Whizbang Dustyboots
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D&D General Ideas for a three-hour low-level Thanksgiving adventure?
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
At the moment, here's what I'm thinking:
1) The group is asked to hunt some turkeys for the imminent harvest festival. Unfortunately, a flock of dire turkeys have killed off all the native turkeys, so the normal hunters are nervous about taking them on. The good news is that dire turkey is delicious and should easily feed the festival participants.
2) The dire turkeys lair on an island in the middle of a cranberry bog that was once the home to a reclusive spellcaster. The bog has some appropriately-colored oozes in it.
3) Once the adventurers reach the island and kill the turkeys, they see that the spellcaster's tower is partially ruined, including having a very inviting open door, in case they want to explore a small tower, details TBD.
I like the idea of reskinning blights, and may have gourd and pumpkin blights on the island.
1) The group is asked to hunt some turkeys for the imminent harvest festival. Unfortunately, a flock of dire turkeys have killed off all the native turkeys, so the normal hunters are nervous about taking them on. The good news is that dire turkey is delicious and should easily feed the festival participants.
2) The dire turkeys lair on an island in the middle of a cranberry bog that was once the home to a reclusive spellcaster. The bog has some appropriately-colored oozes in it.
3) Once the adventurers reach the island and kill the turkeys, they see that the spellcaster's tower is partially ruined, including having a very inviting open door, in case they want to explore a small tower, details TBD.
I like the idea of reskinning blights, and may have gourd and pumpkin blights on the island.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Oozes in cranberry bogs are in this season: Kelsey Dionne just released a new Cran-Gelatinous Cube as a freebie monster for Shadowdark: https://thearcanelibrary.us12.list-...e4548769dbdf037c71&id=c1ceb782ab&e=36b0258413
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Kelsey's Cran-Gelatinous Cube is way too tough for me to adapt to a small group Tier 1 D&D adventure, and looking at the various oozes in D&D Beyond, they all kind of suck (sorry, ooze fans) and don't really give me the acidic ooze vibes I'd want for a low level cranberry ooze, especially if I want them to be small and attack in large numbers, maybe even as a swarm.
So off to Forge of Foes I go!
Stats to follow later this week.
So off to Forge of Foes I go!
Stats to follow later this week.
Mirrorrorrim
Hero
I've done the Dire Turkey thing, and it was fun!
A local wizard creates chimeric amalgamations for holiday feasts. He created a "gobble" of big, hybrid Turkeypigs or Turkeygoats (like griffons and hippogryphs) and while they are flightless, a precocious group of kids accidentally let them out, and the beasties went into town, and started gobbling everything up. No one knows which of them swallowed a particular macguffin that is important to someone, so the heroes have to track down all the beasties and make sure to help "recover" the macguffin, according to their preferences (herding to the pen, or culling for the table.)
I like the idea of food oozes... maybe a cultist of Zuggtmoy animated Holiday Jellies and Mashed Potatoes and Yams into oozes that are glorping things. They then merge to create something more than a "trifle" dangerous...
One of my favorite encounters is a Shambling Mound claiming a cranberry bog, and it is covered with all these red or white berries, almost like an animated swampy holiday tree.
To make it harder for higher levels, have it lured to the bog by a number of wicked will o' wisps that jolt it with lightning, so it can sustainably wreak havoc.
A local wizard creates chimeric amalgamations for holiday feasts. He created a "gobble" of big, hybrid Turkeypigs or Turkeygoats (like griffons and hippogryphs) and while they are flightless, a precocious group of kids accidentally let them out, and the beasties went into town, and started gobbling everything up. No one knows which of them swallowed a particular macguffin that is important to someone, so the heroes have to track down all the beasties and make sure to help "recover" the macguffin, according to their preferences (herding to the pen, or culling for the table.)
I like the idea of food oozes... maybe a cultist of Zuggtmoy animated Holiday Jellies and Mashed Potatoes and Yams into oozes that are glorping things. They then merge to create something more than a "trifle" dangerous...
One of my favorite encounters is a Shambling Mound claiming a cranberry bog, and it is covered with all these red or white berries, almost like an animated swampy holiday tree.
To make it harder for higher levels, have it lured to the bog by a number of wicked will o' wisps that jolt it with lightning, so it can sustainably wreak havoc.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Now I'm thinking of what the other holiday-themed heads would be for a turkey chimera. A plump pig, probably. Not sure what the remaining head would be.
Demetrios1453
Legend
Turducken, so turkey, chicken, and duck heads.
Voadam
Legend
Beat me to it.
This allows the duck and chicken inside bit too as the outside other than the heads is turkey.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
Holiday Chimera? How about you combine the three major U.S. Holidays into one three-headed beast: Jack-o-Lantern head for Halloween, turkey head for Thanksgiving, and reindeer head for Christmas?
But for just Thanksgiving, I'd just use the stats for a standard owlbear, but describe it as having the head and tail feathers of a turkey.
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