Raiders of Ivywatch is a 1st-level Draw Steel adventure in which the heroes track down kidnapped citizens and rescue them from an evil summoner’s clutches.
In the Tullow Vale of Vasloria, a centuries old town is built around a weathered statue said to seal away an ancient evil. Ajax's Hawklords bombard and lay waste to the town, stealing the statue, and in the chaos, the pitiless Deatheye Yslansh and her lizardfolk minions abduct the citizens!
Can you save the people of Ivywatch before they are put to the Deatheye's fell purpose?
And what or who exactly have the Hawklords unsealed?
This adventure is about fighting monsters and being heroic. It’s also about discovering hidden and forgotten secrets, and then using those secrets later to the heroes’ advantage. The heroes will fight lizardfolk and hawklords, ogres and basilisks, and some strange and malevolent creatures from a plane beyond Orden. The heroes will have the opportunity for a handful of negotiations which can be hugely influenced by piecing together secret information uncovered earlier in the adventure. Combat encounters in the adventure are built to generally take at least 3 rounds, sometimes more - they can be complex! The heroes will be expected to spin multiple plates at the same time!
The adventure will reward an average of 8 to 18 Victories. Depending on your experience running and your table’s experience playing Draw Steel, how many side objectives the heroes follow, as well as a bunch of other factors, it could run around 20 to 32 hours of playtime.
The adventure contains:
10+ combat scenes, including a boss battle. Most combats have objectives beyond just “kill everything”
3+ montage tests
1 small, safe location to take respites in, full of NPCs with opinions
1-2 negotiations
3+ new custom treasures and titles, and other player rewards
A brief setting primer to Tullow Vale
In addition to the pdf, the adventure will include:
Battlemaps for each combat scene, including some variations (e.g. time of day)
Reference maps for the director to set up the battlemaps
A big, beautiful region map I made just for you of Tullow Vale, in which Raiders of Ivywatch takes place (both a map with the adventure marked on it and a mark-less map you can use for this and other adventures...)
Hi, I’m Gavin (GubDM), you can find me on the MCDM Discord or lurking around Twitch or Youtube. Look Out Behind You Studios is my company.
I hired an awesome artist named Jaelani (also goes by Rectopus, their Fiverr handle is @jaelani36) to do the beautiful cover art! The rest of the art in the adventure is all me.
