The Caverns of The Frog King Book - Adventure Module 1

Caverns Of The Frog King is the first in a series of game modules designed to provide entertaining scenarios for the various ranges manufactured by Lucid Eye Publications. The module is a 16 paged booklet with a black & white interior for that 'Old School' touch. The module book contains everything you will need to be equipped with to run the adventure!

Caverns of the Frog King is system agnostic, meaning that rules are implied and suggested throughout but no attempt has been made to provide a rules framework. These, therefore are ‘rulings’ suggestions, rather than hard and fast rules per se. We call this method ‘Add Your Engine’, (or AYE for short). This has been done so that Games Masters (GMs), may run the module using any rpg (role playing game), system, choosing their favourite or most appropriate. It is a simple matter to accomplish this, so simple for a fairly experienced GM, in fact, that it is entirely possible to run this module ‘on the fly’. Anyone familiar with rpgs in general, for instance, will know that player characters, (PCs), will take a die worth of ‘damage’ from falling 10 feet, or that skeletons ‘take half damage’ from edged weapons. Along the way, GMs will note that efforts have been made in order to facilitate the smooth running of the scenario via these suggestions.

The Realms is a place of many myths and legends, not least of which is the Legend of the Caverns of the Frog King. Here is this very tale! It is said that, many years ago, (exactly how long is lost in the mists of time), the King of the Frogs came upon the Dragonfly Queen perched within her Nest upon her Great Nest Throne. The King of the Frogs was an immense beast, even bigger than the Dragonfly Queen and he was hungry. He was always hungry. The Frog King thought that the Dragonfly Queen would make a tasty meal and he decided to eat her. He tried in vain to coax the Dragonfly Queen from out of her safe home, first with words, then by pleading, then by threats. None of this worked because the Dragonfly Queen was quite smart. Almost beside himself, the Frog King tried then to use his long tongue to coax her from her lair, but, try as he might, he wasn’t able to reach. The Frog King was not only hungry, he was also very stubborn and not a little dumb. He decided to wait outside of the Nest until the Dragonfly Queen appeared. He waited…and waited…and waited. He waited so long that he turned to stone! Many years past and both the Frog King and the Nest of the Dragonfly Queen were buried under the earth.

The body of the Frog King, after a very long time, melted into the surrounding rock and earth leaving only a series of caverns shaped exactly like the Frog King himself. The Dragonfly Nest remains. In time, this place became a special place for the tribes of Frog Men who began to populate the caverns, who, in turn, dug a little deeper in order to find the Dragonfly Nest. They discovered one or two other places first, but they eventually found the Nest, and now live off the Dragonfly Guard Ticks and eggs that the Dragonfly Queen lays.