Lochfell's Secret is a 16-page short adventure module for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 released on January 9, 2004. It is suitable for player characters of 15th level.
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Hollyvyre saw her husband eaten right before her eyes by a giant sea monster that walked on water. That same day, a young man found his mother's grave dug up -- and his mother's body missing.
Are the two events connected?
What would a sea monster want with corpses?
Drop this adventure for D&D v3.5 by Eric Haddock into your campaign world wherever there is a small port town. Suitable for four 15th-level characters.
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Stories of misfortune are often exaggerated, especially when they have been retold many times. For that reason, most people aren't taking seriously the claim that a sea monster living along the coast is eating whole ships full of sailors and swallowing entire families. But there's no denying a few facts -- the town of Lochfell is losing its citizens to a sea monster (one that walks on water no less), someone is stealing that same town's dead, and ships are beginning to choose other ports for unloading their goods. Such a scenario could doom the residents of the small port town to either a monster's gullet or the poorhouse.
No one seems to know whether the town's two ongoing problems are connected, but the sea monster never leaves behind a corpse to bury. Is it collecting bodies for some dark purpose? Or did some more powerful evil creature create the sea monster to do its dirty work?
Someone in Lochfell knows the answer, and it's up to the PCs to find it out.
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The book was written by Eric W. Haddock. Art was provided by Cynthia Fliege, Sean Glenn and Robert Lazzaretti.
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Lochfell's Secret was originally released for free on the Wizards of the Coast website on January 09, 2004, as part of its Original Adventures series. It remained online until around 2014.
On July 19, 2016, it was re-released on digital sale. It is currently available on DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Masters Guild for $0.99.
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As of 2023, Lochfell's Secret reached the rank of Silver seller on DriveThruRPG.
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