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Basic Game Adventure

QUEEN'S HARVEST

by Carl Sargent

Table of Contents

Introduction ........... ......... ................................ 2

Adventure 1: The Wizard's Dungeon .............................

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REFERENCE SECTION

Area Map .................................. ................... 15

Ready-to-Play Characters

....................................... 16

Credits:

Design: Carl Sargent

Editing: Jim Lowder

Cover Artist: John and Laura Lakey

Interior Artist: Karl Waller

Cartographer: Diesel

Typographers: Angelika Lokotz

Kathleen C. MacDonald

Keyliner: Stephanie Tabat

NPC Profiles/Diary Page

..................................... 18

Adventure 2: Harvest of Death ............ . ..................... 19

New Monsters/Letter .............................................. 32

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Area Map ..................................................... 15

Map 1; The Wizard's Dungeon ....................... left inside cover

Map 2: The Queen's Keep .......................... right inside cover

Map 3: Dungeons of the Queen's Keep ................ left inside cover

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introduction

Welcome to the adventure! This module

contains two adventures, one for 5-7

player character's (PCs) of first or second

level, and a follow-up adventure for PCs

of second or third level. If you are going

to be a player in these adventures, please

do not read any further! The material

presented here is for the Dungeon Mas-

ler (DM) to read and use in setting up

the game for you.

Queen's Harvest is best enjoyed after

playing the adventure module B11,

King's Festival. However, they can easily

be played as a pair of stand-alone adven-

tures.

travel the twelve miles or so down the

Duke'a Road to his home. Aralic sug-

gests that the PCs take the note to Kavor-

quian at once, since the matters referred

to seem v e r y important!

If yon have not played King's Festival,

then you should begin the adventure by

having the PCs arrive in Stallanford. If

you do not have suitable PCs (no char-

acters of 2nd level), you can use the pre-

generated characters listed on page 10

and 17.

PCs can be lured to Stallanford by

vague rumors of orc raids, treasure, and

plunder. When they get to Stallanford

they will discover that the orcs have been

slain, but the town cleric, Aralic, is inter-

ested in meeting them. A full profile for

Aralie is given on page 18.

Aralic asks the PCs to act as couriers.

They are to take a private letter to the

home of Kavorquian the wizard, who

lives in a hillside mansion about a mile

northeast of Penhaligon. He offers the

PCs 5gp each for this service. This isn't

much, but then it's only half a day's

walk!

If the PCs accept, Aralic hands them a

bone tube sealed with wax that bears the

imprint of a signet ring. He asks them

not to open the tube. You should discour-

age the PCs—especially Lawful

characters—from going against the cler-

ic's wishes. What is in the note is shown

on page 32 of this module.

Whether the PCs have played through

King's Festival or not, you should give the

players a copy of the map found on page

15 to show them where Stallanford and

Penhaligon are.

In fact, the whole middle section of

this product is a special pull-out section

of helpful material for the players and the

DM. Detach pages 15-18 by lifting the

staples, taking out the middle leaves, and

pressing the staples flat again. You can

photocopy any or all of these pages for

personal use if you prefer not to cut up

the central pages.

The first adventure begins on page 4,

as the PCs approach the town of Penhali-

gon, carrying the letter for the wizard.

The adventure's background is fully de-

tailed, but you should read through the

Preparing for Adventure

If you have played King's Festival, the

PCs will have a note addressed to

"Kavorquian." They will also have met

Aralic, a cleric, who will have told them

that he has heard of Kavorquian the wiz-

ard. This adventure begins with Aralic

telling the PCs that Kavorquian lives in a

hillside mansion about a mile northeast

of Penhaligon, and the PCs can easily

introduction

entire module and be familiar with its

contents before running any part of it.

play through the module. Note what XPs

the characters earned, along with where

in the dungeon they earned them. This

will also allow you to see at a glance

which locations the PCs have visited.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in

this module:

#AT

Cha

Con

Dex

Dmg

Int

If You're a Novice Dungeon Master

If you haven't played King's Festival prior

to this adventure, you really should!

That module is packed with many useful

hints for the novice DM, covering all as-

p e c t s of D&D® g a m e adventuring, to-

gether with helpful play-aids which may

he photocopied for personal use.

However, Queen's Harvest has been

written with the inexperienced DM in

mind, too. One thing that should he

noted is that, because there is a lot of ad-

venture crammed into this package,

boxed text (for the DM to read to play-

ers) is not always used, and when it is

given, only the main details of locations

are described.

You can and should embellish this

boxed text slightly, adding dusty floors,

cobwebs, distant hoots or moans, and

similar appropriate details. Customizing

rooms to frighten or alarm certain PCs

helps to make modules like this one more

personal.

Number of Attacks

Armor Class

Alignment

Chaotic

Charisma

Cleric

Constitution

Copper Piece

Dwarf

Type of Die

Dexterity

Damage

Elf

Electrum Piece

Fighter

Gold Piece

Halfling

Hit Dice

Hit Points

Intelligence

Lawful

Neutral

Normal Man

Morale

Movement Rate per Turn

(and per round in brackets)

Platinum Piece

Special Attacks

(poison, paralysis, etc.)

Save As (Class and Level)

Silver Piece

Strength

Thief

Wisdom

Experience Points Earned

for Overcoming Monster

Monsters

When a monster is described in an indi-

vidual location, its abilities are given in

abbreviated form. The following infor-

mation is covered:

Name (number); Armor Class; Hit Dice

(or Class and Level for an NPC); hit

points; Movement per rum (and per

combat round in brackets); Number of

attacks per round; THACO (special—see

material later in the Introduction); Dam-

age per attack; Special attacks (poison,

etc.); Save as (Class and Level); Morale;

Alignment: XP value for overcoming

monster (if there are several of the same

creatures, the number shown is per indi-

vidual monster); and Other abilities (if

any).

Ability Checks

An extra rule is used in these adventures,

the Ability Check. When the text calls for

such a check to be made, it will specify

the Ability (e.g., Charisma Check, Dex-

terity Check, and so on). The player

must roll the specified Ability score or

lower for his character (on a d20) to suc-

ceed in the check. The text explains what

will happen if the PC succeeds or fails

each Ability Check.

Locations and Mapping

For both adventures, the map on page 15

shows the general area of Penhaligon and

Stallanford. The location of Kavor-

quian's mansion is marked on it for the

players.

Other parts of the module are keyed to

specific maps, For example, the mod-

ule's first adventure takes place in the

basement of the house the PCs will

visit—shown in Map 1, which can be

found on the left hand side of the mod-

ule's inner cover.

Individual areas on the maps are

called locations, and when PCs enter

them you should provide basic details of

what the characters see, hear, smell, and

so on. Some of this information can be

found in the text of the adventure by

matching the number on the map to the

number in the text. Remember, you can

always add material of your own to the

boxed text, too.

It will be useful for you to keep a re-

cord of Experience Points (XPs) earned

by PCs on a spare sheet of paper as you

Save

Str

THACO

THACO is an acronym for "To Hit Ar-

mor Class 0 (zero)," It is the minimum

number needed on a d20 roll to hit an en-

emy of AC 0. To find if the creature has

hit its opponent in combat,, simply sub-

tract the opponent's AC from the

THACO given, and if the d20 roll is

equal to or greater than that modified

number the creature has struck its en-

emy. For example, a monster with a

THACO of 17 hits AC1 on 16 or better,

AC5 on 12 or better, and so on.

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