Some monsters are carrying hidden potions!
Roll 1d6 for each monster, on a 4+ they quaff a potion with the following effect:
Roll a d6:
1-2: Strong Booze: -1 ws, +1 Str
3-4: Healing potion: restores 1d6 wounds
5-6: Berserker potion: +1 attack
The effect remains 1d3 turns.
When no monsters are on the board, the Warriors can make the same rolls with the same results.
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When the warriors try to pass this magical barrier they are assailed by feelings of sorrow & despair.
Mark off an unexplored door on the map with a 1×2 counter, if none are present, place the barrier in a random corridor.
When the Warriors want to move trough the barrier they must pass a Willpower (8+) test or they cannot move at all.
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We’ve all been there: watching our precious Wizard or Noble get torn to pieces whilst the heavily-armoured Dwarf or Knight butchers their way through a heap of Goblin Spearmen that can’t even scratch them. Some Warriors can wear so much armour that they are invulnerable to damage caused by lesser Monsters like Skeletons and Goblins, even when there are hordes of them on the board. For Example, a Battle Level 1 Dwarf wearing Plate Armour and a War Helm, and carrying a Shield from the Armourer in the Roleplay Book, has an incredible +7 Toughness bonus, for a total effective Toughness of 11. A ‘regular’ Monster like a Skeleton or Goblin has a Strength of 3 so they are unable to hurt Warriors with an effective Toughness higher than 8, leaving them as nothing more than fodder for a cleverly placed Warrior.
Here is a simple House Rule for evening things out a little. There are other, more involved House Rules for critical hits out there on the Web, but this little House Rule should be simple to remember and not interrupt the flow of play too much.
When a Warrior or Monster rolls a natural 6 To Hit, they will score a minimum number of Wounds damage equal to the quantity of Damage Dice they normally roll.
For example, if the Dwarf in the example above was hit by a Goblin who rolled a natural 6 To Hit, then the Dwarf would suffer 1 Wound despite the protection of all that armour. A Minotaur that hits on a natural 6 would score an automatic 2 Wounds, unless the damage rolled was higher. This represents a lucky strike finding a weak area like the eye-slits of a helmet or so on.
The Warriors encounter a caravan of merchants moving their wares on to the next town. When the Warriors stop to help the merchants push a cart out of a rut, the merchants offer to employ the Warriors as caravan guards.
If the Warriors accept add two weeks to their journey time, but for each week they travel they earn 25 x (The Dungeon Level) gold each. In addition, on the journey the Merchants give the Warriors some advice on haggling and where to buy the best wares. In the next Settlement, each Warrior receives a 10% discount at any single trader they visit.
The Warriors spy a ghostly form following them over the moor. It gains quickly, resolving into the ethereal form of a once-proud and mighty Empire Knight Templar wielding a blade that emits a blue effervescent glow.A pass results in the Warrior collapsing as above, but when he awakes he is holding the enchanted blade wielded by the ghostly knight. The blade is magical, causes +1 damage in combat and renders the wielder immune to Fear and Terror caused by the Undead.
After setting up camp for the night, you take the first watch. Gazing into the heavens and dreaming of a warm bed and good company, you spy a tiny, gleaming star blazing it’s way through the sky. Such events supposedly herald good fortune, and you sleep well thinking of what fortune may befall you.
As dusk falls, your Warriors approach a small village. Following the road into the village they travel through a crumbling ‘Garden of Morr’, a graveyard full of looming statues and dark shadowy mausoleums. Hearing a cry from deeper within the cemetery, the Warriors must decide whether to investigate or stay on the road…If they investigate, roll 1d6 for each Warrior. If any dice come up as a 1 then are assaulted by wailing, shrieking shades of the dead. They are driven out of the graveyard and suffer a -1 penalty to all Fear and Terror Tests in the next adventure as their experience haunts their thoughts. If any of the dice come up as a 5, then the Warriors each find 1d6 x 25 x (the Dungeon Level) Gold (roll once for the party) in trinkets at an unholy shrine to the dead. If any of the dice come up as a 6, then the Warriors may each take one Dungeon Room Treasure Card from offerings left at the foot of a stran.
If the Warriors stay, then they spend one week helping to repair the damaged caused by the star-fall (adding one week to their journey time). As a reward, they are given the only item of value in the hamlet – the lump of now-cooled star-metal that caused the destruction. The Warriors can carry the lump to the next settlement on foot (adding another week to the journey time), but if they have a cart then they are not slowed by the metal at all. Upon reaching the settlement, the Warriors sell the star-metal to the local smithy for 1d6 x 200 Gold, split between all the Warriors.
The Warriors come upon several patches of strange herbs nestled in the shadow of a crumbling wall on some farm ground.
If there is an Elf in the party, he recognizes them as Verdant Lotus, potent healing herbs, and manages to collect 1d6 of them before an irate farmer chases the trespassing Warriors away. Each Verdant Lotus can heal 3 Wounds.
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