What sort of epic quests would a party of peasants embark on?

If warhammer fantasy has taught me anything, they don't

>Someone cut the rope of the bucket in the Well
>Are you, your half brother, your cousin and Smelly Stan manly enough men to go down and get the bucket back?

Are there slaughterfish in the well?

Who can say? You, after you go down there and fetch that bucket.

There's a draught ruining the village crops. Find out who/why/how and put an end to it.

Alternatively, you can travel through forest to the next village where bucket make dwells and humbly ask of him a new bucket. This merely a two-day's trek.

Famine: The Quest for Grain

The local minor member of the aristocracy has gone mad from reading too much Chivalric fiction and set off to be a knight.

He's always been kind to the peasantry, and bringing him back would doubtless earn some favour. Of course, it wont be easy and you'll inevitably be roped into his misadventures.

But you may end yourself governor of an island. High risk high reward

An intrigue campaign. Find the witch. Then burn her.

>Famine: The Quest for Grain
The core game is kinda bleak, I would strongly recommend getting the first expansion Potato Pilgrimage

>posting this caused me to write a ten chapter outline for a campaign arc (this is in the first third)

> Nine months after an Orcish Bard went through town, your daughter has given birth to a Half-Orc! You are furious and demands justice! Are you bad enough to hunt down the lecherous Orc Bard?

this sounds fun, the PC's would be trying desperately to use any method to bring him back, persuasion, seduction, reverse psychology, intimidation, even force, but since they're just sucky peasants they keep failing, then the knight tells them about a secret whatever he's decided he is destined to obtain, and until he finishes he righteous quest he will not return

then the inevitable 'oh shit' moment when he gets crushed by a falling rock the minute after they finally aquire the forbidden whatever in the forgotten temple of so and so

>>Your cow has gone missing. It looks like someone may have even let it out of the paddock deliberately! Round up your friends and prepare, you really can't afford to lose her.

This one has endless potential.

Or when he loses a fight agaisnt a priest dressed in black armour and then dies of sadness.

>Christian and his brother Karl are usually inseparable, so when Christian returned to village alone, people took notice.
>It turns out the two had been hunting near the old mill, and about a month ago, ran afoul of a Troll that was living there.
>In exchange for not being eaten, they promised the Troll three goats.
>Thinking they outwitted it, they left the Troll and continued on.
>Well this afternoon, while travelling the mill road, the Troll caught them and is now sitting on Karl until his brother returns with the goats they promised.

Something upstream is polluting the river.

A peddler of fake potions sold his wares in town and now everyone is getting sicker.

The annual competition between various hamlets is held. The main event? Who can bring back the most impressive game from the woods.

Crops are plagued by disease this year and famine is starting to set in. There is one readily available food source; meat from the boars in the King's wood. Hunting on the nobles ground illegally is punishable by death.

Half dead and dragged by the stirrup of his mount a Knight enters the village. He has an important war related message for the semi-popular King, sealed in a golden case. He entrusts it to the villages Alderman then passes away.

A boy/girl receives a message that a relative of thier's has passed away. They need an escort to city where they will inherit money / enter a family trade.

You mean 3 months. Gestation period for these little nippers is much shorter.

Also, you mean "find a paladin" who will hunt down the orc bard for you. You're too busy sowing, reaping, milking and whatnot to leave your farm.

>Not Starving to death
>Not dying of plague
>Reading

Cleaning out the rats in the tavern cellar.

Killing a cat.

Gathering a few friends and hunting down a lone goblin and failing spectacularly a few times before you succeed.

Going to slay Trogdor the Burninator obviously

So just Don Quixote?

>Reading

Now that one's just unrealistic.

It's 1095 and you're marching towards Jerusalem with tens of thousands of other peasants and some knights. Are you tough enough to survive the trek and avoid dying in the siege?

Crops

Go full Hidden Fortress: Have the peasants be the only ones who can escort a princess through enemy territory during a devastating war.

None of your players'll see it coming.

A Peasant's Quest of course
You saw a dragon. It covered you with BURNINATION

i once had the idea of running a game based on werewolf the card game. player are peasants trying to uncover who is the Alpha werewolf, to kill him during the day, cause they cant at night. and during the night they try to survive his underling

A minor noble is riding around the country side, trying to find the best village so he can give out a boon. Your quest is to make your village the most: safe, hospitable, and prosperous

>Always get a werewolf on my first lynch when I play this IRL
>My face when I always get murdered the first night

Fuckers need to hide their shit better.

>The Landlord's Son is visiting and hitting on your woman!
>What will you do?

dealing with the local wolf problem.

Better hope you're not an uber-incompetent khajiit, if there are.

A quest to slay a single lion that has been harassing their small community, which turns out to be TWO lions.

underrated post

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Tending to my fucking fields.

>Getting prized village's enchanted scarecrow back after it was stolen by another village's inhabitants
GIVE US BACK OUR BUCKET MODENA
Lolno
>2000 dead

This was a real thing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket

>Cleaning out the rats in the tavern cellar.
This story made me kek

It may be a bit off-topic, but I once played in a peasant-themed Fallout campaign. It was basically Seven Samurai, but in the setting of Black Isle's FO.

It started at the end of a raid on our village. Raiders went full berserk because we couldn't pay their "toll". They've taken our cattle and food supplies and set the house of our Village Elder on fire. Because we couldn't survive another visit from raiders, Elder decided to send some peasants to nearest trade-town in order to hire strong warriors who can protect us.

It was pretty fun. It is pretty amazing how much creativity you start to put in your actions when you are very limited in your power. Shame it didn't last very long

Who will be the best wrestler at the summer fair and impress the miller's daughter?

The BEST Quest.

I guess you could say that war was a bunch of bologna.

>Gathering a few friends and hunting down a lone goblin and failing spectacularly a few times before you succeed.
I too watched Grimgar.

To a deliver a cross to the Holy City in order to save their village from the plague

Wasn't there that one D&D oneshot where you hunt for a stolen pig?

A wild boar has wandered out of the Lord's forest. Fucking catch it before it escapes so you can eat it without being hanged for poaching. Also your arms only with pitchforks.

>draught
>blame whoever left the gates open so that things got chilly...
Perhaps you meant drought (as in lack of water for irrigation)?

>Not immediately thinking it's a draught beer
>Everyone got shit-faced and the chickens got into the grain store when a passing vagabond with a sword calling himself an "adventurer" decided to have his way with the baker's second daughter in there and left the door ajar.
It begins with the lynching of a vagabond rapist led by the baker, even though his daughter is screaming "Stop, I love him!"

>peasant drinking beer in the middle ages

user...

Can you blame the guy she does have some pretty nice buns

Source on image?

Fighting over the last piece of bread

The cats have rebeled. Flee from your certain doom.

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this reads like an oglaf strip

>What sort of epic quests would a party of peasants embark on?

Delivering grain taxes to the local lord.
Avoiding getting killed by the plague.
Trying for lucky child number 15.
Hiding from an army of invading huns/vikings/rebels.
Rebuilding their ravaged homestead.
Surviving the famine when there's a drought.

user what

Take a letter to the local knight because foreigners keep burning your farms and raping your daughters

Ale, along with bread, was an important source of nutrition in the medieval world, particularly small beer, also known as table beer or mild beer, which was highly nutritious, contained just enough alcohol to act as a preservative, and provided hydration without intoxicating effects. Small beer would have been consumed daily by almost everyone in the medieval world, with higher-alcohol ales served for recreational purposes. The lower cost for proprietors combined with the lower taxes levied on small beer led to the selling of beer labeled “strong beer” that had actually been diluted with small beer. For many medieval people, ale was healthier than the local drinking water, which was often contaminated by bacteria, whereas the ethanol in ale kills bacteria. In some places even children drank it.

sarahwoodbury.com/what-did-medieval-people-drink/

I'm surprised that with all the weird edible shit we made up or found, nobody had ever thought of boiling water before drinking it was enough. Or, I mean, surely they had realised at some point nobody got ill from soup or herbal teas? But then I guess just water wasn't nutritious or tasty enough.
Also, people in some places still do it for kids here. Instead of syrup in their water, they get red wine. Isn't that just nice?

Well its not that easy to cook water with just wood all the time, especially when you are working in the fields. Having a few bottles of beer with you is just easier. And wood was to precious to throw it away on water that tastes like shit anyway

Magical plague upon their potato farms caused by fae/local druids.

Goblin raid parties/nearby lair, no heroes in sight, no adventurers want to give a crap. There's not even woman-tied-to-a-shield edgy magical realm.

Strange trading gypsy caravan comes, they seem as creepy as potentially beneficial with their exotic wares they're willing to sale/trade. Village leader is concerned though and wants someone to investigate. Maybe they're cultists, maybe they're refugees from faraway land (chased by something?), maybe they're something more rare and otherworldly.

Milk gets sour, domestic animals ill, children lack energy. Evil is afoot. Journey to the hut of a magical practitioner living in the forest to seek his council and help. Maybe he knows what's up? Or maybe he's already gone, no one has seen him in quite a bit. Or maybe he's the cause?

Duck!
She is made of wood just like a duck!

>everyone one pretty chill about the investigation for about three daysthen someone said witch and now half the village has killed itself in a magic-fearing frenzy
>like always