Looking for Mid-Level Island/Dragons' Cave Adventures

[mockman1890]

Hi everyone,

I'm running a modified "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" where the players are pirates (more or less) and a lot of locations have become islands. Though only 4th-5th level, the players insisted on tracking down the dragon that attacks the town in the 1st chapter of the adventure and so I'm trying to come up with a mid-level 'dragon's cave' adventure set on an island.

Does anyone know of a published adventure that's like this? I've searched lots of old modules but there's not that many good self-contained 'island' adventures, particularly not with a cave on an island (lots of wizards' towers on islands, not so many caves).

Alternately, any simple 'dragon's cave' adventure would be nice, I can do the work to place it on the island. (Of course, the party will have no chance of killing an adult dragon at their level, so they'll either find the dragon away from home, or stumble on a sleeping dragon...)

Any ideas would be awesome!

Many thanks,

Jason

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Depends on how limited you are by the "cave" definition.

Take Forge of Fury. It's an old dwarven dungeon that leads to a dragon's lair -- easy enough to port to an island if you're willing to have a larger dungeon attached.

There's an older Dragon magazine adventure where a red dragon lairs in a volcano -- easy to port the volcano to an island. Drat, though, I can't remember the adventure name at the moment, but the dragon was named Flame.

 

[Voadam]

A couple Dungeon Crawl Classics by Goodman Games come to mind.

DCC #6 Temple of the Dragon Cult features hunting down a wounded dragon in his cultist protected lair. It is a Third Edition module for levels 8-10.

DCC 11 The Dragonfiend Pact involves taking reduce person potions and going into a rat warren where they eventually face a fiendish pseudodragon, level 2 adventure.

DCC 26 The Scaly God is another dragon in a lair with minions, levels 4-6.

DCC 30 Vault of the Dragon Kings is a 128 page mega adventure tomb of horrors type thing with a dragon climax designed to be tough for a 10th level party.