Here’s the hook: through the grapevine, the characters learn that there’s a fairly loaded house on the southern part of a major city that’s ripe for the picking. In fact, there’s roughly a horde of treasure to be carted off from the McCallister estate!Īs far as XP goes, one buffed up kobold surrounded by booby traps is probably enough to level any good 1st-level group. The house itself is crawling with goodies, just like in the film. Of course, the characters need to be rewarded should they defeat the little twerp. A CR1 monster with legendary actions? Hell yes, I say. So I buffed up Kobold McCallister with some extra hit points (to also avoid cheesy sleep spells from zonking him out) and a couple legendary actions. And I didn’t want him knocked out with a few hits. I didn’t want him to get caught, so he had to have some killer action economy. When designing him, there were a couple of things that I knew I didn’t want. Next, we have our “protagonist”, Kobold McCallister. So I had to nerf the trap damage quite a bit to make it more comical than deadly. Low-level traps, even when rolling a d6, can be hell on 1st-level PCs. Plus, the traps couldn’t be too hardcore. Obviously, you can keep it true to the original, but I realized it probably made a lot more sense to make it sort of a “buffet” of trap options. One thing I wanted to make sure of when creating this adventure was that any players who played this map knowing full and well what this was (it only takes a few minutes to figure out it’s the house from Home Alone, I discovered) couldn’t guess where the traps were. And create one he did, actually taking the time to watch the movie a few hundred times (I’m only half kidding about that) to get the exact details, layouts, and dimensions.Ĭan you believe that? Holy shit, right! It’s got everything, all the way down to the furniture in the rooms, the zip-line between the tree house, and even the evil furnace in the basement. So I relied on my pal Justin David Russell to create one. It’s only $3 to join.īecome a DMDave Patron today Design Notes for Kobold Aloneįirst thing’s first, I needed a map. Weekly adventures with daily updates plus over 100 PDFs when you become a Patron. I got to thinking: what if Kevin was a kobold? And what if the kobold had to fend off the house from a bunch of pesky adventurers? Thus was born Home Kobold Alone. Being the only one at home in a time before cell phones, Kevin has to fend off a couple of burglars with nothing more than his wits and a bunch of clever traps. If you aren’t familiar with the film, it tells the story of a kid named Kevin McCallister (played by a young MacCauley Culkin) who gets left behind by his family over the holidays. And not just any holiday-themed adventure, but one based on none other than the 1990 film, Home Alone. DM Dave 12 Comments on Kobold Alone | 1st-Level Holiday Adventure for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition (PDF included) Posted in AdventuresĪ few days ago, I got the wild idea to create a holiday-themed adventure.
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