Big Trouble Adventure 01 – Quest of the Forest Mice by Brian Phongluangtham and Brandon Lillie is a role playing game supplement published by B Drone Games for use with Hero Kids and the Big Trouble setting. This is the first in a trilogy of adventures.
The supplement is available from DriveThruRPG for $2.99 but was purchased at a reduced price as part of a bundle. It consists of a 38-page PDF that comes in a regular and a printer friendly version and another 31-page PDF that has large scale encounter maps that can be printed out and assembled. With the primary PDF, one page is the front cover and one the front matter.
The Prerequisite explains what is needed; the core rulebook, the Big Trouble Setting Guide, hero and monster cards and minis, encounter maps and dice, as well as pencils and rubbers.
The Background briefly references the events at the beginning of the Setting Guide when the characters ended up shrinking. The Adventure Overview explains that the adventure takes place the day afterwards, and what the characters will encounter.
There are seven primary encounters for the adventure, although one, that can also be skipped, has alternate versions and some encounters have additional encounters or changes depending on successes and failures. The encounters have maps, with small reproductions showing where enemies will appear in each section, item search tables as mentioned in the Setting Guide, ability tests and different ways that things can go. The options are quite thoroughly detailed.
The final encounter is the lead-in to the next in the trilogy, Big Trouble Adventure 02: Fall of the Underground City. The final six pages of the supplement are the encounter maps.
Big Trouble Adventure 01 – Quest of the Forest Mice in Review
The PDF is well bookmarked with major and minor sections linked. Navigation is good. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be almost free of error. There are some illustrations, as well as the maps, which appear to be black and white, or coloured, reproductions of the monster images from the Setting Guide. Presentation is decent.
This is quite a complex adventure to run and it could easily take several sessions. It, like Big Trouble, is probably more suited to kids at the older end of the Hero Kids range. The encounters can be quite complex and different options are covered in them. Perhaps the only real problem is with the first encounter, in which if the heroes fail to talk to the mice encountered, enough attack until they eventually are forced to surrender. That seems a bit forced. Also, an NPC has plot armour, as they have to survive. Other than that, this is a good adventure. Big Trouble Adventure 01 – Quest of the Forest Mice can be found by clicking here.
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