The Old World: Grim and Perilous

off negotiations, sneering in the PCs faces.
He entrusts the task to another, more wellknown
group. Will the PCs accept humiliation
or will they try to prove their worth?
• Someone like you: The client notices (and
repeatedly repeats it later) that they need
someone new "from outside the business."
On the one hand, they will compliment PCs
and expect them to act unconventionally,
but on the other hand, they will still denigrate
their qualifications, especially when
it comes to pay.
- Renown
• Doppelgangers: The party has become
known and recognizable, or at least everything
suggests so. Innkeepers greet them
with a bow and offer the best table or accommodation,
strangers buy them rounds
and raise toasts to PCs, women flock to
them... But everyone mispronounces their
names... Strange, isn't it?! It turns out that
the party is only similar to another, much
more famous, group of mercenaries. What
will happen when their paths cross?
• Stubborn amateur: Someone completely
devoid of the necessary predispositions
tries very hard to join the party. At first, they
want to ingratiate himself with PCs and is
persistently servile. Disdained by them, they
will burn with a desire for revenge. They will
disappear from their sight but patiently wait
for the right moment. They will appear again
at the least convenient time...
• I used to be an adventurer like you... A
grumpy old man temporarily joins the PCs.
He too, in his youth, was an adventurer,
saw and experienced everything... but all
was better in his time. Regardless of PCs'
will, he wants to be their mentor.
- Renown
• Fallen idol: The PCs have the opportunity
to meet a legendary hero whom they knew
only from numerous songs. Unfortunately,
they will also have the opportunity to discover
that the hero beloved by all is nothing
more than a swindler.
• Doppelgangers... again!: The client claims
that someone else has already collected payment
for the job that PCs did? The innkeeper
does not want to accept them under his
roof? An unknown girl slaps one of PCs? Is
someone else reaping the benefits of their
hard work?
- Renown
• Paranoia!: The group is hired as an escort
by a wealthy and influential merchant.
Nothing strange about that, but this time
they encounter a real paranoid who sees
assassins lurking behind every bush. Why
does he need such reputable professionals
and what is he so afraid of?
• Sticky fingers: The PCs are losing a few
items, mostly secondary weapons like daggers,
arrows, etc. It turns out that there are
people willing to buy those items, believing
that they are "artifacts" that gave the PCs
their abilities.
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