting to explore a deep ravine in the forest (Vale of the Dead slightly re-positioned deep in a forest ravine). They came across the sleeping orc and overpowered him, but not before he rang the plate armour shoe bell, and we ended the session with them peering over the cliff edge and seeing 3 figures running towards the ladders.
I'm someone who loves starting sessions en media res, but I really wanted to impress on them the survival elements in FBL, so this took a long time to get through. Now they're at an adventure site, the survival elements will take a back seat.
I make YZE games (https://drivethrurpg.com/browse.php?author=Matt%20Kay) and produce predominately Free League content on my YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@3skulls)