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.
The 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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