Well written and interesting! I love the well-described NPCs, and interactivity looks like it will be fun. This is something that will land on my table, in full or in part.
Yours is the 6th submission that I've rated and I've got to say--this is the most creative entry I've read so far, and I read some good ones! This is packed with interesting and innovative takes. Also, I'd give six stars if I could for overall atmosphere and feel if I could.
This is chock full of interesting ideas, really well done! As a musician, I appreciate how you've incorporated music into this adventure. If I don't run this for my group I will at least be stealing shamelessly from you :-). Great vibe.
Well done! I too appreciated the humor--the name of the frog made me laugh out loud, though his predicament was tragic. Great use of the elements of the image!
Thanks!! The idea of secrets came to me as I was thinking about what made the goblet dangerous (betrayal) and how to incorporate that into a session at the table. And if it doesn't play as betrayal with 0-level characters that you don't know well, it can just as easily add some laughs...in a very dangerous place :-).
The Cranberry Goblet is a 0-level gauntlet for use with Shadowdark.
Nanda The Snake, 9th Lord of the Thieves’ Guild of Lagash, has passed. Would be Lord Isira The Rat, is enthusiastically pursuing the storied Cranberry Goblet, the symbol of the office of the Lord of Thieves. Its possession bestows power and legitimacy, its retrieval serves as a test. Isira has recruited a truly desperate gang of people living on the streets—drunks, addicts, petty thieves, gamblers and others that wish to avoid the public eye—you, to aid him.
This is an entry for the Shadowdark Weird Tales Game Jam 2024. I was assigned the cover of the January 1946 Weird Tales pulp fiction mag. I thought this was a great image--this shining goblet with a floating skull and skeletal hands had me reaching for my Fritz Leiber hat. Why is the goblet shining? What's special about it? Why are the skull and hands floating, almost....wraithlike? Clearly the goblet is desirable, and perilous. Hhhmmm. My Lieber juices run immediately to ancient cities, strange coveted objects, and dangerous acts of thievery. This adventure includes all that and more.
