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The Vanilla Adventure

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"Want to play some Vanilla OD&D and have a good time? This thing is it." TenfootPole

"It's all classic fantasy tropes, but it has a great anti-colonialism theme: humans have basically come in, driven out the local demihumans, and in doing so woke some dragons. Very cool!" Dai Shugars — GMDK Game dieRainbow

This module is intended to serve as either a stand-alone adventure session or as the basis for a larger campaign in a generic OSR world. The main idea is to help new or beginning players to get comfortable with an OSR game by providing a setting that is familiar to them and ties to concepts they may already have about fantasy stories.

The adventure hooks are intended to help nudge players along without railroading and to build as much context and structure as necessary for the particular group. However, the moral/ethical questions raised in this adventure concerning race, vulnerability, and moral equivalence could provide a suitable framework for advanced players as well.

This adventure is intended for a party of 3-8 characters, between levels 1 and 3 and could take anywhere from a single game session to a complete campaign, depending on how you choose to play it.

The maps, stats, and treasure are intended to make the job of the GM as easy as possible and to minimize the amount of prep required for the adventure. This book should be suitable for new and experienced GMs alike.

Statistics are presented for OSR rules with race as class—feel free to adjust for other systems. I prefer ascending AC, but provided both ascending and descending in stats.

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Nikosz P May 21, 2020 9:29 pm UTC
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Great stuff, can't wait to give completely free rein to the players and see what emerges!

I just wish there was some kind of scale on the map. I know I could come up with one or extrapolate, but would love to know the creator's intentions. How far is the Dragon Pass from Boson? Is it 1 day? 7 days?
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Wind L June 16, 2020 4:14 pm UTC
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It's pretty relative--I play it as one day to travel to any location, but you might make Boson to Dragon Pass take 2 days, with a stop at Lagos or the Keep in between.
My intention was to not bog down my new players with time keeping and instead focus more on stringing the set pieces together with a kind of "fast-travelling" as they get clues and decide where they want to go.
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Nikosz P June 24, 2020 10:13 am UTC
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Thanks for the insight!
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