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Hussle

Abbreviations

PHB = Players Handbook

DMG = Dungeon Master’s Handbook

by Lance Kepner

Requires the Dungeons & Dragons® Core Rule Books,

published by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

This book utilizes updated material from the v. 3.5 revision.

Contents

Adventure Summary

Additional Credits

Adventure Background

Editing : Dana Driscoll

Cover Illustration : Kevin Crossley

Interior Artwork Credits : Kevin Crossley

Layout and design : Kosala Ubayasekara

The Adventure Begins

1. The Mayor’s House

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About the the Author

When not writing for food, Lance Kepner can be found running

sessions of D&D at local Gamer’s Anonymous gatherings.

moons he was the originator of the Project:Crossroads open-

world building project hosted by Silven Crossroads, and used

to be a freelance writer for ENWorld.

2. The Week

3. The Big Night

Conclusion

About the Editor

Synonyms for the word Dana include variegated, multifarious,

or perhaps convoluted. Dana has a variety of different

interests including reading, writing, learning, artwork,

environmentalism, and playing RPGs. In her previous position

as Editor-in-Chief of the Silven Trumpeter, she watched the

Trumpeter grow from its pilot issue into the largest free RPG

magazine on the Internet. She is currently editor-in-chief

of Silven Publishing and is also a PhD student working in the

ields of Linguistics and Composition Theory.

Continuing the Adventure

Open Gaming License

About the Artist

Kevin Crossley is Silven Publishing’s lead contract artist and

works out of the UK. You can see his online home at:

http://www.kevcrossley.com

“Hussle” is a mini-adventure designed for the

Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 edition role playing game,

and is suitable for four characters of 4th level.

Scaling the Adventure

”Hussle” is designed to challenge four 4th level characters,

but it can easily be modiied for parties of different sizes

or levels. Consider the following:

Adventure Summary

T his adventure takes place solely within the quaint,

remote town of Elysburg. The adventure begins with

the player characters (PCs) simply entering the town.

They can be coming from a recent adventure or on their

way to a new one. The gracious people of Elysburg

greet the party with respect and admiration and see to

their every need. The PCs are lavished with grooming,

baths, clothing, and entertainment— everything they

could possibly need or want—for a price.

2nd-3rd level PC’s: The town may not take so much

money from the young adventurers, or they may rob the

inexperienced travelers blind. In the inal showdown with

Gu’uldak , remove the 2 barbarian levels and run him as

a standard Minotaur.

5th-6th level PC’s: The town will need to be wary to

not tip their hand to the PC’s. Give Ariadne Moonsleight

2 more rogue levels with bluff and diplomacy max ranks.

Also give Gu’uldak 4 levels of barbarian.

The fair town of Elysburg has learned that agricultural

income is far inferior to the inlux of money adventurers

can bring in. So the town has devised a method of

sapping every hard earned coin from their adventuring

guests. The town, lead by the beautiful half-elf Cleric

of Trickery, Ariadne Moonsleight, traps incoming

adventurers in a tale of horriic plights and terrible

monsters. No good adventurer can stand idly by and

watch the poor defenseless town be ravaged by such

foulness. But, unbeknownst to the townsfolk and our

fair adventurers, the town’s invocations of a false god

have the attention of the demigod Mardax, and his scorn

could tear the town asunder.

7th+ PC’s: The town will need to be extremely wary that

the PC’s do not catch onto their scheme. The PC’s at this

level have many items to part with but also much magic

to use. Make Ariadne Moonsleight have 1/2 the party’s

level in rogue and +1 the party’s level in cleric. Gu’uldak

as one opponent may not be the best option for the

powerful PC’s. Make Gu’uldak have as many barbarian

levels as the party level, and consider adding multiple

regular Minotaurs into the ight accompanying Gu’uldak.

Remember that scaling the encounter means scaling

the treasure. A higher-level Gu’uldak may posses more

magical equipment, and possibly a magic weapon.

Adventure Background

T he small town of Nordburg (now Elysburg) has had

its hardships. The local cave systems in the nearby hills

are ripe with orc and goblin raiding parties. For two

hundred years, the orcs and goblins have raided the

small town, taking what provisions they could from the

agricultural community. They would frequently make

off with bundles of food, barrels of water, livestock and

occasionally a few slaves.

replenished itself over and over with little maintenance—

the wealth of adventurers. The town was overjoyed, and

accepted the proposal, and Nordburg became Elysburg,

named after the perfectly peaceful place and state of

being.

Soon the town had a plan, they would lure the

adventurers in with a tall tale of a vengeful Minotaur

that appeared in the mist every week at nearly the

same time. If it was not appeased by massive amounts

of food it wreaked havoc, tearing the poor town apart.

Only the person known as ”The Deliverer” could put an

end to the beast once and for all.

Many adventurers came to Nordburg in the past to try

and halt the orc and goblin raids, and they almost always

succeeded, at least for a while. It was too expensive on

the town’s coffers to keep calling in adventurers every

ive or six years to take care of their reoccurring problem.

The town tried to build defenses against the raiding

parties but the walls always fell, the village ransacked,

and even more slaves were taken. For countless years

the citizens of Nordburg lived in fear. That is, until ten

years ago, when a young half-elven cleric was traveling

through the town.

Of course, it is all a lie, there really is no Minotaur, it

is merely a costumed townsperson. And the elaborate

Prophecy is a script that will keep the adventurers

interested and spending money in the town until the

inal climactic conclusion.

The stories and disguise also worked on the orcs and

goblins, for they have not raided since the Minotaur

stories have been circulating.

Ariadne Moonsleight was a wandering Cleric of Trickery,

simply trying to pass on the word and stay out of

trouble. When the townsfolk approached her, she felt

compelled to help them. She devised a means to bring

them a source of income that wouldn’t rely solely on

the fallowing ields—a nearly bottomless resource that

But the God of Minotaurs, the Horned One, deity of

power and strength, Mardax has been informed as to

the towns’ invocations against his children. Mardax’s

intentions are clear; he will destroy the town showing

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