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Introduction
About This Product
The Caves of Ortok is part of the InfiniBadger Press line of Vignette ScenarioTM products, which are designed to be complete packaged scenarios that can be dropped into play during existing campaigns or adventures without much additional work by Gamemasters. They’re enhancements, expansions, or fillers, so feel free to use them as you see fit. Each Vignette ScenarioTM is designed to be modular and scalable, and are published for a number of different game systems. Part of the philosophy of these products is that instead of publishing them for a single game system and leaving the conversion to the system of choice to individuals, the heavy lifting is already done, which reduces the amount of work needed to use them. Our motto and aim is “Make the GM’s job easier”. This version of the product is for the Labyrinth Lord game system, available from Goblinoid Games at www.goblinoidgames.com.
The Caves of Ortok
Introduction: The name Ortok is only talked about openly in a few circles, and whispered in most. It is a name some associate with power, others with fear, and others yet with reverence. There are stories relating to how the great wizard Ortok managed to perform wondrous deeds, about how he defeated this monster or that demon or some other god, but there are many more stories about the great magical artifacts that he collected over the years.
Most of these stories are just that. Ortok was indeed a great wizard, and did amass a sizeable collection of magical and non-magical treasures and artifacts. Unfortunately, he was also a crass man, and given to a number of distasteful pleasures and desires, which he often found himself acting upon in civilized society. This led to him being hounded and chased by other wizards, who took it upon themselves to attempt to not only re-educate him in the error of his ways with regards to fitness for society, but to relieve him of his collection. To defend against this, he broke his collection up many different caches, secret places that were difficult to get to and protected by magic and other defenses. Ortok has since passed from the world, but much of his treasure has still yet to be recovered, and wizards today still talk about the artifacts and power still waiting to be found.
The Caves of Ortok
For the Gamemaster
This module is for a group of 4-6 adventurers of levels 3-5, although it can be scaled for groups of other sizes. Gamemasters should feel free customize this module as they see fit for their use. The module has also been designed to be extensible by the Gamemaster, who can choose to expand upon it using the optional modifications listed in some of the entries to provide hooks to other adventures, or even deeper levels. It is designed to be a challenging experience, however, for even this level of play.
Appendix B provides a number of pregenerated characters for play, including at multiple levels, so that you can easily run this module as a standalone scenario as well.
In Appendix C, you will find any handouts that can be printed out and given to players. Feel free to print these out or modify these as needed for play.
In Appendix D, additional copies of maps are provided for play, including keyed maps for the Gamemaster and unkeyed maps that you can use for the players.
In general, the Gamemaster should read through the entire module at least once fully to understand all of the elements in it. A second reading is usually a good idea to understand how any parts between different areas link together. The Gamemaster maps have been reproduced at the back for easy reference for this, and you should feel free to copy these so that you have them nearby with reading the module if you don’t want to keep flipping back and forth.
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If you are a player, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. The
If you are a player, STOP READING RIGHT NOW. The
rest of this text is for the eyes of the Gamemaster only,
rest of this text is for the eyes of the Gamemaster only,
and you will spoil your enjoyment and possibly that of
and you will spoil your enjoyment and possibly that of
the other players, if you read further.
the other players, if you read further.