Dungeons & Dragons 5e | The Black Feast | A Whole New Kind of Food Fight

About the adventure

Your favorite holiday is here: Gorgefest. You and everyone else in the kingdom will stuff yourselves into a stupor on roast meats, pies, and all manner of other delicacies. Then, after a night sleeping off this overindulgence, you'll wake up early the next morning and rush down to the market to buy baubles you don't need with gold coins you can't really afford to spend. Even better, this year you've managed to wheedle an invitation to the great feast at the royal castle. Everyone in your party has had their robes and swordbelts let out a few inches in anticipation. But some dark force seems determined to ruin everyone's holiday fun. Some nefarious witch or wicked sorcerer has brought down evil magic upon all the kingdom's most delicious foods. Possessed by evil spirits, meals now simply refuse to be eaten—squirming off forks, fleeing from tables, and even fighting back! Who could have committed such a dastardly act? Who could have cast this hideous hex on the hams, this calamitous curse on the cranberries, this sinister spell on the sweetbreads? I can't tell you that, obviously. It would ruin the ending of the adventure. The king and queen have called upon any adventurers brave enough to sally forth and put this injustice to rights before it is too late. This is your chance to make your name as heroes, for butter or wurst. Can you and your party put a fork in this flighty feast, or will you chicken out? Can you end this foul magic, or will the kingdom be condemned to dine on naught but bread and water . . . or worse, eat salad?

Additional Details

How to prepare

✅ You'll need accounts on Discord and The Forge (my Foundry hosting service of choice). Accounts are free on both. If you don't know how to get these, you'll get details upon booking. ✅ You'll need some way to participate in voice chat. A headset mic would be perfect. ✅ You'll need a desktop or laptop computer, because Foundry VTT doesn't play nice on mobile. ✅ No webcam needed. ✅ You won't need physical dice or a printout of your character sheet. ✅ If you're already familiar with at least the core rules of 5th edition D&D, that would help, but it isn't necessary. ✅ You'll want to have snacks ready, because this is going to make you hungry.

What I provide

This is an original adventure available nowhere else. I've got servers set up for both Foundry and Discord. I'm always available to answer questions, whether you've booked a seat or not.

Gameplay details

This is a tongue-in-cheek one-shot for 3rd-level characters. We'll use Discord for voice chat and Foundry VTT for character sheets and die rolls. This is a Theater of the Mind game, so no encounter maps.

Content warnings

(none)

Safety tools used

Breaks
Open Door

How will character creation work

This is an adventure for third-level characters. Pregenerated characters will be available. For those who would prefer to make a character, character creation guidelines will be provided upon booking. You can also bring in an existing character. This game is going to be fast and loose. Pretty much any character option is allowed. I don't use D&D Beyond Integration, but it won't be a problem if you want to make your character on D&D Beyond.

Players can expect

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