The Festival of Spring Eggs by Nikolaos Kyriakoudis and Radu Gosa is a role playing game published by Adventuring Family Books.
The supplement is available as an 18 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. One page is the front cover, one the front matter and one is the back matter and ads.
Welcome to Adventuring Family! explains that this is an Easter story for families, teachers, therapists and young heroes based on the Adventuring Family TTRPG, focusing on simple choices, teamwork and kindness. It’s intended for children of ages 4-7.
Welcome to Adventuring Family! (again) explains that the adventure supports educational and developmental goals whilst remaining playful and emotionally safe, and that the Shadows represent difficult emotions, not bad behaviour.
Educational Gains looks at what the adventure is intended to achieve.
Adventure Summary explains that the Festival of Spring Eggs is about to begin, but this year the eggs, which are the focus and intended to be decorated, are being moved around constantly. The players need to plan and bring calm and organisation to the current chaos.
Game Master Guidance has tips for running the adventure, which with young players can be different.
Additional Advice for First Time Game Masters has more advice, if the GM has never done this kind of thing before.
General Game Rules explains this uses the d6 at its core, that gold and equipment are not needed, the spells that spellusing classes can cast and characters have a magical heirloom which can be lost if they are naughty or unkind.
Combat Rules explains these, where characters fight until 0 hit points, at which they fall unconscious, if characters, or vanish, if a Shadow. It explains attack and damage and what the spells do.
Pregame Preparation explains what should be done before play is started.
Important Characters lists the major NPCs, the Shadows and the eggs.
Following this is the actual adventure, which has an introduction, six short acts and an epilogue.
Character Images has four character portraits.
Shadow Enemies has stats for them.
The final six pages have four pregenerated characters.
The Festival of Spring Eggs in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a two-column format and appeared to be free of errors. The only images are of the pregenerated characters. Presentation is okay.
This is a simple adventure, though it’s also a self-contained one, as nothing else is needed to play it. It’s aimed at children, which is one reason for their lack of complexity, but should also be easy enough for anyone inexperienced to run. There aren’t many rules to follow and the various acts of the actual adventure are short, making them easy to run through. The Festival of Spring Eggs can be found by clicking here.
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