Sharky

A young man dragged into the sea. Cattle slaughtered and half-devoured. Villagers scared to leave their homes. 

Something terrible and massive roams the seaside village of Conchi at night. 

Can you help them?

Sharky is a fantasy roleplaying adventure module written for Old School Essentials or other, similar, fantasy roleplaying games for low-level adventurers. In it, your heroes (or rogues) will travel into an undersea cave complex, to investigate a beast that is wreaking havok in the seaside village of Conchi.

In Sharky is all you need to explore Conchi and Catacomb Cave for Old School Essentials or other similar fantasy roleplaying games. 

This includes:

• Timeline of events in Conchi
• Cast of characters and factions in Conchi and Catacomb Cave
• Reasons why to go to Conchi
• Rumours heard at the Harp & Harpoon, the local inn
• The town of Conchi, with 8 locations, including the De Haricot and Goolwick farms, the Harp & Harpoon, a shark attack, the lighthouse, the old jetty, the ruined church, village green, and the wreck of the Incorrigible (beneath the sea)
• Catacomb Cave itself, a 3-level underwater dungeon with 31 locations, including Random encounters, undead Antiquarians, a Sea-Witch and her kelpy minions, the sea-dwelling olm, and a juvenile kraken trapped in the depths. 
• Magical items, moving tides, and secret passages
• Loose ends

Sharky is designed to be playable first and foremost. Locations are keyed 1 to a page, and clearly labelled. Locations are separated into hidden, secret and treasure to make exploration easy to run. Exit descriptions are given, and stat blocks and character descriptions are all contained on the same page as the rest of the location description. 

Sharky is a traditional module after the style of the Curse of Mizzling Grove, rather than my more experimental modules like Hiss and Hell on Rev-X. However, it is slightly wider in scope, featuring the village of Conchi and its inhabitants, in addition to the underwater Catacomb Cave, which is a dungeon of similar size to Renwall Tower, a lot of treasure and some strange and compelling undersea denizens. It continues to draw inspiration from some of the best short form modules I’ve read — and I've read a lot, see my Bathtub Reviews! It's well positioned to be thrown into any fantasy campaign, and it's statted for compatibility, as well as featuring subtle nods to the Curse of Mizzling Grove, which place it in the same world if you so choose.

You can buy this in print at Lulu — simply go to this link and order away if you'd prefer it in your hands!