Black Pigeon Press Inc. is proud to be joining forces with Anime St. Louis at the upcoming Anime St. Louis 2008 Convention. Black Pigeon Press Inc. will be providing Role Play Gaming at its Hacktastic best throughout the convention which will be running the 28th – 30th of March 2008 at the Viking Hotel and Convention Center in St. Louis Missouri.The Anime St Louis 2008 Convention will be running over a period of three days, Friday – Sunday and we will be providing Role Play Gaming for the same three day game period.
So come and check us out. We will also be providing preregistration of all available gaming slots at the Black Pigeon Press website from the 5th of March through the 27th of March. Anyone who preregisters will receive several free magic certificates for use during the convention with your player characters……
All games are $5.00 a slot to play. Tables will be first come first serve with (6) six players to a table. Overflow or special events may have more players per table. Sign up soon to ensure you can play the game you wish….
Here is the complete schedule of Role Play Gaming at Anime St. Louis 2008 Convention:
Friday 28th March 2008:
3:00 – 5:00 PM / Registration for all upcoming game slots during the convention as well as help/questions with any gaming events………
4:00 – 5:00 PM:
1. The gaming room will be open with several game masters on hand to help individuals roll up player characters as well as answer any questions that may come up or you may have.
2. Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
5:00 – 9:00 PM / Game Slot 1:
1. Cosmic Eclipse / Twilight / 1st – 3rd level / It’s been over a week since you’ve heard of any jobs and times are looking rough. You and your companions are drowning your sorrows at Mulligan’s Bar when in walks a man. He is short and balding and appears to be in a rush. He scans the room until he sees you and quickly approaches patting his sweating head with a handkerchief saying the words you’ve been waiting to hear all week. “You wouldn’t happen to be freelancers, would ya?”
2. Shatterdawn / The Trouble With Troglodytes / 1st – 3rd Level / Badger Mc Gruff, owner and operator of Badger’s Trading Post along with the Gem Bright Mining Company, seeks those of stout heart and ready blade to aid in the extermination or relocation of undesirable musky smelling, lizard type humanoid bandits and highwaymen. High Risks, Good Pay, Modest Dwarven Burial if needed. Interested parties inquire at Badger’s Trading Post in Black Boulder Pass, along the Dwarven trade road, southern tip of the Mistcloak Mountains. Only serious applicants need apply.
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / Den of the Beast / Hack Rating 7 / A foul creature has taken up residence in a small cave system near a main trade route and has been raiding the wagon trains and attacking foot travelers that pass by. This is causing all manner of unrest in the hamlet of Hogfork. The PCs have been hired to kill or run off the new unwanted neighbor before the people of Hogfork go poor and starve. Are YOU brave enough to enter the Den of the Beast?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / The Night of Red Slaughter / Hack Rating 20+ / You and your companions have just completed a small yet profitable journey in the foothills of the Dragonspine Mountains hunting down a band of Tillian Slavers. The sun is sinking low by the time you reach the river valley, hoping to find shelter amongst the many small settlements that dot the banks of the Serpentflow. Just as you crest a small rise a scream of terror cuts the air. Before you a band of slavering Dogmen are putting a small house to the torch and its residents to the sword! It seems a hero’s job is never done. Do you have what it takes to survive The Night of Red Slaughter?
9:00 – 10:00 PM / Intermission:
Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
10:00 PM – 2:00 AM / Game Slot 2:
1. Shatterdawn / An Eye for An Eye / 1st – 3rd Level / You and your companions are traveling through the shadowy paths of the Stirge Roost Forest on your way to the small border town of Crow’s Cairn, after hearing numerous rumors of adventure and riches. The journey has taken far longer than you had hoped and now you are still in the forest after nightfall. As you prepare to make camp for the night and get an early start in the morning, the sounds of battle echo amongst the dark, twisted trunks of the forest.
2. Shatterdawn / The Forgotten Library / 1st – 3rd Level / You have found your way to the bustling trade city of Dagger Falls in search of adventure. After several unsuccessful days of trying to find one you have ended up drowning your sorrows at The Blue Orc Saloon, a tavern supposed to be frequented by adventurers, spending your few remaining coins on cheap ale and wine, wondering if you are cut out for this sort of life. Just as you are about to order one more drink a skinny, rather unkempt dwarf stomps into the tap room and scans the near empty tavern with an odd eyed gaze. Giving each of you a quick appraising look with his mismatched blue and brown eyes and scribbling on a small piece of parchment. He then declares “Well, you’ll do, that is if you’re interested in an adventure?”
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / The Bandits of Ghost Wood / Hack Rating 18 + / A group of bandits have been raiding merchant wagons along a newly constructed roadway that winds through a small wood rumored to be haunted. The PCs are hired by the Merchant’s guild to pose as merchants to lure the bandits to attack. Then through the element of surprise they can ambush the ambushers and bring an end the bandit threat once and for all. Will you be able to make the roadway safe for travel by putting to the sword The Bandits of Ghost Wood?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / Wisher’s Well / Hack Rating 11 / The PCs hear a rumor that a recently hanged notorious thief at one time used the old dry well at the edge of town as a hiding place for his stolen loot. The valuables from his last job were never recovered and are probably still down there for any soul with the gumption to get it. Dare you delve into Wisher’s Well?
Saturday 29th March 2008:
9:00 – 11:00 AM / Registration for all upcoming game slots during the convention as well as help/questions with any gaming events………
10:00 – 11:00 AM:
1. The gaming room will be open with several game masters on hand to help individuals roll up player characters as well as answer any questions that may come up or you may have.
2. Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM / Game Slot 3:
1. Cosmic Eclipse / She Always Gets Her Man / 3rd – 5th level / You have found yourself in the smoky back room of a shady cantina on Odin five, an artificial moon and star base above the crowded factory planet known as Alfhiem. Word of your exploits must have spread as each of you has received a message communication requesting your services to aid a renowned bounty hunter.
Yeah, She wants you…
2. Shatterdawn / Cellar Delvers / 2nd – 4th Level / Times have been lean for adventurers, so you and your companions made for The Silver Drake, the finest inn along the Tradesmen’s Highway to find work as caravan guards or scouts for a wagon train or the very least get a hot meal and a good ale, but upon reaching the banks of The Orc Claw River, you find the spring thaw has swelled the Orc Claw and a flash flood has washed out the only bridge between you and the prospect of employment. Your only choice was to head back upstream hoping that Frog Hop Shallows is still fordable. When reaching the shallows it is plain to see that many others had the same idea. Numerous wagons line the ford and the small Inn known as The Merry Cricket is packed with merchants and traders who would have never traveled this almost forgotten stretch of road near the Whistle Rock Hills. As you sit and wait your turn at the crossing, a pump Halfling rushes over to you and asks with hope filling his chubby face: “Might you folk be adventures?”
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / Den of the Beast / Hack Rating 7 / A foul creature has taken up residence in a small cave system near a main trade route and has been raiding the wagon trains and attacking foot travelers that pass by. This is causing all manner of unrest in the hamlet of Hogfork. The PCs have been hired to kill or run off the new unwanted neighbor before the people of Hogfork go poor and starve. Are YOU brave enough to enter the Den of the Beast?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / Knives in the Dark / Hack Rating 20+ / The children of a wealthy merchant have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom by a gang of thieves. The PCs are hired to head into the sewers, find the thieves’ lair and free the merchant’s children all before sunrise of the following day. Can you bring the children again into the light of day, or will they fall beneath the Knives in the Dark?
3:00 – 4:00 PM / Intermission:
Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
4:00 – 8:00 PM / Game Slot 4:
1. Shatterdawn / Money for Mutton / 3rd – 5th Level / It was been a few weeks since your last adventure, times have been easy. You have shared tales over ales, bragged about your combat prowess and ate to your fill, all in all it has been good times, but your lust for adventure got the better of you and the first rumor you heard sent you packing, off once again on the trail of adventure. All it took was a drunken teamster babbling on about a band of hobgoblin bandits near Sunstand a small village near the eastern edge of the kingdom and the hefty reward the local duke was offering for their capture to get you going. You have been on the road for only a few days and your nice clear traveling weather has turned into a raging summer storm. Not being overly found of soaked cloaks and wet boots, not to mention soggy trail rations, you take shelter at a small traveler’s shrine of Telkus the Wanderer, god of travel. It seems you are not the only ones, who had this idea, when you duck under the stone awning of the shrine three other travelers are already taking shelter.
2. Shatterdawn / Cairn of the Dark Hunter / 3rd – 5th Level / You and your friends have left your small village homes to head to larger settlements in hopes of starting your adventuring careers. You have been in the wilds for several days crossing the Sunvale forest and are just preparing to make camp along the forest road when the massive form of a centaur walks cautiously out of the tree line. “Ho, two-legs! I am Drom-Gull chieftain of the Silverhoof Clan and I need your aid.”
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / The Bandits of Ghost Wood / Hack Rating 18 + / A group of bandits have been raiding merchant wagons along a newly constructed roadway that winds through a small wood rumored to be haunted. The PCs are hired by the Merchant’s guild to pose as merchants to lure the bandits to attack. Then through the element of surprise they can ambush the ambushers and bring an end the bandit threat once and for all. Will you be able to make the roadway safe for travel by putting to the sword The Bandits of Ghost Wood?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / Frostbeard’s Horde /Hack Rating 30 + / Tales tell of a fabulous treasure deep in an ice cave guarded by a legendary giant high amongst the peaks of the Battlefield Mountains, now through pure happenstance you have managed to win a copy of a map in a game of chance, the map claims to lead to this fabled ice cave. Perhaps your luck will hold if YOU try and win Frostbeard’s Horde!
(This is the first of two slots to play this adventure. The second half of the adventure, the grand finally, will be played in the 9:00 PM – 1:00 AM Game Slot 5.)
8:00 – 9:00 PM / Intermission:
Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
9:00 PM – 1:00 AM / Game Slot 5:
1. Cosmic Eclipse / A Well Deserved Rest / 3rd – 5th level / The all inclusive trip aboard the Utopia has been one party after another. The cuisine, the drinks, the sight of the nebula casting its webs of light across the dome of the observation deck, is just the beginning. Attention. Please remain calm.
Take a Vacation, Relax, enjoy yourself… you just might survive.
2. Shatterdawn / Temple of the Monkey God / 3rd – 5th Level / You and your fellow adventurers have been traveling south along the Golden Road, the main trade route in search of adventure. When you happen upon the ravaged remains of a traders caravan, the master of which begs for your help, recently attacked by raiders. It seems the raiders who he describes as man-apes have absconded with his virginal daughter Ra-ya, who even now has been promised to the great merchant king Kah’liem Hy-kree Kah’liem King of Tents. Master Simoom Faye says he will give you each 500 pieces of gold, and two of his magical elixirs of you’re choosing from his fine stocks, for the safe return of his daughter, from the clutches of the foul ape-men who kidnapped her, before they do something unspeakable. He offers the potions to aid you in your mission, the gold he holds until his daughter’s safe return.
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / Den of the Beast / Hack Rating 7 / A foul creature has taken up residence in a small cave system near a main trade route and has been raiding the wagon trains and attacking foot travelers that pass by. This is causing all manner of unrest in the hamlet of Hogfork. The PCs have been hired to kill or run off the new unwanted neighbor before the people of Hogfork go poor and starve. Are YOU brave enough to enter the Den of the Beast?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / Frostbeard’s Horde /Hack Rating 30 + / Tales tell of a fabulous treasure deep in an ice cave guarded by a legendary giant high amongst the peaks of the Battlefield Mountains, now through pure happenstance you have managed to win a copy of a map in a game of chance, the map claims to lead to this fabled ice cave. Perhaps your luck will hold if YOU try and win Frostbeard’s Horde!
(This is the second of two slots to play this adventure. The first half of the adventure, the beginning, was played in the 4:00 – 8:00 PM Game Slot 4. This is the grand finally and should not be played unless you played the first part in Game Slot 4.)
Sunday 30th March 2008:
9:00 – 10:00 AM:
1. The gaming room will be open with several game masters on hand to help individuals roll up player characters as well as answer any questions that may come up or you may have.
2. Gladiator Arena / A D&D Miniatures based event where individuals will pay (1) one dollar and draw from a bag of random D&D Miniatures then they will pit them against others in the Gladiator Arena for prizes. All miniatures drawn from the bag are yours to keep, good luck………
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM / Game Slot 6:
1. Shatterdawn / The Terror of Green Ford / 5th – 7th Level / While quenching your thirst at a small wayside inn, you heard rumblings that some great beast is hunting and killing the folk of Green Ford, with little more to do than waste coin on drinks, you and your companions wander upriver to see how much truth the rumors hold. It is all too clear when you reach the small village how true the rumors are. Watch fires burn day and night surrounding the riverside settlement, women and children do not venture out without and armed escort and never beyond the safety of the fires. The face of every villager is a wash with wide-eyed fear, fear of the Terror that stalks the night.
2. Shatterdawn / Wrath of the Serpent Queen / 6th – 8th Level / You have spent the last two weeks in the desert oasis town of Kathmacca. It is a hub for all types of commerce, where nearly anything, even people, can be purchased for the right price. You have nearly started to abandon hope of finding work, when one sweaty afternoon, a rotund merchant, wearing a turban and garbed in the finest silks approaches you. He is accompanied by an equally large man, whose bulk is made as much of muscle as the other man is fat. The merchant speaks, “Good afternoon, my good outlanders. I am Sullo Darfhi, merchant prince, and collector of rarities. I can see we share a similar spirit, as you have the look of adventurers about you. I have an opportunity for you, should you be willing to listen.” He pauses for a moment, as if to hear your acceptance, and then continues on. “Legend says that deep within the Jungles of Kish lies a temple, ancient and forgotten. It is said that in past ages, tribes of snake men gathered here to pay homage to the most primal of forces. And therein lies treasure most rare. It is this treasure that I seek. I seek the fabled Lamp of Al’Kazmier. I am prepared to offer you each 1000 gold pieces, and whatever other treasures you may find, should you accompany my expedition and help me retrieve this vital piece for my collection.”
3. Hacktastic D20 Intro Adventure / The Bandits of Ghost Wood / Hack Rating 18 + / A group of bandits have been raiding merchant wagons along a newly constructed roadway that winds through a small wood rumored to be haunted. The PCs are hired by the Merchant’s guild to pose as merchants to lure the bandits to attack. Then through the element of surprise they can ambush the ambushers and bring an end the bandit threat once and for all. Will you be able to make the roadway safe for travel by putting to the sword The Bandits of Ghost Wood?
4. Hacktastic D20 Adventure / The Little Black Book / HACK RATING 20+ / You find yourself in the roadside hamlet of Fairwell, between adventures. For such a small hamlet it is well stocked with amenities. Fairwell boasts a trading-post, horse trader, blacksmith, a sizable inn, a magic shop and a massive stone well for which the settlement was named. It seems a good place to trade and buy gear, find a stout ale or good wine and perhaps find work. These thoughts are washed from your mind as Shrieks of terror mingled with the sounds of battle cuts the still night air and seem to be coming from the streets outside. Can you survive what is written in The Little Black Book?
Craig W Slate
Director
Black Pigeon Press Inc.
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