The Whispering Woodwind (Low-level Adventure) (d20)
hat do a twenty year old wrecked ship and an exquisite musical instrument have in common? You will have to catch up to a certain bard to find out but there may be other old secrets that need to be dealt with before all is done! This finely crafted adventure is geared for characters up to fourth level and easily added to any campaign setting. Players will love this adventure¸ which will have them guessing and keep them on their toes. Packed with vivid NPCs¸ The Whispering Woodwind is a chase to right that which has gone terribly wrong...and there are plenty of surprises along the way. Update November 24¸ 2018 - "The OSR has become a fairly broad topic in recent times. It's interesting that my Whispering Woodwind adventure¸ which debuted in 2002¸ came out the same year as Dragonsfoot was created which many point to as the start of the OSR. Although statted for 3.0 D&D;¸ there's no doubt Whispering Woodwind had the OSR spirit. Re-reading parts of it just now¸ I'm still very proud of publishing it in the early days of the OGL era. It really is a mini-setting designed as a snap shot of the locales traversed by the perpetrator(s) of a minor heist and multiple crimes (arson¸ theft¸ murder¸ etc.). I think transitioning from Chainmail to (O)D&D; in 1974 when it first came on the scene still informs the way I run and play RPGs to this day and certainly influenced how I designed the Whispering Woodwind adventure¸ or should I say "module?" Whispering Woodwind definitely captures what I personally feel constitutes OSR tonality. I suppose I'm as qualified as anyone to suggest what the OSR might be though I certainly would never want to limit what it might become."
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