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A Fowl Endeavour

A Fowl Endeavour

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At a glance

  • Level: 1
  • Play time: 2 to 4 hours, one-shot or first adventure
  • Format: Digital PDF, 9 pages, instant download
  • Inside: 2 custom stat blocks, a legendary magic item, multiple endings, read-aloud text

Ever wanted to fight a horse-sized duck? Something with enormous wings has cut off the road to Lino, and the villagers who just ambushed your party by mistake want it gone.

A silly, surprisingly heartfelt level 1 adventure. The party questions a cagey mercenary, follows a suspicious number of ducks to Lake Ishiga and raids a floating driftwood manor, then has to work out who the real villain is. Great as a first adventure, a one-shot or a bridging session on the road.

What's inside

  • A crystal formation in the road with a winged creature frozen inside, and the villagers guarding it.
  • Muzi Irrazak, a mercenary whose lies the party can catch, with notes for playing her as employer or enemy.
  • DeDuckington Manor: a goblin-guarded nest of giant eggs, a duckling martial arts room, and Manny the goose, whose ghost curses anyone who kills him.
  • Stat blocks for Madame Mallardy DeDuckington and her Ducklings (alignment: lawful bogus).
  • The legendary Amulet of True Frost.
  • Madame Mallardy's read-aloud villain speech, ending in "Quack quack."

DM's Eyes Only

Spoilers ahead. Players, stop reading here.

The creature in the ice is Monsieur DeDuckington, Mallardy's mate, frozen by a wizard's Amulet of True Frost. Muzi secretly carries that amulet and will never admit it. Mallardy is grieving, won't attack unless attacked, and will only let the party go if they bring her mate back.

Best the beast for the villagers' reward, or go for Vengeance a la Duck: escort Mallardy to the crystal, fight through Muzi's ambush, and press the amulet to the ice. If its last charge is intact, the DeDuckingtons fly off into the sunset and leave the party a reed whistle to summon her.

It was written to go with our Ducky Dice Set.

Written by Rory Hoffman for Only Crits.

A Fowl Endeavour is unofficial Content permitted under the Open Game License. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

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Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.5 / 5 from 11 reviews.

A couple of players couldn't make it to our weekly game so I ran this one-shot for those who could. My players enjoyed trying to figure out what exactly the "mysterious creature" actually was. They also liked the clever unique combats and loved Manny the Goose! In short, it was an amusing, fantastic tale that provided plenty of laughs. We finished in about 2 hours 45 minutes.

Ken 5/5

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Thanks, Ken! Glad A Fowl Endeavour brought plenty of laughs to your table. Sounds like Manny the Goose stole the show!

We had so much fun as a party! This was creative and well put together

Ellie W. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: That’s awesome to hear, Ellie! We’re so glad you enjoyed the creativity of the Fowl Endeavour adventure. Thanks for playing and sharing your experience! 🎲

I recieved it for free, why wouldn't I rate it 5 stars? ;D

Charles T. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Thanks, Charles! Hard to argue with that logic 😄 Glad you enjoyed A Fowl Endeavour—hope it brought some laughs to the table!

It was so Much fun. It was my first time being a dm and it was great to start out with a short, one-shot type adventure. It took us about 4 sessions though because we are all quite new to it. I played this with my family (husband and 2 elementary school aged kids) and we had a lot of fun. It was challenging and interesting and we laughed at ourselves quite a lot. I’d definitely recommend this for a non-scary and fun way to start playing with kids.

Aidan B. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Hey Aidan! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us! We're pumped to hear you had a blast with "A Fowl Endeavour" as your first DM experience. Sounds like you and your family had a quacking good time! 😉 Cheers to many more epic sessions ahead! 🐔🎲 🎉 Cheers, Only Crits Team

Good adventure, haven't run it yet.

Emily K. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Hey Emily, Glad to hear you're gearing up for an adventure with our dice! When you do roll into action, may your crits be epic and your adventures legendary! Cheers, Only Crits Team

My group likes this kind of left field.

Matthew R. 4/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Thank you for sharing your experience, it was the same with our playtest team

The idea is fun and the encounters are pretty well balanced for a first level party. The plot hook is pretty weak though as written. Getting randomly attacked by people and then them trying to get you on their side just doesn't work well. If I were to rerun it, I'd just have the group start at the mansion as that is much more interesting.

Spencer S. 2/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

Store owner replied: Spencer, thanks for sharing your insights on A Fowl Endeavour. We're glad the concept and balance struck a chord with you! Your feedback on the plot hook is invaluable, and we'll certainly consider it for future adventures to ensure a more compelling start. Appreciate your suggestion about starting at the mansion – it's ideas like these that help us improve.

It was fun for the first timers I played it for. As someone else said there was some covered up text by text boxes but it wasn’t the end of the world. The secret entrance to the goblin living space was weird because there was no one in there. But they still had fun.

Wes J. 4/5

A Fowl Endeavour

Ran it as the second One Shot for our new group, everyone had a blast! No one fell for the Goose’s antics which upset the DM but other than that it was great. Only issue we had was the loot table had a text box move over it so had to make up our own loot.

Nicholas K. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

A really interesting idea unlike most others I’d seen before. Used it with a group of new players and they loved the concepts of this start to our campaign!

Trevor Z. 4/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

A great little adventure. For my daughter's Birthday this year, she didn't want a party or anything, she wanted an adventuring Party! She wanted to play D&D and this was a perfect adventure. We had a blast playing through it. Thanks for the content!

Dustin B. 5/5 Verified

A Fowl Endeavour

 
 
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