Campaign: Saving the Munich's Strong Beer

This campaign takes part in the Olympiapark, Munich, Germany and can be used as a template for other locations.

This campaign has a #difficulty = 10.

Meet the players.

Jump to the next session.

Story

Session 1: Choosing the beer type

The party chooses which beer they are going to brew:

1. Dark beer equates to WODs with
   d6 + 3
   (4-9) reps and
   d3 + 3
   (4-6) sets, the exercises are primarily lower body.
2. Light beer equates to WODs with
   d6 + 3
   (4-9) reps and
   d3 + 1
   (2-4) sets, the exercises are primarily lower body.
3. Wheat beer equates to WODs with
   d6 + 14
   (15-20) reps and
   d3 + 1
   (2-4) sets, the exercises are primarily upper body.

The beer reps are considered as the reps count of the chosen beer likewise for beer sets.

Session 2: Gathering resources

The party needs to gather resources to produce the beer: malt, hops, and water. Checkout the map to see the locations of resources and the brewing location.

Hint: take gear that could help in carrying hops and malt.

WOD: Gather malt

Do beer sets of:

• 25m each side scythe (ruck) swings
• 25m no handles ruck carry to, back suitcase
• bonus: if sandbag taken less distance
• consequences:
  • scout reduction: more water and “punching” the mixture
• no effect:
  • armorer

WOD: Gather hops

Do beer sets of:

• 4ct overhead ruck full negative
• 25m no handles ruck carry to, back suitcase

WOD: Carry malt and hops

Carry resources relative to the tools taken:

• If rope taken, then can use handles.
• If sandbag taken, then can use straps.

Session 3: Gathering water

Tasks

• The party needs to gather 100 litres of water and at least 20 litres need to come from each pool.
• The party needs to bless at least 20 litres at Ruck Jesus.
• All the water needs to be carried to the silo. The containers are not permitted to touch the ground, otherwise the severity increases by 1 and is reset once filling up the container.
• Some passages or paths have a cost to proceed through them denoted by symbols on the map. The rucks/jerrycans can be grounded during the payment process.
• Any party member can choose to do a set with the additional weight of the full jerrycan to reduce the sets total by 1 for each successful complete set.

WOD: Toll: push ups

• roll
  d4 + severity
  sets
• roll
  d6 + 3
  reps

WOD: Toll: ruck squats

• roll
  d4 + severity
  sets
• roll
  d6 + 3
  reps

WOD: Ruck Jesus

• exercise: ruck/jerrycan high pulls
• party #members + severity sets
• roll
  d6 + 3
  reps
• each party member needs to do at least one set of jerrycan high pulls

WOD: Toll: bear complex with ruck

• roll
  d4 + severity
  + severity sets
• roll
  d6 + 3
  reps

WOD: Toll: ruck lunges

• roll
  d4 + severity
  + severity sets
• roll
  d6 + 3
  reps

Session 4: Getting more Water

Tasks

• Fill up a 60 litre sandbag, this will represent the water.
• Water is only gathered at the amphitheater by the bear and cannot be carried on the shoulders in liquid form and cannot be carried by more than one party member at a time.
• The party can freeze the water by either doing a WOD and can reduce the severity by handing in a Polar Plunge event.
• The sandbag is then carried from the amphitheater to the silo.
• If symbolically no water in the sandbag, any form of carrying is permitted.
• Repeat the carry + WOD + carry AMRAP in 90 min.

WOD: Freeze water

The freeze water WOD is an optional WOD that grants the party the ability to carry the sandbag on the shoulders.

The WOD uses equations to calculate the energy needed to freeze the volume of the sandbag from the current exterior temperature. It factors in the expansion factor of water as it freezes thus putting more pressure on the container.

• T = the current exterior temperature in °C
• freezer = roll
  d10
  freezer power
• m = mass of water (in grams) which is 60,000 g
• Cwater = specific heat of water (4.186 J/g°C)
• Lfusion = latent heat of fusion for water (334 J/g)
• Cice = specific heat of ice (2.1 J/g°C)
• Q = total energy to be removed
• Q = m * Cwater * T + m * Lfusion + m * Cice * |freezer|
• Q = m * (Cwater * T + Lfusion + Cice * |freezer|)
• 1 J = 0.2390057 cal
• Qexpand = Q * 1.1^(|freezer|)

Table for A = m * Qexpand * kcal

Table for B = 1000 * Q / m

Use the basic calorie calculator on Munich Rucking Crew website for time of 2 hours on each team member and sum over them to get C.

The exercise factor ex = max(A * B / C, 1), which shall both be applied on sets for the exercises.

If using Polar Plunge ability then reduce the exercise factor by 1, so ex = max(A * B / C - 1, 1).

The exercises are:

• 10-20m forward crab walk with ruck
• 10-20m bear crawl with ruck
• 10-20m backward crab walk with ruck
• 10-20m duck walk with ruck

The sets are (d4 + severity) * ex.

Session 5: Acquiring brewer’s yeast

Tasks

• The party chooses between fetching the yeast or buying the yeast.
• After the choice is made, present the task. Optionally, each party member can sacrifice 1 Insight to hear the tasks of the other option and can choose it instead.
• The yeast is fetched from the neighboring kingdom, the Nymphenburg.
• The yeast is bought by doing a set of mini quests.

WOD: Fetching yeast from the Nymphenburg Kingdom

Ruck to Nymphenburg fountain and back to the silo, ca 10 km.

WOD: Buying yeast

The party does a star course with each waypoint being a checkpoint.

They are:

Distance is about 5 km.

Mini-WOD: Buy yeast at the market

• Animal
• Legs
• Lower
• Core

Mini-WOD: Produce yeast

The party needs to go to the library and research how to produce yeast.

The party can encounter a random encounter between each checkpoint.

The party needs to go to the apple trees and do 20 * #members apple pickers. One party member will offer up their ruck (cycling through all members) to use as the apple basket.

The party needs to go to the chemist who extract the yeast from the apples.

Now with the yeast bring it to the silo.

Session 6: Starting the cooking

WOD: Cooking the mixture

This WOD exists out of 3 Mini-WOD and is time capped at 90min. It requires sandbags and are capped at a quantity of S = ceil(#members/2). The weight for the sandbags are flexible, though it is recommended to use at least 40#.

Mini-WOD: Carrying logs

Carry 50 * #members lbs of gear at least a mile.

Mini-WOD: Start the fire

If only 2 #members, then do 20m of bear crawl ruck pull.

If more than 2 #members, then do 5 rounds all with ruck of high plank and low crawl through. This means #members - 1 members line up in a high plank position and the other member low crawls under the high plank. Both exercises are done while wearing a ruck.

Exercises with types:

• Low crawl (animal type exercise)
• High plank (core type exercise)

Mini-WOD: Keeping the fire going

S = ceil(#members/2) members do 20m of sandbag throws with ruck on and the rest do high plank with lateral ruck pull throughs. Create groups of 2 and maximally one group of 3. The group of 3 should have a shifted start meaning one of the sandbag throwers will initially only do 10m while the other does the complete 20m. This is to cycle through all group members quickly.

Exercises with types:

• 20m sandbag throw (lower and upper type exercise) with ruck
• high plank (core type exercise) with lateral ruck pull throughs (upper type exercise)

Session 7: Building the beer barrel

Tasks

• Choose between fetching or manufacturing the barrel. Each comes with its own WOD and potential side effects on the upcoming session.
• Both WODs have a time hack of 90 min. This can be extended by the Scout after the time has run out. Each minute longer causes 1 severity.
• The time starts once the decision has been made.
• After the choice is made, present the first item of the task. Optionally, each party member can sacrifice 1 Insight to hear the first item of the other task and can choose it instead. The time hack is not stopped for this option and priming is permitted.

WOD: Fetching the barrel from the Nymphenburg palace

• Go to the Nymphenburg palace with an empty jerrycan.
• Fill up the can.
• Carry it to the silo and empty it.
• It is not permitted to touch the ground and will cause 1 severity.
• It is not permitted to be carried on the rucks. This feature can be bought at the kingdom with each party member doing one set of bear complex with ruck and can. The reps equate to the beer reps and sets to #members.

WOD: Building the barrel

The party does a mini star course and a longer Mini-WOD.

1. Go to the library to get a book (jerrycan) on how to.
2. Go to the market to get the metal binds.
3. Go to the forest and pay the sawyer to get planks.
4. Craft the barrel by doing a Mini-WOD.
5. Bring the jerrycan to silo.

The GM can choose to have step 3 and 4 separate or combined as in the Mini-WOD.

Mini-WOD: Library

Mini-WOD: Market

Mini-WOD: Manufacturing the barrel

• Each quantity of planks needs to be carried 250 m to the metal ball within a time hack of 2 min. Every started 5s on failure increases the friction factor F by 1.
• Each quantity of planks needs to be thrown over the metal ball at least T = 6 - planks amount or T * 2m sandbag throw.
• The friction factor reduces the distance for the carry, instead one will do F * 5m bear crawl to the start of the new carry, and it resets each round.
• All exercises should be done with ruck on.
• All extra planks reduce severity by 1.

Outro

Session 8: The silo tank is about to burst

Session 9

Session 10

Resources

Dark beer

• brewed at 4-9 °C (Unterhefe)
• uses more varieties of malt compared to light beer
• Munich dark beer

Light beer

• brewed at 4-9 °C (Unterhefe)
• uses less varieties of malt compared to light beer
• Light beer (Helles)

Wheat beer

• brewed at 15-20 °C (Oberhefe)
• Wheat beer (Weizen)

References

• Water freeze time calculator
• Water freeze volume expansion
• How to make carbon dioxide