Please suggest an adventure for 1 shot D&D introductory game.

[S'mon]

No, I'm OK with kobolds. But there are ONLY kobolds. Look at Robot Chicken game:
- talking door
- magic trap with statues and magic ballista
- stirges
- skeletons

Thats diversity!

But still that adventure is considered to be good by everybody.

DD #1 has traps, alchemical items, a dragon, and lots of different sorts of kobold.

 

[Quickleaf]

30 year old video game designers into the fantasy genre? Nah, they probably won't like D&D

If you have something in mind for an adventure theme but aren't sure about the particulars or dont find something you like out there already... you could always throw it out to ENWorld - there are some great game designers here.

If they're mostly Russian I would draw on at least one monster from Slavic myth like a likho (reskinned hag or goblin witch), rusulka (a type of minor female vampire), or vodyanoi (reskinned kuotoa). And Koschei could be the main villain...actually he would make an awesome solo fight!

 

[Obryn]

I've dm'ed a couple adventures Flickr: Chr0n3's Photostream , but still not experienced enough to design from scratch.

Need help in choosing a nice adventure to run 1 shot game, through which I want to introduce D&D to my friends.

Ideally it should consist of 3-4 not very long encounters, can be finished in 3-5 hours, target 1st level characters. Battles should not be too complicated, they'll just start to play D&D. I guess it should feature more iconic and known monsters, and less fancy creatures. We're all adults around 30s and familiar with video games.

My best choice for now is a free SlyFlourish's advenure he made for the Dungeon Master championship at this year's PAX East. Gravemyst.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/slyflourish_content/gravemyst.pdf
But it's level 8, so I wonder will it suit noobie players even if scaled down? Will it be easy enough for them. I mean battles.

I also like Chris Perkins' short adventures he made for Robot Chicken and some British guys very much. But clearly they're not published and I couldn't pick them up directly from videos...

So if you could just point to your personal favorite adventure for that kind of game or give any other suggestions, I will be very thankful. Or even just places to look for this kind of SHORT adventures.

I'm trying to share great D&D experience with more cool people. Oh, and they're russian game developers, by the way...

update: other problem I have is that in many adventures of this kind there's almost only 1 type of monsters. They're all kobolds, or frogs or goblins or vampires. But I want more diversity. Also one puzzle encounter is highly appreciated!

You can always snag Bloodsand Arena from the WotC site. It's a fun intro to Dark Sun, with pregens.

-O

 

[Baz King]

Hi,

I have rewritten Coppernight Hold in light of the Essentials releases. Its 3 encounters, level 1, and contains a puzzle type encounter. Sorry, there are kobolds too!

I heavily altered the 'look' of the delve, and have had nothing but positive responses to it so far.

Head to my blog at Treehouse: | Applied Roleplaying Games and look under the Free Stuff page. Its at the bottom.

 

[Quickleaf]

[MENTION=71259]Baz King[/MENTION]

Nice work. I like the website overall, did you just set it up?

 

[Chrone]

I heavily altered the 'look' of the delve, and have had nothing but positive responses to it so far.

Cool, thank you!

Can you tell me, which tile sets should I buy to be able to construct those encounters? I wonder if only Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The Dungeon would be enough. Or maybe you have some suggestions on that? I have erasable flip-mats but want something more special for that game...

Also I assume that all monster's stat blocks can be found in Compendium. Is that right?

Sorry for my poor English and thank you again.

 

[S'mon]

I'm planning to run Barrow of the Ogre King from the Forgotten Realms 4e Campaign Guide as a one-shot next Monday. It has 5 encounters so may be a bit long for the 3-hour time slot; I'm halving all monster hit points, which should help, and depending on timing I might drop the 4th encounter.

 

[Baz King]

Cool, thank you!

Can you tell me, which tile sets should I buy to be able to construct those encounters? I wonder if only Dungeon Tiles Master Set: The Dungeon would be enough. Or maybe you have some suggestions on that? I have erasable flip-mats but want something more special for that game...

Also I assume that all monster's stat blocks can be found in Compendium. Is that right?

Sorry for my poor English and thank you again.

Hi,

Yes, all the tiles are from the basic Dungeon set. All the monsters are from the Monster Vault, so they will be in the Compendium too.

And your English is fine!

Cheers,

 

[Baz King]

[MENTION=71259]Baz King[/MENTION]

Nice work. I like the website overall, did you just set it up?

Hi,

Thanks! No, its not new. I've been an infrequent poster here and a frequent blogger there!

Cheers,