Wanderers and Willows

On the edges of the furthest farm fields of Abbeywall, past Old Blackbury’s and across the river, there lies a forest that the townsfolk called the Nightwood. It is a twisting maze of barrens, thickets, and tall eternally barren trees, and lit only by bioluminescent fungi, bathing the forest in bright greens, blues, and purples. The Nightwood is a forest known to have been tainted by insidious magic well before the Confluence occurred, and has only worsened since. Legends of talking trees, mischievous fairies, and fierce goblin tribes of old gave way to more recent and terrifying tales. Newer stories of adventurers and merchants traversing the Nightwood describe shadow people who steal your voice, walking poisonous mushrooms, rotting undead trees stuffed with corpses, enormous toads that snapped up hapless hirelings in a single bite, and living masses of brambles and thickets that drag you beneath the earth to a fate unknown. Several expeditions to explore the former village of Sca

Howdy! This is my gift for one of our Secret Santicorn group members! He asked for a level-0 funhouse dungeon, which was challenging as I'm absolutely horrible with dungeons. That, combined with a lot of stressful holiday stuff, made this particular gift extremely difficult for me. Thankfully, I at least was able to come up with three rooms that you could slap into any wacky dungeon. I hope y'all like it. Have a happy Yuletide! Puzzle Room: "A Safe Place" An opulent, large, cavernous room that has a gigantic safe on the rear wall, promising the unique treasure of the dungeon inside. The floor is wide and circular, and features small marks around the edge of a giant golden circle.  The safe dial reads 1-30. The combination of the safe is hidden in a riddle posted in an adjacent room. The riddle reads: “As we near the end of the yearly cycle, our gods are just and mighty, and give us a gift for our devotion. Truly we are blessed with the present.” The combi