D&D BECMI - Queen's Festival

Queen's Festival

D&D BECMI Rules

• Publisher: TSR
• Rules: Dungeons and Dragons BECMI
• Series: Basic Adventures
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Product Description - Queen's Festival

The wizard Kavorquian is dead. But certain items belonging to his adopted son were in the wizard's keeping at the time of his demise. Now someone must venture into the silent vaults of Karvorquian's stronghold and recover the missing property.

"Queen's Harvest" picks up its story where B11: "King's Festival," left off. It can be played as a sequel to that adventure or as a complete adventure in itself. It is tailored for beginning Dungeon Masters and players and contains helpful hints on adventuring and the land of Karameikos. The story develops simply, but ultimately leads the player characters into the nether reaches of Penhaligon's politics to confront Ilyana Penhaligon, mad pretender to the throne!

Product History

"Queen's Harvest," by Carl Sargent, is the twelfth and final Basic Set adventure. It was published in November 1989 as a sequel to B11: "King's Festival" (1989).

A Shared History. Much of the history of "Queen's Harvest" can be found in the description of its predecessor, "King's Festival." It was part of the same attempt to revive the Basic D&D line. Like "King's Festival," it was also considered an introductory module, though there's only minimal effort spent on DM advice and player aids.

Together with "King's Festival," this adventure was expected to bring PCs all the way up to 4th level, allowing them to move on to the Expert Set (1983) and/or GAZ1: The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987).

About the Creators. Author Carl Sargent created this adventure in the middle of a period of intense work on the Known World that included B11: "King's Festival" (1989), PC2: "Top Ballista" (1989), GAZ13: "The Shadow Elves" (1990), and DDA3: "Eye of Traldar" (1991). The Greyhawk work that he's better known for would follow.

About the Product Historian

This history of this product was researched and written by Shannon Appelcline, the author of Designers & Dragons - a history of the roleplaying industry told one company at a time. Please feel free to mail corrections, comments, and additions to shannon.appelcline@gmail.com.

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