Lots of Land

Overview

Local merchant selling land, that may not be available!

Trigger

Party is in the merchant district/bazar and a man from a booth calls them over.

Description

Walking down the busy street you hear the usual sellers screams and shouts! Then above all you hear a booming voice "Hey Fine Sir!" "Hey Fine Sir!", as you look to see where the voice is coming you notice a fat gentlemen standing behind a stand! Layed across the top of the stand you see various maps and drawing. Catching his eye he waves you over towards his stand.

Dm notes

The merchants name is Valorous. He is selling land deeds! Valorous actually has proper deeds to MOST (not all) of his land. He sells the deeds as squaters rights (the buyers have to establish a fixed building on the land). The problem is that he is selling multiple deeds to the same lot. Thus you can have several owners trying to setup on the same land. Also musch of the land is very hostile in that there are raiders, monsters, etc out there. There is a 20% chance that the lot of land is false (either does not exist or does not leagally have the rights to sell the land). (There is a 30% chance that the land is legal, but is worth less. Swamp!)

Key

If the land is false then the party may try to hunt down Valorous (he has moved onto the next town/city). Or they might try to establish a land holding. (I would make the land very hostile) This would lead to the party trying to clear the land.

Posted by

Joseph DuBois
Last updated: Wed Jan 03 1996 wmh