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PostSubject: Adventure Rules   Adventure Rules Icon_minitimeFri May 29, 2015 5:11 pm

Adventures
The Tir Na Nog game consists o f a group
of characters embarking on an adventure that the Dungeon
Master presents to them. Each character brings
particular capabilities to the adventure in the form of
ability scores and skills, class features, racial traits,
equipment, and magic items. Every character is different,
with various strengths and weaknesses, so the
best party of adventurers is one in which the characters
complement each other and cover the weaknesses of
their companions. The adventurers must cooperate to
successfully complete the adventure.
The adventure is the heart of the game, a story with
a beginning, middle, and an end. An adventure might
be created by the Dungeon Master or purchased off the
shelf, tweaked and modified to suit the DM’s needs and
desires. In either case, an adventure features a fantastic
setting, whether it’s an underground dungeon, a crumbling
castle, a stretch of wilderness, or a bustling city.
It features a rich cast of characters: the adventurers
created and played by the other players at the table,
as well as non-player characters (NPCs). Those characters
might be patrons, allies, enemies, hirelings, or
just background extras in an adventure. Often, one of
the NPCs is a villain w hose agenda drives much of an
adventure’s action.
Over the course of their adventures, the characters
are confronted by a variety of creatures, objects, and
situations that they must deal with in some way. Sometimes
the adventurers and other creatures do their
best to kill or capture each other in combat. At other
times, the adventurers talk to another creature (or even
a magical object) with a goal in mind. And often, the
adventurers spend time trying to solve a puzzle, bypass
an obstacle, find something hidden, or unravel the current
situation. Meanwhile, the adventurers explore the
world, making decisions about which way to travel and
what they’ll try to do next.
Adventures vary in length and complexity. A short
adventure might present only a few challenges, and
it might take no more than a single game session to
complete. A long adventure can involve hundreds of
combats, interactions, and other challenges, and take
dozens of sessions to play through, stretching over
weeks or months of real time. Usually, the end of an
adventure is marked by the adventurers heading back to
civilization to rest and enjoy the spoils of their labors.
But that’s not the end of the story. You can think of
an adventure as a single episode o f a TV series, made
up of multiple exciting scenes. A campaign is the whole
series—a string of adventures joined together, with a
consistent group of adventurers following the narrative
from start to finish.

The Three Pillars of Adventure
Adventurers can try to do anything their players can
imagine, but it can be helpful to talk about their activities
in three broad categories: exploration, social
interaction, and combat.
Exploration includes both the adventurers’ movement
through the world and their interaction with objects and
situations that require their attention. Exploration is the
give-and-take of the players describing what they want
their characters to do, and the Dungeon Master telling
the players what happens as a result. On a large scale,
that might involve the characters spending a day crossing
a rolling plain or an hour making their way through
caverns underground. On the smallest scale, it could
mean one character pulling a lever in a dungeon room to
see what happens.
Social interaction features the adventurers talking to
someone (or something) else. It might mean demanding
that a captured scout reveal the secret entrance to the
goblin lair, getting information from a rescued prisoner,
pleading for mercy from an orc chieftain, or persuading
a talkative magic mirror to show a distant location to
the adventurers.
The rules in chapters 7 and 8 support exploration and
social interaction, as do many class features in chapter 3
and personality traits in chapter 4.
Combat, the focus of chapter 9, involves characters
and other creatures swinging weapons, casting spells,
maneuvering for position, and so on—all in an effort
to defeat their opponents, whether that means killing
every enemy, taking captives, or forcing a rout. Combat
is the most structured element of a Tir Na Nog session, with
creatures taking turns to make sure that everyone gets
a chance to act. Even in the context o f a pitched battle,
there’s still plenty of opportunity for adventurers to
attempt wacky stunts like surfing down a flight of stairs
on a shield, to examine the environment (perhaps by
pulling a mysterious lever), and to interact with other
creatures, including allies, enemies, and neutral parties.

The Wonders of Magic
Few Tir Na Nog adventures end without something magical
happening. Whether helpful or harmful, magic appears
frequently in the life of an adventurer, and it is the focus
of chapters 10 and 11.
In the worlds of Tir Na Nog, practitioners
of magic are rare, set apart from the masses of people
by their extraordinary talent. Common folk might see
evidence of magic on a regular basis, but it’s usually
minor—a fantastic monster, a visibly answered prayer,
a w izard walking through the streets with an animated
shield guardian as a bodyguard.
For adventurers, though, magic is key to their survival.
Without the healing magic of clerics and paladins,
adventurers would quickly succumb to their wounds.
Without the uplifting magical support of bards and
clerics, warriors might be overwhelmed by powerful
foes. Without the sheer magical power and versatility
of wizards and druids, every threat would be magnified
tenfold.
Magic is also a favored tool of villains. Many adventures
are driven by the machinations of spell-casters
who are hell-bent on using magic for some ill end. A cult
leader seeks to awaken a god who slumbers beneath
the sea, a hag kidnaps youths to magically drain them
of their vigor, a mad wizard labors to invest an army of
automatons with a facsimile of life, a dragon begins a
mystical ritual to rise up as a god of destruction—these
are just a few of the magical threats that adventurers
might face. With magic of their own, in the form of
spells and magic items, the adventurers might prevail!
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