Heading North was designed for beginning players. Trained and supplied in the large city of Rockcliff, PCs are encouraged to venture north into the endless forest. Easy encounters with spiders, weasels, and scorpions provide courage and experience, while encounters with awakened trees and shrubs introduce the PCs to the world of magic and sorcery. Weeks of travel are easily filled with encounters with jackals, hyenas, and blights, and with these encounters come experience points and treasure. Until, finally, the PCs enter the Forest Glade. There they encounter MOS Devils that are, at least, as powerful as the PCs. A riddle on how to rid the world of the MOS Devils could supply more experience points, but it's not required. Moving on through the forest brings the PCs to their first RP encounter where they can either make eight allies or eight enemies, if they make allies than the benefits acrue immediately with an encounter with a kobold and a goblin, who carry real important treasure. If the PCs made allies, then they are led to the dungeon under the bridge, and if not, they may well walk right past it, but still encounter the Melsahog. Even worse, if they do not make allies, they will be captured in or around Yellow Meadow Village by the Thug and his bandits. However, if they do make allies, they stand a good chance at locating the weapons horde in the dungeon under the bridge, and they will have months to train and prepare the villagers for a battle with the Thug and his bandits.
