Thunder Ridge: Notes
- Thunder Ridge
- The Old Crypt Key
- Modern notes
- In college, around 1983/84, we found a bunch of boxed sets of DragonQuest in the bargain bin at one of the local textbook stores. We all picked up a copy. After we played it a couple of times, I thought that a good adventure could be written using a “low experience” villain and heavy use of rituals. The rituals meant that special things (such as kidnapping people for sacrifice) were necessary to perform the rituals; it also meant that a mage…
- Player’s History
- There have been strange things happening lately in the vicinity of Stone Goblin. Animals—sheep, chickens, dogs, and smaller wild animals, and a few humans—have been found dead. Their bodies have been torn as if by wolves. Some people have even disappeared.
- Game Master’s History
- The source of the problem is the Night Stalker. He who walks the Night. That is his own name for himself. He moved into Firetree, into an abandoned mansion, about a month ago. He is from Pirate’s Cove. His ancestors once lived in Stone Goblin, but were thrown out under suspicion of sacrifice. That was over a century ago. He discovered references to the secret crypt beneath the crypt, and decided to return to find it.
