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We have a few funny anecdotes in the module. Here are some of those:

Cod liver oil(potion): ‘smells fishy…’ (like ofc it does, but also kinda sketchy so)

Ola Nordmann: his whole deal is funny okey, love him<3

The twins: both of whom took on the role of father, as either one refused to merely be an uncle. 

Quick lunch (kvikk lunsj): witch is a norwegian chocolate bar, that gives you back some hitpoints here

What was something you found funny about the module???

This is everything we have made for this D&D adventure. It's basically all you need to play, if you read the rules and stuff that we gave some links too in the last post you're all set. 

It's been a lot of fun making this adventure and sharing the journey with you guys. Hope it lives up to the expectations. Have fun playing and leave a comment on how it went if you do play it❤️

All you need is here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1b_mJOew39cNM2uCZ1wdyzY1pLt2l1w4f?usp=sharing

to play D&D you need to know the eules and how to play, we dont give those explenations in the adventure we have made, but here are some good sites to look at and a little explenation for them:)

https://www.dndbeyond.com/en

It is a set of free digital tools:character builder, encounter builder, combat tracker, shared digital dice roller, homebrew editor, discord bot. All these features are free to use (with the exception of tools in alpha, which require a subscription to access. But all tools eventually become free to access).

It means, it is a platform where purchases are required. 

Is the official toolset of Dungeons&Dragons 5th edition.  

It helps you learn rules. The website is very good, the tools are useful, but it is not cheap.

https://roll20.net/

is a virtual tabletop platform for playing tabletop role-playing games and board games online with people. That means a website consisting of a set of tools for playing tabletop role- playing games, also referred to as a virtual tabletop, which can be used as an aid to playing in-person or remotely online.

https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/

This wiki hosts 5th edition content from the 2014 publication of D&D. Some content found on this page may not be suitable for play at your table. It is free for use, with few restrictions. Purpose of this wiki is not as a public resource, but for personal use.

Here we have a sneak peek on the art for our ready made characters, how cool right!

You're a lucky gang who gets to see this before we post the module.

The fox’s widow(reveenka):

Ash lad(Askeladden):

Goaty(gaute):

The witch(Heksa):

Who is your favourite?

artwork made by;

If you have followed along from the start (good job, thanks) you will notice that we have changed a few characters along the way. Here are the folktale and character descriptions we cut out to fit better with the adventure and the plot:

King Valemon: 

He is a character in a Norwegian folktale, also known as “The White Bear King Valemon.” He is actually a prince who has been enchanted and lives as a white bear. A princess goes with him to a castle, where she lives comfortably, but she is not allowed to see him at night when he is in human form. When she breaks this rule, the curse worsens and he disappears.After that, the princess must set out on a long and difficult journey to find him again and free him from the curse. In the end, she succeeds, and he becomes human once more.In short, the story is about love, trust, and trials, where the princess must show courage and perseverance to save King Valemon. 

In the character design we wanted to bring out the polar bear vibes of him. So we have a few different proposals for his class. He could be a druid who changes into a polar bear, because druids have the special ability to do that. Or maybe he is gonna be a barbarian, so when he gets angry he turns into a polar bear(kinda like The Hulk vibes). The last we were discussing was a cleric, but we didn't find out that much for now. 

For weapons the classes make him a spellcaster and then since we think polar bear vibes we want to give him claws, either in polar bear form or maybe in a Wolverine type style. 

The specific looks for him isn't discussed that much, only that he is gonna give of himbo vibes. He also gets the resemblance of a norwegian national outfit for men, with some shorts and suspenders with some flowery pattern, a vest, maybe a shirt and a small necktie. Since he is king we think he needs a brooch shaped as a crown.

The Princess

In Norwegian folktales, the princess is an important character, often appearing alongside the hero Askeladden. She is usually the king’s daughter and is often described as beautiful, wise, or connected to a special challenge or task. In many stories, she serves as a reward, where the hero must complete difficult tasks or prove himself worthy in order to win her. Sometimes she is in danger and needs to be rescued, while in other cases she sets challenges or riddles that the hero must solve. She can also be clever and play an active role in helping the hero succeed, making her more than just a passive figure in the story.

For the princess we landed on a half-elf race in the class of rogue. We are giving her a dagger, maybe a rapier(a thin sword), a crossbow or a little bag of peas(the princess and the pea) to make opponents unstable. 

She is gonna have long light brown hair, maybe put it up in an updo or we wanted to give her an old school snood(like pearly og diamonds or something). The concept of secret pants is fun for her, like she is a princess rogue, she needs secret pants.

She needed a name too since she doesn't have one, so we brainstormed and got like 17 names, so maybe one of those or a combination. I think the most wanted names were: Ingrid, Astrid and Solfrid, but we don't know what it's gonna be yet.

Because of the smaller size of the D&D adventure we had to cut a few things and unfortunately that included these two characters, so if you end up playing our campaign(thank you for that), and you miss the princess and king valemon we are sorry…but that's how it went.

Okay now we have said a lot about the characters and the folktales that we have put into this D&D adventure. Now we are gonna try and give a brief overview of the whole thing without spoiling too much for you guys.

So since D&D is an interactive adventure game it isn't a set reason why the players are in the dungeon. Maybe it's because they wandered in on some random drunken night out, or they heard about a treasure in the inner rooms. This is up to the DM what fits for your party. 

But when the players get to the dungeon they meet a man, and he gives them a riddle to get to the next room. That's how the whole thing will work, a father in each room and they have to solve a riddle or fight a fight or whatever the father there has for them to do before they can go meet the next father. 

If you don't remember from last post, or didn't see it (you're really missing out my dude) we talked about NPC’s or non-playable characters. Those are characters in the game which are not playable, the playable characters interact with these NPC’s throughout the game. Like a side character that's only there to drive the story forward, and be funny or interesting. Here is one of those characters:

The Seventh Father of the House(Syvende far i huset ):

The 7 fathers are also NPC’s and are gonna be placed in their own room a.i 7 different rooms, like in the folktale. As some kind of ‘keepers of the dungeon’. They are also gonna have different vibes and personalities that's reflected in the rooms they are in, and in the tasks the adventurers have to go through to get to the next room. They vary in age and hospitality which makes for interesting interactions for the players. 

The story is about a man who wants to stay at a farm, and needs to get permission from the owner. He goes in and for each room he is sent further along to meet an even more important and older father. In the end, he meets a tiny, frail old man—who turns out to be the real “seventh father” in the house. It humorously shows that the person who seems smallest or weakest can actually have the most authority or importance. It also plays with expectations and exaggeration. 

We have just explained the playable characters that we have made for this campaign, but there are also something called NPC’s or non-playable characters. Those are characters in the game which are not playable, the playable characters interact with these NPC’s throughout the game. Like a side character that's only there to drive the story forward, and be funny or interesting. Here is one of those characters:

Ola nordmann:

Ola Nordmann is an NPC(non playable character). He is a merchant that we encounter throughout some rooms, like room 2 where he is ice fishing. He is gonna steal stuff from different rooms and it's gonna be a running joke that stuff disappears, and then Ola Nordmann tries to sell it to us in other rooms. He is obsessed with ‘vipps’, which is the Norwegian version of paypal. 

He is gonna look like a Norwegian, blonde, tall, blue eyed guy. He ofc har his snus(zyn), cus every Norwegian guy has like 5 snus at the time… he will also be wearing the typical knitted sweater called a Marius sweater, and have his skis with him, as all Norwegians are born with skis on their feet. 

So who is Ola Nordmann? In Norway Ola Nordmann is both a nickname for the average Norwegian and a personification of the Norwegian people. He is our version of Jon Doe. In Denmark his name is Herr Sørensen, in Sweden his name is Medelsvendson and in Germany they say Otto Normalverbraker. What name is Ola Nordmann in your country? 

Linguists have found in books that Ola Nordmann was mentioned in toasts and speeches in 1844. 

80 years later, that name was used to describe an average Norwegian. 

Heksa or The witch

The witch is a typical Norwegian folktale character so we needed to add her here. But to fit her inn to the D&D party we changed her a little. She is going to be a druid class. We were on the path of putting here as a reskinned(....again..ew) half-elf. As a druid she is a protector of the wild and that fits in with our witchy lady here. 

She is gonna have a big witchy hat made from leaves, a mysterious look that shields her face but leaves her pointy elf-like ears slightly visible still. The witches' weapons are gonna be something like a quarterstaff or a sickle, maybe a dagger or darts, and ofc her spellcasting.

Heksa — the witch figure in Norwegian folklore — is usually portrayed as an extremely old and unattractive woman, though that description reflects the harsh and outdated language often found in traditional fairy tales. She is often imagined with exaggerated features, such as a long nose, and appears unexpectedly along the hero’s journey.

In many stories, she serves as a kind of moral test: the hero must show her kindness, respect, or compassion in order to succeed. Treating her well is often essential to moving forward in the tale.

Although she is commonly translated as “witch,” the character is often closer to what English folklore would call an “old hag” or crone figure rather than a magical sorceress.

You can find examples of this character in Norwegian fairy tales such as Gjete kongens harer and Reve-enka.

The Fox’s Widow (Reveenka)

This little lady is gonna be in the class of ranger, and is a fox lady who is functionally a re-skinned ‘high elf’ (here we go again with the skins…idk but re-skinned sounds worse). Anyways she is gonna get two short swords and a longbow to fight with. She also has a cat companion that does as best as she can to do what The Fox’s Widow says. This is because in the fairytale she has a housekeeper and we wanted to incorporate that in the character here.

Her looks are of course gonna be foxy (in both meanings of the word), even though her clothes are gonna be a bit simple. She has a headscarf, maybe flowery, and a modest dress, a capelet connected in the neck area with a broach that will resemble the broaches in Norwegian national clothes.

It's a famous Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe, published in 1841–1844. The story is about a widow fox who receives suitors. A bear, a wolf, a hare. After her husband died of overeating in a henhouse, she rejects them all before finally accepting a new, red fox.

Moral: The fairy tale often illustrates that "like children play best" and that arrogance is the downfall.

The biggest billy goat gruff

Okay so the billy goat gruff is gonna be a half-orc with goatskin…that seems really gross but hang on. We were thinking he was in the class fighter. As for his weapons we had a few ideas; a club would be cool or maybe a hammer, we also wanted to make him a bitt norwegian so we thought that an axe but with a slit close to the scarp end to make it look like the norwegian cheese slicer (ostehøvel). Since he had goatskin(again gross) he is gonna have horns so that could be his weapons.

His looks were something we discussed, but I think we want him to have a goat's head, and white fur with brown spots. He is gonna have a little hat, like winter hat with a pompom at the top, and a typical norwegian knitted sweater (mariusgenser). We gave him the name ‘Gaute’ in norwegian and ‘Goaty’ in english.

Are three goats from a famous Norwegian folktale collected by Asbjørnsen og Moe.

The story is about three goats—a small one, a medium one, and a large one—who want to go to the mountains to fatten themselves. On the way, they must cross a bridge, but under the bridge lives a troll who wants to eat them. The smallest goat tricks the troll into waiting for a bigger goat, and the medium goat does the same. When the largest goat comes, he is strong enough to knock the troll off the bridge. In the end, all three goats cross safely and enjoy a good meal. In short, the tale is about using cleverness and courage, showing how both wit and strength can overcome danger.

Ash Lad 

He will, as of now, be in the class of Bard and the race of Halfling. The halfling race has a specific trait of being lucky and if you know the Ash Lad folktales it fits him spectacularly. And as a bard he uses magic and music to fight his enemies or to boost morale in the team. Therefore we wanted to give him a lute shaped like a big wooden ladle, and he needs some other weapons so we talked about maybe giving him a sling and/or a dagger.

As for his looks he is gonna be like a young white boy with blond hair. He will have clothes that resembles the norwegian national outfit for men; so a white shirt and a red vest, some brown pants(maybe capri) and no shoes(because thats just vibes)

He is a well-known character in Norwegian folktales, collected by Asbjørnsen og Moe.

He is usually the youngest of three brothers and is seen at first as lazy, foolish, or useless. His name comes from the fact that he often sits by the fireplace, poking around in the ashes (“asken”). He is actually clever, creative, and kind. He dares to try things the others are afraid to do. He uses simple means and wit to solve problems. In the end, Ash Lad almost always succeeds—he wins the princess or completes the task, while his older brothers fail. Ash Lad is the hero who shows that it pays to be smart, brave, and a little different.

We choose to create a Dungeons & Dragons campaign using the 5th edition, because it’s the most commonly used version.This blog will give an ongoing look into our process, as well as explanations of the campaign and Dungeons & Dragons itself.

What’s the first step?

The first thing you do is think about what kind of universe you want your Dungeons & Dragons world to take place in. But how do you actually build a universe in Dungeons & Dragons?

You start with a theme, and we decided to base ours on Norwegian folktales, using The Seventh Father of the House as the main story, with elements from other well-known tales. Among our characters are Ash Lad, the Princess (because of course we need one), King Valemon, and one of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.

By setting the campaign inside the house from The Seventh Father of the House, we create boundaries and limitations for the environment. This makes the game easier for beginners to play, and potentially more challenging (in a fun way) for experienced players.

Imagine placing the players in a forest — they can go anywhere they want. They’re told to follow the path, but they don’t actually have to. If they choose to wander off, the Dungeon Master has to adjust the plan. But if the players are trapped in a room, as they are in our campaign, they can’t “leave the path” of the story. This makes things easier for both players and the DM, while also adding restrictions that challenge experienced players.

When you’re new to the game, it’s helpful to have clear boundaries so you know what you can and can’t do. But if you’re used to playing, those same boundaries can feel limiting because you’re used to having many more options. And that’s exactly the situation we’re in — we all have different levels of experience. Some are seasoned players, some have been Dungeon Masters, and others have little to no experience at all.

Character Creation

We’ve been playing around with which characters and names we want to include. We decided to create pre-made characters consisting of:

A Fighter: one of the Three Billy Goats Gruff

A Druid: King Valemon

A Rogue: The Princess

A Bard: Ash Lad

So, if you’re a total noob — are you still with us?

In any game, you need players/characters. In a typical Dungeons & Dragons game, players often create their own characters. Characters have different classes and races, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. It’s ideal to have a variety of classes to balance the group, but it’s not required.

For this campaign, we’ve chosen to create pre-made characters to make the game a bit easier for beginners.