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HUNTERS OF

GRANBRETAN

Credits

Contents

Introduction

Author

Bryan Steele

RuneQuest Logo

Anne Stokes

A Dark Night in Karlye

Editor

Richard Ford

Interior Illustrations

Leonardo Borazio, Martin

Hanford, Javier Charro Martinez,

Regis Moulun, Sean Parnell, &

Chad Sergesketter

Bloody Streets

No Way Out

Layout

Will Chapman

When Destiny Calls

Characters and Beasts

Cover Art

Pascal Quidault

Playtesters

Sean Brown, Tina Cook, Cindy

Freeman, Craige Freeman, Brian

Gellinault, Paul Palmer, Robert

Poulin

Index

Cover Design

Iordanis Lazaridis

Proofreading

Scribendi

Special Thanks

Michael Moorcock

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Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Risidious looked back over his shoulder, panting and

out of breath, seeing the expanse of the Silver Bridge

slowly being swallowed by the churning morning fog.

It should buy him just enough time to ﬁ nd a buyer for

these…these…tragically wonderful items. Maybe he

will actually make it this time.

universe lies behind your own. There are thousands

upon thousands of worlds and time streams; one

never knows just how many devils, heroes, magics,

and horrors beyond comprehension one might ﬁ nd

within them. While it is true that Dorian Hawkmoon

was made into the Eternal Champion of his era and his

world, even he sees only a frayed thread of the tapestry

of fate.

Then he heard them again…wings of metal and wood.

Clockwork cranking and electric engines humming,

growing closer in the gloom. Ornithopters. The ﬂ ying

menaces had not given up chase since he left the west

isle, and they are getting better at tracking him.

The Dark Empire of Granbretan is engaged in the

conquest of Europe. King-Emperor Huon and his

lackeys have manipulated the Eternal Champion into

crossing the Silver Bridge into Europe bearing a black

jewel in his skull that serves as both spy and leash. The

lord-nobles wait with baited breath for the endgame of

the King-Emperor, when they will have an iron-ﬁ sted

control all of Europe as they have created on their own

island.

So tired…

He cannot run much farther, and they will be able to

see him in no time. Looking down at the stump of a

hand that he gave up to pass them on to better suited

folk, he wished away the dull throb in his head. The

fever was getting thicker, and his legs were like rubber

vines beneath him.

In this scenario, players of RuneQuest: Eternal

Champion will ﬁ nd themselves in the wake of a great

man, caught between their own survivals and possibly

stopping a great tragedy. Hunters of Granbretan is

a scenario for moderately experienced characters

playing the Hawkmoon piece of the Eternal Champion

multiverse.

No more running…

He had to ﬁ nd someone to take them. He cursed his

weakness for being able to do it himself, and even

more so for having to pass this responsibility onto

someone else…

In this adventure…

Dorian Hawkmoon, Duke of Köln, has recently passed

over the Silver Bridge into Europe on his long journey

to Persia as part of his forced mission from the King-

Emperor. The black-market city of Karlye barely even

knew he had come and gone, before he already had

done so. Shortly after his passing, another special

adventurer from Granbretan follows. This man, a

refugee from the bull-masked Tauran Lords, carries

with him a very special sword and gauntlet that he

claims must never fall into the hands of his former

captors. Knowing that anything can be bought or sold

in the streets of Karlye, he was hoping to break up the

two pieces of the artefact, selling them separately in an

effort to keep the Taurans from getting their hands on

them. This was not to be, however. Destiny, it seems,

had a different plan.

…but he was so very tired of running.

In the multiverse of the Eternal Champion , the

collection of all possible universes, dimensions and

time streams, destiny itself is dominated by the conﬂ ict

between Law and Chaos. When these metaphysical

forces clash, a mirrored soul – the Eternal Champion

– often found in the midst of the conﬂ ict. Whoever ﬁ lls

this role serves as the champion and the very essence

of Humanity for that dimension – although he is not

necessarily a Man, and not destined to be Human. The

Eternal champion’s purpose is to force the conﬂ ict

back towards a state of Equilibrium, but he often ends

up serving Law or Chaos (willingly or not), or even

trying to deny the destiny laid out before him.

The multiverse is as vast as the imagination, with no

laid boundaries beyond the knowledge that another

Wounded, poisoned and exhausted…the man dies,

leaving the interesting artefact in the hands of the

Introduction

Player Characters. Now they are the ones that are

being hunted for possessing it, and they can only hope

to escape the city and the many soldiers of the Tauran

Lords – unless they can ﬁ nd someone foolish enough

to take the mighty weapon off their hands (literally)

so they can avoid capture and torture by the Taurans.

Everywhere the Player Characters go they will ﬁ nd that

Karlye is a dangerous and deadly place when it wants

to be, and the powerful magic at work in the artefact is

doing little to help them in staying unnoticed.

odds, but still one ﬁ lled with many opportunities for

adventure. Sometimes the players may wish to talk

or bribe their way out of an ugly situation, where

they simply cannot avoid some conﬂ icts. Depending

on their views of Granbretan and its lord-nobles, the

biggest threat in this scenario may not be a cutthroat or

beast…but the idea of standing against such an endless

and powerful foe. The soldiers sent to Karlye can be

fought or killed blade and bludgeon, but the Empire’s

evil cannot be destroyed by a simple sword or arrow.

The Player Characters will have more than a few

chances to cross blades with Tauran soldiers or make

deals with some of the least trustworthy bits of Karlye’s

undercity; they will have to survive in situations that

would have seemed unreal to them before their fated

meeting with a wounded man in a dark alley.

A copy of the RuneQuest Core Rulebook , RuneQuest

– Hawkmoon , a notepad, pencils and a full set of

dice (at least one of each of the following; d20, d12,

d10, d8, d6 and d4) will be needed to play Hunters of

Granbretan . Players and Games Masters may also ﬁ nd

a copy of the RuneQuest Companion a good reference

point for several of the skills and sorcery possibly used

in this scenario. It is by no means necessary, as every

encounter in the scenario has statistics or alternate

rules listed in the last section for those involved; but

some Games Masters may wish to have that extra

information at their ﬁ ngertips. This comes in readily

handy when players take interesting turns off the

beaten path of the written scenario. It may also be

helpful to have a few miniatures or counters and some

form of erasable map handy for when battles to break

out, but these are also not essential.

By the end of the scenario, if the Player Characters

have managed to avoid capture, torture and painful

execution by the Tauran Lord, they will have one last

duty – to wield the Sword Magistrate for as long as

they can, or ﬁ nd a place to hide it from the hunters

of Granbretan. Whatever they choose to do, the

multiverse will respond appropriately.

Good deeds rarely go unnoticed…by both sides of

Equilibrium.

Getting Ready to Play

Hunters of Granbretan is a scenario that gives players

a chance to possess a true piece of the multiverse, if

they want to take on all the baggage that comes with it.

Unlike most roleplaying adventures, where the answer

to any problem is strong morals and stronger blades,

the problems facing the Player Characters in Karlye

are likely to be difﬁ cult (but not impossible!) to solve

in such a way. They might require the players and

their characters to take different approaches to their

situation. The decision to hide rather than ﬁ ght should

be a wise one, and wanton battle is likely to cause

more ill than good.

Hunters of Granbretan combines several aspects of

the roleplaying game into one continuous stream of

plotline complete with many situations and problems

that the Player Characters may want a diverse set of

skill specialities to overcome or bypass successfully.

A party of adventurers that is completely focused on

one facet of game play may have some trouble with

these instances, while a more varied group might do

better as it progresses.

Games Masters should read and become familiar with

the entire scenario before attempting to subject their

players in it. This should allow the Games Master

to follow each encounter together with the next

seamlessly, or to alter his methods to meld the written

encounters with the often random actions of his Player

Characters. This is extremely important, as Hunters

of Granbretan has many places where free-formed

For the Games Masters who are concerned their game

is about to take the path leading away from fast-paced

action and adventure…do not. We have tried to create

an atmosphere of dark shadows and overwhelming

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