The Psychotropic Adventure

20 Mar 2021

A friend of mine suggested to me an adventure where players are tripping as balls after eating some mushrooms in the forest. Here’s a tentative of translating this into written form.

The adventure starts and ends in the woods, it ends with the players naked. This might not be suited for a campaign. Everytime a monster is encountered, roll a d100 and consult the table, then describe that monster to the players. All monsters of the same kind share the same appearance. Some monsters are not real, assume the damage they take is suffered from rocks, wild animals etc.

Roll	Monster	Roll	Monster
1	Bandit	50	Kobold
2	Cultist	51	Tribal Warrior
3	Flying Snake	52	Giant Rat
4	Giant Weasel	53	Flumph
5	Blood Hawk	54	Giant Crab
6	Acolyte	55	Boar
7	Bullywug	56	Drow
8	Goblin	57	Grimlock
9	Kenku	58	Skeleton
10	Winged Kobold	59	Zombie
11	Cockatrice	60	Deep Gnome
12	Crocodile	61	Gnoll
13	Hobgoblin	62	Lizardfolk
14	Orc	63	Satyr
15	Thug	64	Worg
16	Animated Armor	65	Bugbear
17	Death Dog	66	Dryad
18	Duergar	67	Ghoul
19	Giant Hyena	68	Goblin Boss
20	Hippogriff	69	Imp
21	Bandit Captain	70	Berserker
22	Carrion Crawler	71	Centaur
23	Cult Fanatic	72	Griffon
24	Intellect Devourer	73	Mimic
25	Ogre	74	Spined Devil
26	Orog	75	Pentadrone
27	Rhinoceros	76	Sea Hag
28	Swarm Of Poisonous Snakes	77	Wererat
29	Lizardfolk Shaman	78	Grick
30	Gibbering Mouther	79	Ghast
31	Basilisk	80	Bearded Devil
32	Bugbear Chief	81	Doppelganger
33	Displacer Beast	82	Grell
34	Hobgoblin Captain	83	Minotaur
35	Manticore	84	Phase Spider
36	Banshee	85	Chuul
37	Elephant	86	Ghost
38	Flameskull	87	Helmed Horror
39	Succubus	88	Incubus
40	Lamia	89	Wereboar
41	Air Elemental	90	Beholder Zombie
42	Bulette	91	Flesh Golem
43	Drow Elite Warrior	92	Gladiator
44	Gorgon	93	Revenant
45	Umber Hulk	94	Fire Elemental
46	Hobgoblin Warlord	95	Mind Flayer
47	Frost Giant	96	Treant
48	Guardian Naga	97	Horned Devil
49	Archmage	98	White Dragon
50	Ice Devil	99	Death Tyrant

Beginning the Adventure

Your players are in the woods, foraging and hunting. They find some mushrooms and they eat them, what could go wrong? Then the entire forest starts burning, it’s not actually burning but they don’t know that. Time to run!

The rest of the adventure is structured as a point crawl. Roll 1d6 between every location. Random encounters on 1 or 2. Yes, it’s railroady. Sorry.

Roll	Monster
1	Giant Snake
2	Goblin (1d4)
3	Boar
4	A Lumberjack
5	A screaming tree
6	A genie (it doesn’t exist)

1. The Screaming Woods

The trees are burning and the forest is on fire. There’s no smoke for some reason (as the DM you know why). At one point the trees start screaming. Then three trees just jump outside of the ground and start running using their roots towards the players. Screaming Tree (AL:C, AC:6, HD:2+1, HP:9, #AT:1, DMG:1d4 fire every round until extinguished)

2. The Cave Of Bagpipes

Running from the fire leads to a cave. The cave is full of 1d4+2 fighting goblins (roll on random monster appearance) + 2d4 children and women (also have random appearance). It looks like someone is constantly playing bagpipes in the cave but the source of the music is unknown. If the players decide to stay in the cave, the walls will begin shifting and moving trying to squish the group (of course, this is actually not true). The bagpipes won’t stop. The cave contains 883gp, crude toys and a ceramic statue worth 4000gp. if recovered safely.

3. The Melting Armor

At one point, the fire will look so strong that it will start heating and melting every armor the players have. The clothes will catch on fire forcing the wearers to remove them. If they don’t they’ll start taking 1d4 damage every round, the damage is illusory.

4. The Village Of Tongues

In the woods there’s a village, it’s a simple village of humans that will probaby look very confused when a band of naked adventurers will come out running off the woods. Of course they won’t know about any fire. When moving trough the streets the player will be paranoid and will hear conversations about them happening behind their backs. If the party is rude, insistent or spends too much time (more than 10 minutes) wandering naked inside the village the guards will be called. They will look like normal humans but with Fly heads. 1d4 Fly Guards (AL:N, AC:5, HD:1+1, HP:6, #AT:1, DMG:1d6). The whole town will look overly hostile to the group. Make the players think that the whole village hates them and wants them dead.

5. The Pig Pen

A bit further, in the forest, next to the village there’s a pig pen. The pigs will call the players and will tell them, in human voices, that they know the secret of the forest fire. The villagers are actually praying to an evil god that is hidden beneath the town, in a cave. The entrance to the cave is hidden beneath the manure.

6. The Fire God

This part takes place entirely in their heads as they slowly twitch in pig shit. Under the village there’s a giant cave. In the middle of it there’s a giant parasite, releasing smoke and fire. He has 4 tentacles, 300’ apart. The tentacles have 3hp each and an AC of 13. To kill the parasite all 4 tentacles must be destroyed. The parasite generates 1 Fire Spider (AL:N, AC:10, HD:1/2, HP:4, #AT:1xRanged, DMG:1d6) every other round. If the parasite dies the players find 4993gp. stashed in a chest (they’re actually 49gp. they stole from the villagers)

Ending

The adventure will probably end with them rolling in the pen or in the woods, completely naked. The effect of the mushrooms ends after 6 hours so if they manage to survive that long everything returns to normal. They will have coins in their pockets that they don’t know where they came from. Their armors? Gone. Also the king’s guards are now searching for them.