Venture 4th Scourge of the Rat-Men.pdf

A 4E Adventure for Characters

of 1st through 3rd Level

BY GARETH-MICHAEL SKARKA

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Contents

INTRODUCTION ...................................................... 3

STAND & DELIVER ................................................. 4

EDGECOMB ............................................................. 7

SMELLING A RAT ................................................... 11

LAIR OF THE RAT-MEN, LEVEL 1 ..................... 14

LAIR OF THE RAT-MEN, LEVEL 2 ..................... 22

EPILOGUE .................................................................. 33

Introduction

party of characters of 1st through 3rd level. The

encounters designed for this adventure assume a

party of 5 characters. Game Masters who have larger or

smaller parties may wish to adjust the encounters accord-

ingly, using the guidelines presented in the Core Books.

Recently, however, the unthinkable has occurred: Chil-

dren of Edgecomb have been taken, disappearing from

their beds at night, without a trace.

The village headman, Uther Flint, asks the characters

to solve the mystery and save the village.

The heroes quickly discover that the seeds

of Chaos are being sewn, and the vil-

lage of Edgecomb suffers beneath the

Scourge of the Rat-Men!

Game Masters will require the use of the 4E Core Books,

as well as the usual accessories, such as dice and minia-

tures. This adventure features battlegrid pages that can

be used for miniatures combat, and may be printed from

the PDF or copied from the printed book. Game Mas-

ters may ind any number of miniatures lines that feature

Rat-Men, including the top-selling miniatures wargame,

produced in the UK, which features plastic versions as

well as the standard metal variety, which are perfect for

use with this adventure.

ADVENTURE SYNOPSIS

The characters, travelling along a lightly-used trading

route between settlements, is set upon by bandits. After

this brief encounter, the party continues to the nearby

village of Edgecomb. What was once a small trading

post has become a crowded refugee camp -- Banditry in

the area has driven the farmers and settlers in the area

to abandon their homes and cling to the post like a child

clinging to his mother’s skirts, creating a patchwork

village of huts and tents. Winter is on the way, and the

addition of over a hundred hungry mouths threatens to

throw the hard-scrabble village into the chaos of a famine.

The characters learn that the bandits and the possibility of

starvation are not the only problem facing the people

of Edgecomb, nor are they the worst threats. The

village itself is under siege from unknown forces,

and fear and panic is spreading through the settle-

ment.

Initially, livestock began to disappear from

the village -- a goat here, a few chickens

there. This was bad enough, especially

with the strain of the additional population,

and accusations of theft lying back and forth

between residents.

S courge of the Rat-Men is a 4E adventure for a

Stand & Deliver

a lightly-used trading path between settlements

(note that this assumes that your campaign follows

the standard “Points of Light” campaign design, where

small enclaves of civilization are separated by vast tracts

of wilderness -- Game Masters can, of course, place this

encounter anywhere within their own campaign world if

they use a different model).

LEVEL 2 ENCOUNTER

625 XP

4x Human Bandit

1x War Dog

Human Bandit Level 2 Skirmisher

medium natural humanoid

Read or summarize the following to your players:

XP 125

Initiative: +6

Senses: Perception +1

You’re following the narrow path through the

woods -- it’s evident that it’s been some time

since any signiicant trade trafic has used this

route: The path is becoming overgrown, and

dead branches from the overhanging trees

have fallen here and there, which surely would

have been cleared by any wagon teams passing

through.

HP 37; Bloodied 18

AC 16: Fort 12, Ref 14, Will 12

Speed 6

Mace (standard, at-will) * Weapon

+4 vs AC; 1d8+1 damage, and the bandit shifts 1

square.

Bow (standard, at-will) * Weapon

Ranged 15/30; +6 vs AC; 1d8+2 damage

Dazzling Strike (standard, encounter) * Weapon

Requires mace; +4 vs AC; 1d8+1 damage, the tar-

get is dazed until the end of the bandit’s next turn,

and the bandit shifts 1 square.

Combat Advantage

The bandit deals an extra 1d6 damage on melee

and ranged attacks against any target it has combat

advantage against.

The Fall air is sharp with the promise of winter,

although the trees block the worst of the wind,

for which you are thankful.

Up ahead, you see the path is completely blocked

by a fallen tree.

Have the PCs make Perception checks against the Stealth

of the hidden Bandits. If the PCs are surprised, the

Bandits act. If the PCs detect the ambush, they may act

as normal.

Align: Evil Languages : Common

Skills: Stealth +9, Streetwise +7, Thievery +9

STR 12 (+2) DEX 17 (+3) WIS 11 (+1)

CON 13 (+2) INT 10 (+1) CHA 12 (+2)

Equipment: Leather armor, Mace, Short bow.

Use the battlemap on the page 6 for the encounter. Two

bandits are hiding in the foliage on the left side of the

path, and two on the right, along with their war dog.

With a cry of “Stand and deliver!” the bandits reveal

themselves and attempt to rob the PCs.

T he player characters (PCs) are travelling along

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