Family-friendly adventures?

[mackenson]

I'm about to start running another DnD campaign for my family, which consists of my wife, my son (15) and my daughter (11).

I don't really have time to pour into adventure creation, and I'm hoping to gather up a good collection of canned adventures (which I can then tweak). Dungeon crawls, city adventures, wilderness adventures, that sort of stuff is all good. I'd like adventures that are small-scale and somewhat light ... no demons rising out of the pits to destroy the world.

The only canned adventure we've played up to now was the Sunless Citadel, which we enjoyed (after I tweaked the heck out of it). I've looked around the net at some free stuff, but haven't found anything to my liking, so I'm happy to buy off-the-shelf.

Any suggestions?

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

Hi Mackenson,

And welcome to the boards.

Necromancer Games has a free .pdf adventure where the kids encounter an insane 1/2 Elf Santa Claus... but that might not wanna be a subject you wanna broach. ( featuring toys that throw their heads at you! ) They also have a Thanksgiving themed adventure "Feast of the Gobbler" ! Ok .. we can do better than that. Here's the link anyway though...

http://www.necromancergames.com/freestuff.html

Check out the free adventues at http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article1.asp?x=dnd/oa/adventure,3

Many of them should be appropriate without much work on your part.

Many of the "side-trek" encounters from Dungeon may be useful too. You might wanna find a LGS that has a few back issues and flip through to check em out.

There is also the adventure archive on EnWorld:

http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=viewlink&cid=12

Wizards "Book of Challenges" can also help you create or fill out less violent or "evil" adventures. Features traps and brain teaser stuff:

http://www.enworld.org/reviews/index.php?sub=yes&where=currentprod&which=CHAL

I think it's great that you can enjoy D&D with your family in this way. Good for you and keep it up!

-BFG

 

[Mark Chance]

I, of course, have to hawk my very own PDF module: The Office and Affairs of Love. See my sig.

The module is based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and would be family-friendly with minimum modifications.

 

[Darkness]

As BigFreekinGoblinoid said, the free adventures on the WotC site might be worth a look.

Granted, some of them certainly do have the aforementioned demons. But most probably don't and you should be able to discern which are which from the short blurbs about their respective content:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article1.asp?x=dnd/oa/adventure,3

 

[Byrons_Ghost]

This has become one of my favorite adventures:

The Goblin Fair

It's mostly tongue-in-cheek, and most of the adventure consists of wandering around the fair getting into trouble- so it should be great for kids. What combat there is against somewhat cartoon-ish monsters (goblins, ogre, etc), so you don't have to worry about the violence level.

The company (Airweaver) is also supposed to be working on an Alice in Wonderland adaptation, but that was due out like a year ago and no one's heard from them since. Which is a shame, since they had a lot of potential.

Anyhow, Gygax did some Lewis Carroll adaptations that are on the WotC site, but they're mostly hack-n-slash, if rather bizarre.