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    The document describes a dark and ominous pine forest setting that could be used for a roleplaying encounter. It details a small clearing with a bonfire where shadowy figures are seen moving but disappear into the darkness. As the characters investigate, a terrifying creature emerges from the edge of the forest and charges at them, revealing its monstrous form in the firelight. Notes provide tips for a scenario where characters must defend a ritual performer from malevolent spirits drawn to the ritual in the clearing.

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    The document describes a dark and ominous pine forest setting that could be used for a roleplaying encounter. It details a small clearing with a bonfire where shadowy figures are seen moving but disappear into the darkness. As the characters investigate, a terrifying creature emerges from the edge of the forest and charges at them, revealing its monstrous form in the firelight. Notes provide tips for a scenario where characters must defend a ritual performer from malevolent spirits drawn to the ritual in the clearing.

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    The document describes a dark and ominous pine forest setting that could be used for a roleplaying encounter. It details a small clearing with a bonfire where shadowy figures are seen moving but disappear into the darkness. As the characters investigate, a terrifying creature emerges from the edge of the forest and charges at them, revealing its monstrous form in the firelight. Notes provide tips for a scenario where characters must defend a ritual performer from malevolent spirits drawn to the ritual in the clearing.

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    The Witch Wood • For lower level parties a pack of wolves can be a fun encounter in

    the woods. Use the fire as a central point, the wolves jumping out
    An Introduction of the shadows to attack and then retreating into the shadows to
    attack from a different location.

    T
    he pine forest is dark and ominous, the trees
    crowd together creating a shadowy interior, damp
    and dripping with moisture. In places a tree has Variants
    fallen creating a gap in the canopy, dense green Sign up to my Patreon to get access: patreon.com/afternoonmaps
    patches of ferns and nettles grow there. Rotten
    logs and branches litter the forest floor, mosses
    and lichen grow across every surface turning the rotting wood into
    strangely shaped mounds of green.

    You continue along the forest path for some time before noticing
    light through the trees ahead, a warm flickering firelight that casts
    wild shadows across a small muddy clearing. Approaching you think
    you see slender figures moving around a bonfire, but as you get closer
    they seem to evaporate into the shadows, leaving an empty clearing
    and a bonfire that pops and crackles as damp wood burns fiercely.
    You look around cautiously, weapons drawn. Someone has made this
    fire, you sense their presence, even if you cannot see them.

    Scanning the forest edge you feel a change in the air, a heaviness
    you can not explain. The fire seems to quieten as a low vibrating
    hum fills the clearing. As you listen you begin to notice a strange
    murmuring, an unintelligible babbling coming from the other side
    of the clearing. At the edge of the forest a shadowy figure stands,
    tall and skinny, arms too long for its body, clawed hands quivering
    spasmodically. A set of antlers crown it’s strangely misshapen head.
    You feel its eyes on you and more disturbingly you see its eyes glow-
    ing red like rubies in the firelight while the rest of its body remains
    stubbornly in shadow. With a sudden jerking movement it charges,
    leaping across the fire, you step back in horror as the figure is finally
    revealed, its visage far worse than you could have ever imagined.

    Notes and Tips


    • 30x30 map
    • This clearing is the site of some unholy ritual to summon something
    terrible, maybe an old god or forest spirit long since turned to darkness.
    • People often see cloaked figures moving through the trees, hear
    strange chanting or screams in the depths of the forest at night.
    • Have a local wise woman hire the party as bodyguards for a ritual
    she must complete on a special night of the year. While she danc-
    es around the fire in a daze, malevolent spirits are drawn to her
    and the party must defend her at all costs.
    • Cultists can be flavoured to fit the location. Have them wear
    antlers, whip themselves with nettles and wear robes covered in
    moss and lichen.
    • Use the forest boundary or the edge of the firelight as a ‘safer’
    area of the map. Step out into the forest or leave the firelight and
    receive any number of disadvantages. Examples could be blind-
    ness, fear, disadvantage on rolls or something weirder like a loss
    of memory that gets worse over time.
    • The fire needs to be kept lit or the ‘monsters’ will overrun the
    camp. More wood needs to be thrown on, or other magical
    means can be used.

    The Witch Wood


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