Missing Piece is a short adventure for level 1 characters set at a wedding. Unfortunately for the festivities, the groom has been kidnapped! Obviously, the heroes must rescue him.

It’s a great idea for an adventure. The play is very simple, with the characters gathering clues in the room from where the groom’s been abducted, then following the trail through some secret passages, until they find and rescue the groom from his abductors.

There’s a couple of missteps in the execution along the way – a failed Perception check means that the characters can’t find where the groom was taken, which is a bit of a problem – but for the most part everything works. The adventure isn’t long; I could well see play taking only a couple of hours, but I find the plot and its twists quite engaging. There’s a riddle to solve that is reminiscent of that in The Hobbit, but I don’t find it a particularly good one – the answer doesn’t flow nicely from the statements. It’s also meant to be in Elvish, but thankfully the bride should be with the party and does speak Elvish (at least I hope so), just in case none of the heroes do.

I’m not sure if English is the author’s first language, as there are a few clumsy phrases and usages throughout, but it doesn’t detract from the heart of the adventure. (For example, it should be “nobles” rather than “nobilities”).

One amusing thing: the adventure describes a statue with red hair. We’re used to seeing statues in unadorned marble or granite, but in fact many of the ancient statues of Roman and Greek times were painted!

I rather like the descriptions of the possible resolutions to the adventure, depending on whether the groom survives the experience.

Overall, although not without flaw, I found it a charming adventure, though there’s not much ground breaking in it. I don’t know what the title of it means, however!

One note: the price for this adventure seems quite high for its length. I may be mistaken, but it did strike me as being slightly overpriced.