The Thing in the Well

By Mario Barbati0one GamesShadowdarkLevels 2-3 They say the well ran dry generations ago. They do not say why. They say the Pickmans have always been good stewards of this land. They do not say at what price. The villagers go on tending their fields and burying their dead, as their grandfathers did, and their grandfathers before them — and they ask no questions of the hours between midnight and dawn, when the shadows move against the moon and something scrapes its way up old Stones. But the bargain is fraying. The kidnappings have begun. A child has drawn a face she should never have seen. And in the lightless places beneath the village, a patient, brainhungry thing has remembered the taste of fresh thought. You have been called to investigate. You will wish you had not. This 28 page adventure presents a small investigation and eleven room dungeon with a decent number of ghouls. It’s got a couple of interesting ideas, but the dungeon, proper, as well as the investigation kind of falls…