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The premade characters have ties in their backgrounds to NPCs and locations. Phandalin offers several side-quests which could serve as hooks for continuing adventures. The adventure is written in a sandbox style and relies on the players to choose their path. Now the Black Spider wants Wave Echo Cave for himself, and he is taking steps to make sure no one else knows where it is.'īy are a variety of locations in this adventure: the town of Phandalin, a gang hideout, a ruined keep in the forest, a destroyed village, and Wave Echo Cave (a dungeon crawl). A mysterious villain known as the Black Spider controls a network of bandit gangs and goblin tribes in the area, and his agents have followed the Rockseekers to their prize. Unfortunately for the Rockseekers, they are not the only ones interested in Wave Echo Cave. More important, the Rockseeker brothers - a trio of dwarves - have discovered the entrance to Wave Echo Cave, and they intend to reopen the mines. Phandalin is now a rough-and-tumble frontier town. In recent years, people have resettled the area. Few survived the cave-ins and tremors, and the location of Wave Echo Cave was lost.įor centuries, rumours of buried riches have attracted treasure seekers and opportunists to the area around Phandalin, but no one has ever succeeded in locating the lost mine. Human wizards fought alongside their dwarf and gnome allies to defend the Forge of Spells, and the ensuing spell battle destroyed much of the cavern.

But then disaster struck when orcs swept through the North and laid waste to all in their path.Ī powerful force of orcs reinforced by evil mercenary wizards attacked wave echo cave to seize its riches and magic treasures. Times were good, and the nearby human town of Phandalin (pronounced fan-duh-lin) prospered as well. Human spellcasters allied themselves with the dwarves and gnomes to channel and bind that energy into a great forge (called the Forge of Spells), where magic items could be crafted. In addition to its mineral wealth, the mine contained great magical power. 'More than five hundred years ago, clans of dwarves and gnomes made an agreement known as the Phandelver’s Pact, by which they would share a rich mine in a wondrous cavern known as Wave Echo Cave. You can customize each one to fit in your campaign however you wish, and each one can be played through in one or two gaming sessions. Something has roused the local plant-life into a frenzy, as if the entire forest has an axe to grind against the loggers! Will the party be able to get to the root of the problem… or will they be left barking up the wrong tree?ĭungeons on Demand is a line instant dungeons you can drop into your campaign, each is designed for 4-5 player parties of specified levels, and each dungeon is complete with a back story, hand drawn maps, traps, puzzles, and reference information to monsters and treasure.

The task now falls to the PCs to catch up with the missing Earl Viktir and sort out the trouble in the woods, but such as task is easier said than done. Earl Viktir has left for the logging site to see what is causing the setbacks, only to discover it disturbingly vacant!

In need of timber to expand his seat of power, the earl has sent logging crews to the surrounding forest, although recent delays have caused him to become anxious and impulsive. The frontier town of Ehrshire is expanding rapidly, much to the delight of the burgeoning town’s lord, Earl Wallace Viktir. + 4 alternative story rewards (depending on how the adventure resolves)

+ 7 hand-drawn maps of important locations + a toolset for creating villager NPCs quickly + 12 original fleshed out NPCs, including personality traits and roleplaying tips + an original custom creature, the young witch

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With the branching and inter-connecting scenes, locations, and NPCs it provides, combined with the guidance on how to run a 'village adventure', the material provided here on more than 60 pages can easily cover up to eight hours of playtime. This adventure can also be used as a mini-campaign sandbox. Who can sort out this mess, bring back the innocent child, prevent a murder, and return peace and quiet to Willow Creek? What no one in the village knows: Yvonne is a budding witch secretly feuding with Old Olga, an evil hag in the woods - who now demands a human sacrifice from Yvonne in return for her child. Willow Creek, a remote farming village, is in trouble: livestock is going missing and reappears gutted in the woods, crops fail and fields blight - and now the bastard child of young Yvonne has gone missing as well. Old Olga and Young Yvonne is a four- to six-hour adventure for 1st-4th level characters, designed for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, with a village theme, hags and witches, an abducted child to save, some horror, and mysteries to solve!