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Credits

James Edward Raggi IV

Writing, Layout

lotfp@lotfp.com

Peter Mullen

Cover Art

www.freewebs.com/mullenart

Dean Clayton

Interior Art

www.wix.com/samhain777/Dean-Clayton

Ramsey Dow

Cartography

yesmar@speakeasy.net

Caroline Byrne

David Macauley

Zak Smith

Editing

Maria Kyytinen

Additional Proofreading

An Adventure for Beginning Players, Characters, and Referees

Compatible with

Labyrinth Lord, LotFP Weird Fantasy Role-Playing, OSRIC, and Swords &

Wizardry Core Rules

are trademarks of Daniel Proctor. These trademarks are used under the Labyrinth Lord™ Trademark License

1.1 available at www.goblinoidgames.com .

This product uses the OSRIC™ System (Oldschool System Reference and Index Compilation™). The

OSRIC™ system text may be found at http://www.knights-n-knaves.com/osric . The OSRIC™ text is copyright

of Stuart Marshall. "OSRIC™" and "Oldschool System Reference and Index Compilation™" are trademarks

of Stuart Marshall and Matthew Finch and may be used only in accordance with the OSRIC™ license.

Swords & Wizardry, S&W, and Mythmere Games are the trademarks of Matthew J. Finch.

LotFP and LotFP Weird Fantasy Role-Playing are trademarks owned by James Edward Raggi IV. LotFP is

not affiliated with Matthew J. Finch, Daniel Proctor, Stuart Marshall, Goblinoid Games, or Mythmere Games.

ISBN 978-952-5904-15-4

www.lotfp.com/RPG/

http://lotfp.blogspot.com

Author’s Notes

As I was putting the format for Weird Fantasy Role-Playing together, I

realized that I should include at least one introductory adventure with the

game. You see, rules are nice, and they can suggest a style of play, but

rules which specify too much make for rather poor role-playing games.

So, I decided to make the rules more generic so people could use the game

any way they darn well pleased, and I’d use the introductory adventure

to showcase the type of adventure that I thought the rules would best

complement.

Because it was to be an introductory adventure, I did not want to do

anything too fancy. I wanted to keep it basic and make it both an example

of my game in action as well as paying homage to fantasy adventure

gaming as a whole. I wanted to celebrate the basic framework of an

adventure module, take an utterly cliché concept and show that with a

little creativity and attention to detail, a “cliché concept” can work just as

well as innovation at the game table – a point of view which extends to

“old school” games as a whole.

And what is more cliché than a wizard’s tower?

I went to work and brought the idea to life. I decided in the end that the

adventure should fulfill three design goals:

Be simple and easy enough to work as an introductory adventure for

new players

Be challenging enough to be an enjoyable adventure for experienced

players

Be an example to new Referees about how to design and run adventures

The first two seem like contradictory goals, but a good adventure should

be a good adventure for everyone . While Weird Fantasy Role-Playing is

designed to be picked up by a complete gaming novice and easily

understood, the reality is most of the people buying it will be quite

experienced gamers, and many who do not buy the full game will be

purchasing the adventure separately. It’s got to work for everyone.

The third point is really the trickiest, because to over-explain everything,

as is my wont, risks squeezing the magic out of it. Yet I remember my

own first days of role-playing, with no mentor or older brother or anything

of the sort to introduce me to how it works. It was just me, a rulebook,

and a few modules. I was trying to understand just from the books and it

was me that taught it to all my friends. And I was clueless. I hope I can

do some good in the gaming world to help new Referees get the most out

of pre-published adventures and maybe help them make their own

adventures a little bit better as well.

Of course I have no way of knowing if I will attain all these goals. Only

you, the reader, the Referee, can tell me that. Shoot me an email at

lotfp@lotfp.com and tell me how I did, and let me know what happened

to your players when they attempted to explore the Tower of the Stargazer.

James Edward Raggi IV

May 8, 2010

Helsinki, Finland

Referee Introduction

This adventure is designed for a party of four to eight first level characters.

There should be a variety of classes represented among the party.

This adventure is designed to highlight common issues in adventure

gaming, so there are a good variety of puzzles, traps, and encounters.

Some of these are rather unforgiving and beyond the ability of first level

characters to survive. That said, none of these encounters are necessary

to complete this adventure.

There is no “plot” as such for the adventure. This is presented merely as

a location the PCs explore for the purpose of gaining treasure. Because

there is no greater goal, players will be tempted to have their characters

try and do everything within the adventure in hopes of revealing more

loot. This will hurt them. Much of the loot is not hidden very well, and if

the players can figure out the puzzles that block access to the treasure,

there really isn’t too much in the way of danger to be had. But there is

plenty of deadly danger within this tower, and those that are too curious,

that fiddle with things “just because” with no actual identifiable purpose,

will be in trouble.

Because this is a tutorial module, there will be shaded sections like this.

Information in this box is more involved information for the Referee

from the designer, detailing options, how to “read between the lines” of

adventure text, explaining the reasons that things have been placed as

they are, and recollections of how situations played out during the

playtesting of this adventure.

One common adventuring challenge that this adventure does not use is

random encounters. The adventure location is somewhat remote and the

adventure is intended for beginning characters, and that combination leads

to stalled play if there are deaths or serious injuries suffered during the

adventure. While that still may happen (this tower is a dangerous place,

after all!), it will mostly be driven by the players’ own actions. No need

to further complicate their decisions and rush them in this case. However,

time can still work against them. There are many locations where the

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