Witches of Frostwyck

WITCHES OF FROSTWYCK

The ancient world of Harth is dying, but you’re going to die even sooner if you can’t escape from Frostwyck.

You’re lost in a frozen forest of deadly predators and mysterious recluses. Your only refuge is the tiny village of Frostwyck, where metal is rare and kindness is rarer. And there are worse things in the shadows than mere bloodthirsty beasts.

Witches haunt the groves of the north. Most keep to themselves, content to guard their secrets and powers. But one torments them all.

Dama Zhadna has cursed the village so that none can escape. And now you’re trapped here. You’re going to die here...

...unless you can escape from the Witches of Frostwyck.

Just a few things players can do:

• Escape from a prison barge
• Free stolen souls from a giant spider-house
• Find a charming witch-lord hiding with his pet dragon
• Evade a merciless warrior zealot who is hunting magicians
• Discover the ancient secrets of the Elder Fey
• Collect the "cunning tools" created by the hedge witches
• Collect the eldritch weapons crafted by the ancient elves
• Explore the hidden caverns where the fey are imprisoned
• Battle or negotiate with a soul-stealing witch-queen
• Save a little girl made of snow

Intense Factions!

Will you help the Temple of Virune to eradicate the last of the witches? Will you help the witch-lords retake power over the north? Will you help the Gray Sisters protect the village from the dangers of the forest? Or will you venture underground and help the Elder Fey to escape their prison and take their revenge?

Four New Mentors!

While in Frostwyck, players can meet many skilled NPCs who might be willing to train a worthy adventurer. If you can complete 3 days of training, you can learn one of 16 skills from either a Hunter, a Fighter, a Priest, or a Witch.

New PC Background: The Vulgoth Hedge Witch!

In addition to some unusual medicinal gear, select one of 6 creatures of the northern forest as your familiars, as well as one of 6 "cunning" items that you enchanted (and might explode in your face!).

ADVENTURE TYPE: Campaign / Low Level / Exploration / Mystery / Village / Wilderness

REVIEWS:

"Lewis knows how to write an adventure of this scale, and delivers again with something terse, easy to use, and evocative with great situations to explore... Cross-references abound, and magic items can be unique and wonderfully done, both normal magic items and minor items and effects. There’s reference sections for monsters. The DM is WELL supported here... for a “Plotty” sandboxy adventure its perfect."
-- Bryce Lynch  

SESSION REPORTS:

• https://www.josephrlewis.com/2020/06/frostwyck-1/

DESIGN NOTES:

• This campaign is primarily geared for exploration, social encounters, and general mystery-solving. Opportunities for combat lurk everywhere.
• It runs 20 to 40 hours.
• Players will confront a hostile wilderness and explore villages and ruins full of deadly intrigue.
• There are numerous NPCs as well as 28 unique magical items and many original monsters.
• 4 skill-eatching mentors: Fighter, Hunter, Priest, and Witch.
• 1 new Cairn 2e background: the Vulgoth Hedge Witch!
• 64 pages with 44 richly keyed and illustrated locations.

SYSTEMS AND FILES:

This product includes multiple PDF files:

• Cairn edition. The new remastered edition, featuring new art, new maps, new locations including an entire cave system hidden below the village, new mentors, and a new PC background.
• 5e edition. The original version.
• OSR edition. The original version.

CONTENT INCLUDES: DM notes, location descriptions, NPC notes, dialogue prompts, stat blocks, original creatures, over 30 original treasures and magic items, and maps.

PRODUCT KEYWORDS: campaign, witch, demon, druid, rusalka, vodnik, snow maiden, baba yaga, koschei the deathless, ghost, zombie, winter, forest, fey, elves, goblins, pixies