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The Necropolis of Nuromen
OSR
Level 1
19 pages
0

The Necropolis of Nuromen is a modular quest designed to let the referee introduce a group of 1st level characters to the thrills of Underworld exploration as they attempt to unravel they secrets of the evil necromancerโ€™s lair and deal with some bandits, too. The Necropolis of Nuromen is set in a fantasy realm, beginning near the small town of Camlann Castle and leading adventurers to explore the sinister Necropolis of Nuromen. The narrative unfolds around Nuromen the Necromancer, who fell to ruin by dabbling in forbidden magic, leading to the downfall of his tower and the town known as Law's End. The adventure includes exploration of a haunted forest, encounters with various creatures, and a quest for lost treasures and magical artifacts hidden within the depths of the necropolis. To play this adventure you also require the BLUEHOLMEโ„ข Prentice Rules or the BLUEHOLMEโ„ข Journeymanne Rules. This is an updated Version of "Maze of Nuromen" from 2013.

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The Abyss Equation
5th Edition
Levels 6โ€“8
71 pages
0

๐๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ ๐๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ: ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐›๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐„๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง Embark on an unforgettable journey with an immersive 71-page adventure tailored for 6-8 Level characters, utilizing only this book and freely available SRD rules. Set foot in the idyllic town of Suncrop Hill, where mystery looms in every shadow and secrets lie buried beneath the surface. ๐’๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ ๐‡๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ Unravel the secrets of Suncrop Hill as you brave its hidden depths, confronting challenges that will test your wit and courage. โ€ข 6 compelling adventure hooks, for your players to be drawn into a web of intrigue โ€ข 6 intricately detailed locations to explore, from quaint taverns to ominous dungeons, each teeming with secrets waiting to be unearthed ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐Œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐€๐›๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐„๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง โ€ข 9 unique monsters, each more formidable than the last, as you fight to uncover the truth and emerge victorious โ€ข Each with their own strategic battle tactics, enhancing the thrill of combat for an even more immersive experience โ€ข 1 Multi-phased Boss fight that will force your players to be tactical in order to survive ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ญ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž? โ€ข 13 unique magic items to discover โ€ข 4 items with different rarity variants, reaching from uncommon to legendary, each with its own tantalizing power waiting to be wielded ๐ˆ๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐จ ๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž! ๐“๐š๐ค๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ. To aid in your quest, equip yourself with our meticulously crafted item and monster cards, perfectly sized for convenience and portability. โ€ข 24 magic item cards, the perfect handout to print and hand your players โ€ข 11 monster cards, with which you'll have everything you need at your fingertips

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Falcon's Peak
AD&D
Levels 1โ€“3
7 pages
0

Lord Falconโ€™s nest holds a new brood of evil. Falconโ€™s Peak is an AD&Dยฎ game adventure for 5-8 characters of 1st-3rd level. The party should include a thief and at least one experienced cleric; a ranger would also be of help. The use of stealth and silvered or magical weapons is advised.

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DDAL04-14 The Dark Lord
5th Edition
Levels 5โ€“10
25 pages
0

A four-hour adventure for 5th-10th level characters. The enemy is revealed, but time short and if you are not successful in your mission to Mount Baratok, love will never die. Part fourteen and the finale of Misty Fortunes and Absent Hearts. In an effort to locate the evil witch Esmae Amarantha, the party must work to enable a tarot card reading by Jeny Greenteeth, a quixotic hag. However, finding casters to aid Jeny in her ritual is its own ordeal, and even if they succeed, there is still the task of venturing to Esmae's ritual site and putting a stop to her plans.

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Snowbolds & Snowmen
5th Edition
Level 1
6 pages
0

You have travelled to the legendarily festive town of Hamlet Court for the world famous Midwinter festival. Youโ€™re not in town long before you discover that the previous night, the annual Villager vs. Kobold snowball fight turned violent, putting a dampener on the festive mood. Madam Mayor looks solemn as she asks you to investigate exactly what has turned the long peaceful Snowbolds violent. She suggests you head to their Snow Cavern and fix the issue before it ruins Midwinter

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Castles & Crusades I1 Into the Unknown: Vakhund
OSR
Levels 1โ€“2
26 pages
0

No introductions are necessary for I know well who you are, my intrepid adventurer. A weary traveler indeed. Have a seat, my friend, before you enter the Graffenvold and traverse its byways. Have you come here to rest, to leave the muddy tracks and sharp edges of the world behind? Is that, it my fine fellow? Or have you come to beat down the Lords of this Land and submit them to your will? Which is it fellow, the easy or the hard road you are after? I fear you have gone beyond yourself, and here in Inzae your mistake may be your doom. For beyond yonder door is a fearful world clinging desperately to life. Its denizens struggle against a vast array of malignant forces that seek to drag them deeper into the pits of the Maelstrom. And even here, in this backwater called the Reintier, you will find no respite from this meaningless and overwhelming struggle. So take heed traveler, take heed as you enter the Graffenvold, it will do you well to remember that this is a deadly world and lest you take care, you will be engulfed in its dying spasms. Traveling south in the goblin kingdoms is always frought with danger. So many will go only so far as the Baron's outpost, The Vakhund, The Watchdog Tower, and reside there in safety while merchants and others fare their way down the road. But what happens when the Vakhund is attacked by goblins, orcs and bandits? A princess is kidnapped, and only a dangerous trip into the dark, infested goblin kingdoms will reveal the answer. A Castles & Crusades adventure intended for 4-8 characters of levels 1-2, Vakhund: Into the Unknown marks Part 1 in the thrilling Death on the Treklant Trilogy and introduces the grimly realistic World of Inzae. Those brave enough to enter her Maelstrom and become heroes shall linger long in the halls of valor and memory.

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Tears for Twilight Hollow
3rd Edition
Level 7
49 pages
0

Tears for Twilight Hollow is about mystery, danger and deceit- the players seek a missing Paladin in an increasingly-troubled town, chasing clues around a village and through a valley only to discover that the Paladin's old friend long ago began worship of an evil S&M goddess. Betraying her friend and trapping her soul in a Devourer, a powerful extraplanar undead creature, the evil priestess continually parades the soul-bereft corpse of their fallen Paladin in front of the villagers in a show of 'sorrow', all the while gaining immense pleasure from the village's pain. Pgs. 62-110

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Flood Season
3.5 Edition
Levels 4โ€“6
28 pages
0

Wherein a solid plan to ransom captured wands turns sour for three friends and their employees, and a local luminary loses his tongue.

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The Room with Five Corners
5th Edition
Levels 6โ€“7
2 pages
0

This is an adventure for four 6th to 7th level PC's that may be completed in a single session. The Untamed are a street gang in a busy city. A recent change in leadership has transformed the members from pickpockets and second-story thieves into kidnappers for an inter-dimensional aberration named Xlrieh'oc. Their hideout is now a strange and wicked factory, capable of extracting the firm essence from a person; the process leaves the victim partly ethereal and their form no longer casts a shadow. Although most victims die during the procedure, those who survive are conscripted into the gang. The extracted essence is crated and shipped to the aberration's home plane through a breach between worlds in the hideout's backroom.

Dry Spell
3.5 Edition
Level 3
7 pages
0

An unusually severe drought in a remote area recently worsened dramatically when three lakes dried up almost simultaneously. The locals suspect foul play, and the foulest player they know is a bugbear named Relgore -- the leader of a highly successful group of humanoid bandits. Could he be seeking revenge for the militia attacks that recently dispersed his band?

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Terror in Freeport
3.5 Edition
Levels 2โ€“5
47 pages
0

This adventure can be used as stand-alone or continuing the arc started by Death in Freeport. Terror in Freeport leads the PCs deeper into the intrigue they began to glimpse in Death in Freeport. The investigation takes them from the corridors of power to the bowels of the underworld, with terrifying insights into who really controls the city. They discover that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign has its claws in the town's power elite, but thanks to some clever camouflage by Sea Lord Drac. they may not find out just whom the serpents control until it's too late. As the adventure begins, the PCs are contacted once more by a very nervous Brother Egil. He tells them that while staying with Lucius one evening, he awoke to find a burglar in the roomstealing a scroll. Egil is certain that the Brotherhood have penetrated further into Freeport than anyone imagines. He wants the PCs to investigate Milos's other ties to the city and find out what's being done about the temple of the Unspeakable One. The PCs search the cultist's lodgings and discover it has been carefully gone over, and several possibly incriminating books are missing. But the burglars overlooked one thing: a Tome with a diagram of the Lighthouse of Drac sketched onto the back page, marked with the letter V. Upon leaving Milos's lodgings, the PCs come upon a gang of orcs beating up a hapless messenger. They lend a hand, only to discover they've been tricked - the messenger makes off with Milos's book! A chase through the back streets leads them to the boarded-up building the y discovered in Death What they find isn't encouraging. There is a guard posted out front, courtesy of "V"- -Verlaine. head of the Captains' Council. Meanwhile, down below, the cultists continue to have the run of the caverns-โ€” in fact, they have been shipping their unholy relics to Verlaine's own home!

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Blinsky's Toyshop
5th Edition
Levels 3โ€“10
38 pages
0

Blinsky's Toyshop is our take on what happens to Blinsky and Piccolo during, or after the Curse of Strahd campaign. Blinsky, the toymaker in Vallaki with the cute monkey wearing a pink tutu, received a large inheritance from a long-time client. The client, Obtavius Swat, a retired adventurer and avid collector of toys, left his entire estate to Blinsky. The estate included coin, precious gems, art, and his collection of toys, some made by Blinsky and others he acquired during his travels. Blinsky used the fortune to pay a wizard to create a small island in the middle of Lake Zarovich, located just outside of Vallaki. He then paid masons and workers to build a fantastic new toyshop, which he designed to be an experience for both the young and old alike. Though the number of children in Barovia was increasing, mostly imparted to the devil Strahdโ€™s downfall, Blinsky wanted to touch the inner child of the adults in the city. He wanted happiness. He wanted smiles. He named the castle Blinskyโ€™s Toyshop of Marvels. One of the toys, a small silver tiara kept in a black satin-lined ivory jewelry box, was such a lovely piece. Blinsky couldnโ€™t stand the thought of leaving it in the box. He already had enough gold and losing the small tiara wouldnโ€™t be a large loss, so he decided to give it to his monkey โ€“ Piccolo (see Creatures of the Toyshop). He smiled at the thought of her running around in her pretty, shiny tiara. Sadly, as Barovian luck would have it, trapped inside the tiara is the sole of an evil gnome wizard named Aribetha Strangge. In his old age, Obtavious Swat forgot that he and his fellow adventurers used the tiara to imprison the gnomeโ€™s soul. Yesterday, when Blinsky placed the tiara on Piccoloโ€™s head, silver tendrils cascaded from the tiara and into poor Piccoloโ€™s skull, allowing Aribetha to control the monkey. Now, Aribetha has incapacitated Blinsky in the toyshopโ€™s tower, brought many of the toys to life, and imprisoned or killed many of the workers and customers. The adventure includes costumes (which the character may wear), Strahd Hand Puppets, and a possessed Piccolo.

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No Loose Ends
3rd Edition
Levels 3โ€“7
2 pages
0

No Loose Ends is a mini-adventure that has a single encounter, based on a group of orcs (or ogres based on level) setting up an ambush for the players by setting up a fake bridge that they attempt to collapse under the players before attacking. The cloak of elvenkind is optional, it is included only in the higher level adjustments. Pgs. 17-18

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The Haunting of Kincep Mansion
4th Edition
Level 12
24 pages
0

Long rumored to be haunted by eerie specters, Kincep Mansion has stood for years, mostly untouched by nearby townsfolk. Now something is preying on the local villagersโ€”something that comes from the house. Pgs. 46-69

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Tomb of Abysthor
3.5 Edition
Levels 2โ€“8
64 pages
0

Restore an Abandoned Temple Enter the catacombs near the desecrated Temple of Muir, Goddess of Paladins, and search for the lost tomb of Abysthor. Will your party be able to cleanse the evil that now inhabits these once-sacred halls, and recover the Stone of Tircople? Can your characters survive the traps of an undead sorcerer? Will your players discover the chamber of Living Rock and the secret power it holds? Adventure awaits! Gold and Glory! A fantasy adventure published for the D20 system, The Tomb of Abysthor is the first module in Necromancer Games Dungeon series and can be played as a stand-alone story or in conjunction with The Crucible of Freya and the forthcoming city supplement Bards Gate. What secrets lie hidden in the tomb of Abysthor?

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Esmerelda's Bodyguard
AD&D
Levels 6โ€“9
8 pages
0

En garde! "Go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!" A duchess recruits the party to deal with a monstrosity. Pgs, 60-67

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Dead Ends
5th Edition
Levels 4โ€“8
25 pages
0

Lowharborโ€™s residents vanish when they die. A cloud of sour black smoke chokes their corpses and, when it clears, all that remains is a dusting of salt. Something or someone is stealing bodies through magic ritual, and the townsfolk won't stand for it! Send your party into the dank sewers below their feet to root out the necromancer's den of swirling filth! Why should you get this module? Skulking horrors and excitable clerics! Seven brand new monsters, including a low level mythic statblock! New disease rules! A mysterious threat! Six hours of play! Lavish presentation! A fantastic adventure for 5th-level players! Dead Ends is best for 5th-level players. It might be a little tough, but still winnable, for 4th-level, and should be fine for anything up to 8th-level.

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OA1 Swords of the Daimyo
AD&D
Levels 1โ€“6
64 pages
0

From the log of the Leaping Dolphin: "110th Day: The gale nae stops for twa days. My ship is driven before it and the magus is as helpless as a wee babe. Akito names the winds tai-fun in his heathen tongue...." Drawn by the lure of aventure and riches, a crew of seamen sails valiantly into uncharted seas. In the squalid dens of the port districts, tales hint at a land of untold riches across the waves. But getting there is only the beginning. Across the waters lie Kozakura, a land of mystery and danger. There you will discover new cultures, strange values, secret powers, and fabulous terrors. For Kozakura is a land of Oriental Adventures. Swords of the Daimyo is the first module designed for use with the AD&D Oriental Adventures rule book. Swords of the Daimyo includes descriptions and maps of the island of Kozakura, detailed information and maps of Miyami Province of Kozakura, and a series of adventures to introduce old and new player characters to the intrigue of the Orient. This adventure book set contains three adventures: Over the Waves We Will Go Riders of the Black Temple Lord of the Black Temple TSR 9164

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GameMastery Module D0: Hollow's Last Hope
3.5 Edition
Levels 1โ€“2
19 pages
0

The town of Falcon's Hollow needs a miracle. The plague has come to the town of Falcon's Hollow, and not even the town's priest can abate its wretched course. With the coughs of the sick and the wails of the dying echoing through town, the local herbalist uncovers a cure, but she needs some brave heroes to retrieve the ingredients. Finding the cure means risking the dangerous Darkmoon Vale, infiltrating a witch's haunted hut, and delving the ruins of an abandoned dwarven monastery.

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Racing the Snake
3.5 Edition
Level 6
25 pages
0

A long-simmering merchant conflict has turned into a war of assassination, and the PCs are called in to prevent an attempt to murder the daughter of one of the merchants. They lead her yuan-ti would-be killer on an overland chase through a canyon called Ehlonnaโ€™s Scar, which contains surprises of its own.