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 Swaying Bridge and Hollow Tree

One of the optional encounters in the Forest of Decay. The Swaying Bridge and Hollow Tree A clearly dead tree that somehow still has green leaves it the extremes of its branches hangs over the chasm, its dead arms hanging in webs which stretch over to the golden rooftop of the pagoda. The tree is […]

Atamahuta

Ettin based oni. ATAMAHUTA Large fiend (oni), chaotic evil Armor Class 16 (kikko katabira) Hit Points 262 (21d12 + 126) Speed 40 ft. STR DEX CON INT WIS CHA 21 (+5) 11 (+0) 22 (+6) 14 (+2) 10 (+0) 15 (+2) Skills Perception +4 Damage Resistance bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage Senses darkvision 60 ft., see invisibility 60 ft., passive Perception 14 Languages Giant, Oni, Orc Challenge 11 (7,200 XP) Blood Demon […]

The Lake of Tranquil Contemplation

This was meant to be a “scenic” encounter – that is – the PCs see it and move on. But no, the bamboo folk ninja in my party was keen to talk to the birds via “speak with animals”. This triggered the gryphs. They swarmed the PC and laid eggs in him., which then hatched and flew away. The PCs then retreated. To […]

The Pavilion of the Dark Spider

Encounter in the Garden of Vivid Decay. This thing killed two of my PCs but it was a fun battle fighting a funnel web the size of a house. The Pavilion of the Dark Spider This pavilion teeters on the edge of the garden and stares into the dark, the remnants of a graceful arched […]

Kensai Challenger – Hetuzud the Sky Pirate (Level 8)

Following the rules for kensai levelling up the kensai must fight a duel each time he levels – with a 10% chance per level. My PC got his first challenge at level 8 and he was in a spirit haunted forest so I thought I’d use a spirit as the kensai challenger. HETUZUD THE SKY PIRATE Medium […]

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 […]

Anumaramon (Boss Fight)

We finished the Oriental Campaign today with a final battle with Anumaramon. My PCs were level 20 and they just full on frontal assaulted the palace while their armies were engaging the Typhoon Guard. I made it clear, the Typhoon Guard, which is mostly oni, would win if the PCs didn’t deal with Anumaramon and […]

the were-titan tiktaalik

I am currently prepping Maze of the Blue Medusa as the first part of my Clash of the Titans campaign. Quite a few quirky, original and/or interesting monsters in this adventure – which I have no intention of converting one by one but will most likely just swap in 5e equivalents with the odd 5e conversion. But this imprisoned […]

FIVE STORM NINJA KIKONU

At the end of the characters stay in Ordan-Aganhei they are ambushed by a ninja during a parade (the ninja’s were hidden in the paper dragon). These ninja’s were lead by Kikonu (v3.0). Kikonu was supported by 8 five storm ninjas and an unlimited number of kenku ninja minions (see below). I also added a […]