Operation Ogre is a Judges Guild module written for 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. The module was written for the 1979 Pacificon to be used as a tournament dungeon. The author of Operation Ogre is Michael E. Mayeau.
The module is 32 pages long including the front and back cover as well as the maps and table of contents. The actual adventure text is only about twelve pages.
The adventure involves a quest to rescue a princess that has been kidnapped and is being held by a band of Ice Ogres. This is a cold weather adventure. The rescuing parties are groups of elves.
What I like Operation Ogre
Like all Judges Guild adventures this one gets pretty quickly to the point. In fact the room descriptions are very short. The background is pretty short as well.
Cold weather adventures are fairly uncommon. This is one of them. It provides a few new creatures. It also has many of the familiar snow creatures from the Monster Manual.
There is a nice role playing encounter involving a dragon which could be convinced to aid the party…..if they do not just rush in and attack it.
It provides two groups of pre-rolled characters for tournament use.
What I don’t like about Operation Ogre
I am not a big fan of adventures that tell you what kind of characters, races, classes to use. But, since this is a tournament adventure, I supposed I would have to overlook that transgression.
Would I recommend this adventure?
If you are going to use the pre-rolled characters and run this as a one shot I cannot see any good reason not to do so. The adventure is fine for an old school game. And it provides some opportunities for non hack and slash play. So yes I would recommend it.
Would I play Operation Ogre with my own group?
Probably not. Not unless they wanted to play a one shot with these pre-rolled characters. My current group has two half orcs. I do not see them fitting well into this adventure.
Unfortunately I have no link to this product as it is out of print and Judges Guild has not added this title, yet, to Drivethrurpg for download.
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