"Grimjaws" is a short adventure for Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition published in Dungeon #62. Set in the Vast Swamp, the adventure heavily references the book Elminster's Ecologies: The Cormyrean Marshes.
Synopsis[]
In the mid-14th century DR, a shaman-in-training lizardman from the Tun Marshes by the name of Sutholo moves to the Vast Swamp to study the local floral and fauna. One day he kills a large crocodile near his hut along the Darkflow River and tries to preserve its body by using herbs, wrapping tightly around it in cloth. At night a storm blows the carcass into the Darkflow proper, where evil magic within its waters cause the crocodile to arise from the dead as a mummy. The crocodile goes on to infect creatures in the surrounding area, including Sutholo, with mummy rot and eventually becomes known as Grimjaws.[1]
Later a group of adventurers are drawn towards the area due to tavern gossip about a small cache of tools, etched in Espruar runes, that were retrieved from the swamp. Before long the adventurers encounter Sutholo's hut, where they possibly attempt to heal the lizardman of his mummy rot and try to slay the terrible mummy Grimjaws.[1]
Index[]
Characters[]
- Grimjaws • Sutholo
- Referenced only
- Imperator
Creatures[]
Locations[]
- Bodies of Water
- Darkflow River
- Countries
- Cormyr
- Wilderness
- Vast Swamp
- Referenced only
- Aeltais • Tun Marshes
Magic[]
- Items
- ring of free action
- Referenced only
- bless • cure disease • potion of vitality • raise dead • regenerate • resurrection
Religions[]
- Semuanya
- Referenced only
- Sess'innek
Miscellaneous[]
- Conditions
- mummy rot
- Food & Drinks
- wild pig meat
- Fields of Study
- herbalism • taxidermy
- Items
- map • waterskin
- Languages
- Common • Espruar
- Vegetation
- herbs • oak • stinging nettle • water lily • willow
- Weapons
- spear
- Referenced only
- cleric • Dawn of Elven Civilization • necromancer • shaman
Appendix[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Jennifer Title Stack (November/December 1996). “Grimjaws”. In Michelle Vuckovich ed. Dungeon #62 (TSR, Inc.) (62)., pp. 34–37.