Welcome,
fellow Dungeon Masters, to our first adventure designed for the setting of
Ruins of the Forbidden Elder. You may use this adventure as is, import it into
your own setting, or pick and choose things to use for your own adventures.
This
adventure is designed for a party of four first level Player Characters. At the
end of the adventure the PCs should be a third of the way to second level.
Staves of Blood and Scales
Adventure Background
In the
county of Lyndeshyr, north of the Black Ash River, a bounty has been placed
upon the kobold den near the village of Ashfall. The kobolds have become
unusually bold, attacking caravans and outlying farmsteads, stealing and
kidnapping. The most recent attack was on the caravan from Argoport bearing
Count Byron’s father-in-law: Trade Prince Nostriano. In addition to the bounty
Ashfall is offering of fifteen gold per kobold head, Count Byron is offering
fifty gold for information of Nostriano’s whereabouts and one hundred gold for
the safe return of his father-in-law.
The Blackhorn Tribe of kobolds has lived
within the ruins of an ancient temple that have been long since picked clean by
archaeologists and scavengers. Before they were a mere nuisance, stealing the
occasional sheep and farming tools on rare raids, but somehow they have gained
access to a strange mutagenic ability. This has emboldened the kobolds far
beyond what is usual for their kind.
Thus far the kobolds have kidnapped
fifteen people, ranging from young farm hands, merchants, milk-maids, to the
Trade Prince. While Count Byron is the only one offering a monetary reward for
the return of a kidnapped victim, the rest would surely be willing to offer
free food and lodgings when the characters are passing through their villages.
