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Rendezvous at

Ord Mantell

A Star WarsMiniadventure

By Andy Collins

DESIGN

ANDY COLLINS

In “Rendezvous at Ord Mantell,” the heroes help a stranded

explorer recover her crashed ship so that she can blast off

from that rough-and-tumble world and get on with some

sensitive business. But ﬁrst, they’ll need to overcome

uniformed thugs in a bar brawl, navigate rocky canyon

mazes, elude a Twi’lek bounty hunter, and deal with a band

of fringe-dwelling raiders.

“Rendezvous at Ord Mantell” is a Star Wars Roleplaying

Game adventure set during the Rebellion era and is

designed for four 1st- or 2nd-level heroes. A scout or

fringer would be especially useful among the characters, as

most of the adventure takes place in Ord Mantell’s wild

back country. This low-level scenario ﬁrst appeared in Star

Wars Gamer #1 but has been updated to reﬂect the revised

game rules.

If you plan to play a character in this adventure, don’t

read any further. The information below is meant for the

Gamemaster’s eyes only.

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Getting Started

By the beginning of the adventure, the heroes should be

acquainted with one another. Maybe some of them grew up

together (either on Ord Mantell or elsewhere), or perhaps

they served on a starship together. For the purposes of this

adventure, the reason isn’t important. If you want, you can

even run a “pre-adventure” scenario in which the heroes

meet each other for the ﬁrst time.

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Why Are the Heroes on Ord Mantell?

Particularly if this adventure forms the starting point for

your campaign, you might want to determine why the

heroes are present on Ord Mantell. Here are a few ideas:

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Fringers: Natives of Ord Mantell—especially those who hail

from the wilder areas of the planet—often fall into this class.

Alternatively, the fringer hero might have come to Ord

Mantell from an even more backwater world in search of

civilization.

Nobles: Any world needs administrators and ambassadors,

and though most legitimate nobles steer clear of worlds like

Ord Mantell, those interested or involved in illegitimate

activity ﬂock to the planet.

Scoundrels: Ord Mantell draws lawless characters of every

type, from gamblers to pirates to petty thieves. The hero

may be a native but more likely is a visitor to the planet.

Scouts: Pilots use Ord Mantell as a midpoint of journeys

through the stars. Hunters and explorers come to the planet

to investigate its wilderness.

Soldiers: Spacehands, bodyguards, mercenaries, and former

soldiers all frequent Ord Mantell.

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Tech Specialists: Pirates and pilots always ﬁnd uses for some-

one who can repair their equipment and ships. Tech specialists

who visit Ord Mantell can also acquire rare or illegal technical

gadgets from assorted outlaws and black marketeers.

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Force Adepts: As a wild, unexplored area, Ord Mantell

makes a ﬁne location for unusual or unique Force-wielding

characters. Its rocky backcountry might even be home to a

secret enclave of Force adepts.

imprisoned by a group of thugs working for a local crime

lord. Despite her injuries, Tosh escaped her crude cell and

ﬂed into the streets. At the same time, a group of raiders

investigating the crash site hauled away Tosh’s crippled

starﬁghter to sell for scrap.

The adventure opens as Tosh encounters the heroes in a

spacer bar, where they’ve gathered to look for work,

transport off-world, or perhaps even trouble. She needs

their help to get her out of town and to recover (and

repair) her ship.

Jedi Consulars and Jedi Guardians: Jedi of any stripe are rare

enough during the Rebellion Era to be unique visitors to Ord

Mantell. They might come here seeking rumors of others like

them, or while on the run from Imperial forces or assassins.

Customizing the Adventure

Though the scenario is designed for four low-level heroes,

it’s easy enough to adjust it for different power levels. If

you have fewer than four heroes, you can make Renci Tosh

(the “explorer” who asks them for help) a more active

participant in combat. With more than four heroes, or if the

average hero level is above 2, bump up the power level of

the opponents slightly. For instance, you can add one or

two thugs to the ﬁrst encounter, or increase the bounty

hunter to 3rd level. Don’t go overboard, though. The heroes

should be able to get through the adventure without much

“down time” required for resting.

Scene 1: A Fateful Meeting

Read or paraphrase the following text to the players:

You’re gathered together in Qexi’s, an absolute dive of

a bar ﬁlled with the dregs of the galaxy. Most of the

customers are Human, though a number of Rodians,

Sullustans, Bothans, and even a pair of Trandoshans are

present as well.

A woman interrupts your peaceful afternoon by slid-

ing into an open seat at your table. You didn’t see her

come in, and she isn’t dressed like a local—in fact, her

clothes look pretty expensive, though they’re spotted

with mud and torn in several places. You also notice

some recent bruises and scrapes on her arms.

Before you can open your mouths, she puts a ﬁnger

to her lips and glances furtively across the room. Then

she turns back to you and says in a low voice,

“Interested in helping out a girl in trouble?”

Adventure Background

Renci Tosh is a Rebel spy and recruiting agent.

Unfortunately, she suffered mechanical problems on her

most recent trip and was forced to crash-land on Ord

Mantell, not far from the frontier settlement of Great Rock.

As Tosh stumbled toward town, she was intercepted and

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Assuming the heroes are interested, Renci Tosh continues:

WHAT IF THE HEROES

DON’T TAKE THE BAIT?

“I’m a visitor to this world, and I seem to have fallen

afoul of the local crime element. I could use some help

getting back to my ship. I can’t pay you anything now—

I have no credits on me—but I can promise a reward of

500 credits apiece as soon as I get to my ship.

“If you’re interested, we need to get started right

away. Can you help me?”

An ever-present threat to adventures such as this one—where you,

the GM, present a “hook” designed to lead the heroes into the

adventure—is the possibility that the heroes simply choose not to

involve themselves in your plot. Eventually, you’ll be able to judge

what types of missions best suit your heroes (and your players),

but until that point (and even sometimes after it), sometimes

heroes just don’t “take the bait.” For instance, what if the heroes

turn down Renci’s plea for help?

In such a case, you have three options. The ﬁrst is to force the

players to involve their heroes despite their lack of interest. This is

probably the worst choice, as it breaks the suspension of disbelief

between the players and their heroes. If the players feel brow-

beaten into going on speciﬁc missions, the game just becomes the

GM telling the players what to do.

The second option is to accept their decision and let them veer

from your carefully crafted mission into other adventures. This is

all right, and sometimes it’s inevitable, but if you do this too often,

you risk wasting many hours creating plots, settings, and charac-

ters that never get used.

The third option, while the most difﬁcult, can be the most

rewarding. This boils down to keeping your heroes involved in the

adventure without them feeling railroaded into a storyline. In the

case of “Rendezvous at Ord Mantell,” there are a few options to

keep the heroes involved:

Renci claims to be an explorer who experienced mechanical

difﬁculties before crash-landing her Z-95 Headhunter in the

wilderness a couple dozen kilometers from town. She says

it’ll take at least a couple of days to get there. If the heroes

try to negotiate with Renci, a successful Diplomacy check

(DC 15) gets her to raise her reward to 750 credits each

(she’s desperate), but she won’t go any higher.

Renci Tosh, Female Human Scout 2: Init +2 (Dex); Defense

14 (+2 Dex, +2 class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 9/10 (currently 4/8);

Atk +0 melee (1d3–1,

unarmed) or +3

ranged; SQ

Trailblazing; SV Fort

+2, Ref +4, Will +4;

FP 1; DSP 0; Rep +0;

Str 8, Dex 15, Con 10,

Int 13, Wis 14, Cha 12.

Equipment : None.

Skills : Astrogate

+5, Bluff +3, Climb

+3, Hide +6, Listen

+7, Pilot +6,

Read/Write Basic,

Read/Write Rodian,

Search +5, Speak

Basic, Speak Rodian,

Spot +7, Survival +6,

Swim +3.

Feats : Alertness, Starship Operation (starﬁghter), Track,

Weapon Group Proﬁciency (blaster pistols, blaster riﬂes,

simple weapons).

• The same local crime lord who captured Renci targets the

heroes. This might require the heroes to get Renci’s help.

• The heroes keep running into the same thugs and choose to

leave town to maintain a low proﬁle.

• The bounty hunter Gida Luroon learns of the heroes’

contact with Renci and decides to include them in her hunt.

• An Imperial informant recognizes Renci as a Rebel and

believes that the heroes are also Rebels.

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Don’t get too heavy-handed with this option. For instance, a

bad way to manipulate the heroes would be to send a group of 20

thugs after them so they had no choice but to ﬂee town. Always

give heroes a choice of options, or at least the appearance of

choice. Even if it doesn’t matter what they do (and that should

only rarely be true), the players should always believe ﬁrmly that

their heroes’ actions control the outcome of the story.

Interrupted!

Just as the heroes complete the deal with Renci, two goons

wearing crude uniforms burst through the door into the bar

and start looking around. Neither Renci nor the heroes are

surprised; however, roll Spot checks for the thugs to see

Renci (DC 11). If either thug fails, he is surprised and can’t

act in the surprise round. (If no one is surprised, roll initia-

tive and move directly into the ﬁrst round.)

If the heroes don’t attack, the thugs rudely look for Renci

until they ﬁnd her, whether by spotting her or interrogating

bar patrons. When they ﬁnd her, they attempt to drag her

away. If the heroes try to stop them, they open ﬁre.

Renci doesn’t have a weapon and is injured, so she takes

cover and tries to hide during the ﬁght. If things go badly

for the heroes, she tries to grab a weapon from a fallen

character and defend herself.

The rest of the bar’s occupants avoid the ﬁght. Assuming

the heroes win, Renci insists that they get out of town as

quickly as possible.

Goons (2): Male Human Thug 2: Init +4 (Improved

Initiative); Defense 10; Spd 10 m; VP/WP 0/12; Atk +3

melee (1d4+1, unarmed with Martial Arts) or +2 ranged

(3d6, blaster pistol); SV Fort +4, Ref +0, Will +0; Str 13,

Dex 11, Con 12, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 9. Challenge Code A.

Equipment : Blaster pistol.

Skills : Intimidate +3, Spot +1.

Feats : Armor Proﬁciency (light), Improved Initiative,

Martial Arts, Weapon Group Proﬁciencies (blaster pistols,

simple weapons).

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Scene 2: Into the Wilderness

The heroes can linger in town if they want (or if they need

to pick up supplies), but Renci reminds them constantly

that they need to leave soon. If they remain in town too

long, another group of thugs or the bounty hunter Gida

Luroon (see below) comes to ﬁnd them.

Once the heroes are safely out of town, they must back-

track Renci Tosh’s original trail through a maze of rocky

canyons. She can ﬁnd the starting point—where the patrol

captured her a few hundred meters outside town—but the

heroes must follow her tracks back to her ship using the

Track feat along with Survival checks. The base DC is 20

(ﬁrm ground) +2 for the two days that have passed since

she made the trail, for a total DC of 22. If no hero has the

Track feat, Renci offers to do the tracking. She can take 20

and successfully follow her tracks.

The crash site is 20 kilometers away. Since the tracking

character must move at half rate to follow the tracks (or

suffer a –5 penalty), and the rocky terrain limits movement

to one-half normal, the heroes move at only one-fourth

their normal speed. This means that if the slowest hero’s

speed is 10 meters, they can cover 1.25 km per hour (or

about 10 km for eight hours of travel each day). If the slow-

est hero’s speed is 6 or 4 meters, they can cover only 6 or 4

kilometers each day, respectively. Thus, the trip requires 16,

27, or 40 hours (assuming they encounter no other delays)

of walking, plus one or more nights spent under the twin

moons of Ord Mantell.

Every hour of travel or rest, roll d% on the table below to

see whether the heroes encounter anything while traveling

through the canyons (add +10 to the roll at night). After

any encounter in which the heroes take their attention away

from the tracks, they must relocate the trail with another

Survival check (DC 22).

Along the way, Renci Tosh tries to feel out the heroes’

attitudes toward the Empire and the Rebellion. She tries not

to reveal her leanings, though a successful Sense Motive

check (DC 18) may indicate that her queries are more than

mere conversation.

Roll d% Encounter

01–50

None . The heroes don’t see or hear anything

unusual during this hour in the wild.

51–60

Hazardous terrain . The heroes encounter a patch

of dangerous terrain, such as quicksand, a thicket

of poisonous shrubbery, or an unstable hillside. If

one of the heroes is speciﬁcally looking out for

such dangers, a successful Survival skill check (DC

15) allows them to avoid it. Otherwise, they will

encounter the hazard.

Adjudicate the danger as appropriate. For exam-

ple, have heroes make a Dexterity check (DC 15) to

avoid falling 2d8 meters down an unstable hillside;

a Swim check (DC 15) to remain aﬂoat in quick-

sand; or a Fortitude saving throw (DC 12) to avoid

losing 1 point of Dexterity from poisonous thorns.

If the heroes aren’t moving this hour, treat as no

encounter.

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Rodian Savrip Hunter. This local hunter is following

the trail of a Mantellian Savrip, a deadly predator

unique to this world. Teerik hides on a ledge until he

determines the heroes’ intent (a Spot check of 18 or

better allows a hero to notice him). He’s not inter-

ested in ﬁghting the heroes and ﬂees if attacked. His

initial attitude is one of indifference, though if

approached peacefully (and if the heroes shift his atti-

tude to friendly or better with a Diplomacy check or

similar action), he gladly tells them what he’s doing

here and warns them about encountering Savrips in

the jungle. “Don’t let them grab hold of you, or you’re

done for,” Teerik warns. He’ll even share some of his

food if his attitude is changed to helpful.

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Twi’lek Bounty Hunter. Gida Luroon was just

about to leave Ord Mantell when she intercepted a

transmission regarding Renci Tosh’s escape. Hoping

to make a few credits, Luroon decided to track her

down and cash in on the (admittedly small)

reward put up for her. She has no idea of Renci

Tosh’s Rebel connections. Gida attempts to sneak

up on the heroes from behind. Allow each hero a

Listen check (opposed by Gida’s Move Silently

check) to hear her from about 12 meters away. If

the heroes fail, they can’t act during the surprise

round (during which Gida ﬁres on Renci Tosh with

her heavy blaster pistol set on stun). She only

needs to capture Renci Tosh, but she gladly takes

any heroes she can get, ﬁguring that she can get a

decent price for capturing those who are “aiding

and abetting” the prisoner’s escape.

Teerik, Male Rodian Fringer 1: Init +2 (Dex); Defense 15

(+2 Dex, +3 class); Spd 10 m; VP/WP 10/14; Atk +1 melee

(2d4+1, vibrodagger) or +2

ranged (3d6/19–20, sporting

blaster riﬂe); SV Fort +4,

Ref +3, Will +1; FP 1; DSP

0; Rep +0; Str 12, Dex 15,

Con 14, Int 10, Wis 13,

Cha 8. Challenge Code A.

Equipment :

Sporting blaster

riﬂe, vibrodagger,

camouﬂage gear

(+2 to Hide checks

in rocky terrain), 6

days of food,

canteen of water.

Skills : Climb

+5, Hide +6 (+8 in

rocky terrain),

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Mantellian Savrip. This fearsome beast is hungry

and looking for a meal, particularly one that walks

on two legs. Allow each side Listen checks (DC 15)

to hear each other. Anyone who fails the check

can’t act during the surprise round. If the Savrip

fails its check and the heroes remain quiet and

hidden, it may pass them by. Compare the result

of the Savrip’s Spot check to the heroes’ Hide

checks; if the Savrip’s check is less than the worst

Hide check, it doesn’t notice them.

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Wilderness Noises. Have each hero make a Listen

check (DC 15). Those who succeed hear noises

(animals chirping, rocks tumbling, a bird crying over-

head, or whatever else you want to include). These

don’t represent a threat, but they serve to keep the

heroes on their toes (or encourage them to let their

guard down after a few false alarms).

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