What Happened To Smaug....

[timb]

.... after he died? He crashed down on Old Esgaroth and doubtless sank to the bottom, taking half the town with him, but what then? There's a passing reference to his bones still being there five or ten years hence... But what effect does the flesh of a creature so vile, bred by Morgoth himself, what does that flesh do to an ecology that consumes it?

What of his great skull, has it been left to be picked clean so that Bard can reclaim it, and dredge it up to hang it in his halls in Dale?

What of Smaug's armored waistcoat of jewels? Do they lie scattered across the lakebed, where desperate lake men drag weighted nets, only to pull up the rotting cadavers of their dead kinsmen and fellow townsfolk slain by the dragon?

Have chunks of Smaug's hide been hauled up out if the deeps, to be fashioned into armor anew?

And are the blackened stumps and charred remains where the dragon-fishers lurk a haunted place, where the spirits of the innocent slain by dragon fire bubble and burn beneath the surface of the lake, forever begging to be freed from the searing pain?

Barbeque at Bard's house

...wait, Bard's house is a BBQ

[Jez]

I think you mean Bardbeque.


Question: What Skill Tests would you use in the following situations (still working out the system):

a) finding contacts within the smugglers who operate out of Laketown, and putting the word out requesting assistance in exploring the ruins of old Esgaroth.

(I'm used to D6 Star Wars' Streetwise skill)

b) fishing and trawling the ruins beneath the lake, and diving for trinkets spied from the boatside?

(I'm guessing athletics, no?)

[ThrorII]

Question: What Skill Tests would you use in the following situations (still working out the system):

a) finding contacts within the smugglers who operate out of Laketown, and putting the word out requesting assistance in exploring the ruins of old Esgaroth.

b) fishing and trawling the ruins beneath the lake, and diving for trinkets spied from the boatside?

a) Riddle (or perhaps the burglary Trait, as it covers all sorts of nefarious things).

b) you could use search (or the Keen-eyed trait), then athletics (or the swimming trait).

[Elmoth]

I would go for riddle as well. It covers veiled info and stuff after all, and you do not go out there asking who is a smuggler but implying things. Some kind of etiquette might also work there, or even craft if you are a nefarious type yourself.

Athetics for swimming, yup.

[Boneguard]

GB, Boneguard,

I've been off the Forums for a couple of days & only just read your requests.

Take a look at Issue 37 of The Hall of Fire:

halloffire.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Issue-37.pdf‎

It didn't take me long to convert this to my own variant of ToR, & you should be able to do so relatively easily.

I Finally got around to Download it. It Looks great and yeah seems fairly easy to convert to TOR or MERP for that matter.

The one thing I find odd, is the Title: "Here There be Dragon I :..." WAs/Is it intended to be a serial of dragon adventure?