By Nate Treme
Highland Paranormal Society
The Vanilla Game level 1
Premise: Wandering through the forest you come upon a lost cairn, the burial place of a long dead elf king.
What do we get here?
This is a very simple opening one shot that covers 10 rooms in a single html file.
Usability/formatting
Everything you need is provided here from monsters to treasure. The map is simple but more than enough to get you going.
Room descriptions do not overstay their welcome and are easy to parse. Text is not long enough to need splitting up into bullet points or require bolding to make things stand out. Most of the rooms have something fun going on in them and the NPCs are more than just meat bags to kill. Nice public domain art is used to break up the blocks of text.
About the only change I would want to make is the opening trap seems a bit too likely to TPK so I would lower the damage on that one.
Portability
This adventure does the classic trick of being generic fantasy while being memorable by having plenty of character. As long as you have elves and a forest you can easily plop this down into an existing world. I might make one or two flavour tweaks to run this myself however it is fine as is.
Recommendation
This is a really strong example of a starter adventure you can get through in one night, you could run it as an introductory one shot or use to kick off a campaign. Pay what you want on itch.io, can you really go wrong with free?
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