The Merchant's Menace | Learn to Play
A rash of robberies and disappearances has been plaguing Britain's shopkeepers. Solve the mystery, defeat the baddies, and collect your reward!
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1 player following this game
Once / Saturday - 11:00 PM UTC
Jul 18
Session Duration / 3–4 hours
0 / 5 Seats Filled
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About the adventure
Here in the Middle Ages, a variety of beasties roam Britain, from the fearsome Dragon of Angnor to the vicious Chicken of Bristol. Today, your merry band of knights, troubadours, enchanters, and the like has been hired by the Cobblers, Haberdashers, Clothiers, Milliners, and Cat-Swatters Guild. The quest: track down stolen goods and the merchants who vanished along with them. Monty Python's Cocurricular Mediaeval Reenactment Programme is quite different from D&D and can be intimidating at first glance, but even though it does use more dice, the system as a whole is pretty easy to pick up. This one-shot has a nice mix of investigation and combat, so it's a great introduction to the system.
Game style
Rule of Cool (RoC)
Theater of the Mind
Game themes
Meet the Game Master
5.0
(2)
Less than a year on StartPlaying
Highly rated for: Voices, Inclusive, Visual Aid
About me
Hi, I'm Anna! I'm an improvisor and musician from PA, and I have an adorable cat named Toffee who loves to sleep on my computer during game sessions when she's not stealing dice. My first tabletop ever was one I GM-ed for my siblings; we all love LoTR, so when I stumbled across The One Ring system I just had to give it a go! Our new favorite is the Monty Python RPG, which I also ran as a spinoff one shot for the Curse of Strahd campaign where I'm a player. I've played in and GM-ed a few D&D 5e campaigns as well, and everything I run has a large dose of homebrew silliness thrown in the mix.
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Creating your character
Since this is an introduction to the game system, I will provide prefilled character sheets for players to choose from. There will be 3 options per situation (class) so that even if multiple players choose the same situation, there will still be some variety in the party.
What to expect
Preparing for the session
Players will need to join a discord server, since this is a one-shot it'll be run in voice chat there instead of foundry. Also, this game uses some non-standard dice, so there will be a bot on discord for dice rolling and a pinned message with directions on how to roll.
What Anna Mac brings to the table
The Rule of Cool is actually one of the written rules in MPCMRP, so it's doubly embraced around here! I do character voices for NPCs and have occasional ambient music. For this one-shot, I will have maps and some resources to screenshare, but it will mostly be theatre of the mind. At the start of the session, I'll go over the basic gameplay and then we'll dive right in! The GM in this system is a character too, so if players ever get too stuck or are in mortal peril, there's kind of a built-in "break glass in case of emergency" macguffin available lol
Homebrew rules
Unless it's a surprise attack, PCs always go first in combat order.
Equipment needed to play
Internet
Computer
Microphone
Platforms used
Safety
How Anna Mac creates a safe table
I will send a link to the Lines and Veils document and pin it in the discord so it's easily accessible for players. X, N, & O's are messaged in the chat, and can be to the group or privately messaged to me, whatever is most comfortable for the player. Breaks/Open Door: There will be one 15 minute break scheduled halfway through the session, and players are also welcome to step out for a break at any time.
Content warnings
Safety tools used