Open Design Presents: Wrath of the River King

Wrath of the River King is a 4th Edition D&D adventure project that (assuming the GSL is provided soon) will be designed this summer and released in November. The adventure begins with the heroes approached by a miller's whose bride has been stolen away into the Feywild, and it proceeds through a wild sequence of increasingly dangerous encounters with cruel fey Lords & Ladies to a confrontation with the River King himself.

While the adventure itself will be a good follow-on to Keep on the Shadowfell, half the fun will be figuring out what works, and watching the process of me flailing about with the 4E ruleset to make it work for the adventure. And it's an opportunity to expand on the Feywild and the role of the fey generally in D&D.

Length is currently set at about 40,000 words, but... I'm liking the concept well enough to expand it significantly. Wrath of the River King includes half a dozen new monsters, plus new takes on standards from the Monster Manual. It includes no butterfly-winged eladrin or pixies, but lots of tough encounters in a darky fey vein, with recurring characters and plenty of opportunities for both roleplaying and combat.

Donations of $30 or more gain full access to the discussion of this project and a copy of the final limited edition version of the adventure. Donations of $100 or more gain access to a playtest game I will run at GenCon plus a print copy of the adventure, signed by me.

 Available from Kobold Quarterly

Authors

Wolfgang Baur is the founder and primary author of Open Design projects, including the ENnie-nominated Castle Shadowcrag and the fan-favorite Empire of the Ghouls. He's also the publisher of Kobold Quarterly magazine and the author of Dark*Matter, Frostburn, Pathfinder #4: Fortress of the Stone Giants, and many other works.

OPEN DESIGN LLC is a community-driven company devoted to adventure design and online participation. It has published a series of privately-commissioned adventures that have been widely praised in the RPG community as setting a higher standard for PDF publication.