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Master Adventures

Adventure Module for 4-5 Characters of Levels 3-4 o for One 6th Level Paladin

The Minotaur

By Mario Barbati and Diego di Dato

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

8, Toilet

Note on Ability Checks

9, Alchemist’s Laboratory

Adventure Background

10, Cages

Adventure Synopsis

11, Daedalus’s Secret Laboratory

Using this Module

12, Souvenir Room

Placing this Module in your Own

Campaign

13, Bones Room

14, The Underground Stream

Adventure Hooks

15, Old Entrance

16, Bridges

Events 5

Event 1, Arrival in the Villageof Kreta 5

Event 2, Talking with Galerio 6

Event 3, Talking with the Village Farmers 7

Event 4, Meeting Aghav

17, The Maze

18, She-Minotaur Lair

Production: Øone Games

Supervision Mario Barbati

Graphic Design O’Bully

Cartography O’Bully

Artwork Stefano Guida. Alessandro Ciofi

19, The Black Monster

20, Secret Exit

21, The Three Caverns

Event 5, The Ambush

22, More Rats

Event 6, The Return

23, Cavern of Stirges

Event 7, Spending the Night into the

Dungeon

24, Revealing Pool

25, The Dead Body

26, Hidden Pool

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Marshall. “OSRIC TM ” and “Old School Reference

and Index Compilation TM ,” are trademarks of

Matthew Finch and Stuart Marshall and may

be used only inaccordance with the OSRIC TM

license. This product is not afiliated with

Wizards of the Coast.”

Locations

1, Zerdya’s Hut

Aftermath 17

Appendix 17

New NPC Class, The Mad Alchemist 17

New Monster

2, Horn’s Hill

3, The Skull’s Mouth

4, The Corridor

5, The Funnel Room

Player Character

6, The Curtain

Handout 1

7, Larder

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Introduction

became alive. With his creature’s irst

breath, the aging Daedalus felt his heart

surging, and he fell to the ground, killed by

a heart attack.

during the night, spiriting away swine,

sheep and chickens, whatever would cease

her hunger and needs. During these raids,

she tried to remain unseen and avoid

confrontations with the farmers due to her

prominent belly. Though things became

troublesome for the farm folk, they never

knew why.

The Minotaur is a double adventure, as

a one-on-one adventure which features a

bold adventure for a 6th level paladin, this

adventure is a dungeon crawl, which does

not spare role playing opportunities and

mysteries to solve. This adventure may also

be played with a standard four 3rd level

characters group and can be placed with

ease in any campaign world as explained

in ‘Using This Module’ below.

This female minotaur created was stronger

than normal, yet less ferocious than her

male counterpart. The monster, which

was the only one able to go through the

enchanted maze without getting lost,

limited herself to stealing some sheep from

the nearby village.

After the trying months of her pregnancy,

the minotaur birthed four infant minotaurs:

two male, two female. Aghav was in

high spirits that his experiments worked,

but soon his dream crumbled: the infant

minotaurs were weakening, refusing both

food and mother’s milk.

You will ind also a new monster, the She-

Minotaur.

Over the years, several of the farmers

spotted her many times, even though they

never recognized her as a female. Feeling

the monster wouldn’t harm anyone if

properly feed, they began leaving ill and

aging cattle near Horn’s Hill every week.

Note on Ability Checks

The alchemist frenetically looked and

labored in order to ind a cure for his

would-be army. In the end, he discovered,

these little creatures could only be fed by

mixing young human blood in with their

food. Keeping this secret to himself, Aghav

told the minotaur that he would prepare

a medicine for her children, but she must

bring him young humans.

At certain times in the adventure,

characters may have to make an Ability

Check.

The player rolls a d20. If the result is equal

to or less than the PC’s ability score in the

area called for in the

check (Strength, Wisdom, Dexterity, etc.),

the check succeeds.

With the passing of time, the minotaur

continued to live in her maze and eat what

the farmers had left for her, though this

was to change in the intervening years.

A young mad alchemist, named Aghav,

found Daedalus’s laboratory and retrieved

the wizard’s books and notes. Fascinated

by the old wizard’s experiments, Aghav

thought he had a unique opportunity

to create an army of minotaurs at his

service and threw himself to the world

domination.

The mother-minotaur, having no choice,

began to terrorize the surrounding village

kidnapping farmers’ children. Meanwhile,

Aghav decided to eliminate the mother-

minotaur so as to keep the infant-

minotaurs and raising them to be his army.

But, his attempts at poisoning the beast

have failed...

Adventure Background

A long time ago, the crazed wizard

Daedalus built his laboratory near the

farming village of Kreta. Daedalus

conducted strange and mysterious

experiments in his rocky, hilled laboratory,

often going into the village in order to

buy a bull or a cow. He seemed harmless,

and for nearly 10 years, this was his way

a purchase of a bull or cow from the

villagers.

Finding himself unable to enter the

minotaur’s maze, he waited patiently for

her to exit. Once in touch with the monster,

he struck a bargain with her. He asked to

remain in the old wizard’s laboratory; in

exchange he would prepare every week

for her a potion he claimed to enhance

her strength. Having nothing to lose,

the minotaur agreed seeing the wizard’s

laboratory was out of her maze and of no

interest to her.

Adventure Synopsis

Recalled to his home village, Kreta, the

paladin meets with his old mentor, Galerio,

and learns that the minotaur under Horn’s

Hill has gone mad and began kidnapping

local village youths.

A few disappearances of young females

were noted across these ten years as well,

but being a wild land, folks at the village

thought the poor unfortunates were

kidnapped from bandits or suffered an

accident of some kind while traveling.

The locals began calling the area “Horn’s

Hill”, due to the bones and horns found

there. The community also felt fear from

the magic emanating from the area, so that

none dared to venture into Daedalus’s lair.

Seeking more information about the

minotaur, the paladin investigates the

area, encountering legends about the

creature and crossing paths with the local

soothsayer and blind witch. Urged by

her words, the paladin makes his way to

Horn’s Hill.

Aghav established himself in the

laboratory, and continued Daedalus’s

research. Aghav made many experiments,

many which produced horrid hybrids

he keep secreted away in an area near

the laboratory. Finally, these experiments

provided him at last what he wanted.

Crossing paths with danger, the paladin

meets Aghav in Daedalus’s laboratory.

After speaking with the alchemist, the

paladin learns that Aghav has been

making potions for the beast under duress

and wishes the paladin to free him from

its clutches. Entering the labyrinth, and

dealing with its magic and riddles, the

paladin confronts the minotaur.

Daedalus was conducting some sort of

genetic experiments. He was fascinated

by minotaurs, and wondered why female

minotaurs didn’t exist. Using his magic, the

girls he captured, the cows and bulls, he

struggled for ten years to create a female

minotaur. During the years he built an

enchanted maze, which would prevent

anyone from reaching the minotaur’s lair.

Aghav asked each and every week that

the minotaur consume her potions in the

order he gave them to her. These potions

of strength were in fact magical elixirs

that would make the minotaur magically

pregnant and capable of generating Aghav

the army he desired.

During the nine months of her pregnancy,

the minotaur required more food than the

farm folk were providing in their weekly

offering. Often, she raided the farms

At long last, Daedalus succeeded, and

during one trying night, his creation

Discovering the truth of both the

minotaur’s gender and goals in saving her

offspring, the paladin must defend against

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the minotaur’s tricks or assaults as well as

defend against the alchemist’s ambush.

Several encounters have boxed text that

may be read aloud to the players, though is

not mandatory. You should feel free to add

details or change the text as you wish.

given as the ‘standard’ for the one-on-one

adventure.

Hoping that pity saves the infant

minotaurs from the paladin, the alchemist

desires the infant minotaurs to be part of

his crazed plot of raising an army.

- Gulthammar is being trained at the Holy

Grave of St. Carminius. He left his home,

the village of Kreta, many years ago.

Gulthammar is seeking acceptance into in

the Seventh Circle, a powerful elite order

of paladins. But a young boy interrupts

his meditation, bringing a message from

his stepfather. The message simply says

that the village of Kreta is threatened

and requests immediate assistance.

Gulthammar has no choice but to leave

the Holy Grave, even if this will cost his

possible admittance to the Seventh Circle.

This module is divided into events and

locations. The events are triggered by

time or by a situation (such as a character

who make a speciic question or goes to

a determinate place or meets a certain

NPC); the events do not follow an exact

succession, as one event with a higher

number may happen before one with a

lower number. The locations are the places

the character can visit during the adventure

(for example: the dungeons room).

After dealing with the mother-minotaur,

the paladin explores the minotaur’s

dungeon, uncovering a magical pool which

reveals the true desires of Aghav, which

may allow the paladin to avoid the ambush

and confront the alchemist successfully.

Using this Module

‘The Minotaur,’ is a simple dungeon crawl

adventure. While it was mainly designed

for a single adventurer, a 6th level paladin

of the Holy Order of St. Carminius, a

regular sized 3rd level party may use it.

As presented, ‘The Minotaur,’ is a double

adventure module.

At the end of each event or encounter,

when necessary, you will ind another

paragraph labeled ‘party’. In these

paragraphs, there may be the necessary

changes to the adventure to best challenge

a party of adventurers as opposed the

single paladin presentation.

Placing this Module in

your Own Campaign

- While traveling near the village of Kreta,

the party hears a rustling of leaves and

snapping of twigs as two small children

cross their path, running as if they had the

devil on their backs.

It takes the children a moment to realize

that they had encountered the party, but

they stop in front of the group. The two

seven-year-old boys, Kyl and Nabs, accept

food and water from the party but start

screaming and crying if the party mentions

taking them to the village. The boys believe

that they will be killed if they return there,

and steadfastly refuse to go unless the

party offers protection.

The boys have recently witnessed a friend

of theirs, Urvic, being kidnapped during

the night by the ‘monster of the hill.’

Though they know where Horn’s Hill is,

they have lost their way in the woods while

running from their fears of being sent to

the monster by the lottery. Both Kyl and

Nabs can lead the party back to Kreta.

Being mostly a dungeon crawl, ‘The

Minotaur’ can be easily placed into any

ongoing campaign; all you need is a village

with a hill nearby. You can change the

names of the main characters, as well as the

name of the village and the hill, to best suit

your campaign needs.

Adventure Hooks

You can use these adventure hooks to

lead into this adventure; the irst option is

- While traveling, either the paladin or

party, enter the village of Kreta and witness

the scene described in Event 1.

Events

Event 1, Arrival in the Village

of Kreta

This event happens when the character(s)

arrive in the village of Kreta

The village streets seem empty for

a small farming village. The vacant

thoroughfares lead towards believing

that all are engrossed in working the

ields or some such. A noise erupts

from a massed throng of people

in front of a two-story home. Fists

are raised as well as spades and

pitchforks, as the anger of the crowd

lows towards you.

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