Village Backdrop: Hard Bay (System Neutral)
A System Neutral Edition GM's Resource supplement by Greg Marks Hard Bay's fate has ever been tied to the sea. Although blessed with a natural¸ protected harbour and plentiful fishing¸ foul weather and a dangerous¸ unwholesome reputation have conspired to keep the village nothing more than a dreary¸ isolated place. A vein of smuggling and thievery ran deep through the village until the Sharkrazor pirates were crushed four decades ago. Now administered by three minor noble families¸ a darker horror than mere piracy lurks within the place. Rumours speak of strange fires set amid a circle of ancient¸ weathered stones atop a nearby shunned hill when the moon is new and of strange¸ abhorrent fishmen lurking in the abandoned¸ half-drowned smuggler tunnels beneath the ramshackle village.