Fugees and Iron - Setting Up

Fugees and Iron - Setting Up

For my first chronical, I am going to start with my first truly successful solo play attempt. This is the first time I completed a whole adventure (without following a published adventure path), and even went on to continue the campaign.

As with most of my campaigns these days, I chose to run Fate Core - specifically a fantasy hack called Aperita Arcana. 

Setting

One setting I have a lot of love for is Eberron, so it made sense to set the campaign there (actually this is at least the third time I have attempted an Eberron Campaign), and I settled on an outpost close to the Brelish border with the Mournland.

My intention (and ultimately what made this playthrough so successful) was to depart from my usual systems for setting up a game and follow the setup process from fate core (mixed in with that from dresden files accelerated). Accordingly I started by creating some factions, mainly just by going through my eberon books and picking out some that looked interesting and then adding a few more as I went through character and issue creation;

 

The warforged Blades

led by the lord of blades, they intend to build a warforged nation

Goal: to conquor teritory and build a recognised nation.

Obstacle: Numbers are not yet high enough to openly challenge a great nation

Assets: Lord of Blades (named), Warforged agents (significant), Warforged soldiers (mobs)

Refugees

Not a single faction so much as multiple broken groups of families and comunities hoping to find a way to survive

Goal: to establish safe havens and cultural enclaves, where they can keep their identity alive.

Obstacle: local resistance prevents peaceful settlement. Poor.

Assets: Refugees (mobs). Occasional leaders (significant), Verden (PC)

Brelish nationalists

A loose affiliation of Brelish citizens who oppose outside immigration into the country.

Goal: to stop the influx of Cyran refugees, as well as the non human mercenaries and such who are overpopulating breland.

Obstacle: Official law permits cyran settlements.

Assets: Local knowledge and contacts. Protestors (mobs), demagogues (significant)

Brelish Army

Official defenders of Breland

Goal: to ensure the safety and order of breland.

Obstacle: numerous groups are working to destabilise the kingdom.

Assets: Infrastructure. Discipline. Equipment. Captins (significant), agents (significant), soldiers (mobs). Dart (PC)

House Jalander

House of hospitality, open doors to refugees

Goal: to create enclaves under their control where refugees can be safely repatriated

Obstacle: legal permissions and local resistance make establishing permanent enclaves difficult.

Assets: Wealth. Healing. Leadership/ healers (significant), stewards (mobs), Jolene (PC)

The Ebon claw

necromancers and cultists insinuating themselves amongst the refugees

Goal: to destabilise breland.

Obstacles: The brelish army is ever vigilant. Success is often rewarded with local mistrust of refugees.

Assets: stealth. Networks of contacts. Agents (significant), undead, thugs (mobs)

I then looked through those and created two issues that would drive the action;

 

The lord of blades is gathering an army ready to strike (and create a warforged nation)

Refugees from the war are straining their welcomes