Savage Worlds # 1 : Tome the Dwarf

Author’s notes

Hello my name is Tommy Lovett and today am starting another solo RPG campaign, I wasn’t quite happy with the last two so am starting over from the ground up with a fresh campaign hoping to create a story that can last more than a few sessions. Am running this game on Savage Worlds Adventure and using whatever else I can find to create and generate a high fantasy adventure starting a Dwarf living each day in the life of an adventurer. Anyways I hope you all enjoy this campaign.

Setting

A high fantasy region similar to Cyrodii. Dragons are commonplace and a major problem in the region. Adventuring parties are often seen moving from town to town. The most important city is a major trade city founded for its ease of access from airships, Crow’s Nest. A lone adventurer travels to this city seeking work. They are a male Dwarf Warrior named Tome Bladebreaker. Who became a lone adventurer to try and discover himself.

Main Story

Tome the Dwarf is seeking an object, not a legendary object mind you just a simple object it’s not even a personal memento or keepsake. If anything it’s a useless item. But never the less Tome still wants it. It’s a rare coin, it’s not really worth anything but Tome thought that maybe one day it would be of some use. He was never able to find any information about where this coin is from or who made it but it was a gift from his father and he was told to keep it safe. After finding this coin on the floor he picks it up and continues his drink from the Tavern. The name of the Tavern is Rocks Tavern. They charged about 10 Gold for the ale. There was a stranger who came up to the dwarf and asked “are you an adventurer by change?”

“I am alone adventurer to be exact, why do you ask, stranger?”

“am in need of an adventurer to reclaim a lost heirloom of my family. It's a lost locket of me and my wife…she is not with us anymore and it was the last piece I had to remember her by.”

“If you promise to pay me well I’ll go looking for it, but where was the last place you had it?”

“Thank you, I was traveling the Green road when a group of thugs robbed our carriage and took my locket along with it, my name is Dain Mason by the way.”

“My name is Tome Bladebreaker and I’d be glad to help you recover this locket.” He pockets his worthless coin from an unknown land of origin and retrieves directions to where the thugs were tracked down. Seeing as the dwarf was out of potions he handed towards an alchemist’s shop and paid for three Greater Potions of healing each costing 150 gold each and each one heals two wounds each. After restocking the dwarf headed towards the plains region and finds a keep owned by bandits and began to plan his approach. The bandits were the usual weak-willed thugs, it should be easy for the dwarf Tome to clear out their base. A cavern where the thug where goblin bandits are seen stockpiling loot, while there was no sign of the locket plenty of stolen goods are found the two goblins notice the lone dwarf and prepare to fight armed with bows and spears. A fight breaks out with one of the goblins opening fire with a bow, the shot lands but was too weak to break through Tome’s chainmail armor. Now as a response Tome runs toward his ranged combatant. He is close but not close enough to engage in melee combat. The other goblin somehow fails to connect his spear with the dwarf’s small frame. Tome moves just a bit closer and strikes at the first goblin with his axe but the tricky goblin manages a parry to avoid being harmed. The second goblin takes his spear and attacks the dwarf from behind but the dwarf was heavily armored and the stab didn’t so much as dent the armor. The first just can’t seem to land a hit without it being parried. Next, the dwarf cleaves clean through the neck of the second goblin killing it outright. The dwarf then turns towards the other goblin who is now running away to call for help. Realizing that soon he’ll be outnumbered he takes cover behind a stone wall of the cavern and waits for the incoming goblins to get into range of his battle axe. He defends himself from melee attacks while waiting. As the rest of the goblins pour into the rocky corridor of the cavern the dwarf misses his attack on the stunned goblin and continues fighting as the green horde approaches. Tome splits the head open of one of the attacking goblins as the tide quickly turns to Tome’s favor, seeing this the rest of the goblins fall back and use their bows instead of rushing into Tome’s melee range. As the arrows fly Tome makes his way towards the rest of the greenskins. Until a lucky shot stabbed Tome through his armor, after recovering from the blow Tome drinks a Greater Healing potion and heals his two massive wounds. Then Tome runs straight towards the cheeky goblin that fired the arrow. After cleaving that one archer another goblin gets a lucky shot at Tome dealing a nasty wound to him. Being wounded the Dwarf seeks cover deeper within the cavern. As the next few bowmen goblins miss their mark the Dwarf charges and cleanly cuts down one of the bowmen where they once stood. As yet another arrow fails to pierce chainmail the dwarf chops at the archer goblins with bloodlust and fury. The dwarf breaks the bow of the goblin but fails to directly harm the greenskin. The next chance he got he ran up to another goblin archer and chops their limb clean off! As the last remaining goblin hid behind a rock wall the dwarf turns his attention to him and readies his axe for yet another goblin’s hide. After taking the last of the Goblins down he had successfully retrieved the bloodstained locket. After tending to himself with yet another greater healing potion he returned to the Rocks Tavern and returned the locket to his rightful owner and has been rewarded handsomely with 500 gold. Spending the night at the local inn is a 100 gold room he rests as the night falls.