I played out the first adventure and posted the report there.
Edit - During a blog re-org, I deleted my TTRPG posts on my Paladin's Path (formerly Paladin's Quest) blog. I'm leaving this post here as a reminder of this short-lived campaign.
I thought I'd discuss the game design here.
The adventure is based on the 1980s Basic D&D module Castle Caldwell (specifically the first adventure). I laid out a simplified version of the castle with 10 designated encounter areas.
I then created a list of possible encounters. I added a couple more empty encounters.
I made one change to the module and made the main boss an ogre. I recently played Castle Caldwell with a D&D group, and the DM made this same change. It seemed to work well so I copied it.
The stats listed on the table are Attacks (ATT), Fight (F), Defense (Df), Damage (Dmg) and Health Points (HP). They are used with the dungeon crawl rules I have been developing over the past month, as described here. This time, however, I used 2 heroes instead of 1. The heroes did not get multiple attacks per combat round.
I made a set of numbered cards, then set them out in accordance with the castle's layout.
For example, the gatehouse is populated by encounter # 4, which is a party of goblins.
Note that I am using meeples and blood tokens to keep track of attackers and wounds.
I knew that the boss was in the keep, but I didn't want the party to go straight there, so I created a mechanic to force them to explore more areas. They needed to find the key to the keep, which was randomly located elsewhere on the grounds. I ruled that they found the key on a D10 roll less than the number of completed encounters. As it turns out, they found the key pretty quickly, resulting in a short adventure.
The adventure is based on the 1980s Basic D&D module Castle Caldwell (specifically the first adventure). I laid out a simplified version of the castle with 10 designated encounter areas.
I then created a list of possible encounters. I added a couple more empty encounters.
The stats listed on the table are Attacks (ATT), Fight (F), Defense (Df), Damage (Dmg) and Health Points (HP). They are used with the dungeon crawl rules I have been developing over the past month, as described here. This time, however, I used 2 heroes instead of 1. The heroes did not get multiple attacks per combat round.
I made a set of numbered cards, then set them out in accordance with the castle's layout.
For example, the gatehouse is populated by encounter # 4, which is a party of goblins.
Note that I am using meeples and blood tokens to keep track of attackers and wounds.
I knew that the boss was in the keep, but I didn't want the party to go straight there, so I created a mechanic to force them to explore more areas. They needed to find the key to the keep, which was randomly located elsewhere on the grounds. I ruled that they found the key on a D10 roll less than the number of completed encounters. As it turns out, they found the key pretty quickly, resulting in a short adventure.
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