Free Foundry MADventure - Cutthroat Curfew! (Patreon)

Hey all!

We're here with this month's free Foundry 5e MADventure!

Cutthroat Curfew is a fifth-edition adventure for three to five characters of 1st to 3rd level and is optimized for four characters with an average party level (APL) of 1. As with all of our recent MADventures, Cutthroat Curfew has been designed to insert into an existing campaign as an independent side adventure with a few simple renames.

I love urban adventures, and for this MADventure wanted to create a low level, entry-point adventure that could work independently or as a way to start players off into a new urban campaign. I'm also conscious that APL 1 adventures sometimes mean new and inexperienced players, so Cutthroat Curfew has a few moments and advice boxes where suggestions are made to tweak encounters depending on how familiar with D&D the players are.

"The market settlement of Svatona is a one-stop shop for merchants and novice adventurers, but the town is currently facing a calamity. Only this morning, the harvest market was interrupted by a long-fermenting criminal uprising, and the bandit lord Cutthroat Calen has taken Svatona's Mayor hostage!Now a call for arms has gone out, promising rewards and glory to anyone who can enter the Cutthroat's dangerous neighbourhood and return the mayor unharmed."

Cutthroat Curfew includes:

• A fully formatted adventure journal, including suggested tactics and strategies for enemies.

• A Foundry Splash Screen

• 4 Adventure Foundry Scenes

• 13 Actors

• 20 Items

• 1 Roll Table

The adventure provides 3 different hooks, which allow your group to encounter and interact with the adventure in very different ways depending on the sort of party you have.

The group arrive in the settlement of Svatona, to find a marketplace in flames and chaos following an attack. After potentially helping restore order to the square, the characters have an opportunity to learn more about the problems facing Svatona, as well as various elements of gossip and rumour regarding the town.

Shortly after, the same group of bandits that set fire to the marketplace return to finish the job, and combat ensues!

Having dealt with the bandits and learned of opportunities for helping Svatona, the group find their way to The Warren - a dense and dangerous section of neighbourhood that has become the unofficial territory of the bandits.

This is where the bulk of the adventure takes place - we have set these streets up to serve as a dungeon crawl - with combat, puzzle, and social encounters littering the streets. There are also in-game explanations for why the characters are unlikely to want to trivialise the exploration by simply travelling by rooftop!

There are several shops and side locations that the characters can find their way into during their exploration of the Warren, with their own battle maps. Eventually, the group find their way to the heart of the Warren and a violent encounter with their leader ensues - with different motivations depending on which adventure hook you opted for!

Patrons are now able to install the Foundry module for Cutthroat Curfew. Please note - we're doing things a little bit differently now! This adventure is not a .json, but is hosted directly on the Foundry premium service. This means that if you are on the All the Things tier or higher, Cutthroat Curfew should automatically show in your list of modules available to install for Foundry V14!

This Foundry adventure will be free for All the Things tier Patrons until the end of the month, after which point it will be available on our web shop and other marketplaces!

We hope you enjoy this MADventure release!

Thanks for all your support, and as ever...

Keep rollin' those 20s folks!
Harrison, Alex, and Team MAD