Spook your players with this one shot? 

Sounds like you mixed both folklore and newer D&D lore into a cohesive, atmospheric whole! 👍🦢

Getting my pumpkin spice late and wearing cardigans and refusing to acknowledge I'm melting in 90 degree heat.

My favorite bit of lore from the Kuo-toa is that their shared prayers can create gods. It is like Tulpa from Tibetan folklore in that Supernatural Episode.

Great folklore inclusion. Had no idea kuo-toa had a shadowfell connection

Can we now create a new concept, the Black Swanmay. What happens when a Swanmay is separated from her wings, becomes corrupted, and commits evil acts? Can she be reunited with her wings, or does her corruption prevent her from donning them again? What new levels of evil is she driven too as she realizes the loss her corruption has caused her?

So yeah, I mentioned this in a sub comment. Maybe you worked this out in the full written version of the adventure, but as presented here, Amara doesn’t have assurance she’ll ever be told where the feathers are. He dies, and the location goes with him. But she can’t marry him hoping he’ll give it up on his death bed. My solution adds a puzzle element. He left the map in a scroll case sealed with wax. He paid a spellcaster to mould earth over it in the form of a limestone block or something built into one of the granite garden fountains, intentionally set under a falling stream. This odd block would be noticeable by your most perceptive characters if they interact with the statuary garden described in the video. After some time (40 years feels appropriate) the rock will dissolve enough to reveal the scroll case inside. Anyway, Husband’s deal to Amara is he took a divine oath in the presence of a cleric that “In 40 years, whether I’m dead or alive, the location of what you seek will be revealed. Alternatively, if you give me an heir, I will give them the location on their 21st birthday.” The counter oath he demanded from her is that she never seeks his bodily harm, even after getting her property returned. Well, she gave him Pearl, as you mentioned, but she has never given up trying to beat his scheme. For his part, he left letters filed alongside his will for Amara telling about the dissolving stone, and for Pearl on her 21st birthday. There is also a letter that he keeps hidden in a secret compartment in his study addressed to Pearl that reveals her mother’s nature and the location of the wings. Finding the will is outside the scope of the adventure. But searching the study should turn up an “In the event of my death” letter explaining the will is on file with the attorney, and that a letter to Amara with the information she is owed is there, alongside a copy of a letter addressed to Pearl to be delivered on her 21st birthday. And that he hoped to give her the original himself, and is sad to miss that.” The original is in a well hidden secret compartment in his study, along with some other loot that parties love discovering. So that’s my brainstorming add. Thanks! I needed to get in that creative writing fix. Feeling the urge lately!

I think my biggest critique is that the 'jobs' are kind of bland and I can see a lot of parties not interacting with them at all. I think a better start to kick it off is have the PC's traveling by ship when they nearly crash trying to port thanks to there being no lighthouse. The players can attempt to save the ship or it can end up crashing and they manage to swim to shore. This leads them to trying to find out what's going on with the light house and can lead them to the governor's home (where he hires them to help find who killed the light house keeper) or they can investigate the lighthouse themselves.

blending swan maids and kuo-toa?! oh my dang it, sign me up... thank you for sharing your creativity. ☕🍪

What a fun setting and story! I really enjoyed the idea of the creepy lighthouse and the possible different sources of information. So many threads for the players to untangle! Thank you for sharing, next D&D group I run may just find themselves here. :)

The Queen returns

This is a cool adventure, i think i would add some kind of boss fight to cap off a one shot

This is really good! Well done!

Love it! I’m inspired to mine folklore for stories. Terrific channel.

5:28 funny little fish love them

This sounds really fun!!

Nice one!

awesome ideas ! keep it up !

my table is easily bummed-out, so i might switch it from totally horrible situation to just a bad case of finders keepers, but i have it downloaded, and i am excited to see the encounters. i'm assuming you write a great dungeon.

Pumpkin spice coffee is actually autumn eladrin blood. Spread the word

very nice. good for longer or shorter sessions, and lots of hooks for continuing adventures

Plan on running this soon.

I swear I have heard the story about the skin of a shapeshiter being stolen while bathing before. This will bother me for a long time. Help.

Binging Buffy seems like a good idea. But I will never consider getting into football. I had enough of that trauma while I was growing up.

Noooice!

Love it!!

Im curious to know how the party is supposed to make the connection between amara the swan maiden and the cloak of feathers in the Kuo Toas lair. That connection didnt seem abundantly clear while i was listening, so im not sure how they would discover this

So, it's all a setup to get your players into the Shadowfell? Even if they take the portal (which I wouldn't), once they're there, I don't see a lot of follow-up material to run. They don't even have a quest that leads them there. The Shadowfell is practically virgin territory, lore-wise, and isn't known to be friendly to tourists. Also, kuo-toa are native to the rivers and lakes of the Underdark, not the Shadowfell. Most natives of the Shadowfell are undead.

Ahhh job boards.