04 Night's Watch.pdf - Chaos Bleeds

TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION......................5CHAPTER 1:THE NIGHT’S WATCH............ 7Taking the Black........................................8Training...............................................10The Sept at Castle Black.........................12Running a Night’s Watch Campaign.......12Sworn Brothers..................................13The Structure of the Night’s Watch.........13The Rangers...........................................14The Builders...........................................15The Stewards.........................................15Society Among the Black Brotherhood.....16Status & Rank inthe Black Brotherhood..........................16Running a Night’s Watch Game.............17Adventure Ideas.....................................17Rangings, & Bringingthe Branches Together..........................18Intrigue & PoliticsAmong the Night’s Watch.....................18Desertion............................................19Desertion & the Night’s Watch...............19Why Sworn Brothers Desert the Wall......20Typical Behavior of Deserters.................20Using Desertion in your SIFRP Games....22The History ofthe Night’s Watch............................22Legends of the Night’s Watch...................23Night’s Watch Character Creation...24What’s Different AboutNight’s Watch Characters.....................24Archetypes of the Night’s Watch.............24Captured Poacher...................................25Defeated Sellsword.................................26Old Crow..............................................27Unlucky Gambler...................................28Creating Night’s Watch Characters.........29Step One: The Watch...............................29Step Two: Character Concept..................29Step Three: Assign Abilities.....................32Step Four: Assign Specialties...................32Step Five: Destiny Points & Benefits......32Step Six: Drawbacks..............................32Step Seven: Equipment..........................32Step Eight: Derived Stats.......................32New & Revised Benefits..........................32Brother of the Night’s Watch...................32Defensive Engineer................................33Favored of Wildlings..............................33Gone But Not Forgotten.........................33Wildling Lover......................................33New Drawbacks.......................................34Convict.................................................34Deserter.................................................34Frostbitten.............................................34Kneeler..................................................34Scent of the Long Summer......................34Wildling-Born.......................................34Creating a Castleof the Night’s Watch........................34Creating a Castle on the Wall..................35Step One: The Realm..............................35Step Two: Starting Resources..................36Step Three: Castle History.......................36Step Four: Holdings...............................37Step Five: Motto & Arms......................39Step Six: The Castle Commander............39Campaigns & Improvement....................39Treating the Castles as Banner Houses....39Treating the Castles as Independent........40Decline & Abandonment.......................40Castle Actions........................................41CHAPTER 2:THE WALL & THE GIFT......42History.....................................................42Present.....................................................43Assaulting the Wall..................................43Going Over...........................................43Going Around........................................44Going Under.........................................44Going Through.......................................45Defending the Wall.................................45Tactics...................................................45Castles of the Night’s Watch.............46Castle Black.............................................46Brothers of Castle Black..........................49Bowen Marsh........................................49”Dolorous Edd” Eddison Tollett..............50Small Paul.............................................51Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.............................51Brothers of Eastwatch-by-the-Sea..........52Cotter Pyke............................................52The Shadow Tower..................................53Brothers of Shadow Tower.....................54Ser Denys Mallister...............................54Stonesnake.............................................55The Abandoned.......................................56The Nightfort.........................................56Westwatch-by-the-Bridge......................57Sentinel Stand.......................................57Greyguard.............................................57Stonedoor...............................................58Hoarfrost Hill.......................................58Icemark..................................................58Deep Lake.............................................58Queensgate............................................59Oakenshield...........................................59Woodswatch-by-the-Pool........................60Sable Hall.............................................60Rimegate...............................................60The Long Barrow...................................60The Torches............................................61Greenguard...........................................61The Gift..............................................61History.....................................................61The Gift under King Robert...................62Life in the Gift........................................62Mole’s Town..........................................62Other Places of Note...............................63Rangings..............................................63Operating Procedures.............................63A Babe in the Woods ..............................63Where There’s Smoke…...........................64Trailing Blood..........................................66Early Frost ..............................................67Stocking the Larder.................................68The Cure for What Ails...........................69For Honor’s Sake.....................................70Looking for Cracks..................................71Unwanted Visitors..................................71CHAPTER 3:BEYOND THE WALL.............73The Free Folk......................................74Tribal Order.............................................74Life Among the Free Folk.......................75Gender Roles...........................................75Leadership...............................................75Survival....................................................76Religion & Mysticism..............................76Resources & Industry .............................77Warfare....................................................77The Giants...............................................77Mance Rayder’s Horde .......................78Mance Rayder.......................................79Mance Rayder’s Lieutenants....................80Varamyr Sixskins...................................81Tormund Giantsbane............................81Alfyn Crowkiller...................................82Harma the Dogshead.............................83Lord o’ Bones.........................................84Tribes of the Far North .....................85Cannibal Clans of the Ice River...............85Cave Dweller Clans.................................86Hornfoot Men.........................................86Ice Wives.................................................87Nightrunners ..........................................87The Thenn Tribes.....................................88Walrus Men.............................................88Geography of the Far North..............89Haunted Forest........................................892