Communities: Rural Villages

Rural Villages

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Rationale for the City’s Existence
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Who Runs It?
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Significant Locals
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A Current Pressing Problem
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Local Likely to Interact with Adventurers
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Interesting Things the Place Can Offer Heroes
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d12	Result
1	Once a garrison outpost of a nation
2	A mine or quarry, perhaps now exhausted
3	A spot where refugees of a calamity settled
4	Holy ground or a temple to a particular faith
5	A plant or animal grows very well here
6	It’s a safe waypost on a trade route
7	Refuge for a despised minority or group
8	A bandit camp that went legitimate
9	A self-ruled home for demihuman residents
10	It’s a safe base for salvage or ruin plundering
11	Decayed remnant of an ancient city
12	It grew up around a lordly manor or estate

d12	Who Runs It?	Significant Locals	A Current Pressing Problem
1	A hereditary headman	The village harlot	Vital food stores have been lost or stolen
2	A reeve picked by a lord	The worst local bully	Two families are in a long-running feud
3	A temple representative	A gifted young peasant	A new religion is making trouble with the old
4	A council of elders	A half-savage shepherd	The lord’s reeve has been given unreasonable quotas
5	A cruel and feared bully	A charismatic priest	An upstart newcomer is disrupting the native hierarchy
6	A popularly-chosen chief	A major landowner	A socially marginal family is suspected of crimes
7	A dreaded sorcerer	A youth who wants out	A dangerous beast or foe is lurking near the place
8	A pragmatic warlord	Venerable old farmer	A local bully and his friends are causing trouble
9	The richest native there	Criminal in rural hiding	The crops or herds are in very poor condition
10	A traditional squire	Native hedge mage	An ambiguous land dispute is getting bloody
11	A patriarch or matriarch	A noble’s local reeve	A curse or magical woe is vexing the people
12	An organization’s envoy	Important artisan	Noble quarrels have caused collateral damage

d12	Local Likely to Interact with Adventurers	Interesting Things the Place Can Offer Heroes
1	An ambitious local who wants to get to the city	An unusually large amount of saved coinage
2	Social outcast who can’t ask any local for help	Valuable local specialty product
3	Gentry who wants no local gossip about their need	Heirloom magic item passed down to the leader
4	Ex-city dweller eager for contact with the worldly	A magical service unique to a local tradition
5	Comparatively rich villager with a need	A map or secret leading to a Deep or plunder site
6	Starry-eyed young local swooning for adventurers	A temple with potent healing magics available
7	Village priest in need of outside help	A secret treasure acquired generations ago
8	Reeve who can’t reasonably call on natives for a job	Large amounts of produce or local products
9	Village leader who wants expendable help	Ownership of an abandoned farm or structure
10	Burly local militiaman who watches new faces here	Contacts with rural bandits or criminal rings
11	Shifty native who wants some clueless accomplices	Favors from the lord who’s very fond of the village
12	Clan patriarch who doesn’t want to use their own kin	Young locals willing to take service with the party

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