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Save My Ass is a short, setting-neutral adventure designed for 1st-level characters. It works as a standalone adventure, random encounter, or a lighthearted pre-adventure to bring a newly formed group of characters together before the beginning of a larger campaign. The adventure is best suited to a settlement in or near an arid or desert region but a local spring in a forest works just as well as an oasis.

The adventure begins when a local porter loses his mule, Jack, who wanders off toward a nearby oasis. The characters must follow Jack's tracks to the oasis and discover that catching a frightened mule is more difficult than it sounds. While pursuing this ass they might get bitten by local wildlife, find lost trinkets and treasures, or just generally run themselves ragged!

I love Waterdeep but the Sea maidens Faire is criminally underpopulated as a concept. Every time my players go to investigate the mysteries in Waterdeep im finding myself umming and ahhing about what the fair **actually** has on the pier. so i made a d100 table about it! it works in any forgotten realms carnival with only minor name changes. hope you guys enjoy!

d100	Attraction
01	Candy Floss Cauldron. A copper drum spins brightly colored sugar into clouds of “candy floss” wrapped around paper wands.
02	Hippogriff Rides. Children and small adults ride saddled hippogriffs around a fenced paddock under the guidance of handlers.
03	The Ringing Bell. Contestants swing a maul onto a weighted lever, trying to ring a brass bell mounted atop a tall pole.
04	Tymora’s Toss. Players throw painted rings over bottles bearing symbols of good and ill fortune.
05	The Dancing Bear. A trained brown bear performs clumsy dances, bows, and balancing tricks alongside its handler.
06	Luskan Fish Fry. Battered fish, fried potatoes, and onions are served in folded paper cones.
07	Nimblewright Pavilion. Lantanese nimblewrights demonstrate dancing, fencing, serving drinks, and performing household chores while representatives take orders from wealthy buyers.
08	The Bearded Mermaid. A heavily bearded performer in a glittering fish-tail costume tells increasingly improbable stories about life beneath the Trackless Sea.
09	Goblin Knockdown. Patrons throw leather balls at hinged wooden goblins that collapse when struck.
10	The Bottomless Tankard. Contestants race to drain oversized tankards of watered ale without spilling.
11	Moonshae Toffee Apples. Apples are coated in hard caramel, crushed nuts, or cinnamon sugar.
12	Madame Starcloak. A veiled fortune-teller reads cards, palms, and polished dragon bones inside a darkened tent.
13	The Clockwork Dragon. A brightly painted mechanical dragon stamps, roars, flaps its wings, and exhales harmless sparks.
14	Owlbear Ring Toss. Wooden rings are thrown over the ears and beak of a painted owlbear cutout.
15	The Sword Swallower. A flamboyantly dressed performer swallows blades and invites spectators to inspect them beforehand.
16	Waterdeep in Miniature. An elaborate model of the city features turning windmills, moving ships, and a tiny walking replica of the Walking Statues.
17	The Kraken’s Grasp. Contestants wrestle free from padded mechanical tentacles before a bell sounds.
18	Chultan Fruit Ice. Shaved ice is drenched in brightly colored citrus and pineapple syrups. For adults, the vendor offers a tej syrup (a chultan honey wine) with a mild alcoholic kick.
19	Darts of Destiny. Patrons throw darts at a painted wheel divided among humorous predictions of their future.
20	The Invisible Man. An apparently empty suit argues with its barker, juggles objects, and occasionally steals spectators’ hats.
21	Lantanese Curiosities. A merchant sells self-lighting pipes, wind-up birds, folding tools, mechanical toys, and other small inventions.
22	The Mermaid’s Kiss. Patrons attempt to land copper coins in clam shells arranged beneath the water of a glass tank.
23	Fire Beetle Lanterns. Caged giant fire beetles illuminate a tent where handlers explain their care and sell safely collected glowing glands.
24	The Amazing Rope. An acrobat climbs a rope that appears to hang unsupported in the air.
25	Sausages of the Sword Coast. Grilled sausages from Waterdeep, Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate, and Luskan are sold with competing regional mustards.
26	Race the Alchemist. Two contestants pump bellows beneath glass vessels, racing to make colored liquid rise through a twisting series of tubes and ring a small
27	The Laughing Mimic. A trained mimic assumes the shapes of ordinary objects while spectators try to identify it before it moves.
28	Harpoon the Sea Serpent. Patrons throw blunt wooden harpoons through moving hoops mounted along the body of a painted sea serpent.
29	The Cabinet of Changing Faces. An enchanted mirror successively transforms a visitor’s reflection into an elf, dwarf, orc, goblin, tiefling, and several increasingly ridiculous monsters.
30	Neverwinter Hot Nuts. Paper sacks of roasted nuts are coated in salt, honey, pepper, or powdered flame-cinnamon.
31	The Great Zardoz Portrait. Visitors pose before a painted seascape while an artist produces quick charcoal portraits in exaggerated heroic style.
32	The Spider’s Web. Contestants climb through a tangled rope obstacle without touching the dangling brass bells.
33	Pixie Cakes. Tiny iced cakes sparkle with edible sugar and briefly stain the eater’s tongue a random bright color.
34	The Two-Headed Calf. A preserved anatomical curiosity is displayed inside a glass case surrounded by lurid painted banners.
35	The Rolling Beholder. Players roll a heavy wooden ball painted to look like a beholder down a sloped, uneven track, attempting to guide it into a numbered goal without letting it tumble into painted dungeon pits.
36	Clockwork Axe-Beak Derby. Patrons wind miniature mechanical axe beaks and release them onto a tabletop track filled with gates, ramps, and swinging obstacles.
37	The Wandering Tattooist. A tattooist offers nautical designs, carnival emblems, and expensive pigments that faintly shimmer in moonlight.
38	The Mechanical Orchestra. A cabinet of drums, horns, bells, and pipes plays songs from punched metal sheets.
39	Catch the Stirge. Players use small nets to catch leather-winged stirge puppets launched erratically through the air.
40	Calishite Sweetmeats. Honeyed pastries, sugared dates, sesame cakes, and rosewater confections fill tiered brass trays.
41	The Strongest Sailor. Contestants lift increasingly heavy anchors, cannonballs, and iron-bound ship timbers.
42	The Talking Skull. A skull inside a curtained booth insults visitors, answers questions, and claims to have advised several dead kings.
43	Catch the Moon. Players use short fishing rods to hook silver crescent moons drifting around a basin of black water without disturbing the floating stars.
44	Dragon Breath Peppers. Patrons compete to eat increasingly hot peppers while milk and bread are sold at inflated prices nearby.
45	The Cabinet of Tiny Monsters. Harmless miniature creatures and convincing models are displayed in glass-fronted boxes.
46	Find the Doppelganger. Three performers identically dressed in red and white stripes mingle through a crowd while players on a tall platform attempt to spot them before an hourglass runs out.
47	Deepwater Pearl Divers. Patrons retrieve marked shells from the bottom of a cold-water barrel using only a set of oversized wooden teeth in their mouth.
48	The Puppet Siege of Waterdeep. An elaborate puppet show depicts an absurdly inaccurate attack on the city by dragons, giants, and ogres, with an unlikely romance between the hero's donkey and an amethyst dragon.
49	The Alchemist’s Fizz. Colorful sweet drinks smoke, foam, change color, or make the drinker belch harmless bubbles.
50	The Goblin Catapult. A padded goblin doll is launched from a small siege engine toward baskets worth different prizes.
51	The Monster Rockers. Children ride individually mounted rocking griffons, owlbears, dragons, and displacer beasts fitted with growlers, bells, and moving wings.
52	The Sword Coast Menagerie. A rotating selection of exotic creatures is displayed under the supervision of animal handlers.
53	Sune’s Silhouettes. An artist cuts surprisingly accurate profile portraits from black paper.
54	The Drunken Deck. Visitors attempt to cross a tilting platform made to resemble the deck of a ship in rough seas.
55	Mystery Meat Pies. Patrons buy savory pies without knowing whether they contain beef, pork, mutton, fish, or vegetables until the first bite. particularly lucky patrons can find a coin in the center of the meat, but particularly unlucky ones will bite into their pie to find it filled with horseradish.
56	The Amazing Flea Circus. Tiny carts, swings, and balancing wires move beneath magnifying lenses as the barker narrates the feats of supposedly trained fleas.
57	Gond’s Puzzle Boxes. Customers race to open mechanical boxes fitted with sliding panels, hidden catches, and false keyholes.
58	The Giant’s Teeth. Players throw wooden clubs at rows of hinged teeth inside the mouth of a painted frost giant.
59	Waterdhavian Waxworks. Wax figures depict famous Open Lords, masked criminals, adventurers, monsters, and scandalous nobles. the one of Dagult Neverember has been defaced multiple times and has a glass case surrounding it.
60	Smokepowder Sharpshooting. Under strict supervision, wealthy patrons fire a Lantanese pistol at painted targets backed by thick timbers. patrons who enjoy the experiance can buy the pistols at outragous
61	The Rainbow Eel. A trained eel swims through colored hoops in a tall glass tank and rings a submerged bell for food.
62	The Chultan Mystery Boxes. Blindfolded patrons reach into covered boxes and identify harmless objects presented as dinosaur eggs, shed reptile skin, jungle insects, and monster organs.
63	The One-Eyed Jax Wine Garden. Bottles of Luskan wine are served at tables beneath purple awnings while musicians perform sea songs.
64	The Flying Carpet. patrons can rent flying carpets for their children that rise only a few feet off the ground and travel at a speed of only 10ft with which to traverse the fairgrounds.
65	Catch the Greased Goblin. Contestants attempt to seize a nimble halfling performer wearing green loincloth and green body paint inside a fenced ring.
66	The Pearl of the Trackless Sea. A dancer performs inside an enormous opening clamshell accompanied by drums and colored lanterns.
67	Aurora’s Oddities. A reseller offers inexpensive imported trinkets, costume jewelry, carved shells, feathers, and alleged monster parts.
68	The Chimera Toss. Beanbags painted like goats, lions, and dragons are thrown into the corresponding mouths of a three-headed target.
69	The Great Escape Artist. A performer is chained, locked inside a sea chest, and dropped into a transparent tank of water.
70	Fried Dough Dragons. Twisted strips of dough are fried, dusted with sugar, and shaped to resemble curled dragons.
71	The Ghost-Lantern Theatre. A lanternist projects shadows of spectral ships, drowned sailors, and sea monsters onto a curtain while a storyteller narrates their doom.
72	The Sailor’s Knot. Contestants race experienced sailors to reproduce increasingly complicated knots.
73	The Painted Panther. A patient panther dyed in harmless carnival colors performs leaps between platforms with its trainer.
74	The Wishing Well. Visitors cast coins into a decorated basin while a hidden performer provides cryptic blessings through a speaking tube.
75	The Mermaid’s Wardrobe. Customers purchase shell jewelry, pearl combs, scaled cloaks, sailors’ scarves, and elaborate aquatic costumes.
76	The Barrel of Kobolds. Wooden kobold heads pop unpredictably from holes while contestants strike them with padded mallets.
77	The Liar of Luskan. A storyteller delivers three outrageous nautical tales, and the audience wagers on which one supposedly happened.
78	The Dragon Egg Hatchery. Patrons select a painted clay “dragon egg” from a straw-filled nest, then crack it open with a small mallet to reveal a trinket or prize hidden inside.
79	The Healer’s Tent. A licensed attendant treats scrapes, nausea, minor burns, and other carnival mishaps for a modest fee.
80	The Enchanted Menagerie Portraits. Visitors pose behind painted boards that depict them as dragons, merfolk, drow pirates, or famous adventurers.
81	The Shipbreaker. Contestants throw heavy iron balls at stacked wooden ships, attempting to knock down every mast.
82	The Glassblower of Neverwinter. A craftsperson shapes glowing glass into tiny ships, dragons, flowers, and personalized ornaments.
83	The Bottomless Basket. Spectators watch as a performer continually produces birds, ribbons, fruit, and increasingly large objects from a small basket. During the finale the performer pulls out a flabbergasted audience member who is actually another performer that walks around talking to people early on in the performance .
84	Pegasus Feather Catch. A concealed bellows sends white feathers whirling through a netted booth while contestants try to catch marked feathers before time expires.
85	The Dock Ward Dunking Chair. Patrons throw balls at a target to drop a jeering performer into a tank of harbor water.
86	The Map of Marvels. A huge illustrated map displays famous monsters, ruins, and wonders encountered along the Sword Coast.
87	The Gnome Cannon. A gnome acrobat wearing a life preserver is fired from a spring-powered imitation cannon into the bay.
88	The Drowned Sailor’s Riddle. A waterlogged “corpse” awakens to pose riddles and squirts unsuccessful contestants with seawater.
89	Feywild Face Painting. Artists paint children and adults as dryads, satyrs, pixies, displacer beasts, or eladrin.
90	The Dancing Blades. Blunted swords hover and perform a choreographed duel while a musician plays beneath them.
91	The Great Cheese Roll. Contestants roll wax cylinders pained to look cheese down a sloped track toward numbered gates.
92	The Fortune Fish. Patrons select folded paper fish from a net; each contains a brief fortune, joke, or romantic prediction.
93	The Illusory Fireworks. A darkened tent surrounds visitors with silent bursts of colored light shaped like sea monsters and ships.
94	The Siren’s Challenge. A singer holds a clear note while contestants attempt to match it closely enough to make a set of sympathetic crystal glasses hum.
95	The Wandering Haberdasher. Hats, masks, feathered cloaks, eye patches, parasols, gloves, and carnival costumes crowd a brightly striped stall.
96	The Mage Hand Maze. Patrons use a control wand to guide a spectral hand through a glass-sided tabletop maze, retrieving a brass key without touching the hanging bells
97	The Captain’s Auction. Imported curios, recovered cargo, exotic bottles, art objects, and minor mechanical devices are sold to the highest bidder.
98	The Faire in a Bottle. An glass bottle contains a magically animated miniature of the entire pier. Tiny, accurate replicas of its ships, booths, performers, workers, and visitors reproduce everything happening across the fairegrounds in real time.
99	Zardoz Zord’s Grand Exhibition. A lavish central pavilion advertises the Faire’s attractions, accepts commercial inquiries, arranges private demonstrations, and displays portraits of its flamboyant master.
100	The Mint of Marvels. Visitors operate a hand-cranked press that stamps brass souvenir tokens with their choice of a mermaid, ship, dragon, nimblewright, or Captain Zord’s profile.

Come join the wolves den tavern playing **Waterdeep Heist Adventures** a **D&D 5e (2014)** mashup of the **alexandrian remix** of Waterdeep dragon heist and **keys to the golden vault**.

Enjoy the mystery and intrigue that Waterdeep has to offer in an urban adventure wrapped up in the unique play style of heist adventures, where planning matters, and you can’t just fight your way to the prize!

Hello! 👋 I’m Chris the gm, a professional career DM and I’m pleased to be offering my own mashup of Waterdeep. I've been DMing as my full time job for over 6 years now and unlike many GM i don’t need to use gimmicks or homebrew to stand out. If you want to play DND the way it is in the book, I’m the gm for you. I bring top notch voice acting, gorgeous maps, and an unmatched familiarity with roll20 and 5th edition DnD and its settings, rules and characters to the table. You can be certain that I steal the show in Waterdeep Heist Adventures!

Currently players are level 3

**Time:** Sundays at 2pm PST

**Price:** 24$ USD

**Platform:** roll20 and discord for voice.

Wednesday evenings at 5:30 GMT+1 (aka western europe). I have 2/6 spots filled, we need 4 to start.

In the dusky land of Barovia swirling mists shroud a certain manse 🏯 on the edge of a town that lies in the shadow of castle ravenloft🏰They say that something sinister lurks within, that the family that owns it has been cursed. Perhaps the rumors will be true!

Hello! 👋 I’m Chris the gm, a professional career DM and I’m pleased to be offering my first free game in years, for a module that I have run countless times! My goal is to show you what a truly top notch game can look like, so I’m here to bring you the best experience possible!

Though this is a short adventure, my hope is that I will eventually be able to find players who want to play an entire campaign of the legendarily stellar campaign « Curse of Strahd »🧛‍♂️.

Unlike many GMs i don’t need to use gimmicks or homebrew to stand out. if you want to play DND the way it is in the book, I’m the gm for you. I bring top notch voice acting, gorgeous maps, and an unmatched familiarity with 5th edition DnD and its settings, rules and characters to the table. You can be certain that I will bring the death house to life!

Please message me if interested, or comment and I’ll message you!

Come join the wolves den tavern playing Waterdeep Heist Adventures a D&D 5e (2014) mashup of the alexandrian remix of Waterdeep dragon heist and keys to the golden vault.

Enjoy the mystery and intrigue that Waterdeep has to offer in an urban adventure wrapped up in the unique play style of heist adventures, where planning matters, and you can’t just fight your way to the prize!

Hello! 👋 I’m Chris the gm, a professional career DM and I’m pleased to be offering my own mashup of Waterdeep. I've been DMing as my full time job for over 6 years now and unlike many GM i don’t need to use gimmicks or homebrew to stand out. If you want to play DND the way it is in the book, I’m the gm for you. I bring top notch voice acting, gorgeous maps, and an unmatched familiarity with roll20 and 5th edition DnD and its settings, rules and characters to the table. You can be certain that I steal the show in Waterdeep Heist Adventures!

Currently players are level 3

Time: Sundays at 2pm PST

Price: 24$ USD

Platform: roll20 and discord for voice.

Come join the wolves den tavern playing Waterdeep Heist Adventures a D&D 5e (2014) mashup of the alexandrian remix of Waterdeep dragon heist and keys to the golden vault.

Enjoy the mystery and intrigue that Waterdeep has to offer in an urban adventure wrapped up in the unique play style of heist adventures, where planning matters, and you can’t just fight your way to the prize!

Hello! 👋 I’m Chris the gm, a professional career DM and I’m pleased to be offering my own mashup of Waterdeep. I've been DMing as my full time job for over 6 years now and unlike many GM i don’t need to use gimmicks or homebrew to stand out. If you want to play DND the way it is in the book, I’m the gm for you. I bring top notch voice acting, gorgeous maps, and an unmatched familiarity with roll20 and 5th edition DnD and its settings, rules and characters to the table. You can be certain that I steal the show in Waterdeep Heist Adventures!

Currently players are level 3

Time: Sundays at 2pm PST

Price: 24$ USD

Platform: roll20 and discord for voice.

Come join the wolves den tavern playing Waterdeep Heist Adventures a D&D 5e (2014) mashup of the alexandrian remix of Waterdeep dragon heist and keys to the golden vault.

Enjoy the mystery and intrigue that Waterdeep has to offer in an urban adventure wrapped up in the unique play style of heist adventures, where planning matters, and you can’t just fight your way to the prize!

Currently players are level 3

Time: Sundays at 2pm PST

Price: 24$ USD

Platform: roll20 and discord for voice.

Wednesday evenings at 5:30 GMT+1 (aka western europe). i have 2/6 spots filled, we need 4 to start.

In the dusky land of Barovia swirling mists shroud a certain manse 🏯 on the edge of a town that lies in the shadow of castle ravenloft🏰They say that something sinister lurks within, that the family that owns it has been cursed. Perhaps the rumors will be true!

Hello! 👋 I’m Chris the gm, a professional career DM and I’m pleased to be offering my first free game in years, for a module that I have run countless times! My goal is to show you what a truly top notch game can look like, so I’m here to bring you the best experience possible!

Though this is a short adventure, my hope is that I will eventually be able to find players who want to play an entire campaign of the legendarily stellar campaign « Curse of Strahd »🧛‍♂️.

Unlike many GMs i don’t need to use gimmicks or homebrew to stand out. if you want to play DND the way it is in the book, I’m the gm for you. I bring top notch voice acting, gorgeous maps, and an unmatched familiarity with 5th edition DnD and its settings, rules and characters to the table. You can be certain that I will bring the death house to life!

Please message me if interested, or comment and I’ll message you!

This started because one of them made an offhand joke after the dinner invitation. I think they said something like “Honestly the guy just needs therapy.” And another player immediately went “No, no, not therapy. An intervention.”

At first I thought this was just table banter while they were figuring out what they were actually going to do with the invitation, but then they started making plans and I realized they were 100% serious.

They decided to use the dinner invitation as a way to get him in a room with anyone they could possibly think of that Strahd had hurt and explain why his behavior was unhealthy. They were convinced that if enough people confronted him at once I’d give them enough of a bonus to a persuasion roll (or maybe just have enough that someone would eventually crit on the roll) that he might actually have to do some self-reflection.

Soooo then they spent the next three sessions tracking down anyone that had met Strahd, including sneaking into the castle before the dinner through the back door to find Kasimir’s sister’s ghost and stumbling over all three brides and Rahadin. They mostly had to coerce Rahadin with a suggestion spell but the brides are kinda jeally anyway so it doesn’t take much to get them to try and oust a potential suitor.

So then dinner starts and they show up to the hall coming from the opposite direction that players normally come (really killed the horror vibe but what can u do) dragging like 12 ppl with them including Escher, the abbot, all the brides, strands fucking horse (which they decided was the closest thing they’d get to his pet), Cyrus, Father Donovich, Doru, etc.

Strahd’s (illusion) welcomes them, asks them to sit down, and then gets told it needs to sit down and this is an intervention. So it walks around the room grinning and looking people in the eye (the way it would if they were there without, ya know, 12 extra ppl) and then sits down and offers them food (again they way it’s programmed to) and they are like ‘’hells yeah we got him by the balls’’

And I DID give my players DMs inspiration for this before someone gets sad that it can’t work, but I let them prepare speeches for every npc and read them as if they were that person (except the horse which was just our Druid cooing ‘’cmon look at his Horsey eyes!’’ as the eyes burned with hellfire). Funniest shit I’ve ever heard 😂

And finally one of em goes ‘’ wow I’m surprised he hasn’t interuppted’’ and I go ‘’yeah he’s been listening really attentively and smiling the whole time’’ and that tipped them off. The fighter goes “waaaaait…” and walks over and runs a hand through the illusions face.

So TLDR:
In my campaign, there was a two-hour period in which like 18 people earnestly explained healthy emotional processing to what was essentially a magical Zoom background and it was the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.

Edit: Wow this got a lot more attention than I was expecting, so I gotta do a self plug! I’m a career dm (I run paid games for a living) so if you wanna play in games like this message me or check out my discord server! Link is on my profile 😇