There are adventures that require more then mere skill with a weapon and a bit more investigation as well as ideas on the PC's part. Tales From The Laughing Dragon : A Dragon Claw Adventure.
DC1 is the kind of adventure that while location based all revolve around the back setting of bars. If your expecting the usual hack and slash OD&D bits your in for a bad time with your PC's.
DC1 is one part dungeon crawl, one part interlinked adventures and one part thinking man's dungeon adventure all in one slick thirty four page package of OSR goodness.
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The plot sounds like a typical D&D style basic adventure but there's where the similiarity ends.
According to the basic plot which goes something like this :
According to the basic plot which goes something like this :
Fonkin the beloved gnome sage is missing. The town guard is busy fighting off brigands and doesn't have time to look for him. A group of aspiring adventurers take on the task and follow a clue that leads them to an old ruin and footsteps leading down some stairs to the darkness below...
Tales from The Laughing Dragon: A Dragonclaw Campaign is a short three-part adventure series for the Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game. It's designed for a group of beginning player characters, making it a great way to jump in to the Basic Fantasy RPG!
This is a thirty four page mini campaign adventure that is part basic introduction and part mission oriented adventure with some interesting twists on the usual OSR campaign adventure. What you've got here is a thinking man's adventure that is perfectly suited to throw the PC's into the deep end of the pond. Here the characters are recruited by some patrons in a series of interlinked adventures but there's also another interesting twist on the usual themes. This adventure has the sub heading of a Dragon Claw Adventure. The Dragon Claw Barony is the setting backdrop for this adventure and I think we're going to be seeing a lot more campaign material for this back bone of this campaign in future Basic Fantasy rpg edition adventures. From the adventure:
/Dragonclaw Barony is a provincial yet rough
and ready area, reminiscent of ancient England
or Wales. The primary terrain of the Barony is
rolling fields and gentle hills, though the
Dragonclaw Mountains, from which the Barony
takes its name, cut a wide swath through the
center of the land. The borders of the barony
are primarily comprised of natural features: the
forests of Norwood, the northern Dragonclaw
Mountains, and the Badlands in the north and
west; and the Sea of Storms, the southern
Dragonclaws, and the Dreadwood to the east
and south.
The Barony was once a small independent
kingdom known as llancrest. Four hundred years
ago, armies from the Kingdom of Albion, to the
distant north, forcibly annexed the lands to
serve as a southern base in their perennial wars
with the eastern kingdom of Kar'Tegra. Llancrest
was renamed as "Llancrest Barony" and a new
ruler from Albion was given control of the land.
Over the years, as the Barony grew more and
more independent, the court at Albion began
to refer to the distant frontier area as "that
Dragonclaw barony", referring to the high
mountain range that bisected the countryside;
"Dragonclaw Barony" was eventually adopted
as the official name of the land.'
And this is one of the things that makes DC1 a bit different, there is an element of the sword and sorcery going on in the backdrop. Things are a bit rougher and darker in this adventure then I was expecting and that's a good thing. The adventure is perfect for children but I can really see this being used as a motivator adventure for a beginning party or as a series of side adventures for an experienced party. Everything about DC1 is very nice and concise in what it does. It sets up the adventures and interlinks them with the Dragon Claw campaign world and setting but this is constantly running quietly in the background.
The maps, ideas, and player handouts are all very nicely done and there's a really nice professional vibe running through DC1. But if your party is high on the combat end of things, expect a few possible TPK's in the works. All in all I think this is a free download worth your time and energy to get to know Tales From The Laughing Dragon. Grab this one today!
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