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TABLE OF CONTENTS Xp and Rewards ......................................................................... 3 Adventure Hooks ....................................................................... 3 About the Adventure ................................................................. 3 About the Setting .......................................................................4 About the Villain ........................................................................4 Playing the NPCs ....................................................................... 5 The Narrator ............................................................................... 5 Most Importantly ...................................................................... 5 Starting Area...............................................................................6 The Training Course........................................................... 6 Combat Time.........................................................................7 NPCs and Easter Eggs .........................................................7 The First Quest .....................................................................7 The First Ally ..............................................................................9 Elemental Apocalypse ............................................................ 12 Outcome #1 ............................................................................... 14 Outcome #2............................................................................... 14 Outcome #3 ............................................................................... 14 Side Quests ................................................................................ 14 Save Ryanna’s Little Brother ..........................................14 Muster the Elves................................................................. 15 Save the Goblinoids ...........................................................16 Rewards and Treasure ............................................................ 16 NPC Conversion Table ............................................................ 17 Stat Blocks................................................................................. 17 Goblin ................................................................................... 17 Stallen................................................................................... 17 Urok ...................................................................................... 18 Hobgoblin ............................................................................ 18 Goblin Boss..........................................................................19 Hobgoblin Captain .............................................................19 Clay Golem...........................................................................19 Ylune Swiftarrow .............................................................. 20 Otani .................................................................................... 20 Earth Elemental ................................................................. 21 Maps ...........................................................................................22 Map A – The Training Course ........................................ 22 Map B – The Cave in the Mountain .............................. 22 Map C – The Top of the Mountain ................................ 23 Author Bio ................................................................................ 24 Credit and Legalese ................................................................ 24 Sample file 2 In the end, the players will have gained some useful items WELCOME TO LEVEL 0 - some might even be powerful, in the right situations - and they might just have earned themselves some nter Tutorial Isle – a place of wonder. A place creative uses of different spells. of merriment. A place long since forgotten. Dive into a true tutorial - for both veteran and new players. This one-shot can be ADVENTURE HOOKS E tweaked for either level 1 adventurers or level 7 adventurers - depending on the level of knowledge and You could go about this in many different ways - just experience you and your players have. make sure that the players end up being ‘teleported’ in some way or another to this particular island which can Teleported to a beautiful world, the adventurers must fit into any campaign. However, if you need some save the inhabitants from a mad Elementalist - or die inspiration, you can find two hooks below: trying. The thing is, though, that the inhabitants of the town that the adventurers spawn in, will not let them What just happened? The adventurers might have found leave - until they have completed the tutorial. themselves traveling through the rocky mountainside, snow at their feet, or they might have come upon a large Get ready to face annoyed players as they interact with hill. stone faced NPCs with singular dialogue options, or feed Nevertheless, when they try to mount the hill or their fury as they blast their way through the tutorial - all mountain, they accidentally walk through a portal in an attempt to leave the island that is trying to teach shimmering slightly in the air. They can detect it, if you them how to play. feel like it, but as soon as they try to investigate, they are sucked into its vortex in true ‘you-can’t-escape-this- Inspired by tutorials and the annoyance that players feel plotline’ style. as they go through them in video games, this one-shot is a fun adventure that can be placed in any campaign. Whose magic went off this time? If you have some Rife with possibilities for misunderstandings and particularly trigger happy, annoying or straight up errors that might or might not make the screen fade to creative magic users, you might opt into this adventure black, this has been created for your players to figure out hook. the puzzle that is Dungeons & Dragons - Video Game Some sort of magical occurrence appears within the Tutorial style, and it has plenty of room for laughs ranks of the party (could be a firebolt, eldritch blast, sprinkled throughout. sacred flame or even thunderclap). The adventurers experience its normal effects on the senses except for the Your adventurers will get the chance to: damage. Let them freak out, but if they investigate, let them be • Stand face to face with a sorceress who is not backing sucked in by the vortex-like shimmering portal the has down. And who was once, perhaps, in a very similar been created in the point of origin from the occurrence. situation to yours … Don’t like any of the hooks? That’s fine! Perhaps your players • Battle it out with goblins galore – who all seem could be teleported by the Elementalist herself or thrown hellbent on taking you out, as the good little minions into a dark chasm that turns out to take them to the world! they are. But the townsfolk tell you of another reality, Anything can happen in your world. and perhaps you might end up being heroes, yet. • Embark on epic side quests with stony-faced NPCs as ABOUT THE ADVENTURE the world crumbles around you, and the sorceress cackles in the distance because her ritual will be Welcome to the world of Etoya! An island of endless complete, and WHY ARE YOU NOT UP THERE, frustration for your players - or endless fun if they take ADVENTURER? some time to learn the tricks of the world. Because they will be able to skip certain of the annoying It is encouraged that players think about their actions parts, thus getting themselves directly into the fray of instead of just barreling head-first into combat other types of puzzles or encounters. The adventure is meant to provide your players with some fun and unique challenges that are more often seen in XP AND REWARDS video games than in TTRPGs. Therefore, there will also be focus on dragging some of the tropes into this adventure. As this is meant to be a tutorial, this one-shot suggests rewarding the players with a gained level at the end. This The background of the adventure centers itself on Etoya, would make them either reach 2nd or 8th level, Samplea magical wonder of a place thatfile has been infested with a depending on their starting points. power-hungry woman named Otani. Quickly rising to power by force, she enthralled the However, if you feel like they deserve more or less, you goblins in the mountain by channeling a Charm Person are welcome to make changes to this. You could also spell into a magical artifact capable of widening its effects award them with XP from the individual encounters if to all goblinoids. that is to be preferred. That also means that any and all goblinoids within the party must make a saving throw equal to the DC found 3 later in this adventure (Page 20) if they wish to not She searched, commanding the goblins to raid the nearby become charmed by Otani. towns for scrolls, tomes, anything that could bring her power. When Otani stumbled upon the passage about the The townspeople know that Otani is building something elemental planes, she knew this was it. And so began her big, and they’ve seen spurts of thunder, spouts of water, plan ... bursts of fire, and arrays of earth bursting from the ground. In truth, she’s planning to carve rifts from the material plane and into the elemental ones, causing mayhem as pure elemental mayhem descends upon the world. She is arrogant and thinks herself above the rest of the mere ‘mortals’ with power enough to climb to the top, she believes that she would be able to control the elements in the midst of the chaos,