The Secret of Bone Hill

DnDmodule| module_title = The Secret of Bone Hill
module_

module_code = L1
module_rules = AD&D
module_character_levels = 2 - 4
module_campaign = Greyhawk
module_authors = Lenard (Len) Lakofka
module_first_published = 1981
series = L1 L2 L3

The Secret of Bone Hill (L1) is a module for the first edition of "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" written by Lenard Lakofka and published by TSR in 1981. It is designed for novice and intermediate players with characters of levels 2-4.

The players adventure in and around the town of Restenford in the Lendore Isles. It is more a mini-setting than an adventure, offering several adventure locations, and may require a Dungeon Master to expand it using the "World of Greyhawk" milieu. This module did try and expand upon the basic types of undead creature found.

Playing good characters with undead-turning abilities is quite essential. This adventure is continued in , and .

The module was reviewed in issue 16 of "Different Worlds" magazine, which complained that TSR had abandoned its tradition of using maps as color art "in favor of pretty pictures irrelevant to the text." The reviewer, Anders Swenson, disliked the randomness of the module's encounters, arguing that it was unrealistic for so many monster nests to be found within a day's march of a hardy military garrison. His real problem with the adventure, however, was that he believed that too many encounters were compressed into too small of an area. "What deals and pacts have been made to permit the villagers, the clerics, the gnolls and wolves, and the inhabitants of Bone Hill to live in such harmony?" [cite journal
last =Swannon
first =Anders
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Reviews
format = review
journal ="Different Worlds"
volume =
issue =Issue 16
pages =39
publisher =Chaosium
year = 1981
month = November
url =
issn =]

Receiving 8 out of 10, the module was positively reviewed in issue 35 of White Dwarf magazine, noting good prospects for role-playing but that some of the material would not be utilized until L2 (unreleased at that time) was purchased. [cite journal
last =Bambra
first =Jim
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Open Box: Dungeon Modules
format = review
journal =White Dwarf
volume =
issue =Issue 35
pages =14–15
publisher =Games Workshop
year = 1982
month = November
url =
issn =0265-8712
accessdate = ] . Lawrence Schick in his book "Heroic Worlds" was critical of the module, calling it "Not one of TSR's more sterling endeavors," and noting that the back cover was "deliberately botched" by the artist "who didn't care for the product" [cite book
last = Schick
first = Lawrence
authorlink = Lawrence Schick
title = Heroic World
publisher = Prometheus Books
date = 1991
pages = 103
doi =
isbn = 0-87975-652-7 ] . The artist in question is Erol Otus.

References

ee also

*List of Dungeons & Dragons modules