The Search for Freedom: Transporting Us Beyond Seas

Only a CRPG adventurer would pay 1,000 gold pieces for a ride on this ship. Guest entry by AlphabeticalAnonymous: Our party of six adventurers heads out in search of the Pitbeast, armed only with hand weapons such as knives, spears, grenades, what have you. In point of fact, all our non-clerics also have ranged weapons, but these longbows only do 1D6 damage, so we’ve utterly neglected them so far in favor of harder-hitting melee weapons. The old woman of Hythenforge told us that we could find the Pitbeast in the "bottom of The Pit in the Forest of Shadows," and the manual describes this Forest as lying east of the Plains of Bones in the south-west corner. One has to use one’s imagination: the Plains of Bones must be the few squares of cheery-looking grassland just past the trolls’ bridge. But the Pit is a clearly-identified doorway set in the island’s southeast corner. The forest is populated by groups of orcs and bloodhounds, who travel in large packs but aren’t difficult to…