A Review of the Role Playing Game Supplement Hero Kids – Fantasy Adventure – Twilight Watchtower

Hero Kids – Fantasy Adventure – Twilight Watchtower by Justin Halliday is a role playing game supplement published by Hero Forge Games for use with Hero Kids. This is a five encounter normal adventure.

The supplement is available from DriveThruRPG for $2.99 but was got for free as part of a special deal. This is a 19-page PDF that comes in two versions, one with page backgrounds and a printer friendly version without them. One page is the front cover. Six pages have a battlemap per page, one page has monster cards and one page has a single monster card and the monster miniatures.

The first page starts with a list of what is required to play; bar the core rulebook and dice, everything else is in this supplement. There is a brief background box on the Rivenshore setting.

The Adventure Overview explains that the characters will help some parents find their missing children, found in an old, abandoned watchtower. Adventure Intro explains that the kids are being briefed by Sheriff Walt on the lands around Rivenshore; this is the first adventure published after the release of the Brecken Vale Gazetteer and references information in that; this adventure lacks the Brecken Vale map seen in earlier supplements.

The encounters themselves see the characters travelling into the Skritteland, learning information about the watchtower, fighting wild boar in the woods, climbing an escarpment and making their way through a meadow to the abandoned watchtower. There are role playing encounters, ability challenges and combat encounters for characters to have.

The monsters at the back are not new, being from the Monster Compendium, but are included in this adventure, meaning it isn’t necessary to own that supplement. They are this time in full colour, though.

Hero Kids – Fantasy Adventure – Twilight Watchtower in Review

The PDF is bookmarked, with major and minor sections linked. Navigation is decent. The text maintains a two-column landscape format and appeared to be free of errors. The only illustrations in the encounters are the reduced size GM’s versions of the encounter maps and a single colour illustration. The encounter maps are greyscale whilst the monster cards and miniatures are colour. Presentation is decent.

Two of the encounters are combat encounters, making this slightly less combat-heavy than usual. The combat encounters have instructions for scaling them, depending on the number of characters, which is done by adding more monsters. and in one case tougher ones too.

All of the encounters have different ability tests for characters to do, with a range of ways to do them, which may help with combat, and some have role playing elements too. Generally, the encounters are overcome through combat or ability tests. Hero Kids – Fantasy Adventure – Twilight Watchtower is a decent little adventure and it can be found by clicking here.