A lone kindori has been spotted resting at the edge of Gleamspace and it has not moved for several days. Is this a sign of poachers returning to the system, or perhaps an indication of something worse? People are curious and worried, and someone has put forward the funds for an investigative party.
A Four-Hour Adventure for Tier 1 Characters. Optimized for APL 3.
Valid for Adventurers League play per the Season 12 DungeonCraft program.
A cleanly-organized and well-formatted adventure with a healthy portion of comedy, a bit of heartstring-pulling, and a sprinkle of horror and uncertainty, A Whale of a Time is a compact 11-pages-long (12 with art) adventure with interesting encounters that cover all the Pillars of Play. The adventure revolves around a bit of mystery/investigation into why a lonely kindori has suddenly appeared nearby and involves unique social encounters and combats in which exploration and dungeoncrawling form the base.
The adventure fits snugly into four hours, but included is an optional subplot for an additional 45-60 min of play. This subplot dives (a little) more into the mysterious story of the kindori's past and offers more opportunity for characters to connect on an emotional level with it.
This adventure is also supplemented with maps and over two dozen bits of colourful art (in my simple but unique and comical style) to further enhance the imagination and help set the scene. Maps and art are all included as original-resolution PNGs in the accompanying Art Package for easy drop-in into any VTT. A Printer-Friendly PDF is also part of the download.
Though the final battle is sure to be anything from tactical and valorous to silly and comedic, it is going to be a wild ride and will leave your adventurers feeling like Heroes. But the real final encounter, which comes up unexpectedly on the unsuspecting adventurers, will have your adventurers become introspective and thoughtful.
Loosely-inspired by Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, welcome to A Whale of a Time! It's sure to be just that!
Changelog:
2023/09/18, v1.1
- Follows DC Guidelines for Spelljammer (v1.2, allowed per updates in official Discord)
- Updated stat blocks and fixed issues and typos in some stat blocks
- Included The Event Horizon as a formal stat block instead of just a PNG in an appendix
- Credited Arthur Marques with the stat block creation
- Included the vD&Dc logo
- General typos, formatting, and language and formatting consistency fixes
- Fixed other minor issues reolving around text and language
- Changed the name of the fictional book mentioned in-text to something else I thought of, because I didn't think of the previous one nor did I remember to ask for permission to use it
- Added a note that The Event Horizon can help with reloading and can remind characters about revisiting areas of the ship in the new state
- Boxed text clean-up, trimming, and improvements
2023/09/18, changes too minor, maintaining v1.1
- Fixed typo in the final combat (150 hp -> 60 hp in final paragraph (Development))
- Fixed numbering issue in Art Package
- Fixed a minor typo
