k1nda: переводы

→As events move on, the following modifiers should be added to any attempt to get the locals’ help through Charisma checks:

→A total of three citizens are willing to help the characters at the start of the adventure; this number rises to six if the locals’ attitude improves to friendly. If the locals’ attitude becomes hostile at any time, the characters receive no help.

→If the total of all the characters‘ Charisma modifiers is +4 or higher, they have advantage on their Charisma checks to get the aid of the villagers. If the total of all the characters‘ Charisma modifiers is –4 or lower, they have disadvantage on their Charisma checks.

→Allies: Although the characters can overcome events in and around the village themselves, things may be easier with help. A torch-wielding mob is more likely to be capable of driving the Hollow Man into a fiery grave, and any extra muscle is always useful for low-level characters. The locals begin with an indifferent attitude toward the characters, and they are treated as a single entity for the sake of resolving any Charisma checks. Each adult resident of Levoca is a commoner with 4 hit points.

→Houses are made of wattle and daub (AC 10, 10 hp, resistance to piercing damage) and have thatched roofs built around a central stone chimney. Doors are simple (successful DC 11 Strength check to break down) and held shut by a latch. Each one-room house has two to five windows with shutters (1 hp each).

→Levoca is a community of 75 humans that subsists on farming and hunting. Ostensibly, leadership is awarded by default to Brother Arkadi, who is a follower of Porevit and Yarila; in truth, however, the brother is little more than a weak-willed old man.

→The muddy byway you are on winds its way through the forest and eventually reaches a damp clearing where the sun struggles to reach the ground through a canopy of forlorn trees. About thirty moldering, thatched cottages sit in this clearing. Local children chase pigs and sheep in play, but they all rush toward you. They take your hands and lead you into the dark village, the clearing around which is watched by hundreds of scarecrows made from bones and branches wound together.

→As characters approach the village, read or paraphrase the following description:

→Running an adventure such as this one can provide an interesting change of pace, making characters think twice about boldly entering the Margreve while assuming that they can deal with whatever lies within.

→The Hollow Man, a construct made of twisted wood, is a challenge rating 5 creature that would, under normal circumstances, easily wipe out a party of 1st.level adventurers, even with the help of the villagers. The intent of this adventure is to create a seemingly unassailable foe, forcing the characters and villagers to work together to overcome it using brains as well as brawn. Do not use the Hollow Man as an excuse to kill the party but, instead, as a precursor to other foes that lie within the forest. The Hollow Man is interested simply in harvesting heads for the Singing Tree and does not sully its weapon with un-chosen blood.

→The adventure begins as the characters approach the village late one afternoon, just as the sun begins to drop behind the pines.

→The characters need only to arrive at Levoca for the events of this adventure to occur. Perhaps Levoca is simply a stop on their journey, or their first steps in exploring the Margreve.

→Even if the Hollow Man and its wards are dealt with, the animals remain angry because the vile Singing Tree continues to call in the dark. The characters must locate the tree and destroy it, facing a dense forest alive with angry creatures before a final confrontation with the Singing Tree herself.

→The collapsed remains of an old lime kiln lie here.

→Events: This adventure is run as a series of daily events linked by the Hollow Man and the Singing Tree. Events beyond day 6 are not included but should follow the pattern of the previous days.

→For being caught digging up Yurt’s body
–4
For each villager killed
(whether by characters’ hands or not) –1
For each wolf killed by a character +1
For helping to drive off the wolves +1
For rallying the locals into firing at wolves, not shadows +2
For returning Karda’s body and destroying the swarm +2
For telling Drash of the connection between the bull’s madness and the forest +2

→Nowadays, Levoca is a troubled village; the normally sleepy village has been plagued by unexpected events recently.

→HARVESTER (THE HOLLOW MAN’S SICKLE)

→SCRIMSHAW COMB

→New Creatures
and Magic Items