For the past few days, I have soloed my way through Variations on a Night of Blood (18 pages, free/pay what you want at DriveThruRPG). This fun adventure is for grimDARK: A Fistful of Ashcan Edition which I did use (60 pages, same place). There is a basic free edition (9 pages, same place). I did make some changes to the rules so that I could run a long campaign if I wanted to. I used Magic the Gathering cards along with a yes/no/maybe oracle as the solo engine. I created six characters to take on this adventure. It should be noted that this adventure starts with you rolling a six-sided die four times. It creates the scenario and then the game master needs to fill in all the details. Here are the highlights of the adventure.
For me, the inn was not of this realm and it wants to keep those who enter it. The PCs started with going up the stairs. On this level they explored eleven rooms, killed five skeletons, found 70 gold pieces, the fighter became a skeleton, and the thief had to make a corruption check. The riddle room separated the PCs and moved each one down to the ground level of the building. Four of the PCs were able to find each other in just a few minutes. My cleric took the stairs down and explored an underground lake, a rocky cavern, and underground vineyard, and was attacked by a Lash of Thorns (deathtouch). He died. Jax the wizard found himself in a gymnasium. Next he found some stairs leading down where he found a wine cellar. It was here that he had to fight a root monster and then a giant rat. The last room he discovered was a dwarven throne room. The dwarven king gave him a quest. Well, that will be an adventure for another day. Give this a try! One of the PCs was Gobja. He is a goblin who is an alchemical artist. He was in a foul mood because he fell into some water and most of his alchemical ingredients got ruined.
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