I recently started GMing a new campaign in a new, custom setting for a new, homebrew system. One of my players was entirely new to RPGs and another had only played once decades ago and wasn't sure if
I was getting ready for a new adventure recently, and I came across “The Automatic Hound” by James Lafond Sutter in Dungeon Magazine #148. It's a tidy, low-level module that starts with a town