RPG Adventure

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.

Sharn Notice Boards: After Dark is a collection of four quests and two bounty hunts. The themes are mostly gruesome and tragic, hence the fitting subtitle. Each quest introduces at least one interesting inhabitant of Sharn to the characters, leads them into diverse areas, and offers seeds for future adventures relating to the mission or client. To run these quests, you need a copy of the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, the Monster Manual, and Eberron: Rising from the Last War (RFTLW).

With the release of the Fantasy Grounds version, Sharn Notice Boards has been added to the following bundles:

Eberron Bundle

Notice Boards Bundle

Everything Bundle

Check out this previous post to see everything in these great, discounted collections:

A Bundle of Bundles - Fantasy Grounds on DMs Guild

Gulgo-13 is a four to five-hour salvage mission designed for three to seven 1st - 5th level characters and is optimized for five characters with an average party level (APL) of 3. This adventure is created in accordance with the Oracle of War: Salvage Bases and Missions supplement and is legal for D&D Adventurers League play when used as part of the Oracle of War campaign. To run this adventure, you need a copy of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, the Player’s Handbook, the Monster Manual, and Oracle of War: Salvage Bases and Missions.

This adventure is presented to you by author Christian Eichhorn and editor John Parker. 

Airship goes down in a fiery spiral. Read all about it in the Korranberg Chronicle, only five crowns!

This product includes four quests that lead the characters into the Talenta Plains, the Hoarfrost Mountains, the Mournland, and the Demon Wastes! Ride barely tame dinosaurs, become contaminated by dubious dragonshards, face the soldiers of the Lord of Blades, and blast your way into a gargantuan portal worm. This, and more, in Korranberg Chronicle: Part 1!

A Mad Journey on the Blackwater River

Drugs dull the damages of the Last War; gold fuels the fires which might ignite the next. A band of ragtag mercenaries must venture into the putrid swamps of the Shadow Marches to topple the drug lords of Droaam. To achieve their goals, they may have to leave something of themselves behind; in the heart of darkness

Blackwater Redux is an Eberron adventure designed for a group of five characters starting on 1st level. It brings the group to the backwater of Khorvaire, aptly named the Shadow Marches. By the end of the adventure, the characters should reach 5th level or higher. To run this adventure, you need the fifth edition Player’s Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, Monster Manual, and Eberron: Rising from the Last War (RFTLW).

Blackwater Redux is a dark, hopeless adventure with strong horror notes. It is inspired by Apocalypse Now by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft. Consuming these before running the adventure is highly recommended. The adventure’s themes loosely touch on current and past real-world conflicts. If one or more of the players are former or active soldiers, make sure to discuss the campaign’s content beforehand.

Get ready for mad adventures in the City of Splendors!

Welcome to Waterdeep’s Notice Boards 2, a fresh collection of quest seeds for the City of Splendors. As you walk into this product, paraphrase or read out loud:

“If you don’t like tongue-in-cheek quests, turn around and walk away. This is no product for serious folk.” The author spits and crosses his arms. The spit makes a clean ringing sound as it hits the spittoon head on. You hear someone counting money in the distance.

This product includes 8 notice board quests, a few new monsters, four maps from Dyson Logo's commercially free portfolio, and tons of fun. The templates for the notice boards and the separate notes are included as image files as well!

Karrnath unveils gigantic lightning rail cannon—war just around the corner? Read all about it in the Korranberg Chronicle, only five crowns!

This product includes 37 quest seeds for adventures throughout Korvaihre. You'll find bloody murders, cunning larcenies, mad mages, barely-sane mages, heinous fraudsters, double-dealing politicians, and simple peasants. This, and more, in Korranberg Chronicle: Part 2!

The quest seeds come as 300 dpi player-handouts in the form of newspapers as presented below. As a special bonus, this product also includes the Korranberg Chronicle template! Write your own quests, and put the names of the characters in the headlines (used fonts include IM FELL and Deutsch Gothic).

In Yuletide: An Uninvited Guest

The heroes find more excitement than expected while fetching a tree for the Yuletide celebration. They must rescue the woodcutter, who has been captured by a witch, and are followed home by another young hero from an alpine village who has become lost and has been running from timber wolves. When the Yuletide festivities are disrupted and the tree destroyed, some suspect the alpine visitor, but the real uninvited guest is the witch’s familiar, sent to get even with the meddlesome heroes.

Through the adventure, the heroes learn to defend someone unlike them and gain understanding for those who can be unkind because they are under too much pressure, rather than being a bad person.

What's inside this "super premium" adventure?

25 Encounters for 120 to 240 minutes of fun!

7 custom maps

9 new items

2 new NPCs

6 new monsters

3 new skills

Our holiday gift to you: 50% more content than typical Hero Kids premium adventures.

Get ready for Baldur's Gate like you have not experienced it before!

This product includes 16 quests (presented on four notice boards), 9 original maps, 8 bounty hunts with new stat blocks (also on notice boards), 57 random encounters, as well as a table of 90 inns, taverns, shops, and shady dens in Baldur's Gate! The templates for the notice boards, and the separate notes are included as image files as well!

Baldur's Gate Notice Boards is perfect for all Baldur's Gate based campaigns like Descent into Avernus, Call from the Deep, or Heroes of Baldur's Gate. However, you might as well use these quests and whatnot in all other cities! I took special care not to mention Baldur's Gate on the player handouts.

Your Descent Into Hell

Isn't Done Yet

Nine layers of Hell, nine heists, and the odds aren't in your favor. Explore each layer as a separate adventure or tie them all together for one hellish campaign.

Featuring 29 new monsters, 23 new items, one new background and innumerable terror.