Lorn Song of the Bachelor
Weeds trail the water. The sandbar just off the shore shifts. A reptile rumble¸ a splash. Now a gaping maw. A roar. Claws splintering wood. The boat capsizes. You are in the river¸ now.
He is the Bachelor: a pale crocodile¸ as long as five men lying end to end. He swallows hunters¸ families¸ trading skiffs. Prospectors fear to go out. Witches mutter. They say he causes landslips. They say he is a god¸ a curse -- an old¸ old sin¸ staining the river. They say he has been killed¸ before.
He is pulling you under.
Lorn Song of the Bachelor is a 48-page riverine adventure and dungeon crawl module¸ inspired by the crocodile stories of Southeast Asia -- particularly Sarawak.
It features:
- Tragedy¸ a bloody curse¸ and a love gone sour
- Open-ended factional interplay between local villlagers¸ a foreign merchant Company¸ and a giant supernatural crocodile -- and its motivating spirits
- Multiple random tables¸ including magical fabrics woven by god-possessed craftspersons; trinkets of a now-fallen Monkey Empire; medicinal herbs and animals
- 19 new creatures including: mind-controlling catfish; golems made of teeth; a pregnant tiger spirit
- Wilderness travel up an enchanted river
- An extraplanar dungeon complex that can change the surrounding environment
- A morally complex treatment of colonialism¸ within the framework of an adventure module
- A giant crocodile who really wants to eat you