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The Minotaur

by Mario Barbati

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S UMMARY

Introduction 4

Adventure Background 4

Adventure Synopsis 4

Using this Module 4

Playing this Module in your

Own Campaign 4

Adventure Hooks 4

Events 5

Locations 11

Appendix 22

The Mad Alchemist,

NPC Prestige Class 22

New Monster 24

Player Character 25

Dungeon Map 26

Player Character Sheet 27

Handout 29

Playtesters Credits

Viking Games playtest group: Jeff (doo-do’ll-doo-doo) Bass, Corey (“Leading the Blind”) Cooper, Richard (“No, I

don’t have darkvision”) deMorris, Zack (“I disarmed it, yep, sure did”) Fossan, and Craig (“Swims With Lantern”)

Mullins.

Øone Games playtest group: Lucio (the cautious cleric) Abbate, Massimiliano (Relex save who?) Cretara, Davide

(I’m a paladin, wow 75hp!) De Martino, Anna (THE female elf) Fava, Carmine (Grunt!) Laudiero, Alex (The true

dwarf) Zenatti.

Introduction

The Minotaur is a double adventure, as a one-on-one

adventure which features a bold adventure for a 6th level

paladin, this adventure is a dungeon crawl, which does not

spare role playing opportunities and mysteries to solve. This

adventure may also be played with a standard four 3rd level

characters group and can be placed with ease in any campaign

world as explained in ‘Using This Module’ below.

With the passing of time, the minotaur continued to live

in her maze and eat what the farmers had left for her, though

this was to change in the intervening years.

A young mad alchemist, named Aghav, found Daedalus’s

laboratory and retrieved the wizard’s books and notes.

Fascinated by the old wizard’s experiments, Aghav thought

he had a unique opportunity to create an army of minotaurs

at his service and threw himself to the world domination.

You will ind also a new Prestige Class, The Mad

Alchemist, and new monster, the She-Minotaur.

Finding himself unable to enter the minotaur’s maze,

he waited patiently for her to exit. Once in touch with the

monster, he struck a bargain with her. He asked to remain

in the old wizard’s laboratory; in exchange he would

prepare every week for her a potion he claimed to enhance

her strength. Having nothing to lose, the minotaur agreed

seeing the wizard’s laboratory was out of her maze and of no

interest to her.

Adventure Background

A long time ago, the crazed wizard Daedalus built

his laboratory near the farming village of Kreta. Daedalus

conducted strange and mysterious experiments in his rocky,

hilled laboratory, often going into the village in order to

buy a bull or a cow. He seemed harmless, and for nearly 10

years, this was his way a purchase of a bull or cow from the

villagers.

Aghav established himself in the laboratory, and continued

Daedalus’s research. Aghav made many experiments, many

which produced horrid hybrids he keep secreted away in an

area near the laboratory. Finally, these experiments provided

him at last what he wanted.

A few disappearances of young females were noted across

these ten years as well, but being a wild land, folks at the

village thought the poor unfortunates were kidnapped from

bandits or suffered an accident of some kind while traveling.

The locals began calling the area “Horn’s Hill”, due to the

bones and horns found there. The community also felt fear

from the magic emanating from the area, so that none dared

to venture into Daedalus’s lair.

Aghav asked each and every week that the minotaur

consume her potions in the order he gave them to her.

These potions of strength were in fact magical elixirs that

would make the minotaur magically pregnant and capable of

generating Aghav the army he desired.

Daedalus was conducting some sort of genetic

experiments. He was fascinated by minotaurs, and wondered

why female minotaurs didn’t exist. Using his magic, the girls

he captured, the cows and bulls, he struggled for ten years

to create a female minotaur. During the years he built an

enchanted maze, which would prevent anyone from reaching

the minotaur’s lair.

During the nine months of her pregnancy, the minotaur

required more food than the farm folk were providing in

their weekly offering. Often, she raided the farms during

the night, spiriting away swine, sheep and chickens, whatever

would cease her hunger and needs. During these raids, she

tried to remain unseen and avoid confrontations with the

farmers due to her prominent belly. Though things became

troublesome for the farm folk, they never knew why.

At long last, Daedalus succeeded, and during one trying

night, his creation became alive. With his creature’s irst

breath, the aging Daedalus felt his heart surging, and he fell

to the ground, killed by a heart attack.

After the trying months of her pregnancy, the minotaur

birthed four infant minotaurs: two male, two female. Aghav

was in high spirits that his experiments worked, but soon

his dream crumbled: the infant minotaurs were weakening,

refusing both food and mother’s milk.

This female minotaur created was stronger than normal,

yet less ferocious than her male counterpart. The monster,

which was the only one able to go through the enchanted

maze without getting lost, limited herself to stealing some

sheep from the nearby village.

The alchemist frenetically looked and labored in order to

ind a cure for his would-be army. In the end, he discovered,

these little creatures could only be fed by mixing young

human blood in with their food. Keeping this secret to

himself, Aghav told the minotaur that he would prepare a

medicine for her children, but she must bring him young

humans.

Over the years, several of the farmers spotted her many

times, even though they never recognized her as a female.

Feeling the monster wouldn’t harm anyone if properly feed,

they began leaving ill and aging cattle near Horn’s Hill every

week.

The mother-minotaur, having no choice, began to

terrorize the surrounding village kidnapping farmers’

children. Meanwhile, Aghav decided to eliminate the

mother-minotaur so as to keep the infant-minotaurs and

raising them to be his army. But, his attempts at poisoning

the beast have failed...

St. Carminius, a regular sized 3rd level party may use it. As

presented, ‘The Minotaur,’ is a double adventure module.

At the end of each event or encounter, when necessary,

you will ind another paragraph labeled ‘party’. In these

paragraphs, there may be the necessary changes to the

adventure to best challenge a party of adventurers as opposed

the single paladin presentation.

Adventure Synopsis

Recalled to his home village, Kreta, the paladin meets

with his old mentor, Galerio, and learns that the minotaur

under Horn’s Hill has gone mad and began kidnapping local

village youths.

Several encounters have italic text that may be read aloud

to the players, though is not mandatory. You should feel free

to add details or change the text as you wish.

Seeking more information about the minotaur, the

paladin investigates the area, encountering legends about the

creature and crossing paths with the local soothsayer and

blind witch. Urged by her words, the paladin makes his way

to Horn’s Hill.

This module is divided into events and locations.

The events are triggered by time or by a situation (such

as a character who make a speciic question or goes to a

determinate place or meets a certain NPC); the events do

not follow an exact succession, as one event with a higher

number may happen before one with a lower number. The

locations are the places the character can visit during the

adventure (for example: the dungeons room).

Crossing paths with danger, the paladin meets Aghav in

Daedalus’s laboratory. After speaking with the alchemist, the

paladin learns that Aghav has been making potions for the

beast under duress and wishes the paladin to free him from

its clutches. Entering the labyrinth, and dealing with its magic

and riddles, the paladin confronts the minotaur.

Placing this Module in your Own

Campaign

Being mostly a dungeon crawl, ‘The Minotaur’ can be

easily placed into any ongoing campaign; all you need is a

village with a hill nearby. You can change the

names of the main characters, as well as the

name of the village

Discovering the truth of both the minotaur’s gender and

goals in saving her offspring, the paladin must defend against

the minotaur’s tricks or assaults as well as defend

against the alchemist’s ambush.

and the hill, to best suit

your campaign needs.

Hoping that pity saves the infant

minotaurs from the paladin,

the alchemist desires the infant

minotaurs to be part of his crazed

plot of raising an army.

Adventure Hooks

You can use these adventure

hooks to lead into this adventure;

the irst option is given as the

‘standard’ for the one-on-one

adventure.

After dealing with the mother-

minotaur, the paladin explores the

minotaur’s dungeon, uncovering

a magical pool which reveals

the true desires of Aghav,

which may allow the

paladin to avoid

the ambush

and confront

the alchemist

successfully.

- Gulthammar is being trained at

the Holy Grave of St. Carminius. He

left his home, the village of Kreta, many

years ago. Gulthammar is seeking

acceptance into in the Seventh Circle,

a powerful elite order of paladins.

But a young boy interrupts

his meditation, bringing a

message from his stepfather.

The message simply says that the

village of Kreta is threatened and

requests immediate assistance.

Gulthammar has no choice but to

leave the Holy Grave, even if this

will cost his possible admittance

to the Seventh Circle.

Using this

Module

‘The Minotaur,’ is

a simple dungeon crawl

adventure. While it was

mainly designed for a single adventurer,

a 6th level paladin of the Holy Order of

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