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by sdonohue

The Halfling's Hole is a 2022 release written by David L. Pulver with art by Rick Hershey and Christopher M. Eisert. It is part of the Quick Quest series from Steve Jackson (I) and is intended for their The Fantasy Trip games.

Presentation
This is available in PDF and as a z-fold brochure. The PDF includes two formats: one is 6 pages in portrait format and shows each panel as a page, the other is landscape and show 3 panels on each side. The brochure is 8.5 x 5.5 in portrait format with a two-column layout. The only color is the cover illustration.

Content
This adventure is intended for 3-5 character of 32-34 points. It's designed to be incorporated into any forest road with a village nearby.

Dunderdelve House used to be a popular inn, but it has recently gone dark. The players could be hired to look at it by the village or they could just find it as they were traveling. Either way, if they investigate, they'll find that the inn has indeed had a tragic event. The backstory is that the owner had a reputation for buying and selling antiquities and something he bought drew all sorts of arachnid monsters and they overwhelmed the inn while people were sleeping.

Unlike other quick quests, this one doesn't have much backstory and is mostly about the actual dungeon crawl. Dunderdelve House is owned by a halfling and it is mostly a series of tunnels cut into a hillside. It provides a number of entrances including a front door, windows, and even chimneys, all of which were used by the monsters. The adventure has about 20 encounter locations which are included on a clear map. Each location is keyed to an encounter, although some locations (like guest rooms) share a key. The inn is swarming with spiders of all sorts and there are random encounters are included as well.

With luck and skill, the players will be able to recover a silver statue of a spider, which actually summons nearby spiders one night a week. There's also a fair amount of treasure to be had from the dead guests of the inn.

Evaluation
This is a well-thought out dungeon. There are rules for random encounters, many of the encounters are very creative and the hook is one the players need to solve. There are even rules if the players decide to try to enter through a chimney or window to try to gain surprise. The encounters themselves are short and well-written. They provide the GM with the information they need without read-aloud or long backstories. This is a good adventure and it fits the bill of being something you could just drop into a game.

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