Last weekend I was away for a role-playing retreat with my old gaming group from high school (yes, from almost 40 years ago). We meet up once or twice a year and re-visit that imaginary world we started our rpg hobby in: the world of Aventuria of Germany’s most successful role-playing game, Das Schwarze Auge (the Dark Eye).

This time I dug out the opening scenario of the most famous campaign ever published for this game, the “Die Sieben Gezeichneten” (the Seven Marked) also known as the “Borbarad Campaign” after the main antagonist. As the game world has an ongoing history and metaplot, this campaign takes place in its past, which suits me just fine. It’s gonna be a long time until we manage to finish this campaign (if we ever do), but it was a great start and worked surprisingly well.

I created a version of the first adventure’s travel map in Campaign Cartographer and marked the steps of the heroes’ journey afterwards. Here they are for you to check out.


[Download the FCW File over on the Profantasy forum]