Rustic fantasy

[Brandnewbuddy]

So there’s a new TTRPG: legends in the mist, which has a fun narrative system but what got me thinking was how it focuses on Rustic Fantasy. I guess a short way of describing it is: rural fantasy with lower stakes.

So you ain’t saving the world but you might need to purify a spring. There’s no Dark Lord, but you might need to slap the asshole landowner and take him down a peg. There’s still danger but it’s either an ancient remnant of a long forgotten battle or just a few guys.

Anywho, that got me to thinking about some ideas.

1. Halfling farmers realize they could get more profit if they grew bigger fields and raised bigger animals but they’ll need a taller workforce to make it work: so they hire some humans or orcs to work the fields. Of course, bigger folk mean bigger other things and soon the halfling folk are noting their new neighbors…endowments

2. The town boys and girls come back from their adventuring days as men and women with spouses that aren’t the typical types found around the town: beaks, scales, leather wings, etc. can the town adjust to them and can the spouses adjust to the town?

3. Town’s got a brewmaster who’s rumored to be a wizard. Seems to be just a rumor but when he takes ill and his apprentice has to take over, apprentice finds the secret to the brew was making trades with fairies for special hops. But the fairies aren’t interested in gold, they traded for the wizard’s tongue and the custom sex toys he’d make for them. Now the apprentice is going to have to learn a life time of oral techniques in a day or figure out how to make a pixie sized sex swing before this year’s ale is ruined

 

[PennyThompson]

1. Halfling farmers realize they could get more profit if they grew bigger fields and raised bigger animals but they’ll need a taller workforce to make it work: so they hire some humans or orcs to work the fields. Of course, bigger folk mean bigger other things and soon the halfling folk are noting their new neighbors…endowments

"Urthank, why you work for short ones now?"

Urthank shrugs. "Pay good, take six meal breaks. No wolves, no fighting. Also, short women like Urthank cock."

"Short women? Pfft, too small."

"Thought so too, first time offered. But fits. Stretchy. Don't bite, don't scratch, just nice."

"Huh. Short ones need nuther ork?"

 

[Stephie02]

"Urthank, why you work for short ones now?"

Urthank shrugs. "Pay good, take six meal breaks. No wolves, no fighting. Also, short women like Urthank cock."

"Short women? Pfft, too small."

"Thought so too, first time offered. But fits. Stretchy. Don't bite, don't scratch, just nice."

"Huh. Short ones need nuther ork?"

Not a writer, but that's

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

On the other side:

“You believe these little men? Pay me top dollar just to wrap my titties around their heads. Which reminds me. Still breathing down there?”

*muffled “yes” is heard*

“…what? Made harness for them. I work two jobs at once!”

 

[Rob_Royale]

Sounds a bit like Skyrim when you don't play the Dragonborn storyarc. It's very low key, wander and do local quests and I like it a lot.

A halfling-human swinging arrangement sounds like a hell of a lot of fun though.

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

Yeah, honestly I like the little side quests in games like that. It’s nice to be doing something that lets you get to personally affect some characters. Yeah, saving the world benefits them, but not as personally as finding their lost kid, delivering a letter from a dead lover, etc.

Another idea: Dwarf craftsman has a problem: his tools are too well made. Once he sells them, they never break. It’s been peace time for decades and even if it wasn’t he’s not eager to make weapons. But he’s a craftsman, and it’s his calling

Then one night a caravan stops through town and it’s a travelling group of adult entertainers. He goes to one of their shows and while he isn’t directly aroused, he can’t help but notice the shoddy craftsmanship of their poles and other devices.

So afterwards he asks if he can fix or provide new supplies for them and by the next year he is known far and wide to be the guy to go to if you want anything from cock rings to sex swings.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Yeah, honestly I like the little side quests in games like that. It’s nice to be doing something that lets you get to personally affect some characters. Yeah, saving the world benefits them, but not as personally as finding their lost kid, delivering a letter from a dead lover, etc.

Another idea: Dwarf craftsman has a problem: his tools are too well made. Once he sells them, they never break. It’s been peace time for decades and even if it wasn’t he’s not eager to make weapons. But he’s a craftsman, and it’s his calling

Then one night a caravan stops through town and it’s a travelling group of adult entertainers. He goes to one of their shows and while he isn’t directly aroused, he can’t help but notice the shoddy craftsmanship of their poles and other devices.

So afterwards he asks if he can fix or provide new supplies for them and by the next year he is known far and wide to be the guy to go to if you want anything from cock rings to sex swings.

Add a little Dwarven magic to this?

 

[Brandnewbuddy]

“They call me Denkin the penetrator! …and not because of the weapons I make.”

“Now this here has a tiny furnace. If our little friend here starts getting warm, you better jump ship! Otherwise hold on to the ride of your life!”