Advice for one-off adventure for 5 12-year olds, all with some experience.

[Jon Nealon]

Hi - I'm going to be hosting a b-day party for 5 12 year olds in a few weeks. They all have some experience playing and are familiar with basic gameplay. I have run several games, but never for more than 3 kids. I want to either build a good stand alone adventure that will take 2-3 hours, or base it on a pre-existing story. Any suggestions? It can be a fairly typical dungeon crawl..but I'd like it to be somewhat special as it is kind of a special event for my kids..It's a pathfinder themed b-day-sleepover.

Any and all advice is greatly appreciated!!

[Diminuendo]

not really a one-night thing but Plunder and Peril is one of my favorite modules.

[Joana]

Adventure-a-Week has a quartet of adventures written for Beginner's Box rules, in which the PCs are students at a Hogwarts-like Adventurer's School. This is the first. It has four pregens, so you would have to come up with a new one for your fifth player and convert it to the full rules if you wanted to.

Hollow's Last Hope is a delight and one I always recommend for a one-off. It was written for 3.5 so would need conversion, but it was Paizo's first Free RPG Day module so it's a free download if you want to take a look at it and see if it serves your purposes.

[TempusAvatar]

If it's a sleep over, you should plan it somehow so you do two thirds of the adventure the night before and one third the next morning. This way you can pause the action during a time when the characters need to camp on the road, and then you can figure out a way to interrupt the rest with an overnight monster ambush by actually waking them up.

[John Napier 698]

A freeform walk-in-the-woods adventure. Have the party explore a nearby forest and clear it of monsters. No preset encounters, except the Evil Druid at the end of the session. You know the one? He who is making the forest's critters go on a rampage. Good luck with the little tykes.

[Charon's Little Helper]

The first session I ran for my niece & nephews was Rise of the Goblin Guild. It had a good mix of a chase scene, fighting, and goofy RP with a captured goblin and the skull that he talks to.

[Jon Nealon]

Thanks Joana - I'm going to see if I can modify Hollow's last hope!

[Jon Nealon]

Great Idea!

[Timitius]

You could also check out some of the Wayfinders for side-trek adventures. To the left, there is an option for "Adventure Finder" that has a number of search options that will list options for you as well. By level or by region.