Fluffy Quest
A Generic Adventure for
Fantasy Role-Playing Systems

Game Review

Review by Kerry Lloyd


Designed by Rick Reid
Bad Dog Publications PO Box 389, Camanche, IA 52730
Released: September, 1984
Price: $4.95, plus $1.00 postage and handling
Complexity; Experienced
Solitaire Suitability: None
* 1/2

Fluffy Quest is an adventure that can be used with virtually any of the role-playing systems currently on the market. It is reasonably designed and suitably generic. Referees, however, are warned that the probable outcome of using Fluffy Quest on those with little sense of humor will be the referees' own rapid and painful demise at the hands of enraged players.

The rating given to this module bears explanation. For the puns and humor involved, Fluffy Quest earned 6 * (the maximum available is 5*); for the module itself, including such factors as plot, production values, and spelling, 1 * is the most that can be awarded this averages to the 1.5* rating.

The plot of the adventure is simple. The puppy belonging to the daughter of the mayor of Ealow has disappeared, and the mayor wants the dog (named Fluffy, of course) found and returned to his little girl-a proper quest for a group of adventurers. He promises a handsome reward for completion of the Fluffy Quest. The trail of the dog's likely abductor leads to the entrance of the "old abandoned Ghost Mine on the outskirts of town." From this point, anything can and does happen. On entrance, all of the characters' possessions and spells are altered to new forms, specifications being provided in the module.

There are fifteen rooms in the mine complex, and at least six of them must be visited to complete the adventure-a pull-out chart details the locations of the mine's major areas. All of the rooms are inhabited, and the inhabitants are incredible. Some intelligence and care is actually required to traverse this module, for characters can easily be killed, particularly when they are not used to the spell and weapon forms available to them on the quest.

Fluffy Quest is loaded with puns, ranging from razzberries to loud groaners. Spells and monsters are all variants of the commonly known types, usually with a turn of letter to turn them around-" Flying" is "Frying;' the Continual Lice spell is obviously useful, and one can be attacked by a Michael Jackson zombie replete with a single glove.

Fluffy Quest is an interesting adventure. If you're looking for a break in the usual seriousness of a dungeoning campaign, the module might be useful; however, it takes a good bit of experience for a referee to handle this one properly. Less experienced judges may have problems during play. If you enjoy bad puns for the sake of bad puns, Fluffy Quest is probably worth the price tag.

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