Abandoned Grove

Description: A former druidic grove left to fallow and fully reclaimed by nature.

Tone & Feel: Musty and mournful, serene yet slightly wrong

Tier: 1

Type: Exploration

Difficulty: 11

Potential Adversaries:

Beasts (Bear, Dire Wolf, Glass Snake), Grove Guardians (Minor Treant, Sylvan Soldier, Young Dryad)

Features

Overgrown Battlefield - Passive

There has been a battle here. Any character may make an Instinct Roll to identify traces of a fight (broken weapons, gouges in the ground, broken tree branches). On a success with Hope, learn 3 of the below. On a success with Fear, learn 2. On a failure, a PC may mark a Stress to learn 1 and gain advantage on the next investigation roll in this environment. Any character with an appropriate background or experience can learn an additional detail and ask a follow-up question about the scene and get a truthful (if not always complete) answer.

• Traces of a battle (broken weapons, gouges in the ground, broken tree branches)
• A moss-covered tree trunk is actually the corpse of a treant.
• Still-standing trees shaped by nature magic.

Why did these groups come to blows? Why is the grove unused now?

You Are Not Welcome Here - Action

A Young Dryad, two Sylvan Soldiers, and a number of Minor Treants = to the number of PCs appear to confront the party for their intrusion into the forest.

What are the grove guardians concealing? What threat to the forest could the PCs confront to appease the Dryad?

Defiler - Action

Spend a Fear to summon a Minor Chaos Elemental drawn to the echoes of violence and discord.

What color does the grass turn as the elemental appears? How does the chaos warp insects and small wildlife within the grove?

A former druidic grove left to fallow and fully reclaimed by nature.