The Witch of Drithwyn Weald

The forest was here first, before everything else. Then came the ropes. Then came the witch.

She took the ropes and bound this place to her. She wants nothing else but to choke the life out of it, to suck the sap from the trees so she can live forever. Don't go near her tower if you can avoid it. Maybe just don't go in that forest at all.

Go far, far away, and pretend you never heard about the witch of Drithwyn Weald.

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The Witch of Drithwyn Weald is a folk horror hex crawl through an endless forest for the adventure game of your choice. 

Drithwyn Weald will be released in parts a day at a time during December 2024, staring on December 1st and ending on December 25th. The price will increase with each release, going from £3 on the first day to a total of £15 on Christmas Day.

You only need to purchase this once: when you purchase this product you will get access to all existing releases and will receive all future parts of the adventure as they become available. For past examples of this release format, see my previous advent calendar adventures.

The daily releases are provided in a very basic layout generated with Pandoc in both PDF and epub formats. I will release a consolodated version at the end of December/beginning of January once the adventure has been released in full.

Over the course of the month you can expect the following:

• A hex map of the forest of Drithwyn Weald
• Hex fills for each of the 25 keyed locations on the map
• Procedures for generating more of the endless forest
• Random encounter tables
• Notable NPCs
• Dungeons
• Atmospheric music to set the tone
• Much, much more

What's Included?

This section will be updated throughout the month as each day's release is revealed.

• Day 1: Hex map and the first hex, plus tables to fill empty hexes
• Day 2: A village cursed by a demon, and weather tables for forest exploration
• Day 3: Thornmaw's Den
• Day 4: A remnant of the old times, and an encounter table for the forest
• Day 5: Ffionán's lair, and a forest bestiary
• Day 6: The village of Cyndref, and the cults of the forest
• Day 7: The singing trees, and a soundtrack album. (Instructions for accessing the album can be found in the daily PDF/epub).
• Day 8: A village of cannibals known as Tharnholme
• Day 9: A remnant of the old times, and an elegy for the giant king
• Day 10: The site of a massacre, and a procedure for expanding the forest
• Day 11: Dr. Valtine’s Cabinet of Aberrations
• Day 12: The strange wine of Thistlebrow
• Day 13: Sandar and Shawnon
• Day 14: A village plagued by ambulatory moss
• Day 15: The Wyrm of Black Hollow - a short story
• Day 16: A gelatinous beast in the swamp, and encounters on the Rope Ways
• Day 17: A dungeon that spans worlds
• Day 18: A coven of witches, and a bestiary
• Day 19: A spire of salt imbued with magic
• Day 20: The Tree With A Hundred Eyes
• Day 21: The Wardens of the forest, and their music
• Day 22: A ruined villa holding an awful secret
• Day 23: Cranwrach, the antler witch
• Day 24: The Ironbound Swamp