Trouble in the Basement - Hero Kids Fiction
Trouble in the Basement is the first in what we hope to be a series of fictional adventures for Hero Kids.
This is not a roleplaying adventure for your young heroes to play, but a story to read (or listen to) and enjoy. The story is in a relatively new genre called LitRPG—a story that includes obvious elements from the roleplaying game on which it is based.
Introduction
This short story introduces the reader to a few of the young heroes in Rivenshore and the types of adventures they have. The adventure takes place in the basement of the Block and Tackle Tavern and the newly discovered caves leading out from it.
Although this story is loosely based on, and is a prelude to, the Basement O' Rats adventure available with the Hero Kids core system, it should not ruin that adventure for your young heroes. If you read this to them (or they read it themselves) before playing the adventure, it should spark their imagination and desire to find out for themselves what's going on beneath the Block and Tackle Tavern. Reading this story after playing the adventure will provide the excitement of seeing how the bigger story fits together and to compare experiences.
We have tried to give a sample of the Hero Kids system and roleplaying, while changing up the story and leaving options to the readers' imaginations (like how they might have used food in their inventory).
It is our intention and hope that this short story encourages young heroes to experience adventures for themselves, turn those adventures into their own stories, and to tell those stories to others.
Reader Level Note: Trouble in the Basement is about 5500 words (about half the length of a “chapter book”), has a Flesch Reading Ease of 89.6, and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 3.1.
