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A Boy and his Modron

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Anthony Lesink

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A young boy befriends an extra-planar construct that has mysteriously appeared at his family’s farm. Once the boy finds out that other creatures are coming to take it back home, he comes up with a plan to get help from the party to save his new friend. A 4-6 hour adventure for characters level 1-4.

From Platinum selling author Anthony Lesink

Updated 7/28/17 - New maps, handouts, and now available as a full Fantasy Grounds module!

A Boy and his Modron is a 5th Edition module created a in style similar to earlier published planar campaigns, formatted similar to Adventurer's League modules. It is heavy on roleplaying and contains unique encounters designed to make the PCs an important part of the story.

Due to the difficulty of portraying some of the encounters and NPCs accurately and fun, it is recommended that this module be run by experenced dungeon masters.

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Alicia H August 18, 2018 12:07 am UTC

A lot of fun, and it does have a chance to let a horizon walker ranger the chance at using their knowledge for checks.

Joseph L August 03, 2018 2:54 pm UTC

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Great read, looking forward to putting my players through it. There is a little weirdness with the encounters boxes. Also, it'd be nice to add the entire encounter into the box, would make it easier to get the minis together before playing

Gil C July 15, 2018 4:58 am UTC

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First: I'm new to the site so I don't know if this is where to ask a question about a specific module.

Second: I downloaded and read through this story and love the crap out of it and want to run it for some friends. However I now only have two players willing to play but I know they would both enjoy this one. I don't have much experience altering encounters and combat because I don't DM often (I don't have the corebooks yet) but it is my turn in the group. Is there an easy way to change the encounters for two players? I was also planning on possibly adding an NPC to the group to fill whatever roll was needed.

Gil C July 15, 2018 6:16 am UTC

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I don't see a delete message button so I will post here. Reading this on my computer pdf reader I now see the encounter adjustments. For some reason my cell phone pdf reader omitted those. Sorry.

christopher B December 11, 2018 10:33 am UTC

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too late for you but for others. DM advice always goes as this: don't bother with an NPC when you already have two adult players. With my daughter as an intro to D&D it works as something to play off of and keep the story going. With regular players it's a time sink. Don't do npc party members. And as for encounters: you don't want to take too much off. Give players tasty gear, have fun with it, lower the minion count by a tick, not half. And lower the HP of the boss by a tick, not half. Good to go. Don't worry too much. Two dedicated players will reach the end and enjoy the challenge.

Nick R April 17, 2018 8:33 pm UTC

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Good, short adventure that I can easily fit into a campaign as a side quest. The magic items seem a little strong for the level, but not to bad as there is only two of them. Appendix 1 is missing a stat block for giant wasps by the way.

Jakub W April 01, 2018 12:37 pm UTC

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This is a great advanture! Funny, with heart-catching moments, and its very well writen. Easy to run for DM, and a lot of fun.

Thanks for this scenerio.
Greetings.

David S October 25, 2017 11:25 pm UTC

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There is a discussion about A Boy and his Modron (and a link to a play report) over at the 5th Edition forum at The Piazza:
http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=18751

Anthony L October 26, 2017 12:31 am UTC

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Awesome, i'll check it out over there! Glad you enjoyed it.

Marios F October 23, 2017 3:19 pm UTC

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A couple notes:
1. page 4 refers to (Bluff) and (Diplomacy) skill checks. I assume you mean (Deception) and (Persuasion). Same in page 14 (gray box), instead of (Bluff) it should say (Deception).
2. I find it odd that a kid would call the modron "Thirty-one squared", unless it has dabbled in algebra. For my gaming session, I'll call it "Thirty-one and a half", a reference to its mother's age.
3. For a poor family of farmers, 20gp may be too steep a price. I'd consider using the 2sp per day of work for unskilled hirelings (laborers), or even 2gp if they present themselves as skilled artisans.
4. The magical items at the end seem a bit OP, considering the group's average party level.
Other than those, and some formatting issues, I'd say it's a brilliant adventure. I'll post a review when I'm done playing it with my group.

Anthony L October 26, 2017 12:31 am UTC

CREATOR

Thanks for the feedback, i'll definitely take those into consideration when I update to a new version.

Bjørn Ove A September 19, 2016 5:41 am UTC

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OK, is it just me, or is the lair actions lacking from Triazinromas' stat block? I couldn't find anything in the Monstrous Manual either.. other than that, this was a great read and I'm looking forward to playing it next month!

Anthony L October 08, 2016 2:54 pm UTC

CREATOR

Sorry, the lair actions are listed in the main module, I forgot to add them to his stat block at the end. I'll include it in the next update, thanks!

Lars G August 27, 2016 11:42 pm UTC

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I ran this campaign with 4 of my friends. They are slow players, so in one session we only managed to get the wolf encounter done. After this we talked, and my players came up with the plan to kill the kid. Because they thought the "cube creature" was a oozem and the kid was bound to demons. What should I do? Should I prevent them to kill the kid, or should they be able to kill the kid and thus and the campaign. The alignment of the characters are all Chaotic Neutral or Neutral Good.

Anthony L August 28, 2016 1:00 am UTC

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Well, that is a new one. If they are newer players, you may want to ask them to read over the alignment rules. The alignment rules are a big part of the game and in place to keep things like this from happening. Although it may sound funny to the players, if a character has good in his alignment there's no way he would bring himself to kill a kid without hard evidence that he's in league with demons. If they honestly believe the kid is evil, or go through with it against their alignment, then so be it. Do a google search for 'The Great Modron March' and see the implications to their homeland if they have completely mistaken the motives of the main characters. Good luck!

Lars G August 28, 2016 9:15 am UTC

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Thank you for your reply. I now have a better idea of what to do now. I think I am going to point more evidence to 31^2 is a robot of some sort. And with a bit of luck the minds of the party will have been changed. I am going to run this further later on the day. Hopefully everything goes well.

M.T. B August 14, 2016 9:24 am UTC

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Hi Anthony, if you are still following this thread, could you please reach out to me on twitter @MTBlack2567? I'm not sure how else to contact you. Many thanks, MTB

Francesco C June 15, 2016 5:19 pm UTC

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So, I have no idea how permissions and things work when it comes to community published material on the DM's guild but I would absolutely love to run this with my group. The catch is that we are putting out our sessions in podcast format soon and I am not sure if I would be allowed to run this module on the podcast. Obviously credit and information on where to acquire this publication would be provided in our episode description as well as verbally mentioned, but I would like to know what your stance on this is.

If not, it's not a big deal at all. I just really love the whole story that this module presents.

Anthony L June 15, 2016 6:22 pm UTC

CREATOR

Thanks for the feedback! I don't know if there's any sort of issue with DMsguild on using these modules in podcasts, but personally i'd love to see you run it! Please let me know the podcast and i'll check it out.

Francesco C June 16, 2016 12:26 pm UTC

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I want to say it's at the author's discretion, but don't quote me on that. We are in the process of recording now so it may be a month or so before we go live, but I will make sure to link you to the episode once it's published and point people to this module to donate and download. Thanks for putting this together and for getting back to me!

Francesco C October 06, 2016 1:59 pm UTC

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Hello again! We finally went live and decided to begin right with this module. You can find us on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and Podbean as Hapless Heroes. Check it out! I hope we did right by you :)

Anthony L October 08, 2016 2:55 pm UTC

CREATOR

Great podcast! Will definitely stay tuned for more!

February 25, 2016 4:00 pm UTC

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I like the plotline. I think my group will enjoy the humor. I noticed that the Stat blocks for the npcs have not been included. When do you plan on adding them? I can do my own but I would prefer to use what you had in mind. I plan on running it shortly.

Anthony L February 25, 2016 9:50 pm UTC

CREATOR

Very soon, within the next couple of days. Please let me know how it goes!

February 26, 2016 2:07 pm UTC

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Thanks. I am hoping to run it next weekend if all goes well. I will give you feedback after I have.

Anthony L February 25, 2016 2:11 am UTC

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I'd like everyone that's run this to let me know how they feel about the combat balance (with as little spoilers as possible). The encounters were built with the hard xp budgets since most fights only happened infrequently. The fights on pg 14 and 18 seemed tough, and the games i've played were all a couple of crits away from a possible TKO. Of course let me know any other issues you find to make the module even better!