D&D Adventure Board Games - Puppets of the Balor Campaign

last updated April 22nd, 2024 — created December 20th, 2022

Puppets of the Balor came into being after we played the campaign mode in Temple of Elemental Evil and decided we wanted to construct our own campaign-style game involving all of our D&D board games. In this campaign you adventure through The Forgotten Realms, taking on the roles of Drizzt and his companions, trying to determine the source of some evil occurrences.

This is the adventure book that we designed for our campaign. The book calls for the first four D&D Adventure Board Games but can be played with the characters from any of them. There are twelve adventures, but each one only utilizes one game at a time, so you can skip any that you don't own the set for (we recommend reading the adventure text for any that you skip). It also includes a printable Jarlaxle Ally Card.

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This PDF is 300 DPI (suitable for printing)

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