Big Trouble Adventure 05 – Bigger Trouble 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 second adventure in the Lilliput story arc, following on from Big Trouble Adventure 04 – Town by the Sea, though Sandcastle Defense can be played between the two. The second trilogy follows on from the first.
The supplement is available from DriveThruRPG for $2.99 though it was purchased at a reduced price thanks to a special discount. The supplement consists of three PDFs. The first two each have 40 pages, with one page being the front cover and one the front matter, and are the primary PDF, with one being a printer-friendly version. The third PDF has 31 pages and has copies of the battlemaps for printing out.
Prerequisite explains what is needed to play, which are the Big Trouble Setting Guide and Rules, hero and monster cards and minis, inventory and crafting cards, encounter maps, item cards, six-sided dice, pencils and rubbers.
Background briefly recaps the events at the start of the Setting Guide and is followed by the Adventure Overview, which does what it says.
First Time Adventurers Start Here! explains what to do for players who haven’t played any of the previous adventures and The story thus far… recaps the events of the four to date.
The adventure has six different encounters, though one of those has quite a lot of sub-encounters to it, making it larger than it might appear. There are a number of challenges to face throughout, with explanations as to what will happen if any are failed; failure means an encounter turns out differently.
The Epilogue wraps this adventure up and explains that it continues in Big Trouble 06: Troubles End?, the conclusion of this trilogy.
After this is a single page print-out puzzle to cut up, six pages of battlemaps, eight item cards and eight blank ones on two pages, two pages with four monster cards each, one coloured, one not and two pages of minis, one coloured one not.
Big Trouble Adventure 05 – Bigger Trouble 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 mostly free of errors. The illustrations are primarily reproductions of battlemaps and the colour monsters, which are custom. Presentation is good.
Keeping up with the Big Trouble adventures, this is one of the more complex Hero Kids adventures around. The encounters tend to have multiple ability tests, multiple challenges, and in some cases multiple different regions within the same location. The adventure should last multiple sessions. Big Trouble Adventure 05 – Bigger Trouble is a nice instalment in the second Big Trouble trilogy and it can be found by clicking here.
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