The Toxic Wood is a deadly wilderness adventure for Old School Essentials
Five days ago an arcane distress signal reached a secretive council of wizards from the residents of Aldervale. The village was assumed to be destroyed when Ion - a powerful dragon claimed the wood around it years ago. You are part of a team who have been sent on a dangerous quest into this hazy luminescent wood - to rescue the survivors of Aldervale from under the dragon's nose. The wood has a noxious microclimate and you must utilize a magical orb given to you by the wizards to survive. The orb generates a bubble of safe atmosphere, however it must constantly be fed new fuel. Running out of fuel means certain death. Strange creatures abound in the mutated ecosystem of the wood and all is not what it seems...
The adventure focuses on game-able content and being easy to use at the table. It is graphic and art heavy and utilizes a lot of random tables to make it easier for GMs to run with minimal prep.
The Toxic Wood includes:
- Hooks and rumors for your players
- Rules for surviving in the toxic wood using the orb and other means
- 14 keyed hex locations
- Random encounter tables for different areas of the wood
- New monsters
- Key NPCs
- A timeline of events for the DM to structure their sessions around
- Flora and fauna of the wood
- Random treasure tables
- Prompts and resolutions for what happens if players take different actions