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Grammy's Country Apple Pie: A Quest For The Best
Grammy's Country Apple Pie: A Quest For The Best
by Jennifer Adcock
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‘When I was a boy,’ he says, smacking
STOP! An Important Note Before his lips, ‘I tasted the most wonderful
You Start: treat in all the Material Plane. I
All combat situations in this encounter remember it like it was yesterday.
are avoidable, whether by stealth, Grammy’s Country Apple Pies… The bakery
negotiation, deception, bribery,
was near my hometown and you could
cleverness, or good old-fashioned
running away. If a combat is initiated smell the spices all day and night, no
that the players no longer wish to matter where you were in town. Alas,
participate in, any combat situation when I went away to wizard college, the
can be de-escalated with a DC 13 place was overrun by goblins and no one
Charisma or Wisdom check, along with a has dared go back in since. I’d like to
plan or alternative solution from a taste those heavenly pies just once
player character. With the exception of
more before I depart for the Celestial
running away, “defeating” a foe in any
of these manners will still count for Plane. If I give you a map to the
XP gained. Pacifistic approaches are bakery, can you go in and find Grammy’s
completely valid here, and it may be a secret recipe for me?’”
good idea to remind your players of
this at the beginning of the session.
You may also choose, by your own
discretion, to have combatant monsters If the players inquire as to what their reward will
and NPCs attempt to de-escalate the be, the wizard informs them that although he
situation. has little gold, there will be gold for them at the
end, and he tells them that they can keep
Introduction anything of value they might find in the bakery.
All he wants is the recipe.
The players have been summoned, whether
individually or as an assembled party, to a
wizard’s tower with the promise of a paying job.
The wizard’s imp servant has led them into the
tower and shown them up to the wizard’s study.
To The Bakery
Read the following aloud:
The map reveals that it is about two days ride to
“Although you were initially the bakery. There is a small town nearby where
distrustful when the imp appeared at the players can stock up on any general goods
the door to let you into the old they feel they might need (no magic items are to
wizard’s tower, inside you have seen be found in the marketplace there, but anything
enough benign wonders to assuage your from the Player’s Handbook equipment and gear
concerns. At the top of a long and tables are fair game). The trip can pass
winding staircase is the wizard’s uneventfully, or the DM may choose to roll a d6
study. Within, you see a room lined on the following table for a random encounter.
with bookshelves, and a desk covered
with bubbling potions, mysterious Random Encounter Table
trinkets, and ink-stained scraps of
D6 Encounter
parchment. An elderly man with long,
1 Rust monster
wispy, white hair, milky eyes, and a
2 Giant spider
large hooked nose sits in a cozy chair 3 Black bear
behind the desk. He very slowly stands 4 Bugbear
up and introduces himself as Tyndareus 5 Blink dog
the Green. He pours you each a cup of 6 Vine blight
tea and finally tells you why he
summoned you here.
1- Entrance 2- Apple Orchard
“As you approach the large stone “The scent of apples is even thicker
building, the road turns into a gravel here. The older trees are arranged in
path surrounded by an overgrown lawn, neat orderly rows, but the saplings
leading toward a large set of wooden that have sprouted since the goblins
double doors. The fragrance of ripening took over are everywhere. There is a
apples is thick in the air from the old whispering sound that doesn’t seem to
apple orchard in the back. There is one come from just the leaves rustling in
massive apple tree near the path to the the wind. Early ripened apples litter
front doors. As the wind whistles the ground. As you approach, one of
through the long grasses, you notice them flies through the air, narrowly
that the bark of the tree looks almost missing your heads. The sound of
like an ancient, wizened face.” whispering is joined by the sound of
giggling.”
“The shop is a small front area of the One of the desk drawers is trapped, but the
bakery where the famous pies could be mechanism can be spotted with a DC 13
sold directly to hungry customers. A
Perception check. A DC 16 Dexterity check will
counter at the back of the room stands
disarm the trap. If the drawer is opened without
surrounded by shelves on every wall. It
appears that while the shelves once disarming it, a poison needle springs out of the
held lovely packages of pies, they have drawer to stab whoever is opening it. It does 1
long since been ransacked; paper boxes piercing damage and 1d10 poison damage. The
and bits of ribbon and twine litter the victim will also need to make a DC 15
floor. Two small tables have been Constitution saving throw to avoid being
overturned in the center of the room. poisoned for one hour. This drawer contains one
There is a door on either side of the
half of the secret recipe on a torn up old
room, as well as the large double doors
that lead outside.”
parchment scroll.