To Find a King is an adventure module

Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an adventure or module is a pre-packaged book or box set that helps the Dungeon Master manage the plot or story of a game...

 by Bob Blake for the fantasy

Fantasy

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 role-playing

Role-playing

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 game Dungeons & Dragons

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Plot summary

To Find a King is the first of the two-part "Prophecy of Brie" series, and includes a wilderness section, a bugbear

Bugbear (Dungeons & Dragons)

The bugbear is a type of fictional monster for player characters to encounter in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.A bugbear is depicted as a massive humanoid distantly related to goblins and hobgoblins...

 lair, and a mirror maze.

Publication history

C4 To Find a King was written by Bob Blake, with a cover by Keith Parkinson

Keith Parkinson

Keith Parkinson was an American fantasy artist and illustrator known for book cover and game artwork for games such as EverQuest, Guardians, Magic: The Gathering and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes.-Early life:...

 and interior illustrations by Ron Randall, and was published by TSR in 1985 as a 32-page booklet with two outer folders. To Find a King was used as the AD&D tournament module at Gen Con

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 XVI, as a four-round competition module. It is designed for a party of 10 characters of levels 4–7. It can be run as a competition module or as a campaign. The "C" in the module code represents the first letter in the word "competition", the name of C1–C6 module series.

To Find a King contains the first four adventures in the Prophecy of Brie story arc: The Wheel of Time, Locksmith, The Perils of Symbolism, and Divine Wine. The sequence concludes in module C5, The Bane of Llywelyn

The Bane of Llywelyn

The Bane of Llywelyn is a first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons adventure module.-Plot summary:In this scenario, the player characters must find where the King of Pellham is buried....

. This series of adventures was originally published as limited edition modules RPGA3, The Forgotten King

The Forgotten King

The Forgotten King is an adventure module published in 1983 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...

and RPGA4, The Elixir of Life

The Elixir of Life

The Elixir of Life is an adventure module published in 1983 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...

, available for sale only to members of the RPGA

RPGA

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Reception

Commenting on the "Prophecy of Brie" series, Lawrence Shick wrote in his 1991 book Heroic Worlds that it "unfortunately has nothing to do with oracular cheese".

External links

• To Find a King at the TSR Archive