Hal19 - Horror at Hennepin

Free Role Playing Game Supplement Review: Hal19 – Horror at Hennepin

Hal19 – Horror at Hennepin by Frank Schmidt is a role playing game supplement published by Adventures in Filbar. This is an adventure that is aimed at the Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition game.

This is a nine-page PDF that is available for free from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover.

The Player’s Background starts with a description of a performance by a bard, Linus, about the Great Pumpkin that the characters hear as they are in the Hennepin Roadhouse.

Hal19 - Horror at HennepinThe DM Background explains that the adventure is for four 1st level characters or two 2nd level ones. It starts in a rural area where the roadhouse is the sole point of interest. The Great Pumpkin does exist and the adventure is intended as being a tongue in cheek one.

The adventure starts when a Scarecrow arrives at the roadhouse and attacks. Once defeated, the locals tell the characters that it came from Farmer Brown’s. Farmer Charlie Brown. A young woman, Lucy, volunteers to take the characters to the farm. At this point, if not before, players may start putting all the names together.

The adventure is a series of outdoor encounters, with zombies – Washington, Patty, and Marcy – then the farm, leading to skeletons and then a bog in which the Great Pumpkin resides. Full stats are given for the Great Pumpkin, a medium construct. Each encounter has some read aloud text followed by details of the encounter.

The final page has a DM’s Map, which appears to have been made in Hexographer from Inkwell Ideas.

Hal19 – Horror at Hennepin in Review

The PDF lacks bookmarks and, although these aren’t essential, they would have been nice. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a single column format and appeared to be mostly free of errors. Bar the colour map, there is a single colour illustration of a pumpkin. Presentation is okay.

This may be a tongue in cheek adventure as-is, given the use of Peanuts characters, but it would be pretty easy to hide that. Simply changing the names would make the adventure a lot creepier (unless killing most of the Peanuts characters qualifies as being sufficiently creepy in and of itself). This is a very linear adventure, although there is no real way around that. Hal19 – Horror at Hennepin is a decent little adventure that could be used as a starter and it can be downloaded for free by clicking here.


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