TG19 – Horn of Plenty by Frank Schmidt is a role playing game supplement published by Adventures in Filbar. This is an adventure intended for two characters that is aimed at Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.
The supplement is available as a 12-page PDF for free from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover.
The Player’s Background gives some brief details about how the crops for the settlement you lead gave failed, as have those for the locals who had been helping.
The DM Background explains that this adventure was made for Thanksgiving and 2 4th level characters. It notes that these are provided and, indeed, there are two character sheets at the back. Both, however, are blank. The leader of the local tribe proposes a quest to the leader of the settlement – it’s suggested one can be played as an NPC if needed – to find the Horn of Plenty, a minor artefact.
The barbarian leader arrives at the village and explains the various places where the Horn could be. The DM is advised to use as many or as few of these as time permits; this is intended to be a one shot. The two characters then set off to explore the area.
There are six different encounter locations; a swamp, the border with a goblin tribe, a lake, grasslands, hills and a volcano, the last being the most dangerous and the location of the artefact. Each location has a combat encounter.
A colour hex map, which appears to have been made in Hexographer from Inkwell Ideas, takes up about half a page. This has the various locations marked on it. No scale is given; earlier it is explained that scale is up to the DM.
TG19 – Horn of Plenty in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and, although not long, is long enough that these could have been helpful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a single column format and a couple of minor errors, excluding the blank character sheets, were spotted. Bar the map, there is a single illustration on the cover. Presentation is okay.
This has clearly been designed as an adventure that can be run in a limited amount of time. The encounters are almost all optional, so that the length can be adjusted, and there aren’t the sort of random encounters you would expect in what is essentially a hex crawl, to further limit the amount of time taken. However, this does mean the adventure could be expanded into something else. The lack of scale should make it easy to drop into almost any border region, random travel encounters could be added and perhaps a few more fixed ones, making this a much larger adventure. TG19 – Horn of Plenty is an okay adventure to run in a short amount of time, but has the potential to be expanded into more, and it can be downloaded for free by clicking here.
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