In a cabin at the edge of Grindlebrier Forest, Nevermore the raven, Vayliss the owl, Erb the herb garden golem, Slink the ferret, and Ember the fire elemental have been patiently awaiting the return of their wizards.
When an unexpected message arrives telling them that their wizards are lost, they are forced to leave their home in search for the whereabout of their wizards.
Adventure awaits!
Familiar Things will be a series of D&D adventures for kids where they play the magical creatures and companions to wizards who have gone missing. The familiars will venture from their home to find them, and it will launch a series of adventures.
They will depart into the world armed with scant alchemical notes and a map. Their map will be no ordinary map, however. It is a map that holds secrets. Hidden messages are concealed in images, symbols on the map match the notes they have from the alchemy lab, and a town on the map that continually changes its location!
The map will send them on unique adventures - sneaking into a giant’s castle on a rescue mission, braving the lair of the mud witch who lives deep in MireGully Swamp, visiting the Wormwood Court, whose leadership has been usurped by a mischievous and diminutive dragon…all of this and more, as the familiars search for the whereabouts of their wizards.
There will be several ways to play!
At the edge of Grindlebrier Forest, nestled in a quiet farming town, lies an unassuming cabin.
If houses were like people, this one would be like a polite and kind woodsman who carries out a solitary, yet contented life.
The porch is well-swept. The shutters are weathered, but well maintained. The door is inscribed with patterns that show that the occupant values woodworking and honest craftsmanship.
From the outside, the windows radiate the warm glow of a fire in the hearth, and the wood smoke traces a lazy trail from the chimney through the overhanging tree branches. The air outside smells of cypress and rich earth.
In short, the cabin looks welcoming.
But, this is no ordinary woodman’s cottage, and its small size and presence holds a great secret, for this is actually the home of wizards.
Within the cabin, it has not just a single room, but dozens of rooms, the size of which couldn’t possible fit inside this quiet cottage.
In truth, this home contains an entire apothecary, a smithy and forge, a room made of plants, and the greatest library to be found within the kingdom….all within the confines of an unassuming cabin in the woods.
This is the place that the wizards call home…but the wizards are not home.
In fact, they have been gone for quite some time (much longer than expected).
The cabin is currently home to their familiars (magical creatures and companions to the wizards) and the various living creations of their sorcery.
And they have been patiently awaiting the return of their wizards.
That all changed when they received a message from an altogether unexpected source…
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