FATAL CURE
A standalone T1 adventure for fans of dark fantasy adventures.
A 40-page dark fantasy adventure Fatal Cure contains everything required to run the story, whether you use the Pathos setting or adapt it to another campaign.
When a fire breaks out below Free Rein to draw its defenders away, Witchblood Rask moves in and seizes the town. A brilliant alchemist, Rask has invented a deadly cure for mutants and will bleed the town dry to perfect it. The PCs must navigate an occupied settlement, recruit allies, undermine the Witchbloods, and decide what they are willing to sacrifice to protect their home. Their choices determine the strength of the resistance and reshape the adventure’s final battle.
Built for tables that enjoy bleak survival fantasy, body horror, difficult choices, and the tone of Age of Umbra.
Adventure Features
- A complete Tier 1 adventure centered on player choice, resistance building, and the liberation of Free Rein
- A detailed frontier settlement populated by strange residents and people worth fighting for
- A choice-driven victory system that changes the conditions, allies, and dangers present during the final battle
- Rules for mutant ancestries, plus a mutation table for rapidly creating distinctive NPCs
- 10 original environments spread across this mountainous frontier town
- 19 original adversaries including the SPIDER CRAB BROODMOTHER and WITCHBLOOD FUNGAL HOST
- Eight full-color battle maps prepared for tabletop and virtual tabletop use
- 12 new Fear Moves for applying pressure beyond direct combat
- Original hand-drawn artwork depicting Pathos’ sunless ecology, mutations, and inhabitants
Using Fatal Cure
Fatal Cure can be run as written in Pathos or transplanted into another dark fantasy setting. Replace Free Rein with an isolated settlement, treat the Witchbloods as a militant alchemical faction, and use the included adversaries, environments, maps, mutations, and Fear Moves wherever they fit your campaign.
The Pathos Campaign Frame expands the setting, cultures, survival rules, and wider world, while remaining optional for running this adventure: https://heartofdaggers.com/products/pathos-campaign-frame/
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Content Warning
Body horror, mutation, pests, wildfire, chemical weapons, addiction, and military occupation.
Compatibility
This product includes materials from the Daggerheart System Reference Document 1.0, © Critical Role, LLC, under the terms of the Darrington Press Community Gaming License. More information can be found at https://www.daggerheart.com.
No generative AI was used in the creation of this adventure.
