So our scheduling woes led to the derailment of our Savage Worlds Known World campaign and for the interim, while we didn’t have a full group, I started running what I thought would be a series of one-shots/short adventures for the players who could make a session. We started using the D.I.Y. D&D rules I had begun to put together for these sessions. Once we all got together again, we decided to try and pull all of these together into a bit of a campaign start.
We ended up with two sets of prelude adventures. The first set, which will have the moniker P1, included Rachel and Todd. Each played two characters but only Clarissa, a female fighter played by Rachel, continued on into the main campaign. The other set, denoted by P2, included Rachel, RJ, and Bridgett. Rachel played Bryn, a halfling rogue. RJ played Drogar, a dwarf fighter. Bridgett played Shory, a human ranger.
The first of these sessions were with Rachel and Todd. I picked the adventure, “A Wizard’s Fate,” for a couple of reasons. I wanted something that was a bit of a short dungeon crawl and it has nice little twist that I thought the players would enjoy. Spoilers for this adventure from Dungeon Magazine #37 follow the break.