The Devil's Tide
Tone: Salt-sprayed found-family adventure — freedom, absurdity, loyalty
🗓️ Sessions
~6–12
📖 Chapters
3 acts · 12 scenes
⚔️ Battles
8
🎭 Cast
9 key figures
🧙 Party
3–5 heroes, levels 1–10
The Hook
It is the tenth anniversary of the Laughing King's execution, and Port Gallowmere is throwing the Navy's favorite holiday: Gallows Day, when they re-enact Cassian Vane's hanging in the square where it happened, complete with a wax effigy that grins the same grin he did. The party is in port for reasons of their own — a debt, a job, a dare, a funeral — when a real fight breaks out at the scaffold. Someone has stolen a fragment of oilskin chart from the Navy museum case beneath the gallows, the same case that's held it, mocked and unread, for a decade. Marines lock the harbor down island-wide. The only unguarded boat left at the docks is a sorry little cutter nobody's claimed in years. It still has a name painted on the hull, half-scraped-off: FOOL'S LUCK.
🎭 The rest of this tale is the Dungeon Master's secret. You'll live it at the table.