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Gallows Corner Tales of Old England I – A Spark Takes Hold
Midsummer’s Eve, 1376
Witham, Essex.
All across England, people gather to celebrate the shortest night of the year.
Dancing, games, contests, and fun await before the Feast of St John.
But all is not what it seems.
In the crowds, outlaws hide. And on their trail, soldiers stride.
And for just a few, life is about to change forever.
All it takes to light the tinderbox that is England is a single spark. A smouldering ember that will become a conflagration.
Welcome to Essex, outlaws.
Gallows Corner Tales of Old England I – A Spark Takes Hold is the introductory adventure for Gallows Corner – A Peasants’ Revolt RPG. Written to introduce the game’s mechanics, players find themselves outlawed and hunted by a brutal militia captain and helping out a band of outlaws on the Essex coast.
Act 1 introduced the game’s core mechanics, Act 2 provides a localised version of the Point Crawl system, while Act 3 sees the players plan and execute a Showdown to liberate the market town of Maldon.
Written by Gallows Corner creator and designer George Francis Bickers, edited by Jeremy Blum, and illustrated by Joel Kilpatrick. Presented in zine format.
