Troll in the Well
First Post
Something Rotten
A goblin bashing, inn saving, cave looting adventure zine for 5E.
Something Rotten is a colourful, goblin filled adventure for 5E and other tabletop role playing games, funding now on Kickstarter. Save an inn, put a troll back together, start your own goblin cult and more in this debut adventure from Troll in the Well. If funded, Something Rotten will be unleashed in the Summer of 2025 as a digital PDF and as a full colour 48-page A5 zine.
/pic8719659.jpg "Something Rotten - Live on Kickstarter")
What’s The Story?
The Inn of Ill Omen has a problem. A terrible stench has appeared recently, and no one can figure out where it's coming from. It's chasing away customers and threatening the livelihood of the new owners and something must be done about it!
That’s where you come in, the adventuring party in need of a good night’s rest but instead now has a smelly inn with a big problem. Your quest to find the source of the stench will take you into dark forests, into deep caves and eventually face to face with a rather dismembered and unfortunate troll and a group of fanatical goblins who have decided this (still very much alive) troll is their new god.
How you solve this problem is up to you and Something Rotten gives you all the tools, tables, creature profiles, troll limbs, gross bits and weird magic that players and GM’s need to come up with inventive ways to save the inn. We’ve even written full tables to generate your own goblin cults to add some flavour (and chaos) to your games!
Are you going to fight the trolls’ semi-sentient limbs and beat the goblin cult out of the cave? Are you going to put the troll back together and team up to take the inn for yourself? Why not pit the disparate goblin cults against each other to make the fights a little easier?
Why not a bit of all the above? It’s up to you!
The adventure doesn’t end once the inn is safe either, we have written pages of side quests, hidden bits, magic items and rumours to explore to take your games even further!
/pic8719661.png "Something Rotten Screenshot")
Who is This For?
Well, hopefully YOU. Something Rotten is for folks looking for a fun, light-hearted adventure for their table. It will take anywhere between 2-5 sessions to complete, depending on how much exploration and rambling your party goes on, and is designed for early level adventurers.
How Do I Get My Grubby Mitts on a Copy?
Something Rotten is funding on Kickstarter right now until the 5th of March as both a digital only and physical zine, shipping worldwide. All physical sales come with the digital version totally free!
The book is written and mostly illustrated. All being well, the final product will be in your hands or inbox by summer 2025.
We’ve still a little way to go till we can get this funded and we would love to have this made so please check it out and join us!
:strip_icc()/pic8719663.png "Thumbs Up from Troll in the Well")
Troll in the Well
Troll in the Well are a writer/illustrator duo from Leeds in the North of the UK. Their mutual love of goofy fantasy has led them to teaming up to create weird TTRPG adventures, with their debut project ‘Something Rotten’ currently funding on Kickstarter.
:strip_icc()/pic8719668.jpg "Troll in the Well Logo")
A goblin bashing, inn saving, cave looting adventure zine for 5E.
Something Rotten is a colourful, goblin filled adventure for 5E and other tabletop role playing games, funding now on Kickstarter. Save an inn, put a troll back together, start your own goblin cult and more in this debut adventure from Troll in the Well. If funded, Something Rotten will be unleashed in the Summer of 2025 as a digital PDF and as a full colour 48-page A5 zine.
What’s The Story?
The Inn of Ill Omen has a problem. A terrible stench has appeared recently, and no one can figure out where it's coming from. It's chasing away customers and threatening the livelihood of the new owners and something must be done about it!
That’s where you come in, the adventuring party in need of a good night’s rest but instead now has a smelly inn with a big problem. Your quest to find the source of the stench will take you into dark forests, into deep caves and eventually face to face with a rather dismembered and unfortunate troll and a group of fanatical goblins who have decided this (still very much alive) troll is their new god.
How you solve this problem is up to you and Something Rotten gives you all the tools, tables, creature profiles, troll limbs, gross bits and weird magic that players and GM’s need to come up with inventive ways to save the inn. We’ve even written full tables to generate your own goblin cults to add some flavour (and chaos) to your games!
Are you going to fight the trolls’ semi-sentient limbs and beat the goblin cult out of the cave? Are you going to put the troll back together and team up to take the inn for yourself? Why not pit the disparate goblin cults against each other to make the fights a little easier?
Why not a bit of all the above? It’s up to you!
The adventure doesn’t end once the inn is safe either, we have written pages of side quests, hidden bits, magic items and rumours to explore to take your games even further!
Who is This For?
Well, hopefully YOU. Something Rotten is for folks looking for a fun, light-hearted adventure for their table. It will take anywhere between 2-5 sessions to complete, depending on how much exploration and rambling your party goes on, and is designed for early level adventurers.
How Do I Get My Grubby Mitts on a Copy?
Something Rotten is funding on Kickstarter right now until the 5th of March as both a digital only and physical zine, shipping worldwide. All physical sales come with the digital version totally free!
The book is written and mostly illustrated. All being well, the final product will be in your hands or inbox by summer 2025.
We’ve still a little way to go till we can get this funded and we would love to have this made so please check it out and join us!
Troll in the Well are a writer/illustrator duo from Leeds in the North of the UK. Their mutual love of goofy fantasy has led them to teaming up to create weird TTRPG adventures, with their debut project ‘Something Rotten’ currently funding on Kickstarter.
