Raging River

Description: A swiftly-moving river without a bridge crossing, deep enough to sweep away people of most ancestries.

Tone & Feel: Beautiful but daunting, sound of the river drowning out the regular calls and rustling.

Tier: 1

Type: Traversal

Difficulty: 10

Potential Adversaries:

Beasts (Bear, Giant Snake), Jagged Knife Bandits (Bandit, Shadow, Hexer, Sniper, Lieutenant, Lackey)

Features

Dangerous Crossing - Passive

Crossing the river requires a Completion Countdown (4). Swimming across defaults to Agility. Characters that fail are instantly targeted by “Undertow” without spending an action token.

Have any of the PCs forded rivers like this before? Are any of them especially afraid of drowning?

Undertow - Action

Every character standing in the river must make a reaction roll (Agility 10) or be knocked over and moved a Close distance down the river, becoming Vulnerable until they next take an action. Those that succeed still mark Stress (or no Stress on a critical).

What trinkets and baubles lie along the bottom of the river-bed? Do predators swim these rivers?

Patient Hunter - Action - Fear

Spend a Fear to summon an Acid Burrower, who bursts up from the ground where they have been waiting for prey. The Acid Burrower immediately takes the Earth Eruption action without spending action tokens.

What treasures do they have in their burrow? What travelers have already fallen victim to this beast?

A swiftly-moving river without a bridge crossing, deep enough to sweep away people of most ancestries.