Gakimushi Nest

The original cut content used phase spiders which I didn’t really feel was very “Oriental Adventures”. Swapped them with these guys. Had my PCs head scratching but otherwise a fairly straightforward encounter. Gakimushi Nest Lurking in the upper arms of a 100’ high keteleeria is a particularly dense web which shrouds the whole canopy of the tree, which chokes […]

Gakimushi Nest

Tortured Cherry Spirit

This was a lead-on adventure from the skill challenge. Tortured Cherry Blossom Spirit The rich black soil is littered with rotted flowers, and there are many varieties of dead and withered plants and trees throughout the room. The single healthy-looking plant is an eight-foot cherry tree located in the centre of the “garden”. Three ugly […]

The Garden of Vivid Decay

I took the cut content from Forest of Spirits and updated it for 5e and used it as part of the overall adventure. I used cards to navigate the garden itself instead of mapping it out – just abstracted it away. I had a minimum of cards the PCs had to explore otherwise they were […]

Skill Challenge: Travel to the House of Withered Blossoms

I like skill challenges for abstracting away long travels. My PCs encountered the first 2 fail encounter and first 3 success encounters. SKILL CHALLENGE Travel to the House of Withered Blossoms You set off from Ordan-Aganhei as autumn draws to a close and snow begins to fall. Complexity Requires [number of PCs] successes before 3 […]

flying bloody katana

This adventure, Five Deadly Shadows, is from Dungeon #195. A 4e adventure which I converted to 5e. I used this to show the players two things – the larger spiritual battle happening between Amaterasu and Tsuki-Yomi vs the oni god Fumeiyoshi. As well as the cultural difference between East and West in particular for a Japanese-analogue […]

bakeneko

A few more monster conversion from the 3rd edition Creatures of Rokugan Oriental Adventures supplement. BAKENEKO Medium fey (yokai), chaotic good Armor Class 11 Hit Points 22 (5d8) Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 10 (+0) 12 (+1) 11 (+0) 14 (+2) 15 (+2) 19 (+4) […]

Hok Fong the Eunuch

With the Oriental Adventure conversions complete back to my actual campaign which involves a tournament to win the Mortal Blade. To make sense of these entries you will need to look at the adventure flowchart which gives context and explains my changes but it’s essentially a conversion of the Ruby Phoenix Tournament but with a […]

SHENZUZHO the HEADLESS

memedi

FINAL 2nd edition Oriental Adventures conversion. Anything else will have a keyed version to the current 5e monster manual – for example tsuno are minotaurs. MEMEDI Memedi are djinni like creatures of Kara-tur. They may appear differently (see description) but they are essentially elemental spirits which range the gamut of good to evil. Make the following […]