The Ghouls of Cotsfeld

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The village of Cotsfeld is suffering from a supernatural calamity. Will an enterprising party of adventurers be able to prevent a terrible tragedy from taking place?

The Ghouls of Cotsfeld is a location— a village with a problem— that can be dropped into any fantasy TTRPG game area. It is rules-agnostic and stat-less. It is not an adventure. The location has just enough specificity, I hope, to make it evocative and the scenario is described only in broad strokes so that it can be easily shaped and worked to suit any campaign. A few characters are named but they are detailed only as far as need be to support their role in the scenario. Where solutions are presented or suggested, it is expected that the referee will determine if and how they might be accomplished, who will know about them, and what tools will be required.

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Just read it - love it!
Very much feels like it could take place in the same universe as Sleepy Hollow or The VVitch.
The Ghost Light mechanic is really cool and the Prophetess character could easily be used to signal to the Party which family might be assaulted, leading to a cool night time encounter of them repelling the Ghouls (temporarily).

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Glad that you like it! :grin:

It’s purposely open-ended both so I don’t have to write up a whole adventure :rofl: and so that any given table can run it and spice it up however they want. The High Priestess is a good example of this. In a party without a spiritual class type, they might be a really important ally and resource. Another party with a cleric or two or a paladin or both (or a priest or someone similar) might approach it differently and potentially without the High Priestess, or even be at odds with her given her culpability in what happened.

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I wanna know what the inside of their burned out farmhouse is like! I know it’s open to whatever flavor, but how do you imagine it? I’d guess my group would investigate that place right away for sure.

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In my head, I think I see the crumbled seared remains of a simple life (a pile of ashes where was once a bed, fragments of a table and chairs, ash-covered stones of a central hearth) with a blast-style seared impression of two figures huddled together on the floor. I think it would radiate an intense cold and feeling of wrongness.

What’s your impression of what it would look like?

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I like all of that! I like the idea that it’s all burned out and collapsed, but maybe a dinner table still has tarnished tin plates with evidence of a grisly meal, an animal or something. A terrible smell coming from the cellar, maybe their produce is rotting down there and they have begun digging claustrophobic tunnels.
Interrupting the ghouls sitting at their dinner table with a neighbors head on a plate would be terrifying!

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That’s quite the image! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: