Michael Calleia wrote:
The kiddo’s One Page Dungeon Contest entry completed.
"Timmy (My Cat) Fell in the Well"
Ranee Dosnav, once the most famous warrior in town, now a little old man, needs your help rescuing his cat Timmy from the old well!
We also play tested this with a group using Hero Kids rues. If I ran it for adults, using Holmes. Basic, those slime monsters would be giant centipedes!
BTW, Ranee Dosnav is an anagram. I use TSR staff and early D&D pioneers’ names with a twist for NPC names in adventures for kids. So she wanted to do the same.
A lot of Tims fall down wells. Wonder why that name is prone to OOOooooo.....ufff.
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Good adventure and a good map. I'd like to know more about the slime monsters.
ReplyDeleteNice work! That may be the first one-page dungeon I've seen with a map you could actually use with minis (1 inch squares)
ReplyDeleteChris Holmes while generic the adventure was written with the Hero Kids system in mind. Their Monster Compenium book has slimes, she stuck them to the walls.
ReplyDeleteThe big bad the bottom of the well as a larger slime originally, but was replaced after she heard a story about unwanted pet alligators growing to unusal size in sewage systems.
Both make great monsters. M.R. James wrote a good ghost story about a treasure in a well, can't recall the name of it.
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ReplyDeleteThis is a nice little adventure and I like the graphic!
Kudo's to Michael's kid and to you, Chris Holmes for spotlighting the excellent M.R. James! Here is your treasure in the well story: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. For the free text, go over to this page- en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ghost_Stories_of_an_Antiquary/The_Treasure_of_Abbot_Thomas
Another fun M.R. James story of a different type, which still has to do with a well (and monsters and Boy Scouts) - The Wailing Well - http://www.thin-ghost.org/items/show/164
en.wikisource.org - Ghost Stories of an Antiquary/The Treasure of Abbot Thomas - Wikisource, the free online library
Thanks Karel, I should have known there was a ghost story expert in the group.
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