13th Age Freeform Adventure is Up

The new 2-hour freeform adventure is now available on the 13th Age resources page. It’s got GM advice, five sets of monster stats that can be repurposed as needed, and a selection of magic items that keep things simple for new players.

The goal of the freeform adventure is to let players make up fun uniques and backgrounds and then weave a quick story and battle around the players’ ideas. The demo is for 2nd level characters, instead of 1st level, to help new players feel comfortable inventing interesting backgrounds for heroes who have already lived a little!

The adventure also introduces our new approach to presenting monster stats, using descriptors beside each defense and the hit points to give the GM more to work with describing the action.

Here’s an example of the stats and descriptors for a strange little messenger demon that doesn’t really want to fight. . . .

And another from an insect warrior that Jonathan used to sell me on the idea when he was running a bizarre living dungeon as part of our playtesting:

We’re having fun creating descriptors for the hundreds of NPCs in the upcoming Bestiary 3: Icon Followers!