Beneath These Grasses Grieving
A downloadable module
Knee-deep with mud, the fen is a place where things go to get stuck. Death layers beneath death, never fully rotting. Bones grow soggy, and the chalk within too. Memories cling and fester and ooze, unable to find closure. Careful ears hear their sobbing in the wind-swept grasses.
Yet wintering in the fen has its comforts. The climate stays temperate and there is plenty to eat. Most importantly, the Slip stays at bay, with chalk safely held under the sedge-grass roots.
But in a changing world, safety is never a guarantee.
Beneath the Grasses Grieving is an adventure module for the Cloud Empress game. The core rulebook can be found for free at https://cloudempress.com/. Contained within this module:
- A new biome, the Fen, which holds back the Slip and memories
- 7 interconnect locations to explore
- 3 NPCs and 2 new creatures, all trying to move on from their past
- Accumulating pollution, changing the world as you explore
- Unique off-trail exploration
Writing & Layout: Wade Bennett.
Art: pbbeta, Garin, Amanda Lee Franck.
Public Domain Art: Kathe Kollwitz, Charles François Daubigny, James Hamilton.
Layout template provided by watt.
Beneath the Grasses Grieving is an independent production by Wade Bennett and is not affiliated with worlds by watt.
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An atmospheric point crawl suffused with forlorn mystery. The Fenfolk remind me of the bog people of northern Europe. Standouts in this adventure include the Monolith (an ancient factory, possibly sentient, definitely malfunctioning), the Dumond (an embittered Lordling transformed by the Fen and ruling over his pitiful fiefdom), and--last but not least--Vix, a carefree youngster with a rich interior life of magic and Slip-Slope sledding. I love that PCs can give sledding a try--and that there's a table which elaborates on their successes or failures on the slope. Vix is a refreshing counterbalance to an otherwise poignantly melancholy setting. Really beautiful.
Awesome dark adventure, Wade!