The Quality of Gold

Synopsis

When the next opening for an off-week game was available, I created a mini-campaign called The Quality of Gold. It was not very obvious to the players why I chose that title (oops) – but it was a play on the old adage “All that glitters is not gold.”

A group of strangers is shipwrecked off the southern shore of Ustalav and get manipulated into either joining a necromancer’s evil operation or becoming another victim of her magic. The theme of this adventure was horror in the sense that as the party began to get the idea that there was something very wrong going on in the town of Stonehaven and it involved a massive increase in missing locals, visitors and threats of undead.

Campaign Notes (expand)

• The Quality of Gold – Part 1 (Shipwrecked)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 2 (Introduction & Arrival in Stonehaven)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 3 (Lower Village & Side Quests)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 4 (Side Quest – The Celebration)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 5 (The Remainder of the Lower Village)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 6 (Upper Stonehaven Village)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 7 (Invitation to the Citadel)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 8 (The Dark Citadel)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 9 (The Curse of Blackcross)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 10 (The Escapee & The Undead Camps)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 11 (The Show Must Go On!)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 12 (The Underground Escape)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 13 (Molentide & East Camp)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 14 (Imprisoned!)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 15 (Prison Break!)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 16 (The Beginning of the End)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 17 (The Necromancer’s Sanctum)
• The Quality of Gold – Part 18 (The End of the Operation – and the Party)
  

Players and Characters

• Greg Murray — Tuck (Human C6)
• Dan Flores — Skratte (Elf W6)
• Fred Pearl — Tempest (Human Or6)
• Jon Snyder — Fitz (Dwarf F6)
• Joel Johnstone — Plink (Goblin R6)