This is a wonderful twist on an old tale. The PCs are cast in the role of Beowulf to do battle with a mighty grendel. But things are not as they seem, and the story ends with a moral dilema.

This a great adventure for 1st level characters and probably a pretty good one for first time players, too. The characters will be traveling to Kingsbridge where a call for help has gone out from the headman, Siegfried. Siegfried is trying to re-establish the town after it was abandoned decades ago but tools and food have gone missing, trees have fallen on recently cleared paths, and people have caught glimpses of a huge man with his face concealed behind a warmask made of bone. The same descrption given for the creature that killed Siegfried’s father and caused Kingsbridge to be abandoned all those years ago.

The plot is solid, the NPCs are written engagingly, there's opportunity for the players to get clever, and there's a couple pieces of GM advice for if the players try to get too clever.

I think my favorite part is that the end offers the characters a choice and that choice will determine which of two possible endings the players get. Oftentimes, no matter how much of a sandbox you played in the rest of the time, the ending is set in stone. The BBEG has this evil plan and he needs to get kicked in the face so he can't speak the words of the ancient curse because he's too busy choking on his teeth. The beauty of tabletop RPGs is the depth of choice available and it's nice to see that reflected even in the denouement.