[All Patrons] DMDave Adventure - Broadsword Guide to the Negative Energy Plane - Thirteen Nails in the Mouth of God Part 2. Dreaming in the Shadow of a Broken Sun

Traditional • Village • Dream Sequence • Horror • Weird

• Adventure Level: 11th-12th

• GM Difficulty: Moderate to Difficult

• Player Difficulty: Easy to Moderate

• Length: 1 Session (this part)

• Campaign Setting: Traditional Fifth Edition (Second Edition Lore)

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

- Haruki Murakami

This Fifth Edition adventure is designed to suit a party of three to five 11th or 12th-level characters. If you adjust this adventure for higher levels, note that access to spells like plane shift may render some of the plot points obsolete. You may rule that the plane shift spell (and those like it) don’t function in the Negative Energy Plane. This adventure is designed to follow the first part of the Thirteen Nails in the Mouth of God adventure. If you choose to run it separately, it may not make sense—unless that’s what you’re going for, of course.

Adventure Background

The last thing the characters remember is the black veil of the Negative Energy Plane consuming them, their bodies seemingly unraveling as they passed through the Ethereal Curtain. They were aboard their astral whale skeleton voidfaring vessel, a fragile shell against the crushing entropy of that dark realm. The ship trembled, reality fractured, and then—nothing.

Now, they are somewhere else. A modest tavern, its wooden beams warm and solid, filled with the quiet hum of conversation. The air is crisp, free of the deathly chill that should have surrounded them. The villagers of Oneiro explain that they were found amid the wreckage of their ship deep in the woods. Their bodies were battered, but they were still breathing. The villagers pulled them to safety, treating their wounds and bringing them back to town.

They are told they are lucky to be alive, especially with the hill giants that have been prowling the forest, growing more aggressive by the day. The village has been struggling to defend itself, and the arrival of seasoned adventurers—especially ones who seemingly fell from the sky—feels like a stroke of fate.

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Creative Team

• Writing and Design DMDave

• Illustrators DMDave, Matias Lazaro, Watabou, Shutterstock