Red Moon Harvest (Adapted for Shadowdark) by Pickpocket Press

Red Moon Harvest is a Low-Fantasy Gaming adventure for Argosa. I ran this for Shadowdark using the Argosa-Shadowdark conversion I wrote. Pickpocket Press and I have the Adventure Anthology for Shadowdark coming soon:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lowfantasygaming/adventure-anthology-for-shadowdark?

Play Time: One sessions, 3 hours (maybe a bit over).

General Thoughts: I used this adventure as a swan song for Ember, the party’s combat wizard. I’m allergic to high-level play. It’s too hard to balance endless fireballs and lightning bolts while figuring out how a level 1 character can survive, much less contribute. Due to this goal, there was a lot of hustle for this adventure. I let the players explore the mansion/estate as much as I comfortably could while trying to wrap this up in a single session.

There was a lot of mayhem. I appreciated Sagie’s player searching around the estate rather than just plowing through the front door, but after tangling with a bear, disturbing a nest of giant centipedes, and starting a fight with the ghostly maid (after stealing the wand of silence hidden in the library), it was time to move on. I really appreciated that this wasn’t just undead lurking around an old estate. There was definitely some Weird Tales sci-fantasy stuff going on.

The N’Tarc were great enemies, because I portrayed them as creatures that stuttered through space. They didn’t move in a 3-dimensional manner, but instead blipped around, disappearing and reappearing constantly. Once I added in that the N’Tarc seemed to dissolve into pixelated messes when slain (instead of, you know, bleeding or something), Sagie’s player quipped that the party was fighting the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Being a huge Hunger Force fan back in the day, I appreciated this. The portal’s keystone may unlock new worlds of adventure for the group, we’ll see. It was a fitting send-off for Ember the wizard, who retired to study the stone.

As always, Pickpocket Press delivered an adventure that was both playable and enjoyable, and that I could easily modify with very little effort. I do encourage readers to check out the Adventure Anthology for Shadowdark conversion, which has 22 adventures for Shadowdark.

Available on DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/230258/adventure-framework-23-red-moon-harvest?affiliate_id=14013