Adventurers Wanted, Volume 1 is a 9-page PDF (8 pages if you remove the OGL page) for the D20 3.5/OGL system written by David Caffee, Illustrated by Larry Elmore and published by Scorched Urf’ Studios. This product is premier volume for the Adventurers Wanted line.

The layout is full page for the Adventurers Wanted posters and two columns for the adventure text itself. The only art is the Elmore piece that is repeated, naturally, on each of posters.

The idea behind adventurers wanted is to have short adventures that can be easily included in any campaign, ready to be added into an ongoing game with minimal preparation. The poster -which comes in English, Dwarven and Elvish versions- frame the situation and present a route for adventure for the player characters.

The basic adventure that follows is functional if lacking in surprises or options. While perfectly serviceable, and the character of the Duchess is well drawn for a short product, it would be better if more option for the path of the adventure was provided. Additionally, especially for an productdesigned to assist a GM by providing a ready to run adventure, the advice of “A cunning DM will find all sorts of obstacles to throw in the party’s way” is self-evident, some actual suggestions for obstacles would be more helpful.

This is an acceptable start for this product line and it shows promise and achieves its aim, just. For future products, the information on major non-player characters could be expanded, more adventure options could be provided and suggestions for obstacles and various scenes could be included.

Disclosure: As a featured reviewer for RPGNow/DriveThroughRPG, I received my copy of this product for free from the publisher for the purpose of this review.