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    Pipe-Weed - A Fiasco Playset

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    This document provides a setting and scenario for roleplaying as hobbits in the Shire of Tolkien's Middle-earth. It describes the Shire as appearing peaceful but hiding indulgent parties and petty disputes between hobbit families. It then gives suggestions for relationships between hobbits, locations in the Shire to roleplay, objects hobbits may interact with, and needs or goals hobbits could have to drive the story. The level of detail is meant to fully immerse players in everyday hobbit life.

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    Pipe-Weed - A Fiasco Playset

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    This document provides a setting and scenario for roleplaying as hobbits in the Shire of Tolkien's Middle-earth. It describes the Shire as appearing peaceful but hiding indulgent parties and petty disputes between hobbit families. It then gives suggestions for relationships between hobbits, locations in the Shire to roleplay, objects hobbits may interact with, and needs or goals hobbits could have to drive the story. The level of detail is meant to fully immerse players in everyday hobbit life.

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    This document provides a setting and scenario for roleplaying as hobbits in the Shire of Tolkien's Middle-earth. It describes the Shire as appearing peaceful but hiding indulgent parties and petty disputes between hobbit families. It then gives suggestions for relationships between hobbits, locations in the Shire to roleplay, objects hobbits may interact with, and needs or goals hobbits could have to drive the story. The level of detail is meant to fully immerse players in everyday hobbit life.

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    Pipe-Weed - A Fiasco Playset

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    Mark Dingle
    This document provides a setting and scenario for roleplaying as hobbits in the Shire of Tolkien's Middle-earth. It describes the Shire as appearing peaceful but hiding indulgent parties and petty disputes between hobbit families. It then gives suggestions for relationships between hobbits, locations in the Shire to roleplay, objects hobbits may interact with, and needs or goals hobbits could have to drive the story. The level of detail is meant to fully immerse players in everyday hobbit life.

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    Pipe-weed - A Fiasco Playset

    The Score
    The Shire -- the name conjures images of rolling green hills, serene walks through the
    countryside, and small but diligent hands working the good earth.
    But beneath the Shires veneer of peaceful, good-natured living lies an orgy of pipe-weed,
    overeating, and reckless pyromania. Lavish closed-gate garden parties are the toast of
    Hobbiton, thrown at the slightest whim by the Shires idle landed gentry. Ancient family
    disagreements fester amidst the revelry, waiting for a miscooked pie or misspoke
    pluralization (Proudfeet!) to provoke a storm of scorn and petty bickering. And at any
    moment, a senile wizard or a few besotted dwarves could wander into town, turning a mild
    afternoon of pipe-smoking into a life-threatening misadventure.
    Theres more to hobbits than meets the eye, and any day in the Shire is just a puff away
    from mischief and disaster.

    Movie Night
    Fellowship of the Ring (the parts in the Shire and Bree-Town at the beginning)
    Willow (especially the first half of the movie)
    Rankin-Bass cartoons (The Hobbit, Return of the King)
    The Hobbit, Parts 1, 2, & 3 (once its released)

    Relationships
    1 - Family

    1 - 3rd cousins twice removed


    2 - 1st cousins
    3 - distant but feuding relations (e.g. Bagginses vs. Sackville-Bagginses)
    4 - black sheep and favorite son
    5 - gaffer and tween
    6 - aging bachelor and adopted heir

    2 - Community

    1 - fence-sharing neighbors
    2 - rival party hosts/hostesses
    3 - born on the same day
    4 - freeloader and homeowner
    5 - tavern regulars
    6 - eccentric and gossip

    3 - Mischief

    1 - Shiriff and troublemaker


    2 - gardener and radish thief
    3 - young bucks
    4 - hiker and dog owner
    5 - squatters
    6 - old pranksters

    4 - Love

    1 - sweethearts
    2 - secret longing
    3 - old married couple
    4 - lovers from rival families
    5 - master and loyal servant
    6 - handholding buddies

    5 - Trade

    1 - pipeweed farmers
    2 - beer brewers
    3 - employer and employee
    4 - rich bachelor and poor farmer
    5 - innkeeper and stablehand
    6 - historian and blowhard

    6 - Outsiders

    1 - stranger and homebody


    2 - traveling musicians
    3 - Underhills from Bree-Town
    4 - letter carrier and recipient
    5 - Big folk and Little folk
    6 - wizards servant and meddler

    Locations
    1 - Hobbiton

    1 - a posh hobbit hole on Bagshot Row


    2 - Green Dragon Inn
    3 - a newly excavated hobbit hole
    4 - the farmers market
    5 - the well at the center of town
    6 - on top of a hill, directly above Bracegirdle Hall

    2 - Buckland

    1 - a hole in the High Hay, a 10-foot high hedge-wall


    2 - the Hay Gate, after the start of the last watch
    3 - the kitchen door of Brandy Hall, home of the Master of Buckland
    4 - an abandoned hobbit hole
    5 - a shuttered house in Crickhollow, near the High Hay
    6 - a shortcut through the woods

    3 - Western Hills
    1 - the mathom-house, the Shires museum
    2 - a granite statue of the mayor at Michel Delving
    3 - The Mill, a large water wheel
    4 - the crossroads at Waymeet
    5 - a naturally formed, bottomless cave
    6 - a hilltop overlooking the mayors garden

    4 - By the Brandywine

    1 - Brandywine Bridge
    2 - Bucklebury Ferry
    3 - The Golden Perch, home of the best beer in the Shire
    4 - a farmers vegetable patch in the Marish
    5 - a shallow pool on the western bank
    6 - a favorite fishing spot

    5 - Big Folk

    1 - the outer gates of Bree Town


    2 - a broken Big Folk wagon on the East Road
    3 - a ruined tower on a hill
    4 - an Elven camp, seen only at night from a distance
    5 - a wizards mark, scratched into a boulder
    6 - an empty campsite, full of over-sized gear

    6 - The Wilds

    1 - under a dead tree in the Old Forest


    2 - a troll den (abandoned?)
    3 - an ancient barrow
    4 - a desolate stretch of the East Road
    5 - a natural spring not shown on any map
    6 - hey derry-do, its Bombadil's house

    Objects
    1 - Heirloom

    1 - a tea set
    2 - a collection of 47 spoons
    3 - history book, with three pages torn out
    4 - a riddle
    5 - a walking stick
    6 - the Mayor's silk waistcoat

    2 - Food

    1 - a bottle of spirits
    2 - a jar of marmalade, almost empty
    3 - wheel of fine aged cheese
    4 - a non-descript bag containing mushrooms
    5 - a five-hundred year old pound cake
    6 - 200 servings of birthday cake

    3 - Animal

    1 - a lost cow
    2 - a mean, but blind, dog
    3 - a team of horses strapped to an empty cart
    4 - a pig named Petunia
    5 - a cat, the best mouser in town
    6 - a prized rooster

    4 - Treasure

    1 - riches from afar that no one has ever seen


    2 - a deed
    3 - a supposedly magic ring
    4 - a mithril shirt
    5 - a dwarven map, stained with beer
    6 - an elven sword

    5 - Goods

    1 - pipeweed crop
    2 - a borrowed woodax
    3 - a boat with a leaky bottom
    4 - a cellar full of preserves
    5 - a sharpened butter knife
    6 - a locked chest with no key

    6 - Peculiar

    1 - a Big Folk object


    2 - a mummified goblin head
    3 - a re-wrapped birthday present
    4 - a wagonload of fireworks
    5 - a beer barrel full of gravel
    6 - a dead Ranger

    Needs
    1 - To Escape...

    1 - the Shire
    2 - this dreadful party
    3 - the money I owe
    4 - my tiresome family
    5 - my grasping relatives
    6 - my overtight pants

    2 - To Prove...

    1 - that Im no coward
    2 - my gaffer was wrong about me
    3 - that wizards do eat babies
    4 - that you can get there and back again from here
    5 - that everything is bigger on a Big Folk
    6 - you are a direct descendant of Bullroarer Took

    3 - To See...

    1 - an elf
    2 - the inside of a rich hobbits house
    3 - my eleventy-first birthday
    4 - whats over the next hill
    5 - how much beer a Big Folk can swill
    6 - the look on the Old Tooks face

    4 - To Get Even...

    1 - with the hobbits living in my house


    2 - with the hobbit that stole my inheritance
    3 - with the dwarf that drank all the beer
    4 - for not being invited to the big party
    5 - for what they did to my flowers
    6 - for missing elevensies

    5 - To Win...

    1 - a golfing wager
    2 - a drinking contest
    3 - a fight against a Brandybuck
    4 - the respect of the Big Folk
    5 - the title of Handsomest Feet in the Shire
    6 - the vote for Mayor

    6 - To Get Off...

    1 - on a mess of pipeweed
    2 - on blowing the biggest smoke ring ever
    3 - with my attractive cousin
    4 - by eating Daisy Smallburrows special pie
    5 - by stuffing my belly (and pockets) at the party
    6 - with someone tall
    Hobbit Family Names:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbit_families
    Hobbit First Names:
    Male names tend to be one- or two-syllable corruptions of common English names, like Bilbo
    or Samwise.
    Female names tend to be names of flowers, like Lily or Rose.

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