The document outlines various jungle encounters for a campaign, including a dead explorer, a zombie T-rex, a herd of hadrosauruses, and a flail snail. Each encounter includes details on the setting, potential challenges, and treasures available. Additionally, there are complications for crossing a river, quicksand traps, and an injured woman with ulterior motives.
The document outlines various jungle encounters for a campaign, including a dead explorer, a zombie T-rex, a herd of hadrosauruses, and a flail snail. Each encounter includes details on the setting, potential challenges, and treasures available. Additionally, there are complications for crossing a river, quicksand traps, and an injured woman with ulterior motives.
The document outlines various jungle encounters for a campaign, including a dead explorer, a zombie T-rex, a herd of hadrosauruses, and a flail snail. Each encounter includes details on the setting, potential challenges, and treasures available. Additionally, there are complications for crossing a river, quicksand traps, and an injured woman with ulterior motives.
The document outlines various jungle encounters for a campaign, including a dead explorer, a zombie T-rex, a herd of hadrosauruses, and a flail snail. Each encounter includes details on the setting, potential challenges, and treasures available. Additionally, there are complications for crossing a river, quicksand traps, and an injured woman with ulterior motives.
Here are some encounters I used during my campaign. Most are not mine originally. I borrowed stuff from all over the place.
Encounter: Dead Explorer
Body leaning against a tree about 15 feet from the river. Swollen purple corpse of an elf, dead only a few days ago from the bite of a poisonous snake.
In the trees above the body, is a Jaculi snake that attacks any creature that comes within 10 ft of the body. Bite attack: +4 2d6 +2 (or 4d6 + 2 when spring attack)
Encounter: Dead Dino
On the shore, six zombies are chewing on a dead and decaying trex. Through a hole in its stomach, the group can see a corpse holding a glowing sword (Moon-touched long sword) and some gear. If the group decides to go get the stuff, they'll need to climb into the trex to get it. If a PC climbs inside it, the trex gets up trapping the PC inside! It's a tyrannosaurus zombie.
Zombies have blue triangles (Ras Nsi's mark) on their foreheads.
Blue Triangle Rune (Divination magic) - allows Ras Nsi limited vision and communication
Encounter: Hadrosaurus Herd
A herd of 15 hadrosauruses are grazing nearby, with 5 noncombatant young among them. The adults don’t attack unless they’re attacked or antagonized. The young are Small beasts that can be sold in Port Nyanzaru for 100 gp. The young dinosaurs are easy to handle if separated from their parents, but the adults fight if their young are captured.
Encounter: Flail Snail (used between Mbala and Orolunga)
Rocky area, fewer tall trees. Lots of plants covered in Yahcha beetles. Travel is slightly easier.
Path of Glass Sparkling semi-transparent sharp stones make up large areas of the ground
Carved Boulders Every few hundred feet the party spots shaped boulders, carved with ancient faces and covered with moss and vines. Clearing away the coverings reveals the faces have eyes made of gold. Strength check (bonus for mining tools) DC 15 to extract. Failure results in the chunk of gold falling inside.
Faces were used as path markers on the way to Orolunga.
Flail Snail Characters spot the slimy trail of a flail snail. The slime dries into a thin layer of nearly transparent substance (almost like glass). If they wish to follow it, a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check correctly deduces which direction the snail was traveling. If attacked and near death, the snail wail attracts 2 girallons.
Combat Notes: ● Tremorsense 60ft - triggers Shell Defense before the party spots it ● Moves away - attacking anyone in range ● Uses Scintillating Shell ● Attacks and moves away
Flail Snail Treasure
Snail Shell - large and hard to move (250 lbs). Used in creating Spellguard Shield, Antimagic Shield. Shell can be ground and added to the dye to make Robe of Scintillating Colors
Flail snail barbed flail - Each of the flail snail's tentacles end in a barbed ball of hard bone. Most of these bones are fractured and cracked, from years of use. However, it may be possible to find one intact. The bone is valued by weaponsmiths.
Encounter: Ruins An old stone building in ruins provides a little shelter from the rain. Three adventurers camped here a few weeks ago and fell prey to a Yellow Musk Creeper. Their gear is lying in one corner of the ruins.
3 Bedrolls, backpack torn open rations eaten. Broken rain catcher.
Longsword, shortbow & quiver of arrows, rope and grappling hook, lute, 23 GP.
A Yellow musk creeper and a few zombies attack during the night.
Zombie Treasure Pouch 12 GP, Gray bag of tricks https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/gray-bag-of-tricks
Encounter: River Crossing
After the heavy rain last night, a small stream the party crossed previously has become a raging river. Muddy River - 40 feet wide 4 or 5 feet deep (difficult terrain) - Athletics Check (DC 14) to cross.
Complications 1. Step in a hole - fully submerged STR Save DC 14 to swim. CON Save DC 12 or Throat Leeches 2. Attacked by Giant Constrictor Snake 3. Log coming toward - DEX Save DC 13 4. Foot stuck - STR Save DC 12 5. Hit by a log - STR Save DC 14 or be knocked into the water and float down stream 6. No issues while crossing
When there is one character left to cross:
Young Stegosaurus runs toward the water Being chased by a T-rex Young Stegosaurus slips into the river and gets washed away T-rex avoids the water Encounter: Quicksand Two party members are immersed in quicksand, sinking 4 feet. They can make a DC 14 Strength check (not Athletics) to escape, but on a failure sink another 1d4 feet (subsequent DCs increase by corresponding amount) and quicksand spreads to incorporate 10 feet around it. Any others moving next to a restrained creature similarly trigger this outlying quicksand.
As an action, allies can pull a restrained creature out with rope and a DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check (modified as above); on a failure the creature sinks 1d4 feet.
To complicate matters, 4 zombies lurk beneath the surface of the quicksand, grabbing anyone sunken within who fails to escape.
Encounter: Injured Woman
The PCs hear feeble cries for help in the distance. If they investigate, they find what appears to be a Chultan woman pinned beneath a tree. The bone of her leg is sticking out.
Nessa (Yuan-ti pureblood) - Dark hair, green tunic, hands, arms and legs wrapped in cloth, long curved dagger, strange green eyes
She has been following the PCs for some time. She lost track of them and climbed a tree to try and find them. The branch broke, she fell and was pinned by the branch.
Her mission is to kill an explorer and return to Omu with their head to prove her worth to the Yuan-ti priests.
Information she will give to the party:
● She tells the group that she was chased by a triceratops and climbed the tree to escape (Lie). ● Her village is 10 days journey to the south, close to the ruins of Hisari (Lie) ● She came to Nsi Wastes to find some rare healing plants (Wildroot) to take back to her village (lie). ● Asks if she can travel with the group until she recovers (planning to kill them while they sleep).
Hisari Successful history check reveals some of the following information about Hisari ● Ruined yuan-ti city ● Near the Sky Lizard Mountain volcano ● The volcano is known as the Crown ● Earth swallowed half of the city around the time Ubtao left Chult ● A powerful ward was placed over the city to prevent yuan-ti from returning
