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Journey to the Rock

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B8: Journey to the Rock is an adventure module written by Michael Malone and published in 1985, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG. It is intended for player characters of level 1-3.

B8 is a wilderness adventure scenario, which presents rules for adventuring in the wilderness. The wizard Lirdrium Arkayz wants to know the secret of 'The Rock' and hires the characters to uncover it. The player characters must journey through a hazardous countryside by choosing one of three possible travel routes to get to the Rock.

Peril at the Rock

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AB1: "Peril at the Rock" is a four-part Basic Fantasy RPG adventure module detailing a campaign played at a game convention. The first chapter focuses on a dungeon crawl within a strange tower built over a spatial rift unleashing Nazgorean monsters. Chapter two is a hex crawl across a wilderness map to locate a Hilltop Abbey possessing the magic needed to close the rift. Chapter three involves exploring the abbey, facing hivelings, and acquiring the miracle scroll. Finally, Chapter four returns the players to the tower for a final confrontation with the rift and remaining monsters after the eclipse opens it permanently.

Get it free at the Basic Fantasy RPG downloads page.

Rahasia

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B7: Rahasia is an adventure module originally self-published in 1980 by Tracy and Laura Hickmanin 1980, then later revised and published for TSR in 1983 for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG.

An elven village is threatened by a dark Priest known only as the Rahib. He has kidnapped two of the village's fairest maidens and now demands that Rahasia, the most beautiful elf, surrender herself to free the others. The player characters are drawn into this adventure when they find a plea for help from Rahasia. The only way to free the captured maidens is to enter an old temple, built upon the ruins of a wizard's tower buried under a mountain.

The Veiled Society

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B6: The Veiled Society is an adventure module published in 1984, for the Basic Rules of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It also works fine with modern retroclones like Basic Fantasy RPG.

It takes place in the city of Specularum, where the player characters must investigate a murder to find out which of three rival factions is responsible.

Released in 2020, it still has the Old-School vibe of a classic. This multi-module work contains twelve short adventures (150 pages of material) for lower to mid-level characters.

Get it free at the Basic Fantasy RPG website.