The Great Boar Hunt
A downloadable game
< note: The original extended version (without the 8 page limit) has been uploaded >
"The Great Boar Hunt" is a Gauntlet Adventure for the Shadowdark RPG.
Players roll 4 random characters who will embark on the adventuring life. Some might survive, some most definitely won’t :)
The adventure has been play tested several times and should take about 3 to 4 hours to complete, excluding rolling the characters.
The Great Boar Hunt is a dungeon crawl that can be used for characters to discover what kind of class they would like to play and ease people into the Shadowdark game.
While crawling players are able to discover the history of the keep and get a sense of what happened, adding some - hopefully - nice flavour to the whole adventure.
There will be more play testing this summer and things will change, but I hope there is enough here for you to have a great adventure. Happy crawling!
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Development log
- The Great Boar Hunt updateAug 01, 2023
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I stumbled on this adventure when I was looking for something I can use as a Shattered Tower in Kelsey’s Gloaming and this sunken-fort-with-only-tower-above-the-ground is both perfect and original.
I made few changes (green knight instead of barbarian warlord for better fit in Gloaming; in throne room an hexling, shadowy demon who feeds on despair, bolstering Lady’s depression and causing subsequent literal depression of the fort; and Glimmer got more gnomish, subterranean appearance)
Definitely looking forward to playing it with my group!
I hope you like it 😊
I definitely do and I think my players will too. :-)
Hi, I was really inspired by what you put together here. I'm planning to run it Friday, but I'm adapting it for a group of Level 2 characters (really just made the boar more of a BBEG by giving him a higher level and an earthquake type ability).
I especially love the hooks for further adventures. I was wondering, though, in regards to the note about the barbarian king's last journey. Is that note located in the lady's chamber?
Thank you for this wonderfully rich one shot. It really got my creativity flowing.
Hi there! Thank you for your kind words!
Lord Tusken's (The Barbarian) Final Quest note can indeed be found somewhere in the Lady's Chamber (room 4). I usually place it somewhere in/on around the old desk, but feel free to put it there where people will find it :)
I hope you have a great game Friday!
- Dimme
Is there no large version of the map?
I checked in my PDF that I bought, and I looked at the example map on the side of this page.
Hi Leftspin, I added two maps in larger format, one with all the text for the GM and one without text. Let me know if this works for you :)
Thank you so much! This will really help me out when I run this module on Saturday.
Any advice on how one can print a PDF laid out this way?
Hi! I am no expert but try printing it as booklet using Acrobat or something similar. Hope that works for you :)
Would it be possible to re-export the document as individual pages rather than two-page spreads?
Funny and smooth adventure
its a great adventure!
We had an absolute blast!
this is amazing!