Frogs of the Feywild
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Table of Contents Adventure Outline...................................................................................................... 1 Introduction........................................................................................................... 1 Background............................................................................................................ 1 Overview................................................................................................................ 1 Adventure Hooks...................................................................................................2 Chapter 1 — The Chaotic Maze..................................................................................3 G1. Garden Gate................................................................................................3 G2. Hedge Maze................................................................................................4 G3. Garden Party...............................................................................................5 Development......................................................................................................... 5 Chapter 2 — Time of the Seasons..............................................................................6 G4. Pond............................................................................................................ 6 G5. Summer Terrace..........................................................................................6 G6. Winter Terrace............................................................................................7 G7. Fountain...................................................................................................... 7 Sidebar: What’s a Wodnik?....................................................................................8 Development......................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 3 — The Frog Princess................................................................................10 G8-1. Folly Tower.............................................................................................10 G8-2. Folly Tower – Level 2..............................................................................10 Sidebar: Tania’s Tactics.......................................................................................12 Conclusion............................................................................................................... 13 Follow-Up............................................................................................................. 14 Rewards............................................................................................................... 14 Experience....................................................................................................... 14 Treasure.......................................................................................................... 14 Acknowledgments................................................................................................15 Author Bio............................................................................................................ 15 Art Credits & Legal...............................................................................................15 Appendix A: Monster/NPC Statistics.........................................................................16 Bullywug Croaker.............................................................................................16 Prince Dragomir (Bullywug Royal)...................................................................16 Lesser Poludnica..............................................................................................17 Princess Tania..................................................................................................18 Wodnik Watercrafter........................................................................................19 Appendix B: Spells...................................................................................................20 Summon Fey Spirit..........................................................................................20 Fey Spirit......................................................................................................... 20 Appendix C: Player Options.....................................................................................21 Race: Bullywug (Wodnik).................................................................................21 SampleRacial Feat: Wodnik Watercraft....................................................................... file22 Adventure Outline Introduction Overview When Bullywugs disrupt a wedding party This is an adventure for a party of 3rd- and kidnap the bride, adventurers will level characters. The adventure can be have to enter a garden transformed by broken down as follows: the magic of the Feywild to find her. As they make their way past fey and frogs At the wedding party for Prince alike, they’ll learn the captured damsel Jermyn and Princess Tania, an may not be in the kind of distress they army of Bullywugs emerges, expected. adbucts Tania, and takes over the walled garden where the party Content Warning: abduction, forced was being held. marriage After characters get past the Bullywugs’ initial defenses, they find that the garden has taken a Background life of its own due to an incursion of magic from the Feywild. The For the past month, local gossip has adventurers need to find a way to focused on the impending nuptials of the navigate a hedge maze that is wealthy local landowner, Prince Jermyn, constantly changing itself to keep to a well-beloved lady, Princess Tania. them out. During the party on the eve of the Beyond the maze, the characters wedding, hosted in Jermyn’s elaborate can choose a path past creatures private garden, disaster struck when an of elemental fire or ice to reach army of Bullywugs burst out of a the fountain where Tania was last fountain in the center of the garden. The seen. biggest Bullywug, dressed in a flowing The characters must follow indigo cape, seized Princess Tania. As Tania’s path to find the Bullywug guests fled the fearsome frog-monsters, leader, Prince Dragomir. they noticed the garden’s flowers and However, they learn that Tania shrubs begin to animate from some wants to escape from Jermyn with magic source. Dragomir’s help, and the characters must decide whether to The Bullywugs came from the help her or not. Murkendraw, an ocean-sized swamp within the Feywild. Their leader, Prince Dragomir, was summoned somewhat accidentally by Princess Tania, who was seeking a way out of her forced marriage to Jermyn. Now, the two are trying to escape to the Feywild together before Jermyn can muster a force to take Tania Sampleback. file 1 impression that he’s acting more Adventure Hooks out of concern for his hurt pride than concern for Tania. The adventure takes place in an ornate The characters may be at the site walled garden belonging to Prince of the garden incidentally and see Jermyn. The garden could be connected a stream of party guests and to a noble estate in the countryside caterers fleeing spear-wielding anywhere in your campaign with a Bullywugs. Any of these fleeing temperate or tropical climate. You can NPCs can give the characters a also transform the garden into a public description of what has park in a great city such as Waterdeep. transpired. If you need to have the characters The characters may be travel to reach a suitable location approached directly by Jermyn for the garden in your campaign, shortly after the Bullywugs you can have them hired on as crashed the wedding party. He is bodyguards for another noble on urgently looking for adventurers their way to the wedding, or even to rescue Tania and offers a be invited as guests themselves. reward of 400 gp. He’ll offer a They arrive in time to see the bonus of 200 gp if they bring back Bullywugs chasing away the other the head of the Bullywug leader: guests. his adamance about this gives the Sample file 2 Chapter 1 — The Chaotic Maze Read-Aloud: Prince Dragomir and will fight to the death. A twenty foot high stone wall topped with black iron spikes encloses the garden. The main gate passes under a stone archway, The Croaker can use its Rooooo-glog decorated with bas relief sculptures of ability to give nearby Bullywugs dancing figures that give the impression temporary hit points. Fleeing Bullywugs this was once a place of luxury. who gain temporary hit points will stop However, the metal gate is in the process of and stand their ground, at least until falling off its hinges as it strains under the they take damage again. However, if the weight of thick vines that protrude from Croaker is killed, all remaining within the garden. The vines skitter over the Bullywugs in the area will attempt to flee sculptures (in some places bursting through into area G2 as soon as possible. cracks in the stonework) and flower into Behind the Bullywug Croaker is Gale the hydrangeas and honeysuckles of scintillating colors. The air is thick with Gardener, who is bound with the same pollen the closer one approaches. type of flowering vines that are on the gate’s exterior. G1. Garden Gate Gale the Gardener A group of 1d4+1 Bullywugs is stationed Gale has cared for the private garden for outside of the gate. Depending on the a decade, and takes great pride in her hook you used to bring the characters