Willow

*Also available in print from Indie Press Revolution
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Willow is a grim backwater micro setting made for swords and wizardry rule system, but can easily be used with other old-school systems or even 5E.

Willow is a town that can be dropped into your campaign setting. Focused on game-able content and being easy to use at the table, It is graphic and art heavy. Structured as a mini hexcrawl, players will have to work together to investigate a mystery to move on from a damp backwater town to bigger, brighter places.

The Setting

Deep in a vast wood, a town called Willow sits beside the Lake of Tears. The lake is framed by weeping willow trees, their vines pouring into the lake’s dark green shores. Willow is not what one would call an upbeat town. The rains here are relentless and the grey skies loom low like a giant cage. Travelers do not linger here long; one night in the Blue Brew Inn is enough to make most jump on the ferry and move on. But recently the ferries have stopped running as something terrible has taken up residence on the river. Meanwhile, the town folk will not talk about the noises echoing up from the staircase that descends below the lake, nor the broken stone circle on the hill at the edge of town. The town's leader, a witch named Morose Morgan, is a recluse and refuses to leave her island.

The PDF

• One color
• Bookmarks
• Hyperlinks
• 32 Pages
• 8.5 x 5.5 aspect
• Single column text

Content

• Hooks and rumors for players
• 5 Keyed Hex Locations
• Random encounter tables
• New monsters and monster factions 
• An aquatic themed dungeon
• NPC relationship web
• Key NPCs with desires, fears and mannerisms
• A mystery to be solved upriver
• A shop and inn
• Town history
• Timeline of events that happen over time day by day
• New magic items, including magical plants
• Flow charts for how the village will react to different actions players take