Raid on the Acaeum is a short two-part tournament adventure that was held at the fourth annual North Texas RPG Convention in Bedford, Texas in June 2012. This version has been adjusted to run as a non-tournament adventure.
Both scenarios were designed for use with the Classic D&D game. The players should use characters of fifth to seventh level. A balanced party is optimal and no particular character class is required.
This adventure includes two scenarios and they can be played in any order. It is not critical that both adventures be completed, though the more that is completed, the more points are possible. The adventures are titled “In the Belly of the Beasterbrook” and “The Cursed White Box of Prufrock.”
Each adventure includes a map and adventure text. There are several encounters in each adventure and a point schedule was used to score the progress of the group in the original tournament version. Points were earned through problem solving and progression. The more encounters completed, the higher the possible team score. The entire tournament introduction are included in this adventure packet.
This version includes all the information needed to play the adventure as a tournament, but adjustments have been made to make the module fit into a standard game campaign. While this adventure was designed to be used as a tournament, it can be seamlessly used as a regular game. Its location, while specific in the adventure, is really pretty generic; you can place this adventure just about any-where mountains are present. There are plenty of opportunities to expand the adventure, add role-playing encounters, or simply revise those described by adding roleplaying opportunities. All that said, this is, at it’s a core, a good-old-fashioned fetch quest. But, because it’s a Pacesetter adventure, you know there are plenty of twists and turns.