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Mulmaster Undone

The Cults of Elemental Evil have been unveiled within the City of Danger and in retaliation, they seek to use the

fundamental forces of nature to destroy it from within. Join your factions as well as the Blades, Cloaks, Hawks and

Soldiers alike in defending Mulmaster against those that would burn, crush, drown, and buffet it into oblivion. A special

four-hour multi-table adventure for 1st-10th level characters.

Adventure Code: DDEP2

Credits

Adventure Design:

Bill Benham, Chris Lindsay, Alan Patrick, Travis Woodall

Development and Editing:

Claire Hoffman, Chris Tulach, Travis Woodall

D&D Organized Play:

Chris Tulach

D&D R&D Player Experience:

Greg Bilsland

D&D Adventurers League Wizards Team:

Greg Bilsland, Chris Lindsay, Shelly Mazzanoble, Chris Tulach

D&D Adventurers League Administrators:

Robert Adducci, Bill Benham, Travis Woodall, Claire Hoffman, Greg Marks, Alan Patrick

Debut: June 4, 2015

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Introduction

Welcome to

Mulmaster Undone

, a D&D Epics

adventure, part of the official D&D Adventurers

League

organized play system and the

Elemental

Evil

storyline season.

This adventure is designed for

multiple tables of

three to seven 1st-10th level characters

, and is

optimized for

five 3rd-level characters or five 8th-level

characters

. Characters outside this level range cannot

participate in this adventure. This is a multi-table

adventure, requiring

at least four tables.

Characters at

the same table must be in the same level tier of play

(either 1st-4th level or 5th-10th level).

The adventure is set in the Moonsea region of the

Forgotten Realms, in and around the city of Mulmaster.

Adventurers League, please visit the

D&D Adventurers

League home.

Preparing the Adventure

Before you show up to Dungeon Master this adventure

for a group of players, you should do the following to

prepare.

•

Make sure to have a copy of the most current

version of the

D&D basic rules

or the

Player’s

Handbook

Read through the adventure, taking notes of

anything you’d like to highlight or remind yourself

while running the adventure, such as a way you’d

like to portray an NPC or a tactic you’d like to use in

a combat.

Get familiar with the monster statistics in the

Appendix.

Gather together any resources you’d like to use to

aid you in Dungeon Mastering, such as notecards, a

DM screen, miniatures, battlemaps, etc.

If you know the composition of the group

beforehand, you can make adjustments as noted

throughout the adventure.

•

The D&D Adventurers

League

This adventure is official for D&D Adventurers League

play. The D&D Adventurers League is the official

organized play system for D

UNGEONS

& D

RAGONS

®.

Players can create characters and participate in any

adventure allowed as a part of the D&D Adventurers

League. As they adventure, players track their

characters’ experience, treasure, and other rewards, and

can take those characters through other adventures that

will continue their story.

D&D Adventurers League play is broken up into

storyline seasons. When players create characters, they

attach those characters to a storyline season, which

determines what rules they’re allowed to use to create

and advance their characters. Players can continue to

play their characters after the storyline season has

finished, possibly participating in a second or third

storyline with those same characters. A character’s level

is the only limitation for adventure play. A player cannot

use a character of a level higher or lower than the level

range of a D&D Adventurers League adventure.

If you’re running this adventure as a part of a store

event or at certain conventions, you’ll need a

DCI

number.

This number is your official Wizards of the

Coast organized play identifier. If you don’t have a

number, you can obtain one at a store event. Check with

your organizer for details.

For more information on playing, running games as a

Dungeon Master, and organizing games for the D&D

•

Before Play at the Table

Ask the players to provide you with relevant character

information. This includes:

•

Character name and level

Character race and class

Passive Wisdom (Perception)—the most common

passive ability check

Anything notable as specified by the adventure

(such as backgrounds, traits, flaws, and so on)

Players that have characters outside the adventure’s

level range

cannot participate in the adventure with

those characters

. Players can play an adventure they

previously played or ran as a Dungeon Master, but not

with the same character (if applicable).

Ensure that each player has an

official adventure

logsheet

for his or her character (if not, get one from the

organizer). The player will fill out the adventure name,

session number, date, and your name and DCI number.

In addition, the player also fills in the starting values for

XP, gold, downtime, renown, and number of permanent

magic items. He or she will fill in the other values and

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write notes at the conclusion of the session. Each player

is responsible for maintaining an accurate logsheet.

If you have time, you can do a quick scan of a player’s

character sheet to ensure that nothing looks out of

order. If you see magic items of very high rarities or

strange arrays of ability scores, you can ask players to

provide documentation for the irregularities. If they

cannot, feel free to restrict item use or ask them to use a

standard ability score array. Point players to the

D&D

Adventurers League Player’s Guide

for reference.

If players wish to spend downtime days and it’s the

beginning of an adventure or episode, they can declare

their activity and spend the days now, or they can do so

at the end of the adventure or episode.

Players should select their characters’ spells and

other daily options prior to the start of the adventure,

unless the adventure specifies otherwise. Feel free to

reread the adventure description to help give players

hints about what they might face.

Determining Party Strength

Party Composition

3-4 characters, APL less than

3-4 characters, APL equivalent

3-4 characters, APL greater than

5 characters, APL less than

5 characters, APL equivalent

5 characters, APL greater than

6-7 characters, APL less than

6-7 characters, APL equivalent

6-7 characters, APL greater than

Party Strength

Very weak

Weak

Average

Weak

Average

Strong

Average

Strong

Very strong

Average party strength

indicates no recommended

adjustments to the adventure. Each sidebar may or may

not offer suggestions for certain party strengths. If a

particular recommendation is not offered for your group,

you don’t have to make adjustments.

Adjusting the Adventure

Throughout this adventure, you may see sidebars to help

you make adjustments to this adventure for

smaller/larger groups and characters, of higher/lower

levels that the optimized group size. Most of the time,

this is used for combat encounters.

You may adjust the adventure beyond the guidelines

given in the adventure, or for other reasons. For

example, if you’re playing with a group of inexperienced

players, you might want to make the adventure a little

easier; for very experienced players, you might want to

make it a little harder. Therefore, five categories of party

strength have been created for you to use as a guide.

Use these as a guide, and feel free to use a different

adjustment during the adventure if the recommended

party strength feels off for the group.

This adventure is

optimized for a party of five 3rd-

level or five 8th-level characters.

To figure out whether

you need to adjust the adventure, do the following:

•

Add up the total levels of all the characters

Divide the total by the number of characters

Round fractions of .5 or greater up; round frations

of less than .5 down

Dungeon Mastering the

Adventure

As the DM of the session, you have the most important

role in facilitating the enjoyment of the game for the

players. You help guide the narrative and bring the

words on these pages to life. The outcome of a fun game

session often creates stories that live well beyond the

play at the table. Always follow this golden rule when

you DM for a group:

Make decisions and adjudications that enhance the

fun of the adventure when possible.

To reinforce this golden rule, keep in mind the following:

•

You are empowered to make adjustments to the

adventure and make decisions about how the group

interacts with the world of this adventure. This is

especially important and applicable outside of

combat, but feel free to adjust the adventure for

groups that are having too easy or too hard of a

time.

Don’t make the adventure too easy or too difficult

for a group. Never being challenged makes for a

boring game, and being overwhelmed makes for a

frustrating game. Gauge the experience of the

players (not the characters) with the game, try to

feel out (or ask) what they like in a game, and

attempt to give each of them the experience they’re

after when they play D&D. Give everyone a chance

to shine.

•

You’ve now determined the

average party level (APL)

for the adventure. To figure out the

party strength

for

the adventure, consult the following table.

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•

Be mindful of pacing, and keep the game session

moving along appropriately. Watch for stalling,

since play loses momentum when this happens. At

the same time, make sure that the players don’t

finish too early; provide them with a full play

experience. Try to be aware of running long or

short. Adjust the pacing accordingly.

Read-aloud text is just a suggestion; feel free to

modify the text as you see fit, especially when

dialogue is present.

Give the players appropriate hints so they can make

informed choices about how to proceed. Players

should be given clues and hints when appropriate

so they can tackle puzzles, combat, and interactions

without getting frustrated over lack of information.

This helps to encourage immersion in the

adventure and gives players “little victories” for

figuring out good choices from clues.

downtime activities help with lifestyle expenses or add

lifestyle expenses.

Spellcasting Services

Any settlement the size of a town or larger can provide

some spellcasting services. characters need to be able to

travel to the settlement to obtain these services.

Alternatively, if the party finishes an adventure, they can

be assumed to return to the settlement closest to the

adventure location.

Spell services generally available include healing and

recovery spells, as well as information-gathering spells.

Other spell services might be available as specified in

the adventure. The number of spells available to be cast

as a service is limited to a

maximum of three per day

total,

unless otherwise noted.

Spellcasting Services

Spell

Cure wounds

(1st level)

Identify

Lesser restoration

Prayer of healing

(2nd level)

Remove curse

Speak with dead

Divination

Greater restoration

Raise dead

Cost

10 gp

20 gp

40 gp

90 gp

210 gp

450 gp

1,250 gp

In short, being the DM isn’t about following the

adventure’s text word-for-word; it’s about facilitating a

fun, challenging game environment for the players. The

Dungeon Master’s Guide

has more information on

the art of running a D&D game.

Downtime and Lifestyle

At the beginning of each play session, players must

declare whether or not they are spending any days of

downtime. The player records the downtime spent on

the adventure logsheet. The following options are

available to players during downtime (see the

D&D

basic rules

or the

D&D Adventurers League Player’s

Guide

for more information):

•

Catching up

Crafting (exception: multiple characters cannot

commit to crafting a single item)

Practicing a profession

Recuperating

Spellcasting services (end of the adventure only)

Training

Acolyte Background

A character possessing the acolyte background requesting

spellcasting services at a temple of his or her faith may request

one spell per day

from the Spellcasting Services table for free.

The only cost paid for the spell is the base price for the

consumed material component, if any.

Faiths that can call upon spellcasting services in Mulmaster

include the following: Bane, Leira, Loviatar, Mystra, Savras,

Tempus, Tymora, Velsharoon, and Waukeen.

Character Disease,

Death, and Recovery

Sometimes bad things happen, and characters get

poisoned, diseased, or die. Since you might not have the

same characters return from session to session, here

are the rules when bad things happen to characters.

Other downtime options might be available during

adventures or unlocked through play, including faction-

specific activities.

In addition, whenever a character spends downtime

days, that character also spends the requisite expense

for his or her lifestyle. Costs are per day, so a character

that spends ten days of downtime also spends ten days

of expenses maintaining his or her lifestyle. Some

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Disease, Poison, and Other Debilitating

Effects

A character still affected by diseases, poisons, and other

similar effects at the conclusion of an adventure can

spend downtime days recuperating until such time as he

or she resolves the effect to its conclusion (see the

recuperating activity in the D&D basic rules).

If a character doesn’t resolve the effect between

sessions, that character begins the next session still

affected by the debilitating effect.

Adventure Background

The time is at hand! For some time, the four cults of

Elemental Evil have infiltrated daily life within

Mulmaster down to its most humble of levels. All of this

has been in pursuit of the ultimate goal, the utter

destruction of the city through the use of devastation

orbs--artifacts created by chosen priests of the four

elemental princes in unholy rites.

To that end, the adventure begins as the individual

cults, in opposition and competition with one another,

have each secreted a single devastation orb into the city.

Despite this commonality, each of them has their own

individual goals.

Cult of the Eternal Flame.

Crannak Smolderburn

seeks to raze the House of the Blades to the ground,

decimating the whole of the city's leadership in one, fel

stroke.

Cult of the Black Earth.

Stonemelder Edo's objective

is to topple the Black Lord's Altar thereby eliminating

one of the most powerful groups in the city and putting

his thumb in the eye of deists everywhere.

Cult of the Howling Hatred.

Terror flies on white

wings - the Cult of the Howling Hatred's sky-borne

armada rises from the south. Their destination: the

soon-to-be wasteland of Mulmaster.

Cult of the Crushing Wave.

The marid Qabara seeks

to smash and drown all of Mulmaster beneath a massive

tidal wave.

Death

A character who dies during the course of the adventure

has a few options at the end of the session (or whenever

arriving back in civilization) if no one in the adventuring

party has immediate access to a

raise dead

revivify

spell, or similar magic. A character subject to a

raise

dead

spell is affected negatively until all long rests have

been completed during an adventure. Alternatively, each

downtime day spent after

raise dead

reduces the penalty

to attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks by 1, in

addition to any other benefits the downtime activity

might provide.

Create a New 1st-Level Character.

If the dead

character is unwilling or unable to exercise any of the

other options, the player creates a new character. The

new character does not have any items or rewards

possessed by the dead character.

Dead Character Pays for Raise Dead.

If the

character’s body is recoverable (it’s not missing any vital

organs and is mostly whole) and the player would like

the character to be returned to life, the party can take

the body back to civilization and use the dead

character’s funds to pay for a

raise dead

spell. A

raise

dead

spell cast in this manner costs the character 1,250

gp.

Character’s Party Pays for Raise Dead.

As above,

except that some or all of the 1,250 gp for the

raise dead

spell is paid for by the party at the end of the session.

Other characters are under no obligation to spend their

funds to bring back a dead party member.

Faction Charity.

If the character is of level 1 to 4 and

a member of a faction, the dead character’s body can be

returned to civilization and a patron from the faction

ensures that he or she receives a

raise dead

spell.

However, any character invoking this charity forfeits all

XP and rewards from that session (even those earned

prior to death during that session), and cannot replay

that episode or adventure with that character. Once a

character reaches 5th level, this option isn’t available.

Overview

The adventure is divided into four tracks: two tracks for

levels 1-4, and two tracks for levels 5-10. Each of these

tracks is further divided into three or more parts,

culminating with the discovery of a

devastation orb

the verge of detonation.

•

Low-Level Tracks (Levels 1-4).

Earth, Fire

High-Level Tracks (Levels 5-10).

Air, Water

Timing

The adventure is designed to be accomplished in three

hours of play time. Ideally the Introduction, Part One &

Part Two should take no more than 2 hours. Some

groups /tracks might take less time than that. However,

it is import that all groups start Part Three at the same

time. Tables that get done early need to wait until all are

ready to proceed. Part Three should take 50 minutes to

complete.

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