Publication:Blade of Vengeance

[  Blade of Vengeance]

System: Dungeons and Dragons 1e Levels: 7 – 7  Author: Jim Bambra  Publisher: TSR  Publication Date: 1984  Format: Paperback  Page Count: 32

Product Blurb You are Erystelle of Dorneryll, famed elfin champion and magic-user. After years of adventuring, you have come home to the Emerlas?the hauntingly beautiful elfin woodland at the tip of Canolbarth forest. A place of legends and of peace. The journey has been long, but soon the winding forest track will bring you to Dorneryll, the majestic oak tree home of your childhood. Ahead, you glimpse a plume of smoke curling lazily into the sky. Dorneryll is close, and your mind floods with thoughts of home. Suddenly, your reverie is shattered! The thin plume of smoke is gone, and in its place a column of red flame leaps high smoke the trees. Dorneryll is under attack! Gripping your lance, you urge your mount into a gallop. Starbow surges forward; your war dogs close on her heels . . . Blade of Vengeance is an adventure for one player and one dungeon master, featuring a lone elf against the forces of evil. Can you save the Emerlas from destruction? The answer waits inside. This text is quoted from promotion material. Text and images are copyrighted by the original publisher.

Plot Summary

Blade of Vengeance is a scenario for a mid-level elf player character. Erystelle of Dorneryll finds the peaceful woodland home of his youth, Emerlas, aflame. His family has been slaughtered by something possessing huge claws and more powerful than the hobgoblins who are still around when he arrives.

This is a wilderness quest through a great forest, including encounters with hobgoblins, herbalists, and hill giants.

The player character's goal is to defeat a Red Dragon who destroyed the character's home and killed the character's entire family. However, the scenario is about more than just revenge: Erystelle must find a way to recall the great Elven hero Galannor.

Publication History

O2 Blade of Vengeance was written by Jim Bambra, with art by Jeremy Goodwin (a.k.a. Jes Goodwin). It was published by TSR in 1984 as a 32-page booklet with an outer folder. It was "UK-produced

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