D&D General Anyone Know an Adventure that Features an Eclipse?

[jayoungr]

I've had a request to do a suprise game for a player's birthday, which coincides with the upcoming solar eclipse. Does anyone know of any published adventures featuring an eclipse? If not, I can try to come up with something on my own, but I thought I'd see if there's something out there I can modify.

(Story suggestions are also welcome.)

 

[billd91]

I did a quick search on Adventure Lookup and found this list:

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Looks like the first one may be the only one to truly involve an eclipse as part of the adventure.

 

[J.Quondam]

Here's a search on DMs Guild of adventures on keyword "solar eclipse":

Dungeon Masters Guild - Adventures -

www.dmsguild.com

Only one pops up, "Child of the Eclipse," but it looks to be specifically about a total solar eclipse. (It's also PWYW.)

 

[R_J_K75]

IIRC, there is a source book for 2E called the Illithiad about Mind Flayers and had 3 supporting adventures that featured an eclipse I think.

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[jayoungr]

I did a quick search on Adventure Lookup and found this list:

Adventure Lookup

Adventure Lookup is a catalog of adventures for Dungeons and Dragons and its clones. We need your help to expand the catalog and ensure each entry is reasonably accurate. Simply create an account to start adding adventures or submit change requests!

www.adventurelookup.com

Fascinating--I know about that site, but didn't realize I could search for plot point keywords there. Thanks for checking it for me!

 

[billd91]

Fascinating--I know about that site, but didn't realize I could search for plot point keywords there. Thanks for checking it for me!

I think it's less plot keywords than words in the descriptive blurb or other keywords deliberately assigned to the adventure (which may be kind of spotty).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

A solar eclipse-centric adventure is a fun idea. The obvious hook, to me, would be someone with sunlight sensitivity or vulnerability knowing when the eclipse is coming and using that moment for shenanigans. (Drow or vampires are obvious choices here.)

And then there's the more epic route of someone pausing the eclipse right at its darkest, and potentially ushering in an era of very bad things. This is, I think, the plot of the 2E series of mind flayer modules, but it still works well with drow, undead or even extremely ambitious kobolds.

 

[R_J_K75]

I think, the plot of the 2E series of mind flayer modules

I haven't read the adventures since they came out in 97-98 but I think you are right, the mind flayers trying to turn the world into eternal darkness. I never ran or played them so I dont know how good they actually were

 

[comrade raoul]

Well, I CAN think of a story, though it's kind of a downer...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Man, now I want to create an adventure where kobolds use an eclipse to pull a daytime heist when guards aren't expecting them. If they dilly dally too long, they'll have to deal with daylight sensitivity issues (legacy kobold PCs, obviously) when making their escape.