Thursday, January 23, 2025

Black Sword Hack Adventure - Making Sausage

Here's a little sample from a draft of the adventure: some hooks, an area map for the locations, and an NPC. There are more sub-location maps and factions I will share later!

HOOKS 

  1. Dasulem of Thulan, an understudy to an infamous sorcerer, has temporarily moved into an ancient site north of the hamlet of Hol. The locals of the hamlet fear the site conceals a portal to The Underworld. Dasulem knows this is true, and has written to one of the PCs to ask for help performing a ritual which will seal the portal. She promises to compensate them to the tune of 1000 coins for their help. Link Dasulem of Thulan to your PCs in any way you see fit (friend, former accomplice, or a member of your preferred Secret Society).

  2. The PCs find themselves in Hol, a moribund fishing hamlet on briny Moodover Loch. They have heard rumors that the loch is home to rare, immensely valuable water serpents. If these rumors are indeed true, why are the hamlet’s people barely surviving? 

  3. The PCs are hired by the Thieves Guild from your campaign's main city to collect a debt from Dasulem of Thulan, a young sorcerer who now resides near the decrepit fishing hamlet of Hol. However, the debt is not coinage, but instead an artifact called The Stygian Bell. How will the PCs react to Dasulem’s counter offer? Will they develop their own schemes for the artifact?




Brine Slime [LVL 3]

Violet, slug-like, aquatic hunters with a single, serpentine eye. Upon death, they dissolve to nothing. They are considered creatures of Chaos.

- Nesting: d4 slimes appear in d4 Turns

  • Slime slap (DEX): 6
  • Sucking grasp (CON): Ud4 ongoing damage

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