Mini Quest: The Lost King by David Dudka is a role playing game supplement published by Survive RPG for use with Dungeons & Dragons based games, although no particular system is specified. This is an adventure, one in the Mini Quest series.
This is a four page PDF that is available from RPGNow as a Pay What You Want supplement.
The characters are hired by the daughter of the previous king (although she is a princess, rather oddly). The king was killed during a conflict with orcs to the north; although he slew their leader, a new host marched to attack the king and he and his men were lost. The king’s body was never recovered, and the princess wants the part to go and retrieve it.
The first page is the march to the fortress where the king fell and has three encounters.
The rest of the supplement is exploring the fortress itself. There are few living inhabitants, most being either dead or undead. One encounter explains to the characters that the king sought to avoid the result of a bargain he made with some gods, and slew himself. He was raised as an undead being as a result; retrieving his body first requires it to stop moving around and attacking. There are two possible ways of doing this.
Finally, there is a force of orcs that will attack the fortress and, if the characters successfully retrieve the king’s body, they will receive a reward.
Mini Quest: The Lost King in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and they are not really required at this length. The text is either a one or two column format, depending on illustrations and maps, and a few minor errors were noticed. There are a number of custom black and white illustrations. Presentation is very good for a short supplement.
The adventure itself has a bit of travel and a lot of fortress exploration. There are some puzzles to solve to get some treasure, and a good way of defeating the king and a bad one. There is also a box that could provide a hook for another adventure, although it isn’t developed. Perhaps the biggest problem is that, like many of the adventures in this series, it isn’t specified what levels it is aimed at. Given that the undead king is a dangerous opponent, a GM will definitely need to decide what levels are needed to cope with the creature prior to play.
Mini Quest: The Lost King is, other than that niggle, a perfectly decent short adventure and it can be checked out for free by clicking here.
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