Iron Nugget The Elusive Foe is the 2nd in a trilogy of adventures published by Interaction Points Games and designed for their campaign setting Kingdoms of Legends. The idea of dungeons and dragons using too common modern elements like England and France does not make for my cup of tea. Despite the setting, Elusive is a nice series of chase scenes that attempts to include two adventures in one. The adventure is both written for players who are following the trilogy and for players who are using it as a stand alone game. IN some places, this works great, in others I wondered why they didn’t just include a few notes, as the separate hook for the standalone adventure is unnecessary if you give the write advice in the Adventure Summary. It also made no sense that the stand alone adventure still uses the Kingdoms of Legends setting, which makes for a bit more work to use in a traditional campaign.

It’s a shame too because the extra text hampers an otherwise fun romp for your PCs as they chase a series of thieving killers throughout the country side and attempt to block their escape. The writers do a solid job of developing nice encounters to slow down and hamper the PCs. There are also lose conditions for the adventure, which add a since of urgency to the adventure.

Iron Word I scaled this adventure down and used it as the “intro” adventure to the Zeitgeist campaign. Despite the extra text, the adventure is fairly solid and a nice way to get a group together and accomplish a task under duress---taking a bunch of PCs on traditional guard duty and giving them a chance to shine by chasing down some thieves.