The Curse of Wardenwood, 7th-Level One Shot (5E - PDF)

Our group loved the one shot of this adventure. The plot twist were unexpected and caught them by surprise.As the DM, the one thing that would have helped me spend less prep time would be to include the spell descriptions at the back of the scenario. “The Legion of the Dragon” party became the saviors of Wardenwood!

We loved this adventure, with the Drusilla fight sparking fear into my players and the mystery of the children's affliction giving them a satisfying Aha! moment. The mod was easy to run and understand; Drusilla combat tips were especially useful. One part I could've used more guidance on was how to conduct chasing kids when they escape.

Narratively the mod comes to a natural conclusion after Victoria, however she turned out to be an easy fight given the PCs successfully kept nearly all the kids restrained and the werewolves could only brute force high AC. Thankfully this mod has a great suggestion of having the party be lead to a green dragon, so I set up a young one trying to trick the party into a cave full of treasure, then blasting them with poison breath from the protection of the tree canopy. PCs dimension door'd up to grapple it to the ground and it made for a climactic finish to a great adventure!

The first part with the hag was really good and interesting. However, the travel section felt a bit flat (without a real payoff), and the final fight was simply too easy and not very interesting mechanically.
If you are going to run it I suggest making Victoria stronger

Nice maps and a fun double scenario for a one-shot. Players used the town well in a clever and unexpected way!

Ran this as part of an existing campaign because I ran out of prep time. I ran the hag and getting the kids back to town (brewery was closing). My favorite part was watching all of the PCs have to deal with the kids on the way back. Quote of the night came when a bard cast a heavy duty sleep on the sprogs (66 hp of sleep) and only 2 fell to the spell, “no normal child has 33 hp!”