The House under the Moondial

An OSR adventure module for character levels 3-4

There is a witch in the wilds, a goddess unremembered, and a madman.
There is a circle of stone - who knows what lies beneath?
The villagers are distraught: their children! replaced by fae!
The villagers are distraught: who heeded their plea?
Ravenous inquisitors, that's who.
Oh, and adventurers...

This investigative folkcrawl adventure module contains:

• an isolated village full of secrets, riddled with strange traditions,
  
• adventure sites and dungeons populated by peculiar denizens,
  
• a small Fae Realm to explore, weird and perilous,
• a terrible fae threat and too many curses,
• unlikely friends, and foes nobody expects!
  

Includes a fully-linked interactive PDF, a fillable Referee's Toolkit, and player-friendly VTT maps.

Designed for use with the Old-School Essentials ruleset, compatible with most old-school pen-and-paper RPGs.

Physical copies

A print-on-demand version is available on Lulu!
If you buy the physical book, contact me to receive a free download key for the digital version.

Soundtrack! The Moondial by IKWIG

When he ran The House under the Moondial, composer IKWIG wrote a whole soundtrack for it! He has released The Moondial, a wonderful album that's "mostly dungeon synth, sometimes the score of a forgotten film left to decay". You can listen to it below, and buy it on Bandcamp.

You really should. It sets the mood perfectly, and it achieves what it sets out to do spectacularly. I'm 100% going to use it when I run the adventure again!

Reviews

"If you love a good mystery to unwind, this looks like a really fantastic choice!"
"This is a really dense investigative adventure [...] made as easy as possible for the gamemaster to run."

— Ben Milton, Questing Beast

"This is what you’re looking for in a sandbox and investigation."
"It’s all f*cking magnificent!"

— Rated ***THE BEST*** by Bryce Lynch at tenfootpole.org

"Filled with whimsy, childhood wonder, and beautiful words, this adventure allows players to live their own grown-up (and grown-down) fairy tale."

— Hannah Strang, project editor

Watch the Questing Beast review!

Watch the RedMageGM PDF flip-through!