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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 9631460" data-attributes="member: 54629">Found it! It's called "Them Apples" and is in Dungeon #48 from 1994. It's for Basic D&D (for PCs of levels 1-3).Basically, there's a community of halflings who tend to an apple orchard that produces apples that are the envy of other apple growers. The halflings' secret is that they plant posies around the apple trees, sing to the trees, and let their children climb in the trees' bows. This makes the trees happy, so they produce really nice apples.One envious human apple grower in particular hires a shapeshifting dragon known as a "wood drake" (who the human thinks is an elf) to poison the halflings' apples. When the trees start dying, the halflings seek out some local druids, who provide some potions to cure the poisoned trees, but this delegation is captured by a random hill giant on their way back to the village. One halfling escaped the giant's attack and is the quest giver for the adventure. The PCs have to sneak into the hill giant's home to rescue the kidnapped halflings and recover the druids' potions. The wood drake, disguised as a halfling, follows the PCs to the hill giant's home in hopes of foiling their recovery plans. The hill giant is not at home when the PCs arrive, but his daughters are.The adventure states at the outset: "Although the possibility for combat exists, the party's success will rely more on ingenuity than swordsmanship. The antagonists in this module can easily devastate a low-level party."And yes, that issue of Dungeon came with a full-color fold-out battle grid map of the hill giant's house.</blockquote>

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