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1 on 1 Adventures #11

Unbound Adventures

By Peter Franke

1 on 1 Adventures #11: Unbound Adventures

Have you and your friends ever sat around the gaming table wanting an exciting,

perilous dungeon adventure but no one wanted to be the Gamemaster? Do you ind

yourself with little time to read through lengthy adventure modules and memorize

them? Do you want to get down into the dungeon as quickly as possible and start killing

monsters and inding treasure? Then look no farther than Unbound Adventures !

A supplement for playing GM-less for

any number of players of all levels

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This module includes 20 pages of rules for roleplaying without a GM. Crafted for any

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1 on 1 Adventures #11

Unbound Adventures

By Peter Franke

Rules for Dungeon Adventures without a Gamemaster

Cover Artist: Scott Purdy

Artists: Ash Jackson, V. Shane, and Jason Walton

Thanks to Jared Buntain, Noah Buntain and Dan Chapman for their helpful advice and play-testing with this supplement.

Table of Contents

Introduction...............................................................................2

What is an “Unbound” Adventure?.......................................2

1. Characters and Settlements.................................................2

Dungeon Level ..................................................................3

Settlements.........................................................................3

2. Adventure Hooks, Objectives and Reward.......................3

Unbound Campaigns.......................................................4

3. Travel......................................................................................4

Traveling to the Dungeon................................................4

Resolving Wilderness Monster Encounters..................4

Traveling back to the Settlement ....................................5

Traveling to a new Settlement.........................................5

4. How the Dungeon Works....................................................5

5. Monster Psychology.............................................................8

6. Treasure................................................................................11

7. Settlement and Dungeon Name Generator.....................11

8. Dungeon Generation..........................................................12

Special Feature.................................................................14

Special Room ...................................................................14

Special Chamber..............................................................16

9. Objectives and the Objective Roll and Encounter..........17

1. Rescue...........................................................................17

2. Item Retrieval ..............................................................17

3. Eradication...................................................................17

4. Feature Destruction ....................................................17

5. Discovery......................................................................18

6. Epic (objective) ............................................................18

10. Going it Alone ...................................................................18

OPEN GAME LICENSE Version 1.0a..................................20

Exploring and Encounters...............................................5

Traps ...................................................................................6

Introduction

“Which way?” asked Jareel.

Raising the lickering torch above his helm he could see the

dimly lit chamber down the passageway ahead.

The party conferred amongst themselves quietly and the

warriors gripped their weapons a little more tightly as the decision

was made to go onward, deeper into the dungeon…

1. Characters and Settlements

Characters for use in this supplement should be created

almost strictly in a “hack and slash” manner. Skills that

will often be used will be: Spot, Listen, Hide, Move Silently,

Search, Heal, Tumble, Concentration, Disable Device, Open

Lock, Knowledge, Appraise, and occasionally Survival.

Combat is common so combat-related skills and Feats are

important. Role-playing or non-combat oriented skills and

Feats will likely not be used. Unbound Adventures is very

much a “Kick-in-the-door” type of dungeon experience with

few opportunities for players to devise an elaborate combat

strategy or to role-play their way out of a sticky situation.

The rules provided by this supplement are meant for

characters from level 1 to about 10 or 12. It is possible to play

characters of higher level but the challenges presented by

the traps, monsters tables and dungeon features are not as

complex as they should be for very high level characters.

Adventuring parties should generally be 4 characters in

size with no more than 4 character levels difference between any

particular party member. The tables in this supplement (and in

the DMG) are for use with a party of 4 characters. However

it is possible to adventure with more or less characters. See

the Going It Alone section of this supplement for details on

playing a very small, low-level (1st or 2nd level) party or a

party of a single character. Parties larger than 5 or 6 characters

will ind the conines of the dungeon very crowded.

Players should create their character as they would

normally, however it is recommended they use the Standard

Point Buy found in the DMG to purchase ability scores

with 28 points for distribution between attributes. It is also

recommended that players start with only the average starting

money for purchasing equipment. For starting equipment,

everything should be available to the players. During the

adventure, there will be certain amounts of equipment and

resources available depending on the settlement where the

players end up. Characters in the party should be of similar

alignment although that is entirely up to the players.

Have you and your friends ever sat around the gaming table

wanting an exciting, perilous dungeon adventure but no one

wanted to be the Gamemaster? Do you ind yourself with

little time to read through lengthy adventure modules and

memorize them? Do you want to get down into the dungeon

as quickly as possible and start killing monsters and inding

treasure? Then look no farther than “Unbound Adventures”!

What is an “Unbound”

Adventure?

In this rules supplement, players will ind the information

necessary for using the 3.5 D20 core rules without a

Gamemaster. Players will form a party, ind an adventure,

travel to the dungeon (which will be generated for them as

they explore) and ight the monsters they ind there. There are

rules inspired by the 1st edition of the core rules, in homage to

the solo play rules that edition contained.

Players will need a copy of each of the 3.5 core rule books

to use this supplement (PHB, DMG and MM). Since there is

no Gamemaster, players will be making all of the die rolls

(including for all the monsters), and the dungeon will be

generated using the tools in this book as well as the tables and

guidelines in the Adventuring Chapter in the DMG. If there is

ever a question or concern that the rules don’t have an answer

for, use your best judgment or roll-off randomly between

available options. Be fair, no one is keeping you honest but

yourself and your fellow players.

Characters advance in level as soon as they reach the

appropriate amount of required experience. As a note, all

experience gained will be coming directly from defeating

monsters, successfully overcoming traps and the occasional

special encounter.

Once the adventure hook has been established, roll

randomly to determine the player’s dungeon “objective”.

There are 5 different kinds of typical dungeon objectives. (See

Table Below). Players may also decide to choose the objective

based on what its the adventure hook best.

The Dungeon Level or “DL” for the adventure is set at

this time. See the entry under Characters and Settlements to

determine the appropriate Dungeon Level for the party.

(OPTIONALLY) If the players want a more challenging

adventure with tougher monsters, they may choose to increase

the adventure’s Dungeon Level to whatever they think they

can handle.

Later, when determining the dungeon layout, the

dungeon objective will ultimately help shape the deepest

areas of the dungeon so make sure it is recorded. There will

be speciic instructions under the Dungeon Generation

section on what the players will need to do to accomplish their

objective when they reach it.

There will be a large reward for the players for

successfully completing the objective and returning to the

adventure’s settlement. When the successful players return to

the settlement, roll once for each character in the party on the

Treasure Tables found in the DMG. The table used should be

equal to the DL of the adventure. This “reward treasure” will

not require any sort of identiication or appraisal and will be

the full value and description as determined by the tables.

(OPTIONALLY) Players may use either the Diplomacy

or Intimidate skills to re-roll or possibly increase their reward

treasure results. To re-roll their table results, each player may

make a single Diplomacy skill check at DC 10 + DL. If the

check is successful the player may re-roll their results once but

must accept the new result even if it is worse. If the player fails

the Diplomacy roll they must accept the reward they were

originally given.

To increase the table level of the reward treasure, make a

single Intimidate skill check at DC 15 + DL. If the check succeeds,

the player may roll on the table 1 level higher than normal. If

they fail the Intimidate roll they have offended the locals so

much they are thrown out and receive no reward at all.

(OPTIONALLY) When the players level-up in the middle

of a dungeon they may increase the DL of the current dungeon

to their newly recalculated DL. This however does not change

the reward they receive when they return to the settlement.

For example, the 1st level party begins at DL 1.During the

adventure they gain enough experience to level-up to level 2.

The new DL for the party is 2. They may increase the DL to 2

for the rest of the adventure but the reward they were offered

when they took the adventure at DL 1 remains the same when

they return to the settlement.

Dungeon Level

To accommodate parties of varying size and composition, this

supplement uses a term to quantify a party’s adventuring level

called “Dungeon Level” or “DL”. This represents the level of

challenge an adventure might give to players in the party. To

determine an adventure’s Dungeon Level, use this equation:

DL = sum of all character levels in the party / 4

For example a party of 4 1st level characters would = Dungeon

Level (DL) of 1.

For DL calculations with fractions, round to the nearest

whole number (i.e. round fractions below .5 down and

fractions .5 and above up). For example a DL of 2.25 would be

DL 2 and a DL of 3.75 would be DL 4.

Dungeon Level may also never be lower than the highest

level character in the party minus 2. For example a level 2, a

level 3, a level 1 and a level 6 character decide to adventure

together. The DL equation gives the party a DL of 3. This is too

low for this party. The highest level character in the party is

level 6; therefore the lowest the adventure DL may be is DL 4.

Settlements

Players will begin together in an initial settlement. Generate

the town using the Random Town Generation table in the

DMG to determine the size of the settlement the players are

in (and any new settlements they ind in the future). Players

may also use the Settlement Name Generator found later in

this supplement to name the settlement. Write down the size

(and possible name) for future reference. From here they will

generate their irst adventure.

Generate any random urban encounters using the Urban

Encounters table in the DMG for each of the players (or

groups of players) for each day they spend doing things in

the settlement. Players may determine the results of elaborate

urban encounters as they wish. Encounter results such as

brawls may be resolved as ights with typical settlement

inhabitants (use the Monster Psychology rules for hostile

NPCs), etc. When in doubt, simply use your best judgment for

the result of the encounter.

Once the players have completed their irst adventure

they may wish to stay in the same settlement and generate

more adventures or travel to a different or larger settlement.

See the rules for this under the Travel section below.

Table 1: Dungeon Objectives

2. Adventure Hooks, Objectives

and Reward

In a settlement, players can interact with NPCs that will give

rumors or request a task which leads to an “adventure hook”.

Usually, players interact with the patrons of the local Tavern

to gather information and to look for an available job. The

locals are willing to share their problems over a mug of ale

and NPCs often congregate here if adventurers are seeking

extra help. Therefore each settlement always has a place where

the players can go to get the motivation they need to journey

onward. NPC’s can be wherever the players decide to ind

them, in an inn, a shop, etc. Any settlement NPC has the ability

to give rumors or tasks which become adventure hooks in this

manner. If inspiration is running dry, check out the list of 100

Adventure Ideas found in the DMG and roll randomly on this

chart to determine the adventure hook for the dungeon.

Dungeon Objectives

Rescue

Item Retrieval

Eradication

Feature Destruction*

Discovery

Epic - Roll again (ignore 6). Increase DL by +1

*The NPCs suggest that the players bring a lask of holy water with

them to the dungeon.

Table 2: Unbound Campaigns

climate. Include the possibility that the players may become

lost. Write down the generated distance, terrain and trail

type for future reference. Note that players may adventure in

whatever season they wish.

Adjust the amount of time based on the type of terrain the

players are travelling through and the trail type as described

in the PHB. Players may make any adjustments for mounts or

other forms travel such as magic or light.

Title

Completed Campaigns

Defenders of (Settlement Name)

Champions of (Settlement Name)

Heroes of the Realm

Resolving Wilderness Monster

Encounters

The probability of a wilderness encounter is described in

the DMG under Random Wilderness Encounters with tables

of monsters found in various types of wilderness. Find the

table for the type of terrain the party is travelling through.

Determine number of encounters available for the Dungeon

Level of the adventure (DL). Include monsters that are also 1

CR below and 1 CR above the DL.

Randomly determine between what is available in that

CR range to ind what monsters the players encounter (i.e. If

the adventure has an DL of 1 and there are two CR 1 entries,

a CR 2 entry and a CR 2 entry, roll a d4 and on a 1 choose the

CR 2 entry, on a 2 choose the irst CR 1entry, on a 3 choose the

second CR 1 entry and inally on a 4 choose the CR 2 entry).

Unbound Campaigns

For a “campaign” of consecutive adventures, players should

play each objective once from the same settlement. The players

may play the objectives in order or whatever order they

choose. The inal objective will always be an “Epic” objective.

They may also choose to play any or all of the objectives

in the same dungeon. In this case, each new objective will only

be found on the next unexplored, lower dungeon level of a

previously found dungeon. Players must ind stairs leading

down from an explored level to an unexplored level to begin

the new dungeon and objective (begin counting encounters

towards the objective on this new level).

Once the players have completed all 6 objectives, the

settlement holds a celebration and dubs the players with a

title (see the table above). That settlement no longer requires

the services of the players and will not generate any more

objectives. To continue adventuring, the players must travel

to a new settlement and again complete all 6 objectives (with

“Epic being the inal) to earn another title.

Once the players have completed a single campaign and

earned a title, they are now known throughout the land and

should be considered “unusually famous” for any urban

encounter rolls.

Table 3: Travel Distance and Time

Distance

Time (Average Speed 20)

4 miles

(2 hours)

8 miles

(4 hours)

12 miles

(6 hours)

3. Travel

Before the players can begin exploring the dungeon and

defeating the monsters therein, they must travel to the

dungeon’s entrance. This wilderness journey may be an

adventure all of its own. Players should decide beforehand

on a travelling party formation, should any monsters be

encountered. They should likewise plan a watch order should

they have to make camp for the night.

16 miles

(8 hours, 1 day)

24 miles

(12 hours, 1.5 days)

32 miles

(16 hours, 2 days)

Table 4: Terrain Type

Terrain Type (d6):

Marsh

Desert

Forest

Plains

Hills

In this formation example the party is travelling north. The

Fighter (F) and the Cleric (C) make up the irst rank and the

Rogue (R) and the Wizard (W) bring up the rear. The party is

prepared for any wandering monsters they might encounter

in the wilderness.

Mountains

Table 5: Trail Type

Trail Type (d6):

Traveling to the Dungeon

Use the tables below to ind travel time, terrain and type of

trail leading to the dungeon through the wilderness from the

settlement. Follow any special terrain rules for adventuring in

the wilderness as described in the DMG, such as weather and

Trackless

2 – 5

Road or Trail

Highway

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