Adventures in Wildemount - Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

Adventures in Wildemount. Adventurers confront the mad inventor Stahlmast and his deadly mechanical masterpiece, the Stahlmaster! Looking for gold, are ye? Well, I have a deck that needs a mighty good cleanin'. Gold can come easy, if ye look hard enough. Or is it glory ye're really seekin'? Now that's another drive entirely. That, I believe, I can help ye with. Every epic journey begins somewhere. A long night at sea brings fated friends together. The mystery of a bloodstained cloak causes talented minds to join forces to seek justice. A simple tavern gathering leads a number of eager dungeoneers to come together as one. Whatever the scenario, that first step that unites a would-be band of heroes can be a challenging one. This chapter presents four short adventures designed to provide those initial events that get a campaign started. This chapter of the book is for DMs only. If you're planning to run through any of these adventures as a player, stop reading now! Text that appears in a shaded box like this one is meant to be read aloud or paraphrased for the players. You'll usually see boxed text when the characters first arrive at a specific location, or when something happens in the adventure that the characters might want to react to. The Monster Manual contains statistics for many of the creatures found in these adventures. When a creature's name appears in bold type, that's a visual cue pointing you to the creature's stat block in the Monster Manual. If the stat block instead appears in this book, the adventure's text tells you so. The names of spells and magic items referenced in the adventure are in italics. If a spell or magic item appears in this book, the text will say so. If it doesn't, information on spells can be found in the Player's Handbook and information on magic items can be found in the Dungeon Master's Guide. Using These Adventures Each of these adventures is designed as an introduction to one of the four main regions of Wildemount, as well as...