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- Hollowcrown: The Rift Between Worlds as its own seed (npm run seed:hollowcrown), built from the campaign book: pools, 58 monsters, 57 NPCs, 28 locations, 72 encounters with rewards, and DM notes. Shared seeding logic moved to prisma/seedCampaign.js. - What players can see: only encounters their own character is in; only the pool entries their character holds (plus starting options while building); only locations their character has been to; no invite code; no gold, inventory or money log of other players' characters. Socket events carry ids only and campaign rooms are members-only. - Encounters have a location; while one is in progress its characters are there, and visits are remembered. - Campaign setting to show players a health bar only for monsters and NPCs. - Initiative is entered as the d20 roll (1-20) and the bonus is added; players can enter their own character's roll. - Number fields enforce their limits when typing, and the API enforces the same limits. - Temp HP shows on HP bars and absorbs damage before real HP. - All packages at version 1.3.0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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77 KiB
JavaScript
807 lines
77 KiB
JavaScript
// Aldenfell campaign content: the gazetteer, bestiary and notes are condensed
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// from the Aldenfell Campaign Book; the gear, item pool, NPC list and scenes
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// are built out from it to use everything a campaign can hold.
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// Consumed by prisma/seed.js. Shapes match the Prisma models minus ids, except
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// where a section's comment says otherwise.
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const campaign = {
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name: 'Aldenfell',
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description:
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'A kingdom of knights and dragons is standing on top of something that’s waking up — and you’re the ones who find out first. ' +
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'Heroic adventure first, real consequences, and horror as a spice rather than the whole meal.',
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startingGold: 15,
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startingItemCount: 2,
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startingSpellCount: 2,
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};
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// Gazetteer
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const locations = [
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// Highcrown
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{ name: 'Highcrown — The Founding Chapel', description: 'Site of Session One’s bell mystery. Its cellar connects to the Sunken Vaults. Quiet by day, a good recurring “something’s off” location throughout Act 1.' },
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{ name: 'Highcrown — The Palace of Aldenfell', description: 'King Aldric’s seat. Court is held weekly; an audience without a sponsor (a knight, a noble, a Concord representative) takes real effort. Princess Isolde keeps a smaller, more accessible private study here.' },
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{ name: 'Highcrown — The Grey Dawn Hall', description: 'Order of the Grey Dawn headquarters. Recruitment, training yards, and Ser Kavan Thorne’s office. The natural starting point for a Fighter/Paladin-leaning party.' },
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{ name: 'Highcrown — The Concord Exchange', description: 'The Merchant Concord’s trading hall. Job boards, contracts, and Mireille Costa’s usual haunt. Best source of quick, paying side work.' },
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{ name: 'Highcrown — The Lantern Market', description: 'Highcrown’s main marketplace, busiest during the Founding Fair. Gear, rumors, and pickpockets in equal measure. The campaign opens (E1) and closes here.' },
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// Greywood
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{ name: 'Greywood — The Warden’s Lodge', description: 'Ashwen and the other Wardens’ base, a day’s ride from Highcrown. First place to hear rumors about the old shrines acting strangely.' },
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{ name: 'Greywood — The Old Shrine Sites', description: 'Scattered pre-kingdom shrines throughout the forest; several sit almost directly above Hollow Below cracks. Livestock/crop failures (a Stage 1 omen) cluster near these. → Side Quest: The Warden’s Silence.' },
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{ name: 'Greywood — The Feywild Grove', description: 'A grove where the boundary with the Feywild is thin. Home to a reclusive, capricious fey court — a “be careful what you promise” side encounter, unrelated to the main plot.' },
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{ name: 'Greywood — The Sunken Library', description: 'Ruins of a pre-kingdom archive, half-collapsed and root-choked. Contains fragments of the truth about the Hollow King’s origin — a place for the party to piece the mystery together on their own terms.' },
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// Spine
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{ name: 'The Spine — Threndir’s Eyrie', description: 'High on the eastern peaks, reachable by a hard climb or careful flight/magic. Threndir Ashclaw grants an audience to anyone who approaches openly and unarmed-in-spirit.' },
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{ name: 'The Spine — Sevrisk’s Hollow', description: 'A lower, damper cave system claimed by the young green dragon Sevrisk. Far more dangerous to simply wander into.' },
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{ name: 'The Spine — Stonejaw Hold', description: 'Korgath’s clan settlement in a Spine foothill valley. Outsiders are tested, not attacked on sight. → Side Quest: Trial of Stone.' },
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{ name: 'The Spine — Ironvein', description: 'A mining town at the Spine’s base, Aldenfell’s main source of iron. Practical resupply stop with its own local rumors (miners going quiet, deeper tunnels avoided).' },
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// Salt Coast & Bramble Marches
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{ name: 'Salt Coast — Tidewatch', description: 'The Salt Coast’s largest port town, proudly independent-minded. Good base for coastal side content. → Side Quest: What the Tide Brought In.' },
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{ name: 'Salt Coast — Smuggler’s Cove', description: 'A hidden inlet south of Tidewatch, used for exactly what the name suggests. → Side Quest: The Smugglers’ Tithe.' },
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{ name: 'Bramble Marches — Greyford Keep', description: 'A border fortress garrisoned by Aldenfell troops watching the disputed line. Tense, under-resourced, a pressure-cooker location (E11, E16).' },
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{ name: 'Bramble Marches — The Sorrow Camp', description: 'A refugee camp just inside Aldenfell territory, swollen by people fleeing the Marches’ border tension. → Side Quest: Refugees of the Marches.' },
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// Hollow Below
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{ name: 'Hollow Below — The Sunken Vaults (Layer 1)', description: 'Old crypts beneath Highcrown, reached from the Founding Chapel’s cellar or three other points in the city. Low real danger, mundane-spooky. Session One’s crawl (E3) happens here.' },
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{ name: 'Hollow Below — The Root (Layer 2)', description: 'Natural caves beneath the Greywood and the Spine’s lower slopes. Geography stops being reliable. Hollowed, Bellcrawlers, and the Root Stalker live here. Danger is real.' },
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{ name: 'Hollow Below — The Weeping Passage', description: 'A Root landmark: a long tunnel where the walls audibly “weep” — a faint, wrong, almost-voice sound. Set-piece location for the party’s first Hollowed.' },
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{ name: 'Hollow Below — The Hollow Court (Layer 3)', description: 'The seal itself. Off-limits until Act 4. Gravity, light, and memory all bend near it. The Hollow King’s Shadow operates here.' },
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];
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// Bestiary (Aldenfell-specific stat blocks). attackBonus/damageDice hold the
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// creature's primary attack; the rest lives in specialTrait/notes.
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const monsters = [
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{
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name: 'Threndir Ashclaw (old copper dragon)', challengeRating: '8', ac: 17, maxHp: 165, speed: 40,
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strScore: 23, dexScore: 12, conScore: 17, intScore: 16, wisScore: 13, chaScore: 17, attackBonus: 11, damageDice: '2d10+6',
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specialTrait: 'Legendary talker — always offers to negotiate before fighting unless attacked first. Acid breath (recharge 5–6): 60-ft line, DC 15 Dex, 10d8 acid (half on success).',
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notes: 'Huge dragon, 3,900 XP. Climb 40 ft, fly 80 ft. Bite +11 (2d10+6 piercing), Claw +11 (2d6+6 slashing), Tail +11 (2d8+6 bludgeoning). Saves Dex +5, Con +7, Wis +5, Cha +7. Skills Deception +7, Insight +5, Perception +9, Stealth +5. Blindsight 60 ft, darkvision 120 ft, passive Perception 19. Wants proof the crown can still be trusted — the intended “win” is a negotiation.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Sevrisk (young green dragon)', challengeRating: '5', ac: 18, maxHp: 136, speed: 40,
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strScore: 19, dexScore: 12, conScore: 17, intScore: 16, wisScore: 13, chaScore: 15, attackBonus: 7, damageDice: '2d6+4',
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specialTrait: 'Poison breath (recharge 5–6): 30-ft cone, DC 14 Con, 8d6 poison (half on success).',
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notes: 'Large dragon, 1,800 XP. Swim 40 ft, fly 80 ft. Bite +7 (2d6+4 piercing +2d6 poison), Claw +7 (2d4+4 slashing). Territorial and opportunistic — a straightforward combat threat, in contrast to Threndir.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Stonejaw Hill Giant', challengeRating: '5', ac: 13, maxHp: 105, speed: 40,
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strScore: 21, dexScore: 8, conScore: 19, intScore: 5, wisScore: 9, chaScore: 6, attackBonus: 8, damageDice: '3d8+5',
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specialTrait: 'Honor-bound — fights fairly and expects the same.',
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notes: 'Huge giant, 1,800 XP each (Korgath Stonejaw’s Spine Clan warband). Greatclub +8 (3d8+5 bludgeoning), Rock +8, 60/240 ft (3d10+5 bludgeoning). Passive Perception 9, speaks Giant. A trial or contest (Trial of Stone) fits better than an ambush.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Spine Wyvern', challengeRating: '3', ac: 13, maxHp: 68, speed: 20,
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strScore: 19, dexScore: 10, conScore: 16, intScore: 5, wisScore: 12, chaScore: 6, attackBonus: 6, damageDice: '2d6+4',
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specialTrait: 'Territorial, not evil — attacks anything lingering near a nest, ignores parties that move on.',
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notes: 'Large dragon, 700 XP. Fly 80 ft. Bite +6 (2d6+4 piercing), Stinger +6 (2d6+4 piercing, DC 15 Con or poisoned 1 minute). Perception +4, darkvision 60 ft, passive Perception 14.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Reef Terror', challengeRating: '3', ac: 13, maxHp: 68, speed: 20,
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strScore: 19, dexScore: 10, conScore: 16, intScore: 5, wisScore: 12, chaScore: 6, attackBonus: 6, damageDice: '2d6+4',
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specialTrait: 'Territorial — drags fishers under near its reef.',
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notes: 'Reskinned Spine Wyvern for Side Quest: What the Tide Brought In — fins instead of wings, no flight, swim speed instead. Bite +6 (2d6+4 piercing), Stinger +6 (2d6+4 piercing, DC 15 Con or poisoned). NOT connected to the Hollow King.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Greywood Direwolf', challengeRating: '1', ac: 14, maxHp: 37, speed: 50,
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strScore: 17, dexScore: 15, conScore: 15, intScore: 3, wisScore: 12, chaScore: 7, attackBonus: 5, damageDice: '2d6+3',
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specialTrait: 'Pack tactics — advantage if an ally is within 5 ft of the target and not incapacitated.',
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notes: 'Large beast, 200 XP each. Bite +5 (2d6+3 piercing, DC 13 Str or prone). Perception +3, Stealth +4. Use 3–4 at once — the clearest Action Economy lesson for a new table.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Highcrown Cutthroat', challengeRating: '1/8', ac: 12, maxHp: 11, speed: 30,
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strScore: 11, dexScore: 12, conScore: 12, intScore: 10, wisScore: 10, chaScore: 10, attackBonus: 3, damageDice: '1d6+1',
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specialTrait: null,
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notes: 'Medium humanoid, 25 XP each. Shortsword +3 (1d6+1 piercing), Dagger (thrown) +3, 20/60 (1d4+1 piercing). Ordinary desperate people — kill them, scare them off, or find out why they’re desperate?',
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},
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{
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name: 'Bandit Captain', challengeRating: '2', ac: 15, maxHp: 65, speed: 30,
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strScore: 15, dexScore: 16, conScore: 14, intScore: 10, wisScore: 10, chaScore: 10, attackBonus: 5, damageDice: '1d6+3',
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specialTrait: 'Multiattack (two scimitar attacks).',
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notes: 'Medium humanoid, 450 XP. Scimitar +5 (1d6+3 slashing), Dagger (thrown) +5, 20/60 (1d4+3 piercing). Leads a band of 4–6 cutthroats.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Hollowed', challengeRating: '1', ac: 12, maxHp: 27, speed: 30,
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strScore: 12, dexScore: 10, conScore: 12, intScore: 10, wisScore: 10, chaScore: 8, attackBonus: 3, damageDice: '1d6+1',
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specialTrait: 'Almost right — DC 15 Insight notices the wrongness (no blink, a repeated phrase, no reflection) before it acts. Hollow whisper — 1/day speaks one sentence in Vessa Hollow’s voice to its target.',
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notes: 'Medium humanoid, 200 XP. HORROR register. Slam +3 (1d6+1 bludgeoning); on a hit DC 12 Wis save or frightened 1 round. Deception +3 while passing as themselves. The horror is in the roleplay, not the numbers.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Bellcrawler', challengeRating: '2', ac: 14, maxHp: 32, speed: 30,
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strScore: 12, dexScore: 15, conScore: 16, intScore: 3, wisScore: 12, chaScore: 4, attackBonus: 5, damageDice: '2d6+2',
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specialTrait: 'Mimic bell-toll — lures the curious. Stillness — motionless and silent the instant it’s observed; DC 17 Perception to spot while still.',
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notes: 'Small monstrosity, 450 XP. HORROR register. Climb 30 ft. Bite +5 (2d6+2 piercing), Skitter (disengage as a bonus action). Stealth/dread, not a straight fight.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Root Stalker', challengeRating: '4', ac: 15, maxHp: 78, speed: 30,
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strScore: 17, dexScore: 14, conScore: 13, intScore: 6, wisScore: 14, chaScore: 6, attackBonus: 6, damageDice: '2d8+3',
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specialTrait: 'Silent approach — advantage on its first attack each combat. Grasping roots — on a hit, target restrained (DC 14 Str to escape) until the Stalker is damaged.',
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notes: 'Large aberration, 1,100 XP. HORROR register — signature Aldenfell monster. Burrow 20 ft. Multiattack (two Root Lash +6, 2d8+3 bludgeoning). Tremorsense 60 ft (blind beyond), passive Perception 12. Run as a slow, dreadful stalk.',
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},
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{
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name: 'The Hollow King’s Shadow', challengeRating: '7', ac: 14, maxHp: 90, speed: 30,
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strScore: 10, dexScore: 14, conScore: 10, intScore: 16, wisScore: 16, chaScore: 18, attackBonus: 8, damageDice: '3d8',
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specialTrait: 'Not yet real — at 0 HP it disperses for the scene, never dies. Echoing dread — starting a turn within 30 ft: DC 15 Wis or frightened. Passes through walls.',
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notes: 'Large undead (incorporeal), 2,900 XP but uncounted — DO NOT run as a fair fight. Fly 30 ft (hover). Chilling touch +8 (3d8 necrotic). Treat HP as a ticking clock: interrupt, banish, or outlast it (close a ritual circle, reach sunlight/a warded threshold, survive N rounds). Save its true, killable form for Act 4.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Skeleton', challengeRating: '1/4', ac: 13, maxHp: 13, speed: 30,
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strScore: 10, dexScore: 14, conScore: 15, intScore: 6, wisScore: 8, chaScore: 5, attackBonus: 4, damageDice: '1d6+2',
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specialTrait: 'Undead — vulnerable to bludgeoning',
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notes: 'Ordinary restless dead for the Sunken Vaults’ Restless Ossuary (Room 4). Not tied to the Hollow King; DC 12 Religion identifies that proper deconsecration would settle them.',
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},
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{
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name: 'Feral Guard Dog', challengeRating: '1/8', ac: 12, maxHp: 5, speed: 40,
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strScore: 13, dexScore: 14, conScore: 12, intScore: 3, wisScore: 12, chaScore: 7, attackBonus: 3, damageDice: '1d6+1',
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specialTrait: 'Keen hearing and smell — advantage on Perception checks that rely on them.',
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notes: 'Medium beast, 25 XP. Bite +3 (1d6+1 piercing, DC 11 Str or prone). A chapel mastiff gone half-wild in the Sunken Vaults’ Old Crypt Hall (Room 2). Starving, not vicious — DC 12 Animal Handling or a thrown ration ends the fight.',
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},
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];
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// Weapons the party earns. The everyday weapons (seed-data/weapons.json) are
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// seeded as starting options; these are not, so they only reach a character as
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// a reward or a gift. damageDice is the damage at minLevel, and a character
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// must be at least a held copy's level to use it. damageScaling: 1 standard,
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// 2 powerful, 3 legendary.
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const weapons = [
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{ name: 'Masterwork Dagger', damageDice: '1d6', damageType: 'piercing', attackAbility: 'FINESSE', properties: ['finesse', 'light', 'thrown'], rangeNormal: 20, rangeLong: 60, minLevel: 2, damageScaling: 1 },
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{ name: 'Smuggler’s Cutlass', damageDice: '1d8', damageType: 'slashing', attackAbility: 'FINESSE', properties: ['finesse'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 2, damageScaling: 1 },
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{ name: 'Warden’s Longbow', damageDice: '1d10', damageType: 'piercing', attackAbility: 'DEX', properties: ['ammunition', 'heavy', 'two-handed'], rangeNormal: 150, rangeLong: 600, minLevel: 2, damageScaling: 2 },
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{ name: 'Grey Dawn Longsword', damageDice: '1d10', damageType: 'slashing', attackAbility: 'STR', properties: ['versatile (1d12)'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 3, damageScaling: 2 },
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{ name: 'Greyford Halberd', damageDice: '1d12', damageType: 'slashing', attackAbility: 'STR', properties: ['heavy', 'reach', 'two-handed'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 3, damageScaling: 1 },
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{ name: 'Stonejaw Maul', damageDice: '2d8', damageType: 'bludgeoning', attackAbility: 'STR', properties: ['heavy', 'two-handed'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 4, damageScaling: 2 },
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{ name: 'Threndir’s Fang', damageDice: '1d8', damageType: 'piercing', attackAbility: 'FINESSE', properties: ['finesse', 'light'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 5, damageScaling: 2 },
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{ name: 'Hollowbane', damageDice: '2d8', damageType: 'radiant', attackAbility: 'FINESSE', properties: ['finesse', 'versatile (2d10)'], rangeNormal: null, rangeLong: null, minLevel: 7, damageScaling: 3 },
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];
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// Item pool. Items are descriptive: holding one never changes a number on the
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// sheet. `starting: true` offers the item in the character builder.
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const items = [
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// Starting kit
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{ name: 'Potion of Healing', description: 'A red liquid that glimmers when shaken. Drink it (an action) to regain the hit points shown.', damageDice: '2d4+2', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Traveller’s Pack', description: 'Bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, waterskin and five days of rations.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Rope (50 ft)', description: 'Hempen rope. Holds a climber; DC 17 Strength to burst.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Torches (bundle of 5)', description: 'Each burns for an hour: bright light for 20 feet, dim for 20 more.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Healer’s Kit', description: 'Ten uses. Spend one to stabilise a creature at 0 hit points without a Medicine check.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Thieves’ Tools', description: 'Picks, a small file and a mirror on a handle. Needed to pick a lock or disarm a trap.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Shield', description: 'A wooden or steel shield, +2 Armor Class while carried. Ask the DM to add it to your armor bonus.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Leather Armor', description: 'Boiled leather, Armor Class 11 + Dexterity. Ask the DM to set your armor bonus.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Spellcasting Focus', description: 'A wand, holy symbol, crystal or carved staff that your spells are cast through.', starting: true },
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{ name: 'Founding Fair Token', description: 'A stamped brass token from the Lantern Market. Good for one drink at any stall, or a small favour from whoever ran the game you won it at.', starting: true },
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// Found and earned
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{ name: 'Potion of Greater Healing', description: 'A deeper red than the common potion. Drink it (an action) to regain the hit points shown.', damageDice: '4d4+4', minLevel: 3 },
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{ name: 'Alchemist’s Fire', description: 'A sticky flask that ignites in air. Throw it up to 20 feet: the target burns for the damage shown at the start of each of its turns until someone spends an action putting it out.', damageDice: '1d4' },
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{ name: 'Silver Locket', description: 'A tarnished locket from the Old Crypt Hall, worth about 15 gp. The portrait inside has been scratched out.' },
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{ name: 'Smugglers’ Ledger Page', description: 'A torn page from a crate in the Sunken Vaults, stamped with a merchant sigil nobody at the Concord Exchange recognises. Half a name survives in the margin.' },
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{ name: 'Bell-Ringer’s Keepsake', description: 'A worn brass bell-clapper charm, pressed into your hand with more gratitude than its owner could put into words.' },
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{ name: 'Grey Dawn Signet', description: 'An iron ring bearing the Order’s rising sun. Shown at Grey Dawn Hall or to any patrol, it marks you as someone the Order vouches for.' },
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{ name: 'Concord Writ of Passage', description: 'A sealed Merchant Concord contract. Waives tolls and gate fees across Aldenfell while the Concord still considers you good for business.' },
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{ name: 'Warden’s Charm', description: 'A knot of greywood bark and red thread. The Wardens will know you by it, and the forest’s paths seem a little easier to find while you carry it.' },
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{ name: 'Stonejaw Oath-Token', description: 'A river stone the size of a fist, carved with the Stonejaw clan mark. Proof that your word was tested and held.' },
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{ name: 'Half-Burned Letter', description: 'Found among a missing person’s belongings in the Root. Most of it is ash. What is left mentions payments, a shrine, and a family crest.' },
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{ name: 'Silver Shrine Relic', description: 'A small silver figure lifted from black water beneath the Greywood, worth about 75 gp. Its style is older than the kingdom.' },
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{ name: 'Sealed Letter', description: 'Heavy paper, an unbroken wax seal, and a servant’s whispered warning about who must never know you have it.' },
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{ name: 'Root-Fiber Scrap', description: 'A length of pale root that is still, very slightly, moving. It is cold, and it does not rot.' },
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{ name: 'Seal-Stone Fragment', description: 'A shard of worked stone from the edge of the breach. Script runs along one face. It is warm, and holding it makes the bell script easier to look at.' },
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];
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// Spells, pulled from the default library (src/game/data/spellsLibrary.js) by
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// key. A new character can only pick starting spells of their own level or
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// lower, so the starting set is cantrips and 1st level; the rest are for the
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// DM to teach later.
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const spells = {
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starting: [
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'chill-touch', 'eldritch-blast', 'fire-bolt', 'guidance', 'light', 'mage-hand', 'minor-illusion',
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'prestidigitation', 'produce-flame', 'ray-of-frost', 'sacred-flame', 'shocking-grasp', 'spare-the-dying',
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'thorn-whip', 'vicious-mockery',
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'bless', 'burning-hands', 'charm-person', 'command', 'cure-wounds', 'detect-magic', 'entangle', 'faerie-fire',
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'guiding-bolt', 'healing-word', 'mage-armor', 'magic-missile', 'shield', 'sleep', 'thunderwave',
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],
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earned: [
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'hold-person', 'invisibility', 'lesser-restoration', 'misty-step', 'moonbeam', 'scorching-ray', 'shatter',
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'spiritual-weapon',
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'counterspell', 'daylight', 'dispel-magic', 'fireball', 'remove-curse', 'revivify',
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'banishment',
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],
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};
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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// NPCs. `description` is what the party sees once the NPC is in a scene;
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// `dmNotes` never leaves the DM's screen. Combat stats only where a fight is
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// plausible.
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// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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const npcs = [
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{
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name: 'King Aldric Veyrmont', role: 'King of Aldenfell', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
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description: 'An aging king with a soldier’s posture and tired eyes. Courteous, proud, and quick to steer talk away from anything that sounds like bad news.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Tired, proud, in denial — cornered, not ill. Pays well for quiet problem-solving and reacts badly to blunt truth. An audience needs a sponsor (a knight, a noble, a Concord representative). The crown fractures publicly at Stage 3.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Princess Isolde Veyrmont', role: 'Heir to the throne', disposition: 'FRIENDLY',
|
||
description: 'Sharp, pragmatic and well liked. She keeps a small private study at the palace and has a habit of asking capable outsiders exactly the right question.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'The best long-term ally, and she recruits outsiders on purpose. Already suspects something is deeply wrong, so she is the most likely to believe the party early. Reporting to her at E10B sets up Act 3’s politics. Rumour says she will move against her father — misleading.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Ser Kavan Thorne', role: 'Knight-Commander of the Grey Dawn', disposition: 'FRIENDLY',
|
||
description: 'Rigid, honorable and loyal to a fault. He runs Grey Dawn Hall by the book and judges people by whether they do what they said they would.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Recruits the party (E4A → Grey Dawn track). SECRET: the Order’s founding is tied to the original sacrifice, and Thorne does not know. He struggles when evidence points at the crown; whether and how the party tells him is theirs to choose. If Ressa Vane escorted them (E9C) he already suspects by E10B.',
|
||
ac: 18, maxHp: 65, attackBonus: 6, damageDice: '1d8+4',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Mireille Costa', role: 'Merchant Concord representative', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'Charming and transactional, usually found at the Concord Exchange with a contract already drafted. She always has a job, and she always pays what she promised.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Source of paying side work (E4B → The Smugglers’ Tithe). The Concord is neutral and pragmatic, and drops anyone who becomes bad for business — including the party.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Ashwen', role: 'Warden of the Greywood', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'Terse and watchful, with a longbow that never seems to be out of reach. She answers to the forest, not to the crown.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Suspicious, not hostile — a slow-burn ally. The first to notice the old shrines acting strangely (E4C → The Warden’s Silence). After that quest she is convinced something is deeply wrong, whatever happened to her Warden.',
|
||
ac: 15, maxHp: 44, attackBonus: 6, damageDice: '1d8+3',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Threndir Ashclaw', role: 'Old copper dragon of the Spine', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'Vast, scarred and weary, coiled in an eyrie high on the eastern peaks. He grants an audience to anyone who approaches openly, and he prefers words to fire.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Blunt, and wants the kingdom to survive. He wants proof the crown can still be trusted — the intended “win” is a negotiation (Persuasion DC 15–18). Always offers to talk unless attacked first. If it does come to a fight, use the “Threndir Ashclaw (old copper dragon)” monster stat block.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Korgath Stonejaw', role: 'Chieftain of the Stonejaw clan', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'A hill giant chieftain with a voice like a rockslide and no patience for politics. Outsiders in his hold are tested, not attacked.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Honor-bound: trials, contests and bargains, never ambushes. Offers the Trial of Stone instead of an agreement; success is a standing alliance (Spine Clans track), failure earns a second, harder trial. Nothing sinister here — it is a genuine test of character.',
|
||
ac: 13, maxHp: 105, attackBonus: 8, damageDice: '3d8+5',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Vessa Hollow', role: 'A voice in the dark', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'A woman’s voice — calm, patient, almost kind. She does not blink. She speaks as though she has been waiting a very long time and can wait a little longer.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'SECRET: one of the people Highcrown’s founders sacrificed, and the Hollow King’s sympathetic “face”. She believes waking the rest is justice. Unsettling, never mustache-twirling; DC 16 Insight confirms she believes what she says. Use her in dreams and omens long before she appears. Negotiating with her is a legitimate outcome. She does not fight — any combat near her uses Hollowed guardians.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Corporal Ressa Vane', role: 'Grey Dawn warden escort', disposition: 'FRIENDLY',
|
||
description: 'A steady, plain-spoken corporal of the Grey Dawn, assigned to see you safely through the tunnels. She writes things down.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Only appears if the party took Grey Dawn recruitment (E4A → E9C). She lets them skip to Root Room 2, and she reports everything back to Grey Dawn Hall — which matters at E10B and E15.',
|
||
ac: 16, maxHp: 27, attackBonus: 4, damageDice: '1d8+2',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'The Bell-Ringer', role: 'Bell-ringer of the Founding Chapel', disposition: 'FRIENDLY',
|
||
description: 'A stooped, soft-spoken man who has rung the chapel bell every hour for most of his life. Badly shaken, and very grateful to see a friendly face.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Found alive in Vault Room 5 (E3). He saw “someone who looked like his neighbor, except wrong”. Returns in The Bell-Ringer’s Debt: he owes a Highcrown lender who operates under the corrupted house’s protection (not knowable yet). A loyal low-key ally either way.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'A Frightened Local', role: 'Witness outside the chapel', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'A market porter who was passing the chapel when the bell stopped. Pale, talking too fast, and not keen to go back inside.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'DC 12 Persuasion or Insight gets the account of “a woman who wasn’t blinking”. If the party talks to the crowd first (E2C) they get three witness accounts but no script lead, and their E10 Insight check is at advantage.',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'The Lender', role: 'Highcrown moneylender', disposition: 'HOSTILE',
|
||
description: 'A neat, unhurried man who keeps his ledgers tidier than his conscience. He never raises his voice; he has collectors for that.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Holds the bell-ringer’s debt. Operates under the corrupted noble house’s protection — digging into who backs him is harder but plants a clue toward the house before Act 2. Can be paid off, intimidated, or exposed.',
|
||
ac: 12, maxHp: 22, attackBonus: 3, damageDice: '1d4+1',
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Greyford’s Commander', role: 'Commander of Greyford Keep', disposition: 'NEUTRAL',
|
||
description: 'An exhausted officer holding a border fortress with half the troops and a third of the supplies it needs. Blunt, overworked, and out of patience.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Wants the Sorrow Camp “moved along” — and is not wrong about the strategic liability. No clean villain in Refugees of the Marches. Whether Greyford is supplied (The Smugglers’ Tithe outcome) decides rescue vs recovery at E11 and whether the keep holds at E16.',
|
||
ac: 17, maxHp: 52, attackBonus: 5, damageDice: '1d8+3',
|
||
},
|
||
];
|
||
|
||
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
// Encounters — pre-built (PLANNING) scenes for the beats of the Campaign Book,
|
||
// in book order. BATTLE scenes run in initiative order; QUEST scenes are built
|
||
// around NPCs and an objective.
|
||
// location — a location's name: where the scene is. Its characters move
|
||
// there when it begins.
|
||
// description — the scene, shown to the players in it: no spoilers.
|
||
// dmNotes — DCs, branches and secrets, DM only.
|
||
// monsters — [monster name, count, optional display name]; a count above
|
||
// one gets "#n" suffixes.
|
||
// npcs — NPC names.
|
||
// rewards — lined up unawarded, so they stay the DM's secret until
|
||
// handed out. { gold } | { weapon } | { item }, with optional
|
||
// quantity, level (defaults to the entry's starting level) and
|
||
// note.
|
||
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
const encounters = [
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E1 — The Founding Fair', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Highcrown — The Lantern Market',
|
||
description: 'Highcrown’s Lantern Market at the height of the Founding Fair: lantern-strung stalls, contests of strength and skill, minstrels, and strangers from every corner of the kingdom. This is where you meet.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Character creation happens here (Roll-Your-Character System) — it can be the whole first half of session one. No combat. Let each PC win or lose something small at a stall, and introduce Mireille and Ser Kavan in passing so they are familiar faces by E4. Ends when the chapel bell fails to ring → E2.',
|
||
npcs: ['Mireille Costa', 'Ser Kavan Thorne'],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E2 — The Bell That Wasn’t Ringing', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Highcrown — The Founding Chapel',
|
||
description: 'The Founding Chapel’s bell has rung every hour for as long as anyone remembers. It has stopped. A crowd is gathering outside, and someone is asking for volunteers to go in and look.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'No break-in. The bell rope is neatly cut and left coiled; the bell-ringer is missing, not dead; a line of unfamiliar script is scratched inside the bell (Hollow King iconography). DC 13 Investigation finds the rope and script; DC 12 Persuasion/Insight gets the “woman who wasn’t blinking”.\n• E2A investigate immediately: full clues; skip Vault Room 1.\n• E2B distracted first: the guard missed the script; DC 13 Investigation to find it; start at Room 1.\n• E2C talk to the crowd first: three witness accounts, no script lead; E10 Insight later at advantage.\nThe trail leads to the cellar → E3.',
|
||
npcs: ['Ser Kavan Thorne', 'A Frightened Local'],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E3 — Sunken Vaults: The Old Crypt Hall', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Sunken Vaults (Layer 1)',
|
||
description: 'A long hall of burial niches beneath the chapel, some sealed, some broken open. Something is growling in the dark between the pillars.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Vault Room 2, the hub (→ Rooms 3, 4, stair to 6). The dog is starving, not vicious: DC 12 Animal Handling or a thrown ration ends it. DC 13 Investigation: the open niches are just old theft. DC 12 Perception finds the locket.',
|
||
monsters: [['Feral Guard Dog', 1]],
|
||
rewards: [{ item: 'Silver Locket', note: 'Room 2 — DC 12 Perception' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E3 — Sunken Vaults: The Restless Ossuary', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Sunken Vaults (Layer 1)',
|
||
description: 'Bones stacked floor to ceiling, and an offering box furred with dust. The air is still. Then it isn’t.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Vault Room 4, a dead end. One or two skeletons rise halfway through the room — ordinary restless dead, not tied to the Hollow King. DC 12 Religion: proper deconsecration would settle them without a fight. DC 13 to open the offering box.',
|
||
monsters: [['Skeleton', 2]],
|
||
rewards: [{ gold: 25, note: 'Offering box — DC 13 to open' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E3 — Sunken Vaults: The Bell-Ringer’s Refuge', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Hollow Below — The Sunken Vaults (Layer 1)',
|
||
description: 'A side chamber with a bedroll, a cold lantern, and a frightened old man who very much hopes you are who you look like.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Vault Room 5. The bell-ringer is alive but shaken: he saw “someone who looked like his neighbor, except wrong”. Getting him out is the win — the bell rings again, the fair goes on, nothing is solved.\nRoom 3 (Smugglers’ Cache) is on the way: DC 14 Investigation ties the crates’ sigil to a lender linked to the corrupted house.\nRoom 6 (The Descent) leads to the Root: wrong, cold air. Signal the tone shift; the party can always turn back. → E4.',
|
||
npcs: ['The Bell-Ringer'],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 40, note: 'Room 3 — trade goods from the smugglers’ cache' },
|
||
{ item: 'Smugglers’ Ledger Page', note: 'Room 3 — DC 14 Investigation' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E4 — Aftermath & Faction Hooks', mode: 'QUEST',
|
||
description: 'Word travels fast in Highcrown. By the next morning three different people have sent for you, and each of them has work.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'All open doors; they can run in parallel.\n• E4A Grey Dawn recruitment (Kavan) → Grey Dawn ending track; unlocks Ressa Vane at E9C.\n• E4B Concord job board (Mireille) → The Smugglers’ Tithe.\n• E4C Warden contact (Ashwen) → The Warden’s Silence.\n• E4D Caravan to the Spine → Trial of Stone → Spine Clans track.\n• E4E Investigate independently (DC 15 Investigation) → Independent track.\nAfter two or more threads and one E5 omen, advance the clock to Stage 2 (E8).',
|
||
npcs: ['Ser Kavan Thorne', 'Mireille Costa', 'Ashwen'],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ item: 'Grey Dawn Signet', note: 'E4A — if they accept recruitment' },
|
||
{ item: 'Concord Writ of Passage', note: 'E4B — on taking Mireille’s contract' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E6 — The Bell-Ringer’s Debt: Collectors', mode: 'BATTLE',
|
||
description: 'Three hard-faced men are waiting outside the bell-ringer’s door when you arrive. They are not here to hear him ring.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Optional side quest, Lv 1–2. The collectors are ordinary desperate people: kill them, scare them off, or find out why they are desperate. Beats: hear the bell-ringer out → track the collectors → pay the debt, intimidate the lender, or dig into who backs him (harder, more rewarding — a clue toward the corrupted house before Act 2).',
|
||
monsters: [['Highcrown Cutthroat', 3]],
|
||
npcs: ['The Bell-Ringer', 'The Lender'],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 30, note: 'The collectors’ take for the week' },
|
||
{ item: 'Bell-Ringer’s Keepsake', note: 'Given once the debt is dealt with' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — The Smugglers’ Tithe: Tidewatch', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Salt Coast — Tidewatch',
|
||
description: 'Tidewatch, the Salt Coast’s largest port: proud, salt-stained, and suspicious of anyone asking questions. Someone is skimming the town’s quiet trade, and the Concord wants to know who.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Lv 1–3. Mireille hires the party to learn why a cut of Tidewatch’s smuggled goods vanishes before reaching buyers. TRUTH: a Bandit Captain is extorting the smugglers and funnelling the “tithe” to arm one side of the Bramble Marches conflict. Smugglers distrust outsiders. Track a shipment to Smuggler’s Cove → next scene.\nOutcome decides whether Greyford is supplied at E11/E16.',
|
||
npcs: ['Mireille Costa'],
|
||
rewards: [{ gold: 100, note: 'Mireille’s fee — paid in full if it ends quietly' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — The Smugglers’ Tithe: Smuggler’s Cove', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Salt Coast — Smuggler’s Cove',
|
||
description: 'A hidden inlet south of Tidewatch. Lanterns hooded, a longboat drawn up on the shingle, and a crew that was not expecting company.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Fight, negotiate, or both. The Captain leads from the front (multiattack) and bolts for the boat below half HP. End it quietly (Mireille pays well) or expose where the tithe was headed (pulls the Marches plot forward).',
|
||
monsters: [['Bandit Captain', 1], ['Highcrown Cutthroat', 4]],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 60, note: 'The tithe chest' },
|
||
{ weapon: 'Smuggler’s Cutlass', note: 'The Captain’s own blade' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — The Warden’s Silence: Direwolf Pack', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Greywood — The Old Shrine Sites',
|
||
description: 'The trail to the shrine runs through old growth where the light barely reaches the ground. The forest has gone quiet, and there are eyes between the trees.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Lv 1–2. The pack is agitated by the shrine, not evil — DC 13 Animal Handling or Nature to back away without a fight. Pack tactics make three wolves the clearest action-economy lesson for a new table.',
|
||
monsters: [['Greywood Direwolf', 3]],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — The Warden’s Silence: The Shrine', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Greywood — The Old Shrine Sites',
|
||
description: 'A mossed-over shrine older than the kingdom, split by a crack you could lose an arm in. The missing Warden is standing in front of it. She turns and greets you by name.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'HORROR register — signal it. The Warden was Hollowed after investigating the crack alone: the party’s first, sympathetic Hollowed. DC 15 Insight notices the wrongness (no blink, a repeated phrase) before it acts. Fight, restrain and bring back to Ashwen (hard questions), or it escapes to report back. Either way Ashwen is convinced.',
|
||
monsters: [['Hollowed', 1, 'The Missing Warden']],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ item: 'Warden’s Charm', note: 'From Ashwen, whatever the outcome' },
|
||
{ weapon: 'Warden’s Longbow', note: 'The missing Warden’s bow — Ashwen says it should be used' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — Trial of Stone', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'The Spine — Stonejaw Hold',
|
||
description: 'Stonejaw Hold, a giant clan’s valley in the Spine foothills. The chieftain has heard you out. He does not offer agreement. He offers a trial.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Lv 2–4. A genuine test of character, nothing sinister. Trials (per PC or shared): non-lethal wrestling with a giant (the Hill Giant here — HP is a “pin” clock, nobody dies); a test of honesty; proving their word is good (retrieve something, deliver a message honestly). Beats: arrive → formal challenge → trial → feast.\nSuccess = standing alliance (Spine Clans track, unlocks E9D and E11C). Failure is not fatal: Korgath offers a second, harder trial.',
|
||
monsters: [['Stonejaw Hill Giant', 1, 'Stonejaw Champion']],
|
||
npcs: ['Korgath Stonejaw'],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ item: 'Stonejaw Oath-Token', note: 'On passing the trial' },
|
||
{ weapon: 'Stonejaw Maul', note: 'Feast-gift for whoever wrestled the champion' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — Refugees of the Marches', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Bramble Marches — The Sorrow Camp',
|
||
description: 'The Sorrow Camp: hundreds of people under canvas just inside the border, and a garrison at Greyford Keep that wants them gone. Food sent for the camp is not all arriving.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Lv 2–4, the clearest moral-choice quest. No clean villain: the commander is not wrong about the strategic liability, and the refugees have nowhere else to go. Beats: tension between camp and garrison → find who is skimming aid (the Captain’s crew) → confront them → broker, or fail to broker, an arrangement.\nIntroduce a named refugee NPC here — they are at risk at E16B.',
|
||
monsters: [['Bandit Captain', 1, 'Aid-Skimmer Boss'], ['Highcrown Cutthroat', 2]],
|
||
npcs: ['Greyford’s Commander'],
|
||
rewards: [{ gold: 50, note: 'Recovered aid money — keeping it is a choice the camp will notice' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Side Quest — What the Tide Brought In: The Reef', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Salt Coast — Tidewatch',
|
||
description: 'A fishing boat washed up empty this morning: sails intact, catch in the hold, crew gone. The fishers will point out the reef. None of them will row you there.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Lv 2–3, horror-lite. NOT connected to the Hollow King — a deliberate palate-cleanser. DC 13 Investigation on the boat finds claw marks, not violence. Confront it at sea (it swims, the party does not) or lure it to the shallows. Outcome: safe fishing reopens and real goodwill in Tidewatch.',
|
||
monsters: [['Reef Terror', 1]],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 80, note: 'Tidewatch’s collection for whoever cleared the reef' },
|
||
{ item: 'Potion of Healing', quantity: 2, note: 'From the harbour apothecary' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Audience — Threndir’s Eyrie', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'The Spine — Threndir’s Eyrie',
|
||
description: 'A hard climb above the snow line, and a cave mouth wide enough to sail a ship into. The dragon inside already knows you are here. He has not moved, and he has not told you to leave.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'A negotiation, not a fight: Threndir wants proof the crown can still be trusted (Persuasion DC 15–18; real evidence from E10 lowers it). He talks first unless attacked. If it goes wrong, add the “Threndir Ashclaw (old copper dragon)” monster to this scene — and remember he is far beyond a low-level party.',
|
||
npcs: ['Threndir Ashclaw'],
|
||
rewards: [{ weapon: 'Threndir’s Fang', note: 'A shed tooth, set in a hilt — given only if he comes to respect them' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E9 — The Root: Weeping Passage', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Weeping Passage',
|
||
description: 'A long tunnel beneath the Greywood where the walls weep, and the sound they make is almost a voice. Somewhere ahead, very faintly, a bell tolls.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'HORROR register — signal the tone shift. Root Room 2. DC 14 Survival: the dripping is a Hollowed’s footsteps. The Bellcrawler uses Stillness (DC 17 Perception to spot) and mimics the bell to lure the curious.\n• E9A retreat: keep what they learned, full rest before re-entry.\n• E9B push through: the marking here matches the bell script (DC 16 Arcana/Religion).\n• E9C (took E4A): Ressa Vane escorts and reports back — remove her from the scene otherwise.\n• E9D (won Trial of Stone): a Spine guide enters via Room 4.',
|
||
monsters: [['Bellcrawler', 1]],
|
||
npcs: ['Corporal Ressa Vane'],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E9 — The Root: Hollowed Nest', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Root (Layer 2)',
|
||
description: 'A cavern kept unnervingly tidy: bedrolls squared away, boots in a row. Two people sit facing the wall. They stand when you enter, and smile at exactly the same moment.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Root Room 3. DC 15 Insight before combat. Consider making one a named missing person. Slam hits force DC 12 Wis or frightened for a round; each can whisper one sentence in Vessa’s voice. The letter (DC 14) hints at the corrupted house.',
|
||
monsters: [['Hollowed', 2]],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 20, note: 'Personal effects' },
|
||
{ item: 'Half-Burned Letter', note: 'DC 14 Investigation' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E9 — The Root: Root Stalker’s Warren', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Root (Layer 2)',
|
||
description: 'The roots in this chamber are as thick as a man’s waist, and they are not growing from anything. One of them shifts when your light touches it.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Root Room 4, a dead end (optional secret passage to Room 6). DC 14 Perception or its first attack has advantage. Run it as a slow, dreadful stalk: tremorsense, burrow, grasping roots (restrained, DC 14 Str). E9D: DC 13 Survival or it wakes at the entrance.',
|
||
monsters: [['Root Stalker', 1]],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 60, note: 'From what the roots grew around' },
|
||
{ weapon: 'Masterwork Dagger', note: 'Still in a dead hand' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E9 — The Root: Bellcrawler Gallery', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Root (Layer 2)',
|
||
description: 'Narrow ledges over a drop your torch cannot find the bottom of. From three different directions at once, a bell begins to toll.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Root Room 6. DC 15 Perception to place them; DC 13 Dex on the ledges or fall 2d6. They skitter (bonus-action disengage) and freeze when watched — stealth and dread, not a straight fight. → Room 7, the stair to the Hollow Court: let them see it and turn back.',
|
||
monsters: [['Bellcrawler', 3]],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 90, note: 'Scattered along the ledges' },
|
||
{ item: 'Potion of Healing', note: 'In a fallen pack' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E10 — The House Unmasked', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Highcrown — The Palace of Aldenfell',
|
||
description: 'Back in Highcrown with a name, a ledger, and a question nobody at court wants asked out loud: what do you do with it?',
|
||
dmNotes: 'The ledger: every shrine “donation” falls three days after a livestock death.\n• E10A confront the house directly: DC 16 Persuasion/Intimidation with proof, DC 20 without.\n• E10B report to the crown, Isolde or Kavan: sets up Act 3 politics; if E9C, Kavan already suspected (trust bump).\n• E10C (E2C + the servant thread): private DC 13 check at advantage → confession and the sealed letter; the house never learns it is suspected. Best route into Act 3.',
|
||
npcs: ['Princess Isolde Veyrmont', 'Ser Kavan Thorne'],
|
||
rewards: [{ item: 'Sealed Letter', note: 'E10C only' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E11 — Silence on the Border', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Bramble Marches — Greyford Keep',
|
||
description: 'Greyford Keep. The gate stands open. No smoke from the chimneys, no one on the walls, no bodies. A kettle is still warm on a guardroom stove.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'DC 13 Perception: drag marks — the defenders left. The Smugglers’ Tithe outcome decides rescue vs recovery. E11C (Spine allied): the clans are already here and share Root Stalker migration intel. Remove the Commander from the scene if this is a recovery.',
|
||
npcs: ['Greyford’s Commander'],
|
||
rewards: [
|
||
{ gold: 70, note: 'Trade goods in the keep’s stores (2d6×10 gp)' },
|
||
{ weapon: 'Greyford Halberd', note: 'From the armoury' },
|
||
],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E12 — A Line Thins', mode: 'BATTLE',
|
||
description: 'The ground splits somewhere you thought was safe, and something comes up through it that should have stayed far below.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'A Root Stalker surfaces near a location the party did not secure — pick it from what they left undone. DC 15 Arcana/Religion: this is deliberate erosion from below. The root-fiber scrap is a key item (needed at E14/E18/E19). Then E13: the clock turns to Stage 3.',
|
||
monsters: [['Root Stalker', 1]],
|
||
rewards: [{ item: 'Root-Fiber Scrap', note: 'Key item — cut from the Stalker' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E14 — The Break', mode: 'BATTLE',
|
||
description: 'The crack has become a breach. People are coming out of it — neighbours, guards, people you have met — walking calmly, smiling, and not blinking.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Two to four Hollowed (scale to the party). DC 15 Arcana: the breach is shaped for something to come through.\n• E14A seal it (DC 17 Arcana or the chapel ritual): closes, but a debt comes due at E17.\n• E14B evacuate instead: no deaths, but the breach stays open, worsening omens until E18.\nThe seal-stone fragment is a key item (needed at E19).',
|
||
monsters: [['Hollowed', 4]],
|
||
rewards: [{ item: 'Seal-Stone Fragment', note: 'Key item — from the breach’s edge' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'Mid-campaign scare — The Hollow King’s Shadow', mode: 'BATTLE',
|
||
description: 'The light goes thin and the air goes cold. Something tall is standing where the wall should be, and the wall does not seem to mind.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'DO NOT run as a fair fight. At 0 HP it disperses for the scene and never dies; treat its HP as a ticking clock. Give the party a way out: close a ritual circle, reach sunlight or a warded threshold, or survive N rounds. Echoing dread: DC 15 Wis or frightened within 30 ft. Save its true, killable form for Act 4.',
|
||
monsters: [['The Hollow King’s Shadow', 1]],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E19 — Vessa’s Seat', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Hollow Below — The Hollow Court (Layer 3)',
|
||
description: 'A single worn stone seat at the heart of the Hollow Court, and a woman who has been expecting you. She asks you to sit. She says she would like to explain.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Court Room 4. The party learns the Hollow King’s true nature from Vessa: the imprisoned will of everyone the founders sacrificed — a suppression of many, not a prison for one. DC 16 Insight: she believes what she says. A strong candidate for a negotiated outcome.\nRoot-fiber + seal-stone (DC 15 Arcana, automatic with a Religion-proficient caster) → advantage on the first check at E22. Then E20: the clock turns to Stage 4.',
|
||
npcs: ['Vessa Hollow'],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E21 — Rally Point', mode: 'QUEST',
|
||
description: 'One last gathering before the descent. Whoever is going to stand with you is here now — and they do not all agree about what happens next.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Who shows up depends on the branch list — remove anyone the party lost or alienated.\n• E21A Grey Dawn track: Kavan and his wardens, by the book.\n• E21B Spine Clans track: Korgath’s war-band; advantage on the first Survival check at E22.\n• E21C Independent: no reinforcements; every choice stays theirs.\n• Several tracks: the groups arrive and disagree — the party mediates.',
|
||
npcs: ['Princess Isolde Veyrmont', 'Ser Kavan Thorne', 'Korgath Stonejaw', 'Ashwen'],
|
||
rewards: [{ item: 'Potion of Greater Healing', quantity: 2, note: 'Going-away gift from whoever stands with them' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E22 — The Seal Chamber', mode: 'QUEST', location: 'Hollow Below — The Hollow Court (Layer 3)',
|
||
description: 'A wound in the world, stitched shut long ago, and coming undone one thread at a time. Whatever you came here to decide, this is where you decide it.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'Court Room 5 — the key branch. DC 18 Arcana/Religion reveals the seal is a suppression of many. Optional DC 14 Wis saves vs disorientation.\n• E22A reinforce (DC 18 Arcana/Religion): the Sealed Ending — time bought.\n• E22B break it deliberately: E23 on the party’s terms — the only path to true victory.\n• E22C do nothing: the seal fails anyway; E24–E25 are harder.\nHollowbane is the campaign’s single most significant magic item: legendary growth, starts at level 7.',
|
||
npcs: ['Vessa Hollow'],
|
||
rewards: [{ weapon: 'Hollowbane', note: 'Drawn from the seal itself' }],
|
||
},
|
||
{
|
||
name: 'E25 — The Last Approach', mode: 'BATTLE', location: 'Hollow Below — The Hollow Court (Layer 3)',
|
||
description: 'The final stretch of the Hollow Court, where gravity, light and memory have all stopped agreeing with one another. The things that live here know you are coming.',
|
||
dmNotes: 'A gauntlet of horror-register creatures; whichever faction the party rallied fights alongside them (add those NPCs). Grey Dawn = a disciplined line; Spine Clans = terrain and ritual (collapse passages); Independent = hardest, and entirely theirs. → E26, the Hollow King: build that stat block from DM Secrets, scaled to the party.',
|
||
monsters: [['Root Stalker', 1], ['Bellcrawler', 2]],
|
||
},
|
||
];
|
||
|
||
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
// Notes. Listed in reading order; the seed timestamps them so the first entry
|
||
// shows at the top of the campaign's note list.
|
||
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
const sharedNotes = [
|
||
`Welcome to Aldenfell — Player Primer
|
||
|
||
You’re a stranger arriving in Highcrown, the capital, right as the yearly Founding Fair kicks off — a good excuse for adventurers from every corner of the kingdom to cross paths in one place.
|
||
|
||
The setting: Aldenfell is a kingdom of knightly orders, old noble houses, and a royal court that’s held things together for generations. To the west, the ancient Greywood forest keeps its own secrets and its own guardians. To the north and east, the mountains of the Spine are home to giant clans and dragons who are neighbors and political players, not just monsters to slay. The Salt Coast to the south is full of independent-minded fishing towns and rumors of things in the water. A world built for classic adventure — quests, courts, monsters, treasure — with real weight behind the choices you make.
|
||
|
||
A note on tone: most of this campaign plays like a bright, exciting fantasy adventure. Every so often, especially if you go looking underground, it gets genuinely unsettling. You’ll always get a clear signal before things turn scary, so lean in when it happens.
|
||
|
||
Building your character: we’ll roll to discover your species and class, then roll your ability scores. Knights, wandering scholars, forest-raised rangers, self-taught spellcasters — everything has a place here.`,
|
||
];
|
||
|
||
const dmNotes = [
|
||
`Overview & Tone
|
||
|
||
Aldenfell looks whole from the road and is rotting from underneath. Knights ride under bright banners, dragons nest in the high peaks, the court still feasts — but something old and hungry is stirring beneath the capital, and every faction is maneuvering around that fact instead of dealing with it. The party arrives as the cracks start showing.
|
||
|
||
Tone pillars (in priority order):
|
||
• Heroic adventure first — the classic fantasy toybox, played straight and fun.
|
||
• Real consequences — choices stick; burned bridges stay burned; stalling on the central threat visibly worsens the world. Not punishing, just earned.
|
||
• Horror as a spice — surface world plays bright; horror spikes in telegraphed places (the Hollow Below). Always signal before a scene turns scary.
|
||
|
||
Tone dial (out of 5): Heroism 5 · Intrigue 3 · Combat 4 · Horror 3 (5 in the Underworld) · Comedy 2.
|
||
|
||
Regions: Highcrown (capital, home base) · The Greywood (old forest, fey, Wardens) · The Spine (dragons & giants) · The Salt Coast (smuggling, sea monsters) · The Bramble Marches (contested border) · The Hollow Below (underneath everything).`,
|
||
|
||
`The Central Conflict — Campaign Clock
|
||
|
||
Something sealed beneath the capital centuries ago — the Hollow King — is waking. It doesn’t attack at first; it corrupts. Use this as a VISIBLE clock; it advances only between major story beats.
|
||
|
||
Stage 1 — Omens: livestock/crops fail near old shrines; shared identical nightmares in Highcrown; minor nobles acting strangely loyal to no one. (Session One sits here.)
|
||
Stage 2 — Cracks: the boundary thins in mappable places; monsters surface near cracks; a Bramble Marches faction goes quiet; the corrupted noble house is revealed.
|
||
Stage 3 — Open wound: a crack becomes a breach; a town/district is lost or quarantined; the crown publicly acknowledges it and fractures; factions jockey for power.
|
||
Stage 4 — The Hollow King wakes: endgame, shaped by what the party did in stages 1–3.
|
||
|
||
Real consequences: an ally lost in stage 2 stays lost; a faction alienated in stage 1 won’t help in stage 3; a region left to fall stays changed.
|
||
|
||
Branch points to track: faction(s) sided with · named NPCs alive/allied/dead/estranged · regions with lasting damage · how much the public knows by Act 3.`,
|
||
|
||
`Factions
|
||
|
||
• The Crown — King Aldric Veyrmont, aging, cornered, in denial. Heir Princess Isolde Veyrmont: capable, well-liked, quietly building her own circle — a strong ally for the party.
|
||
• Order of the Grey Dawn — premier knightly order sworn to the crown. Split between traditionalists and a faction that thinks the court is hiding something. “You’re recruited” is a clean session-one hook.
|
||
• The Merchant Concord — trade coalition running Highcrown’s economy. Neutral, pragmatic, pays for side quests, quick to abandon anyone bad for business.
|
||
• Wardens of the Greywood — rangers/druids who answer to no crown. Suspicious, not hostile; first to notice the cracks near the old shrines.
|
||
• Spine Clans & dragon eyries — several giant clans and named dragons treating Aldenfell as a neighboring power. “Talk your way out of this” and “earn an ally” scenes.
|
||
• A corrupted noble house — pick a minor house NOW; don’t reveal until Stage 2. Let their behavior be subtly off from session one.`,
|
||
|
||
`Notable NPCs
|
||
|
||
• King Aldric Veyrmont — ruler. Tired, proud, in denial. Pays well for quiet problem-solving; reacts badly to blunt truth.
|
||
• Princess Isolde Veyrmont — heir. Sharp, pragmatic. Best long-term ally; recruits capable outsiders on purpose.
|
||
• Ser Kavan Thorne — Grey Dawn knight-commander. Rigid, honorable, loyal to a fault. Recruits the party; struggles when evidence points at the crown.
|
||
• Mireille Costa — Merchant Concord rep. Charming, transactional, always has a job.
|
||
• Ashwen — Warden of the Greywood. Terse, watchful. First to notice the shrines; a slow-burn ally.
|
||
• Threndir Ashclaw — old, weary copper dragon of the Spine. Blunt, wants the kingdom to survive. Talks before fighting.
|
||
• Korgath Stonejaw — giant clan chieftain. Honor-bound, no patience for politics. Trials, contests, bargains.
|
||
• Vessa Hollow — a voice, not yet a face. Calm, almost kind, wrong. Use in dreams/omens long before she appears.
|
||
• Corporal Ressa Vane — Grey Dawn warden escort (E9C); reports everything back to Grey Dawn Hall.
|
||
• The bell-ringer — rescued in Session One; returns in The Bell-Ringer’s Debt.`,
|
||
|
||
`DM SECRETS & TWISTS (eyes only)
|
||
|
||
• What the Hollow King is: the accumulated, imprisoned will of everyone Highcrown’s founders sacrificed to secure their claim to the land. The seal is a suppression of many, not a prison for one. The resolution is about what the party does with that truth (bury it, expose it, make amends) — not just a sword fight.
|
||
• Vessa Hollow: one of the sacrificed, the Hollow King’s sympathetic “face.” She believes waking the rest is justice. Unsettling, never mustache-twirling. Negotiating with her is a legitimate outcome.
|
||
• The corrupted noble house: choose whichever minor house you introduced most casually in Act 1. Their head bargained with Vessa years ago for prosperity and believes they’re managing the influence rather than being used.
|
||
• Ser Kavan Thorne: the Grey Dawn’s founding is tied to the original sacrifice. Thorne doesn’t know. Whether/how the party tells him is theirs to choose.
|
||
• Princess Isolde: already suspects something is deeply wrong; most likely to believe the party early.`,
|
||
|
||
`Session One — The Bell That Wasn’t Ringing
|
||
|
||
Setup: all PCs are in Highcrown for the Founding Fair. Build characters at the table (Roll-Your-Character System) — can be session one’s first half.
|
||
|
||
Hook: the old chapel bell, which has rung every hour for as long as anyone remembers, stops. A city guard (or Ser Kavan Thorne) gathers volunteers to check the chapel.
|
||
|
||
What they find: no break-in. The bell rope is neatly cut and left coiled. The bell-ringer is missing, not dead. A line of unfamiliar script is scratched inside the bell (Hollow King iconography). A frightened local saw “a woman who wasn’t blinking.” The trail leads to the Sunken Vaults beneath the chapel.
|
||
|
||
Light dungeon crawl: 2–4 easy/medium encounters (feral guard dog, low-level undead) — nothing horror-register yet. The bell-ringer is found alive but shaken, having seen “someone who looked like his neighbor, except wrong.”
|
||
|
||
Ending: the bell rings again, the fair goes on, nothing is solved. They leave with a taste of combat, one unanswered mystery, and at least one NPC connection.`,
|
||
|
||
`Act 1: Omens — E1–E8
|
||
|
||
E1 Founding Fair (Lantern Market): character creation, no combat → E2.
|
||
E2 The Bell That Wasn’t Ringing (Founding Chapel): DC 13 Investigation finds the cut rope & script; DC 12 Persuasion/Insight gets the “woman who wasn’t blinking.”
|
||
• E2A investigate immediately: full clues; skip Vault Room 1.
|
||
• E2B distracted first: guard missed the script; DC 13 Investigation to find it; start Room 1.
|
||
• E2C talk to the crowd first: 3 witness accounts, no script lead; E10 Insight later at advantage.
|
||
E3 The Sunken Vaults: run Vault Rooms 1–6; bell-ringer found in Room 5 → E4.
|
||
E4 Aftermath & Faction Hooks (all open doors, can run in parallel):
|
||
• E4A Grey Dawn recruitment → Grey Dawn ending track.
|
||
• E4B Concord job board → The Smugglers’ Tithe.
|
||
• E4C Warden contact → The Warden’s Silence.
|
||
• E4D Caravan to the Spine → Trial of Stone → Spine Clans track.
|
||
• E4E Investigate independently (DC 15 Investigation) → Independent track.
|
||
E5 Omens Montage: 2–3 short scenes across sessions (shrine livestock, shared nightmares — DC 12 Insight, the odd noble).
|
||
E6 The Bell-Ringer’s Debt (optional side quest).
|
||
E7 A Closer Look: investigating the noble house hits dead ends — unless E2C, then DC 13 Insight catches a servant who flinched.
|
||
E8 Turning the Page: after 2+ E4 threads and one E5 omen, advance clock to Stage 2 → E9.`,
|
||
|
||
`Act 2: Cracks — E9–E13
|
||
|
||
E9 First Descent (The Root, Weeping Passage). Signal the tone shift. DC 14 Survival notices the dripping is a Hollowed’s footsteps.
|
||
• E9A retreat: keep what they learned, full rest before re-entry.
|
||
• E9B push through alone: Root Rooms 1–4; Weeping Passage marking matches the bell script.
|
||
• E9C (took E4A): Corporal Ressa Vane escorts, skips to Room 2 — but reports back (matters at E10B, E15).
|
||
• E9D (won Trial of Stone): Spine guide enters via Room 4; hears the legend of “the sleeper under the hollow crown”; DC 13 Survival or wake the Root Stalker at the entrance.
|
||
E10 The House Unmasked (Highcrown). Ledger: every shrine “donation” falls three days after a livestock death.
|
||
• E10A confront directly: DC 16 Persuasion/Intimidation with proof, DC 20 without.
|
||
• E10B report to crown/Isolde/Kavan: sets up Act 3 politics; if E9C, Kavan already suspected (trust bump).
|
||
• E10C (E2C + servant thread): private DC 13 check at advantage → confession + sealed letter; the house never learns it’s suspected. Best route into Act 3.
|
||
E11 Silence on the Border (Greyford Keep): gate open, no bodies. DC 13 Perception: drag marks — the defenders left. Smugglers’ Tithe outcome decides rescue vs recovery. E11C (Spine allied): clans already there, share Root Stalker migration intel. Treasure: 2d6×10 gp trade goods + masterwork weapon.
|
||
E12 A Line Thins: a Root Stalker surfaces near a location the party didn’t secure. DC 15 Arcana/Religion: deliberate erosion from below. Key item: root-fiber scrap (needed for E14/E18).
|
||
E13 The Clock Turns → Stage 3.`,
|
||
|
||
`Act 3: Open Wound — E14–E20
|
||
|
||
E14 The Break: the E12 crack becomes a breach; 2–4 Hollowed pour out. DC 15 Arcana: shaped for something to come through.
|
||
• E14A seal it (DC 17 Arcana or chapel ritual): closes, but a debt comes due at E17.
|
||
• E14B evacuate instead: no deaths, but the breach stays open, worsening omens until E18.
|
||
Key item: seal-stone fragment (needed at E19).
|
||
E15 The House Falls (or Doesn’t):
|
||
• E15A (after E10A): house prepared — DC 18 to break the cover story, or fight guards + a Hollowed retainer.
|
||
• E15B (after E10B): public tribunal — DC 16 Persuasion/Insight for exile over execution.
|
||
• E15C (after E10C): strike the cult infrastructure directly → E15C-1 capture a cult lieutenant who reveals the Hollow Court’s surface entrance.
|
||
E16 What the Marches Cost (Greyford Keep):
|
||
• E16A reinforced (E11C): the keep holds; Spine standing rises.
|
||
• E16B under-supplied: the keep falls; a named refugee NPC dies unless DC 16 Athletics/Survival rescue.
|
||
E17 The Debt Comes Due: pay off E14A, unresolved side quests, or ignored omens — or a quiet breather.
|
||
E18 Into the Hollow Court: Court Rooms 1–3. E18A standard entry via the Root’s Descent; E18B (lieutenant captured) skip to Room 2.
|
||
E19 Vessa’s Seat (Court Room 4): the party learns the Hollow King’s true nature from Vessa. Root-fiber + seal-stone (DC 15 Arcana, auto with a Religion-proficient caster) → advantage on the first check at E22.
|
||
E20 The Clock Turns Again → Stage 4.`,
|
||
|
||
`Act 4: The Hollow King Wakes — E21–E27
|
||
|
||
E21 Rally Point (Highcrown or Greyford): who shows up depends on the branch list.
|
||
• E21A Grey Dawn track: Kavan + wardens, by-the-book.
|
||
• E21B Spine Clans track: war-band; advantage on the first Survival check at E22.
|
||
• E21C Independent: no reinforcements; every choice stays theirs.
|
||
• Multiple tracks: groups arrive and disagree — the party mediates.
|
||
Treasure: a minor magic item as a going-away gift.
|
||
E22 The Seal Chamber (Court Room 5) — the key branch:
|
||
• E22A reinforce (DC 18 Arcana/Religion): Sealed Ending; the seal-stone becomes a unique magic item.
|
||
• E22B break it deliberately: E23 on the party’s terms — the only path to true victory.
|
||
• E22C do nothing: seal fails anyway; E24–E25 are harder.
|
||
E23 The Waking Begins (Court Room 6): E22B = no surprise, full resources; E22C = apply one escalation stage first.
|
||
E24 What the Court Remembers: vision encounter; DC 14 Insight recognizes manipulation vs truth.
|
||
E25 The Last Approach: gauntlet of 2–3 horror-register creatures; allied faction fights alongside.
|
||
E26 The Hollow King: build the stat block from DM Secrets, scaled to party. Grey Dawn = disciplined line; Spine Clans = terrain & ritual (collapse passages, the Memory Pool); Independent = hardest, entirely theirs.
|
||
E27 Endings: Sealed (bought time) · Grey Dawn (institution absorbs the heroes) · Spine Clans (credit finally given) · Independent (their own story). Close back at the Lantern Market, a year later.`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — The Smugglers’ Tithe
|
||
Salt Coast (Tidewatch, Smuggler’s Cove) · Lv 1–3 · Highcrown Cutthroats, Bandit Captain
|
||
|
||
Hook: Mireille Costa hires the party to learn why a cut of Tidewatch’s smuggled goods is vanishing before reaching buyers.
|
||
Truth: a Bandit Captain is extorting the smugglers and funneling the “tithe” to arm one side of the Bramble Marches conflict.
|
||
Beats: investigate Tidewatch (smugglers distrust outsiders) → track a shipment to Smuggler’s Cove → confront the crew (fight, negotiate, or both).
|
||
Outcomes: end it quietly (Mireille pays well) or expose where the tithe was headed (pulls the Marches plot forward). Decides whether Greyford is supplied at E11/E16.`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — The Warden’s Silence
|
||
The Greywood (Warden’s Lodge, an Old Shrine) · Lv 1–2 · Greywood Direwolves, one Hollowed
|
||
|
||
Hook: Ashwen asks the party to check on a Warden who stopped reporting in from a shrine site.
|
||
Truth: the Warden was Hollowed after investigating the shrine’s crack alone — the party’s first, sympathetic Hollowed.
|
||
Beats: track the Warden → direwolf pack on the way (agitated, not evil) → the Hollowed Warden at the shrine; DC 15 Insight reveals the wrongness.
|
||
Outcomes: fight, or restrain and bring back to Ashwen (hard questions), or it escapes to report back. Either way Ashwen is convinced something is deeply wrong.`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — Trial of Stone
|
||
The Spine (Stonejaw Hold) · Lv 2–4 · Korgath Stonejaw’s Hill Giants
|
||
|
||
Hook: the party needs Korgath’s clan as an ally; he offers a trial instead of agreement.
|
||
Truth: nothing sinister — a genuine test of character.
|
||
Trials (per PC or shared): non-lethal wrestling with a giant; a test of honesty; proving their word is good (retrieve something, deliver a message honestly).
|
||
Beats: arrive → formal challenge → trial → feast on success.
|
||
Outcomes: success = standing alliance (Spine Clans track). Failure isn’t fatal — Korgath offers a second, harder trial.`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — The Bell-Ringer’s Debt
|
||
Highcrown · Lv 1–2 · Highcrown Cutthroats · Follows Session One
|
||
|
||
Hook: the rescued bell-ringer owes a Highcrown underworld lender; interest is compounding fast.
|
||
Truth: the lender operates under the corrupted noble house’s protection (not knowable yet).
|
||
Beats: hear him out → track the collectors → pay the debt, intimidate the lender, or dig into who backs the lender (harder, more rewarding).
|
||
Outcomes: a loyal low-key ally either way. Digging plants a connect-the-dots clue toward the corrupted house before Act 2.`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — Refugees of the Marches
|
||
Bramble Marches (Greyford Keep, the Sorrow Camp) · Lv 2–4 · Cutthroats or a Bandit Captain · The clearest moral-choice quest
|
||
|
||
Hook: the Sorrow Camp is overwhelmed and preyed on by aid-skimmers; Greyford’s commander wants the camp “moved along.”
|
||
Truth: no clean villain — the commander isn’t wrong about the strategic liability; the refugees have nowhere else to go.
|
||
Beats: tension between camp and garrison → find who’s skimming aid → confront them → broker (or fail to broker) an arrangement.
|
||
Outcomes: genuinely branching — lasting goodwill, or a hardened Marches conflict. Introduce a named refugee NPC here (at risk at E16B).`,
|
||
|
||
`Side Quest — What the Tide Brought In
|
||
Salt Coast (Tidewatch) · Lv 2–3 · Reef Terror (reskinned Spine Wyvern) · Horror-lite
|
||
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Hook: a fishing boat washes up empty — sails intact, catch in the hold, crew gone.
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Truth: NOT connected to the Hollow King (a deliberate palate-cleanser). A territorial sea creature drags fishers under near a reef.
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Beats: DC 13 Investigation finds claw marks, not violence → spooked fishers give the reef’s location → confront at sea or lure to shallows.
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Outcomes: safe fishing reopens and real goodwill in Tidewatch — an uncomplicated “you helped real people” win.`,
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`Dungeon — Sunken Vaults (Layer 1)
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1. The Collapsed Stair (entry) — spiral stair, rusted gate on one hinge. No monster. DC 12 Perception: fresh footprints (the bell-ringer’s). → Room 2.
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2. The Old Crypt Hall — hub; sealed niches, some open. DC 13 Investigation: just old theft. Good spot for a feral dog or low undead. Treasure: silver locket 15 gp (DC 12). → 3, 4, stair to 6.
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3. Smugglers’ Cache — crates with an unknown merchant sigil. DC 14 Investigation ties it to a lender linked to the corrupted house. Treasure: ~40 gp trade goods + ledger page with partial name. Dead end.
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4. The Restless Ossuary — 1–2 skeletons rise halfway through (ordinary dead). DC 12 Religion: deconsecration would settle them. Treasure: offering box (DC 13) with 25 gp. Dead end.
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5. The Bell-Ringer’s Refuge — bedroll, cold lantern. The bell-ringer is found here in E3; otherwise a squatter’s camp. Branch off Room 2 or 6.
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6. The Descent — ragged hole, wrong cold air. Transition to the Root; signal the tone shift. The party can always turn back. → Root Room 1.`,
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`Dungeon — The Root (Layer 2)
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1. The Threshold — almost-regular dripping. Nothing attacks. DC 15 Perception: the rhythm changes when someone speaks. Retreat always safe. → 2.
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2. The Weeping Passage — walls “weep.” E9B: marking matches the bell script (DC 16 Arcana/Religion). Maybe one Bellcrawler using Stillness (DC 17 Perception). → 3 (east), 4 (south).
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3. Hollowed Nest — tidy cavern, bedrolls. 1–2 Hollowed; DC 15 Insight before combat. Maybe a named missing person. Treasure: ~20 gp effects + (DC 14) half-burned letter hinting at the corrupted house. → 2, 5.
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4. Root Stalker’s Warren — moving roots. Root Stalker lair; DC 14 Perception or its first attack has advantage. Treasure: 60 gp + masterwork dagger (50 gp). Dead end (optional secret passage to 6).
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5. The Drowned Shrine — pre-kingdom altar in black water. DC 16 History/Religion: older than Aldenfell. Treasure: silver relic 75 gp (DC 13 Athletics/Investigation). → 2, crawl to 6.
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6. Bellcrawler Gallery — ledges over a drop; bell-toll lure. 2–3 Bellcrawlers; DC 15 Perception; DC 13 Dex or fall 2d6. Treasure: 90 gp + potion of healing. → 2, 7.
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7. The Descent to the Hollow Court — a stair too regular to exist. Off-limits before Act 4; let them see it and turn back. → Court Room 1.`,
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`Dungeon — The Hollow Court (Layer 3)
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1. The Bent Stair — the stair disagrees with itself. DC 15 Wis save or lose track of time (optionally lose 10 minutes). No monster. → 2.
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2. The Memory Pool — each PC sees a personal vision tied to their backstory/choices (payoff for the branch list). No damage; can choose not to look. DC 17 Insight to understand it. → 3.
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3. The Court of Whispers — overlapping voices; Vessa may speak plainly here. DC 16 Insight: she believes what she says. Any combat uses Hollowed guardians, not Vessa. → 4.
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4. Vessa’s Seat — a single worn stone seat. Meet or confront Vessa; strong candidate for a negotiated outcome. → 5.
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5. The Seal Chamber — a wound stitched shut, coming undone. DC 18 Arcana/Religion reveals the seal is a suppression of many. Optional DC 14 Wis saves vs disorientation. Treasure: the campaign’s single most significant magic item. → 6.
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6. The Waking — the end of the dungeon. Don’t decide its contents until Act 3 is complete.`,
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`DM Tables — Skill DCs, Treasure, Downtime
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DCs: Very Easy 5 · Easy 10 · Medium 15 · Hard 20 · Very Hard 25 · Nearly Impossible 30.
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Recurring: spot a Hollowed (Insight 15) · Hollow Below wrongness (Perception 14–17) · Hollow King iconography (Religion/Arcana 16) · read a political room (Insight 13) · talk down a dragon/giant (Persuasion 15–18) · track (Survival 13) · simple lock/trap (12) · recall lore (History 14) · haggle (Persuasion 12) · resist horror fear (Wis save 14–15).
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Treasure Lv 1–4 (d10): 1 2d10×5 sp · 2 1d6×10 gp · 3 trade good 10–30 gp · 4 masterwork weapon/tool 50 gp · 5 2d6×10 gp · 6 NPC keepsake · 7 potion of healing · 8 1d4×25 gp gems · 9 1st-level scroll · 10 minor magic item.
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Treasure Lv 5–8 (d10): 1 2d6×25 gp · 2 art object 50–150 gp · 3 masterwork armor · 4 1d6×50 gp gems · 5 greater healing · 6 2nd/3rd-level scroll · 7 uncommon magic item · 8 3d6×25 gp · 9 faction reward · 10 rare magic item.
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Treasure Lv 9+ (d8): 1 3d6×50 gp · 2 rare item · 3 very rare item · 4 relic 500+ gp · 5 4th/5th-level scroll · 6 faction favor · 7 supreme healing · 8 DM’s choice.
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Downtime (~1 week each): Carousing (1d6×10 gp, DC 12 Persuasion for a rumor/contact) · Crafting (half price in materials) · Training (~25 gp/week) · Faction work (standing, not gold) · Research (Sunken Library or faction records, DC 15 Investigation/History for one clue) · Recuperation (roleplay closure).`,
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`DM Tables — Rumors
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Act 1 (d8): 1 “The bell stopped once before, generations back.” (Misleading — never happened) · 2 “Old man Farrow’s cows went dry past the shrine road.” (True) · 3 “Princess Isolde’s been asking sharp questions of the temple scholars.” (True) · 4 “Ser Kavan turned away a recruit for asking about the crown.” (False) · 5 “There’s gold in the old crypts under the city.” (Misleading — modest and dangerous) · 6 “A noble house has been paying off debts all over the city.” (True — the corrupted house) · 7 “The Wardens haven’t been seen at the eastern shrine in weeks.” (True) · 8 “Something’s wrong with the water past Tidewatch.” (True — What the Tide Brought In)
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Act 2 (d8): 1 “Salt Coast smugglers work for someone bigger now.” (True) · 2 “A Warden went missing near the shrines.” (True/resolved) · 3 “Something down there talked back.” (True) · 4 “That noble house is buying property near the docks.” (Misleading — the reason is worse than greed) · 5 “The King’s been ill.” (False — cornered, in denial) · 6 “The Spine dragons are stirring — war’s coming.” (False) · 7 “Refugees are pouring into the Marches.” (True) · 8 “A missing person was seen acting strange, then vanished.” (True — Hollowed)
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Act 3–4 (d6): 1 “The crown’s lost control of [district].” (True) · 2 “Isolde will move against her father.” (Misleading) · 3 “The old families always knew what’s under the city.” (True) · 4 “A faction says the party caused all this.” (Depends on reputation) · 5 “The sky over Highcrown is different at night.” (True) · 6 “It’s almost over, one way or another.” (True)`,
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`DM Tables — Random Encounters by Region (d6)
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Highcrown: 1 Cutthroat pickpocket (DC 13 Perception) · 2 Grey Dawn patrol · 3 Concord merchant with a small job · 4 street preacher of omens (free rumor) · 5 quiet day · 6 a noble retinue — DC 12 Insight notices something off if it’s the corrupted house.
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The Greywood: 1 1d3 Greywood Direwolves · 2 Warden patrol · 3 unmarked old shrine · 4 harmless fey mischief · 5 traveler in trouble · 6 quiet — chance for a long rest.
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The Spine: 1 Spine Wyvern (avoidable) · 2 Stonejaw trading party · 3 signs of dragons · 4 treacherous pass (DC 14 Athletics or detour) · 5 a curious lone giant · 6 empty country.
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The Salt Coast: 1 smugglers wary of witnesses · 2 short-handed fishing crew · 3 storm (DC 12 Survival for shelter) · 4 rumor of something in the water · 5 petty lord’s toll collector · 6 calm seas.
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The Bramble Marches: 1 Bandit Captain’s crew · 2 refugees on the road · 3 tense border patrol · 4 signs of the neighboring power · 5 a skirmish in progress · 6 watchful quiet.`,
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