A one-shot adventure featuring a new monster, two maps, and a spooky setting to add to any fantasy or horror campaign. Only $1. For dungeons and dragons or any tabletop roleplaying game.
Monster One-Shot: Hag Initiate is the first one-shot adventure released by Status Effect Games! As our premier Backerkit project we wanted to start small and welcome everyone into the world of adaptable gaming that we've been creating over the last five years. Status Effect Games creates fast, fun, and versatile encounters that work with a variety of rulesets and are easy to fit into any ongoing campaign. Read on to learn more about the unique monster we've created for this one-shot, the Hag Initiate!
Story Synopsis
In the quiet village of Anondale, a missing viscount's son has locals concerned that a notorious hag, long thought dead, has returned to torment them. When it is discovered that another young lady has also gone missing, the race is on to recover the youths before disaster strikes. During the course of the adventure, players follow leads that take them to a manor hidden deep in the woods, explore the haunted residence of a powerful enchantress, and come face to face with a new threat: the Hag Initiate.
A sample image of the Hag Initiate and her feline familiar.
New Monster Lore
The hag initiate is the cursed result of a commoner's quest for magic power gone terribly wrong. As a witch in training, this monster has not yet come into their full power, but can still serve up some magical mischief for adventurers. A complete monster stat card, token, lore, and illustration flesh out this fiend so that they can be used again and again. The hag initiate works well as a minion to a dark lord and makes a grand spooky addition to any horror setting!
Samples of the Hag Initiate, Animated Candle, and Cat Familiar Tokens.
A Complete Encounter
This monster one-shot introduces a new monster with unique lore, two fresh maps that are VTT ready, monster stats, three monster tokens, multiple NPCs, story hooks, traps, and a complete encounter for 5e or any horror or fantasy setting. The writing is all done! The 15+ page pdf for this adventure ships out soon after the campaign ends. All of this for only $1.00.
A sample map of the village of Anondale and its surroundings. All maps created by Chris Zapalo.
Monster One-Shot: Hag Initiate features original art from fantasy illustrator Dylan Macko. Macko has more than ten years of experience working as a professional illustrator and fine artist. Heavily influenced by the old masters and classics of fine art, Dylan enjoys drawing and painting in the realist approach, but adds his own surreal and fantastical twists. See more of his art portfolio here: https://dylanmacko.artstation.com/
Dylan has contributed illustrations to all of our past book projects (all of which are available as add-ons to this project). Below are more samples of his work:
Cursed spirits from Dungeon Drop-Ins.
Dylan created this background piece of a hungry mimic for the gem swap puzzle from Dragnarr's Dungeon Puzzler.
The Ogromni, a fierce four armed giant featured in Adventures in Norwatch: Inheritance.
An action shot of the sneaky half-elf thief Clytemna.
In addition to illustrations from Dylan, Hag Initiate contains original maps created by Chris Zapalo. Here are some past examples of maps created by Chris:
Status Effect Games has been busy publishing tabletop roleplaying content for five years! During that time we've ran eight successful crowdfunding projects and published five books! If you missed out on any of these projects, no worries. You can catch up by selecting any of our previous projects as add-ons, or you can pledge our big bundle to grab five pdf books and more at a huge discount.
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