No Prep Module: Shipwrecked for D&D or RPGs

This adventure can be can be easily customized to a party of any size or level, or run as a level 2 adventure for 5 players. It can work as a small side adventure in an existing campaign, as a standalone one-shot, or the start of a new adventure. Use the links to the tools in their relevant section to customize the adventure to your party.

A strong downpour of rain, punctuated by the occasional clap of thunder and lightning, stirs you in the night as the ship is rocked by a large wave. The sound of creaking and snapping leads to a spray of splinters as the boat is assaulted by another huge wave. All around you is the sound of panicked shouting as others begin to realize the severity of the situation. The storm is ripping your boat apart.

• Start while the PCs are already underway on a ship. A violent storm hits, battering the boat with waves that splinter and destroy the ship around them. Have the PCs declare what they want to do and make relevant skill checks as they try to fix the ship and avoid hazards as it collapses around them.

You find yourselves washing up ashore on a sandy beach. The weather is still harsh, but the ground beneath your feet is a touch more comforting than the deadly abyss of the ocean. You see others crawling up the beach with you, while behind the massive waves roil and crash against the reef. You realize you'll need to collect who or what you can and build suitable shelter if everyone is going to survive the night.

• The PCs are shipwrecked on a deserted island, and will ultimately need to build a raft capable of escape that can survive the large waves of the reef.

• Let your players decide how they want to proceed here. They'll need to build some sort of shelter to survive the weather, then will need to procure a supply of food and water, and then eventually collect resources to build a boat.

The terrain of the island is a beautiful kaleidoscope of colors, completely covered in massive coral growths. Smaller plants, vines, and leaves sprout amongst the spongey texture of the coral, but it appears the aggressive growth of the coral prevents any sort of larger trees from growing on this island.

• The island is covered in massive coral growths, intermixed with smaller plant-life.

• There are no actual trees from which the PCs could obtain lumber, but as they explore have the PCs find some supplies here and there, including lumber planks, to clue them into the presence of what they're looking for.

• Use the following dungeon as the structure for exploration while your players explore the island. You could also have them stumble upon a lair that they explore for supplies.

Dungeon Rooms

• At the end of the dungeon, the players find a big cache of supplies that could be used to build a boat.

You come to what looks like a Grung warren, built out of scraps salvaged from shipwrecks. There are houses made of wooden planks and metal sheets in a sort of shantytown built into the coral. There are young Grung children, as well as the elderly, that live in this secluded shelter deep within the island, safe from the outside world.

• The supplies are stored in the warrens, full of young and frail Grungs. They're using the supplies for homes and beds, and the PCs will need to decide what to do. It's possible to reach a compromise where the PCs use just enough supplies to make a sort-of rickety boat that may just be enough, or they may decide to take all the supplies to make a good boat, or some other solution.

• Regardless of what they choose, as they start to leave the PCs will be attacked by 2 Eternal Flame Guardians (Princes of the Apocalypse p. 200) in a large coral room.

• Every round, the coral walls grow inward causing the room to shrink. The PCs have to defeat the flame guardians before they're crushed by the walls. If things get especially hectic you can allow some PCs to spend their turn channeling magic or hacking at the coral to prevent the room from shrinking.

• After dealing with the guardians, and with enough supplies and ingenuity, the players are able to build a raft and escape the island.

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