Wolf's Tooth Bandit Camp
A bandit palisade in the pines: the chief's hall, campfires, captives, a watchtower.
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The place
Setting: Dusk in the pine hills, campfire smoke and evening mist along the brook
A bandit stronghold in the pine hills. A ring of sharpened logs stands on a levelled rise in a clearing the bandits cut, stumps and felled trunks all round it, with a two-cell gate to the south flanked by lookout platforms with steps up. The old watchtower they call the Wolf's Tooth stands on the north-east corner. Inside are the chief's timber longhouse under mossy tiles, a looted merchant's pavilion and canvas tents with a stolen cart, a big fire with log seats, firewood and a water butt, and a stockade pen in the south-west corner. Lift the roofs in Play and the longhouse is furnished: a fire pit down the middle under the smoke hole, long tables, the chief's chair with a looted bed behind it, and the hoard heaped at the far end.
Below the camp a brook runs through the woods with evening mist gathering along it, and the trail fords it on stepping stones before climbing to the gate. The bugbear chief Grask Wolf's-Tooth holds his hall, hobgoblins and orcs sit round the fires, and a hobgoblin archer on the gate platform and two goblin lookouts in the trees by the trail are hidden from the players. Two captives, a merchant and a pilgrim, wait in the pen. The party, a ranger, a dwarf fighter, a druid and a tiefling warlock, is crossing the ford.
What the recipe places
- 3 floor and road ops
- 3 wall runs
- 54 props, lines and scatters
- 5 lights and effects
- 13 miniatures
Encounters it was built for
- The ford: the lookouts in the trees see the party first, and the stepping stones are slow going under arrows.
- Storm the gate: two platforms, an archer on one, and a two-square gap to push through.
- Free the captives: the pen is inside the wall at the far corner from the gate, and the orcs are by the fire.
- The chief's hall: one door, a fire pit down the middle, and the bugbear between the party and the hoard.
- Over the palisade at night: drag the clock to midnight and the campfires light the yard and blind the guards.
Tips
- In Play, press U to lift the roof off the longhouse and fight round the fire pit inside.
- Mark the archer and the lookouts Hidden from players, and show each one when it first shoots.
- The rise is real terrain: the ruler counts the height from the ford up to the gate.
- Brush fog over the camp and reveal it as the party gets eyes over the palisade.
- Start combat and every bandit rolls into initiative with HP on the token card; the captives can be dragged out of initiative.
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Questions
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