The Agon Fair by J. Scott Rumptz and Jason Goike is a role playing game supplement published by D-Verse Publishing, LLC. The supplement is theoretically aimed at D&D and its variants and derivatives but is fairly generic.
This is available for free from DriveThruRPG as a 7-page PDF.
The front cover also has some introductory text, saying that the setting device can be used in virtually any fantasy campaign that uses the SDCIWC system – D&D’s stats, which isn’t explained. It is a seasonal festival held in honour of the god Agon, the Roman god of the spirit of contests, although Agon can be replaced with another suitable deity. It is said to work best with attribute dice, but it is assumed that the reader will know what that means.
The remaining six pages are taken up with the contests, one per page. Each contest is based around a specific attribute. For each, there is a description of the contest, the NPC running it and their sales pitch. This is followed by the rules of the contest and what the NPC may say to a character who wins or loses. The rules describe what the contest entails, then how it can be resolved using attribute dice.
The Agon Fair in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and doesn’t need them. Navigation is fine. The text maintains a two-column full colour format, but often phrasing seemed to be awkward. Each NPC has a colour illustration of them. Presentation is good.
This isn’t a complete event and it isn’t intended to be. Each contest has enough details to use, but these could then be elaborated on with prizes, rewards and such, as well as perhaps other options. What it is lacking is an explanation of attribute dice; if a reader is unfamiliar with what those are, it’s difficult running it the way it is intended. Although aimed at D&D, this should be comparatively easy to adapt to other systems, especially if they, too, use a six-attribute system. The Agon Fair is a decent but not perfect little extra and it can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
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