Backstory Idea

Nantucket is a medium size city that acts as a trading hub for a near by port city (here after referred to as city2).

The port is very busy and sees a lot of goods shipped in and out of city2.

The road between Nantucket and city2 is through hostile wilderness. The forest and few mountains between the two cities offer tremendous hiding places for the evil creatures and people of the wilderness. For this reason all attempts to make the roads between the cities safe have been effective only for the short term and have been costly.

Because of this multiple roads between the two cities have developed to make it more difficult for would be ambushers to know what road travelers are using.

Merchants also hire caravan guards to protect their wares. The income from shipping goods overseas and bringing in foreign goods is too good to avoid and allows the merchants the finances to hire a competent guard.

Our party has made a name for itself in these tasks. The druid takes up these tasks to help fight the un-natural evil around his home city as the caravans make good bait. The hybrid nature of our party has helped us take on any encounter to date. The merchants like using our group because we have the abilities of a much larger group of guard without the added cost of more individuals.

From time to time our party takes on other type of work, such as rescuing merchants that have been taken in route, eliminating hostile groups who raid a little too often or set up their dens to close to the cities population.

One such job has just come our way. It is a caravan guard job, but to a place we have not been.

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So what do you think?

Possible reasons for the others to be part of our party.

Cleric - worshiping a god of nature. The jobs taken by the party lead to the cleric bringing divine justice to the evil in the wilderness, while protecting the good.

Druid - Gives him an opportunity to fight the un-natural on a regular basis.

Bard - The adventures themselves add to the subject matter of our bard’s songs and poetry. As well as getting to share and hear tales from both the port city, far away places and the merchants that travel by land to Nantucket to buy the wares from overseas.

Rogue/Fighter - Opportunity for adventure. Anyone can break into a place in the city to steal. It takes much more skill to break into a den of evil creatures that have horded the loot of caravans. Also the party comes across the remains of caravans which have not made the trip safely. It's a terrible loss of life and all, but that means the chests left behind by the attackers have no owners and are waiting to be opened by a new set of owners.

I figure this gives us a decent reason for being in a party together, while allowing each of us to have our own agenda. Having had these previous adventures we are already adept at working together which will be a must for us to survive our next adventure.