Treaty of the Tiger King, 1st-3rd-Level One Shot (5E - PDF)

This was an incredible module to run for my first ever DM session! It jumps straight into the action and places combat at the beginning, which prevents the ending from really dragging on like some other modules do. It’s also very easy to cut in half if you run out of time due to the straightforward mechanics and relative similarity of different events. The world and setting are rich and provide lots of opportunities for improvisation and role-playing and allow players to be creative in ways that they don’t always get to be. The one thing that I would recommend from experience is that, if you are truly running this as a one-shot and not an adventure in a larger campaign, you allow for negotiations after a failed treaty roll, because it’s harder to sell a satisfying ending of failure when the players won’t be around to witness the long-term ramifications in other adventures. Put on the spot, I opted to leave the players with worse conditions than they had demanded, but still allowed the war to end to create a bittersweet feeling rather than one of abject failure. Then again, if you can sell abject failure in a satisfying way, then go for it. All things considered, I would happily recommend this module to anyone👍

Great adventure that mainly shines through its focus on diplomacy instead of battle. One star less as two of the events are quite similar, so that I altered the second one a bit for more variety.
All in all we still enjoyed it very much.

I played this adventure solo with a 3rd level character basically as written and was extremely dissatisfied due to King Rami losing no matter what he does... he goes into the negotiations from a position of weakness only wanting peace at any price, ignoring the assassination attempts and either loses badly or loses very badly... this is a no win scenario for him!!!

The next time I ran the adventure, I had my Lawful Evil Yuan-ti Monk(1st)/Stone Sorceress(1)/Hexblade Warlock(1)... now she's a negotiator!!!

Once she understood the terms of the negotiation, taking into account the assassination attempts, independent of King Rami she "negotiated" with a Necromancer to create an Undead Army of all the previously slain Prospectors & Mercenaries on the Island Kingdom then "negotiated" with the local Assassin's Guild to assassinate any Merchant sending Prospectors or Mercenaries, paying them using the ill gotten gains from sacking the Island Kingdom... a 2-prong approach.

Next, at the negotiating table, she declared war on the Merchants, holding them responsible for anyone setting foot on the Island Kingdom, explaining the steps she had taken on King Rami's behalf.

King Rami was able to remain true to his values and beliefs and all that was required was to his tolerance of the reallocation of stolen resources/funds and an Undead Army of those who took the resources/funds.

Taking this approach, it became a very satisfying adventure!!!

These adventures are so well written, they are easy to read, run, and adapt as necessary. This particular adventure i used with some name changes to fit into my established campaign. It was perfect. Also with a gender swap for King Rami, my group created a romantic story ending in one player letting go of his L5 character to live with the ossan people.

Im looking forward to my next purchase.

This one-shot is absolutely one of the most fun I've ever ran/played. I wish there were more intrigue/diplomacy modules. The Arcane Library never fails to impress, and this module is no exception!!