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Diamond Heist

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At the request of a stranded djinni, you have three days to steal a diamond from the enchanted vaults of the Modern Artworks Museum. Investigate its defenses, disable magical wards, bamboozle the staff, battle a golem, and escape with the prize! The reward: a single wish - the power to bring about almost anything you desire.

A one-shot adventure for 6th-9th level characters, designed to take 4-6 hours of play. Includes a virtual tabletop map and screen-reader accessible PDF. You can veiw the entire module in preview mode, so take a look!

Highlights of the adventure include (and are not limited to):

  • An alternate skill check system that keeps clumsy characters involved in the heist
  • A fight to the death with fantasy-Botticelli's Birth of Venus
  • The Modern Artworks Museum, a trove of sculpture, frescoes and tapestries
  • Museum events: sketch and sip, a gala, seminars!
  • Museum brochure, including handy map and exhibit descriptions
  • A wish

Clever and light-hearted, Diamond Heist adds brains and Renaissance style to any urban campaign. This adventure centers exploration, planning and roleplay. Players match wits against various spell effects, discovering and disabling magical wards to access their prize. A cumulative alarm level system replaces pass/fail steath skill checks, so one bad role doesn't ruin the heist.

The artworks described are based on those of Renaissance Italy, with frescoes, marble sculpture, and haughty nobles aplenty.

Content warnings: Death of a loved one, mentioned. 

If you enjoy urban comedy one-shots like this one and want more, check out Les Abominables! It's a theater backstage whodunnit.

This module was created as part of the RPG Writer Workshop (@StorytellingCol) in 2019! Find the other graduates in Ellie's class here:

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/284175/RPG-Writer-Workshop-Vol-1-BUNDLE

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/284941/RPG-Writer-Workshop-Vol-2-BUNDLE

About the Author

Ellie Lynn jumps at any excuse to shoehorn ambient EDM into her medieval homebrew campaign. Find her on Twitter at @ellielynnz!

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October 17th, 2022
This is a great, well thought out adventure with lots of room for creative problem solving by players. There is a perfect amount of flavour text for each location and NPC, and the mechanics are well-presented and easy to understand. Perfect for a heist [...]
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May 25th, 2021
I love the work that went into the creation of this adventure--all of it was incredibly useful and if I had more than 2 hours with my players I would have loved to use the framework of the various events in the museum. In a world of wishful thinking, [...]
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September 16th, 2020
Full Disclosure: I initially gave this product a pretty critical review. I really wanted it to be better. I liked the setting and the way the heist is structured. There are interesting NPCs and the book has excellent art. I still think that the writi [...]
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December 19th, 2019
I read through this module and so far I think it's excellent! It has all you need for a fun heist, with notes on how to drop it into a campaing if that's what you want to do :) Definitely a module to add to your collection. [...]
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December 17th, 2019
Edit: A recent update has added a beautiful new cover from the author, which made me audibly gasp and whisper, "oh my god" to myself, as well as a wonderful new layout complete with many new sublime illustrations. If it were possible to [...]
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