The Isle of Madmen (Inactive)

Game Master DEWN MOU'TAIN

(light load 230 lbs, medium load 460 lbs, heavy load 690 lbs)

riding saddle (3 gc) (25 lbs)
bit and bridle (0.1 gc) (1 lb)
saddle bags (0.4 gc) (8 lbs)

left-side saddlebag (20 lbs capacity)

small tent (1 gc) (20 lbs)

right-side saddlebag (20 lbs capacity)

bedroll (0.01 gc) (5 lbs)
winter blanket (0.05 gc) (3 lbs)
hooded lantern (0.7 gc) (2 lbs)
ten 1-pint flasks of oil (0.1 gc) (10 lbs)

cart (1.5 gc)

Stored in cart (encumbrance in cart divided by 5 to determine encumbrance for Prancer)

(10 days) feed (0.05 gc) (100 lbs)
(4 yards by 4 yards) canvas (0.16 gc) (16 lb)

Prancer's encumbrance pulling cart without Kayden riding him: 98 lbs (unencumbered)

With Kayden riding him, Prancer's encumbrance bracket moves up to medium encumbrance bracket.

masterwork backpack (5 gc) (4 lbs)
(full) waterskin (0.1 gc) (4 lbs)
50-foot silk rope (1 gc) (5 lbs)
dice (0.01 gc) (-)
common playing cards (0.01 gc) (1 lb)
grappling hook (0.1 gc) (4 lbs)
flint and tinder (0.1 gc) (-)
(10 days) trail rations (0.5 gc) (10 lbs)
cold weather outfit (0.8 gc) (7 lbs)
warm weather outfit (0.8 gc) (4 lbs)
traveler's outfit (0.1 gc) (5 lbs)
soap (0.001 gc) (0.5 lbs)
hammock (0.01 gc) (3 lbs)
tankard (0.002 gc) (1 lb)
healer's kit (free from background) (1 lb)

Total encumbrance of backpack and contents: 49.5 lbs

explorer's outfit (free) (-)
belt pouch (0.1 gc) (0.5 lb)
(ter'angreal) masterpiece cold iron gauntlet* (60.4 gc) (1 lb)
(ter'angreal) masterwork silver dagger** with sheath (32.2 gc) (1 lb)

Total encumbrance without backpack (not including weight of coins in belt pouch): 2.5 lbs

Total encumbrance with backpack: 53 lbs (light encumbrance load) (can have up to 250 coins in belt pouch and remain in the light encumbrance load bracket)

In belt pouch:

41 gold crowns
6 silver marks
9 silver pennies
7 copper pennies

* Kayden's masterpiece cold iron gauntlet (he found at the ancient wolf burial ground in the Borderlands that the wolves, Muddy Paws and Splasher, guided him to) has the following magical properties:

Cold Iron weapon enchantment surcharge: 2,000 gold
(+1 enhancement, heartseeker weapon property, trollocbane weapon property): 18,000 gold
impervious weapon property: 3,000 gold
+4 competence bonus on Acrobatics checks: 1,600 gold + 50% increase (Multiple Different Abilities on page 549 of CRB): 2,400 gold

Total magical cost of Kayden's masterpiece cold iron gauntlet: 25,400 gold

** Kayden's masterwork silver dagger has the following magical properties:

(+1 enhancement, returning weapon property): 8,000 gold
impervious weapon property: 3,000 gold
Total magical cost of Kayden's masterwork silver dagger: 11,000 gold.

Total cost of Kayden's ter'angreal (excluding cost of the non-magical items): 36,400 gold.

If the secret roll you make for the 3d6 is no more than 9 (for total of 15) he does not have any madness triggers, and over the past decade will have discovered he is no longer susceptible to madness from being a wolfbrother.

If the secret roll you make is 10 or higher, the only madness trigger he will have is injury.

If you rolled exactly 10 for the 3d6 the only madness symptoms he would have experienced in the past decade is the wolf aspect madness symptom (for 2d6 minutes) (95% of the time he failed the Will save to resist wolfbrother madness affecting him) and aversion madness symptom (5% of the time he failed the Will save to resist wolfbrother madness.

If you rolled 11 or higher for the 3d6, sometimes when he fails the Will (madness) save, in addtion to the above two madness symptoms he might have experienced the paranoia symptom (for 2d6 minutes).

Madness 9 to 15: nothing triggers a wolfbrother madness symptom

Madness 16: DC 16 Will save (50% he failed the save; 50% wolf aspect, 50% aversion)

Madness 17: DC 17 Will save (55% he failed, 45% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 5% paranoia)

Madness 18: DC 18 Will save (60% he failed, 40% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 10% paranoia)

Madness 19: DC 19 Will save (65% he failed, 35% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 15% paranoia)

Madness 20: DC 20 Will save (70% he failed, 30% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 20% paranoia)

Madness 21: DC 21 Will save (75% he failed, 25% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 25% paranoia)

Madness 22: DC 22 Will save (80% he failed, 20% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 30% paranoia)

Madness 23: DC 23 Will save (85% he failed, 15% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 35% paranoia)

Madness 24: DC 24 Will save (90% he failed, 10% wolf aspect, 50% aversion, 40% paranoia)

I worked with Kayden and the three refugees-turned adventurers (Liam ad the sisters Aoife and Orla) having just reached 5th level when they and Kayden's uncle Cormac started adventuring in the wilds of the borderlands, and that they had one encounter (of challenging difficulty) each day. This resulted in them leveling up to 6th level after the fight with the trollocs on the 7th day; leveling up to 7th level after the fight with the trollocs on the 12th day; leveling up to 8th level after the fight with the trollocs on the 16th day; and leveling up to 9th level after the huge fight with the trollocs, with the help of the wolves, on the 17th day to reclaim the wolves' ancestral burial ground (and gained what will become each of their masterpiece weapon or armor: gauntlet (Kayden), breastplate (Liam), handaxe (Cormac), daggers (Aoife and Orla). I also worked with Kayden's uncle Cormac being at the start of 10th level the day the trollocs killed Kayden's parents, brother and family dogs. Kayden, Liam, Aiofe and Orla reached 5th level by the time they reached the wilds of the borderlands. Cormac reached 11th level by the time they entered the wilds of the borderlands.

To come up with Kayden's history of madness, I used Geoff Hall's Madness version, as he is the author of the wolfbrother feats from UtDB being used for the campaign.

I worked with Kayden getting average rolls for the +1d6 gained madness from wolfbrother feats and gaining madness symptoms that would match up with the possible ranges for the secret GM-rolled +1d6 madness rolls. This approach will have the same possible madness symptoms regardless of what the secret 1d6 Madness gained rolls for his wolfbrother feats.

At 5th level, Kayden has a +3 Will bonus and a +7 Handle Animal bonus

Adventuring in the wilds of the Borderlands

Day 1

Kayden begins the day with a Madness Rating (MR) of 3.

He sees a wolf about a hundred yards away. "Beware the trollocs that roam these parts," Kayden hears someone whisper to him. He turns his head and sees none of his companions are close enough to him to have been the whisperer. +1 Madness (MR 4)

The group encounters a few trollocs and kills them. Kayden enters wolf rage for the first time during the fight. +1 Madness (MR 5)

He spots the (same?) wolf off in the distance after the fight with the trollocs. "You fought well, pup." someone whispers to Kayden.
"As did all of us," Kayden speaks, "and I'm not a pup!"
Cormac, confused, speaks "None of us called you a pup, Kayden.
"Must have been one of the trollocs then."

+1 madness (MR 6)

As the group is making camp for the night, Kayden spots two wolves in the distance. "He's pretty quick for a pup," Kayden hears whispered to him and turns his head to see that once again none of his companions are close enough to have whispered the words to him.
"They are not the ones speaking to you right now, pup. We are."
Kayden, thinking it couldn't possibly be the wolves he is hearing, turns back to look at them and thinks, "I think I am losing it."
"No, you are discovering your true self, pup."
What sounds like a different voice whispering, "Muddy Paws, stay close to this one."
"I will, Splasher."
Unseen wolves howl in the distance. Splasher sprints away while Muddy Paws remains watching Kayden and the camp.

+1 madness (MR 7)

Day 2

In the morning, while Kayden is grooming his horse, he notices a wolf (Muddy Paws) about a hundred yards away with a dead rabbit in its jaws, "This is for you, pup." The wolf releases the rabbit and moves further away from the camp.

+1 madness (MR 8)

Kayden goes over and picks up the rabbit to bring it back to camp. As he starts to walk back towards the camp he spots the wolf by a nearby tree blocking the view of the wolf to others at the camp. He notices the top of the wolf's front paws have small patches of mud on them. Thinking it mad, he thinks, "Thank you, Muddy Paws."
"You are welcome,"The wolf sniffs the air between it and Kayden, "Dusty Horse."

Cormac finds a trail of a few trollocs and the group finds and kills them. Kayden entered wolf rage during the fight. +1 madness (MR 9)

While making camp, Kayden spots Muddy Paws off in the distance and converses with him telepathically. +1 madness (MR 10)

The following days follow the same pattern. Telepathically communicating with Muddy Paws at the start at the end of the day and encountering a small group of trollocs that the group slays, which Kayden entered wolf rage during the fight.

Day 3

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 11)
Enters wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR !2)
Evening talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 13)
Gained Heightened Senses from gaining 10 madness from entering wolf rage and telepathic communication with Muddy Paws (and Splasher). +1d6 (4) madness. (MR 17)

Day 4

Madness Triggers: Injury

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 18)
Enters wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 19)
Got injured during fight with trollocs and failed his Will save. Madness symptom he manifested was aversion for 2d6 (7) hours. While the group makes camp for the evening, Kayden walks away, the others thinking he is just doing his typical evening bladder draining, until Kayden is gone for longer than is expected. Three of them stay at the camp while Cormac looks for his nephew's trail.

Cormac tracks him and finds him calmly standing beside a tree, scratching the left ear of a wolf with mud on its paws. The wolf looks up at Cormac before sprinting away. +1 madness for conversing with Muddy Paws (MR 20)

"Kayden, are you alright? It's not a good idea to wander by yourself at night around here."

"I'm okay, Uncle Cormac. Let's head back to camp."

Day 5

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 21)
Enters wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 22)
Got injured during fight with trollocs and failed his Will Save. Madness symptom he manifested was aversion. Kayden takes longer than usual again for his evening bladder draining. Cormac tracks him and once again finds him with the same wolf, scratching one of the wolf's ears.

+1 madness for evening talk with Muddy Paws (MR 23)

Day 6

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 24)
Enters wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 25)
Got injured during fight with trollocs and failed his WIll save. Madness symptom he manifested was aversion. Kayden takes longer than he should for his evening bladder draining. When Cormac finds Kayden he is sitting against a tree, with the wolf on its side beside him, as Kayden is scratching the wolf's stomach.

+1 madness for evening talk with Muddy Paws (MR 26)

Day 7

morning talk with Muddy Paws, +1 madness (MR 27)
Gained Wolfdream as bonus feat from gaining an additional 10 madness from entering wolf rage and telepathic communication with Muddy Paws. +1d6 (3) madness (MR 30)
enters wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 31)
Got injured during the fight with trollocs and failed his Will save. The madness symptom he manifested was paranoia for 2d6 (7) minutes.

After the fight is over, while the healer of the group goes to tends Kayden's wounds, Kayden pushes the healer away from him, "Stay away from me!".
Cormac, a worried look on his face, speaks in a calming tone, "Kayden, you got hurt during the fight and we want to take care of your wounds."
Kayden, unaware he is starting to get in a fighting stance retorts back, "Tend to your own wounds first."
Cormac approaches Kayden, reaching out a hand to gently touch his shoulder, "No one here wants you hurt. You're bleeding, let us bandage you up."
Kayden runs past his uncle and away from camp. Cormac and Liam chase after Kayden.
"Kayden, stop running!"
After about a minute of chasing Kayden, the two of them catch up to Kayden and pin him down.
Kayden, thrashes about, trying to punch and kick at the two of them to get away, akin to a cornered animal that is trapped and unable to escape a predator, sweat starting to form on his face and dampening his hair.
"Kayden, it's me, your uncle Cormac. I think the weapon you were stabbed with might have been poisoned. Stay still so I can check the wound."
Kayden continues to thrash, ignoring his uncle's words.
After about five minutes, Kayden regains control of himself, "Okay, okay, I'm fine. Kindly let go of me so I can walk back to camp with you without your hands on me."

Kayden and the refugees-turned adventurers level up to 6th level.

Kayden takes the typical amount of time for his evening bladder emptying before returning to camp.

Evening talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 32)

While he sleeps that night he enters the wolfdream and converses with Muddy Paws and Splasher.

Day 8

Madness Triggers: injury, Will saves

Kayden's Will save bonus is +3 and his Handle Animal bonus is +8.

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 33)
Enter wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 34)
Entering rage triggers madness check: symptom that manifests was paranoia for 2d6 (7) minutes.
Kayden, feeling like the trollocs and his allies mean him harm, does a fighting withdrawal and then runs away from the threats of the trollocs and humans.

Cormac and the rest of the group, hard-pressed with one of their number taking off, faced with a more dangerous situation. As one of the refugees-turned adventurers was about to receive a trolloc's axe to his skull, Muddy Paws joins the fight to even the odds. After the fight, Muddy Paws sprints off to catch up to Kayden.

"You should not leave your allies more vulnerable to trollocs, Dusty Horse."
Kayden, hit with sudden guilt at the realization his taking off might have resulted in his group being outnumbered by the trollocs, "What is wrong me? They might be dead because I ran away."
Muddy Paws, rubs his blood-soaked snout against Kayden's leg, "The trollocs are dead. This is the blood of two of them."
"Thank you for helping my friends, Muddy Paws." Kayden puts his shaking right hand on top of Muddy Paws' head, letting the presence of his furred friend calm him now.

Muddy Paws walks beside Kayden as he walks back to the others.

"What was that, Kayden!?!?" Liam yells at Kayden returns, "Had it not been for some wolf. That wolf!" Liam points at the wolf with trolloc blood dripping from its snout, "I would be dead with an axe in my head!"

Hanging his head in shame, Kayden mutters, "I'm sorry."

"Look at me!"

Kayden looks up at his friend, notices the blood running down from the left side of his head. "Liam, I am sorry. I don't understand what's going on!"

Cormac asks, "Kayden, have you been communicating with that wolf with your thoughts?"

"How did you know that?"

"What are you talking about, Cormac?" Orla asks.

"Why did you ask Kayden if that wolf can hear his thoughts?" Aiofe asks.

"It seems my nephew is a wolfbrother. Wolfbrothers, like wolves, are allies in the fight against shadowspawn."

"Some ally, I nearly got my skull cleaved in two!" Liam shouts, "How can we trust him to not take off like that again when we need him to be focused on killing trollocs with us?"

"We already have the answer. The wolf made up for the absence of Kayden during the fight," Cormac continued, "From what I recall, Kayden's best chances at not losing control like that again is remaining in the borderlands with the wolf helping us fight trollocs until he regains proper control of his mind again or," Cormac's voice falters as he thinks about the other outcomes, "or his mind becomes completely like a wolf's, if trollocs don't end him before one of those two outcomes happens."

"I can not ask that of any of you. The three of you should head back to Two Rivers." Kayden tells his fellow midlanders.

"Hoshposh! We are not going to abandon you so you die here, Kayden." Orla speaks.

"Olra speaks true. Isn't that right, Liam?" Aiofe looks at Liam.

Liam, still peeved, "That trolloc nearly killed me!"

"Do you think Kayden would leave you here to die if things were the other way around, Liam?" Aoife asks.

Touching his blood-soaked patch of hair, Liam nods his consent, "Can someone check my head bandage, I think I need some more..." he does not finish as he slumps unconscious to the ground.

evening talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 35)

While in the wolfdream that night, Splasher tells him about a wolfbrother who lived many generations ago, named Claw Forger, who after he died, wolves dragged his body to a wolf burial mound. The mound has been overgrown for years, but the metal claw he forged is still waiting for a wolfbrother worthy of the metal claw to recover it, and that she thinks Dusty Horse (Kayden) might be the wolfbrother they have been waiting for to claim Claw Forger's metal paw.

Day 9

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 36)

Entering wolf rage during fight with trollocs triggered madness check: madness symptom manifested was claustrophobia for 2d6 (7) minutes, not impacting his focus on killing the trollocs with his companions. +1 madness for wolf rage (MR 37)

Evening talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (38)

While in the wolfdream that night, Muddy Paws tells him Splasher is telling other wolves about him, Dusty Horse.

Day 10

morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 39)

Entering wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 39); madness symptom he manifested was claustrophobia for 2d6(7) minutes, not impacting his focus on killing the trollocs with his companions.

Evening talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 40)

During the wolfdream that night, Muddy Paws is with him when Splasher is accompanied by five other wolves Kayden has not met before.

Day 11

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 41)

Madness triggers now include communicating with wolves.

Enter wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 42), madness symptom that manifested was claustrophobia for 2d6 (7) minutes, not impacting his focus on killing the trollocs with his companions.

Evening talk with Muddy Paws; + madness (MR 43), madness symptom that manifests was claustrophobia for 2d6 (7) minutes, having no effect on him as the group is in the wilds of the borderlands.

During the wolfdream that night, Muddy Paws is with him when Splasher is accompanied by five other wolves, none of which were the one of the five he met the night before.

Day 12

Morning talk with Muddy Paws; +1 madness (MR 44), madness symptom that manifested was claustrophobia for 2d6 (7) minintues, making him wander a little ways from camp.

Enter wolf rage during fight with trollocs; +1 madness (MR 45); madness symptom that manifested was claustrophobia for 2d6 (7) minutes, not impacting his focus on killing the trollocs with his companions.

Kayden and his fellow midlanders leveled up to 7th level. Cormac leveled up to 12th level. Kayden gains the Acceptance of Fate feat; -10 madness (MR35). Kayden no longer gains madness by communicating with wolves or entering wolf rage. Communicating with wolves is no longer a madness trigger.

That night during the wolfdream, Muddy Paws is with him when Splasher is accompanied by five other wolves, none of which were the ones he met during the two previous wolfdream nights.

Day 13

Kayden's Will save bonus is +4 and his Handle Animal bonus is +9

During the fight with trollocs the madness symptom that would have manifested was paranoia, but Kayden unknowingly used The Dark One's Own Luck that caused him to gain a result of claustrophobia instead so his madness did not impact his focus on killing trollocs with his companions.

During the wolfdream that night, Muddy Paws, Splasher and the fifteen wolves he met during the previous three nights of wolfdreams were surrounded by an overgrown mound by a small pond that Splasher was wading at the edge of and making small splashes in the water.

"You are a few days from the mound, Dusty Horse. Come with your friends to help you dig."

Day 14

Kayden tells his companions about his dreams. They decide to look for the mound.

Kayden inadvertently uses The Dark One's Own Luck to manifest the claustrophobia symptom during the fight with the trollocs for the next three days.

The wolf dream that night and the following night are the same as the one by the pond, with Splasher telling him he and his friends are closer to the mound than they were the day before.

Day 16

After the fight with the trollocs, Kayden and the other midlanders level up to 8th level.

The wolf dream that night Muddy Paws and Splasher and the other fifteen wolves from the previous dreams are there. Splasher tells Kayden that several trollocs are by the mound and she and some of the other wolves will be ready to help him and his friends defeat the trollocs at the mound.

Unbeknownst to Kayden, he used The Dark One's Own Luck to gain a higher number of wolves to come to his aid (storywise, the wolves were waiting for a wolfbrother who had human allies that were adept of slaying trollocs to help the wolves reclaim their ancestral burial mound).

Day 17

During the night all the wolves he met in his wolf dreams except for three made it to the camp.

Kayden's Will save bonus is +4 and his Handle Animal modifier is +10.

When Kayden awoke Muddy Paws, Splasher and a dozen of the fifteen wolves he met during his wolfdreams were gathered near the camp.

"Dusty Horse, tell your friends we go to the mound when they are ready."

Kayden and his human and wolf allies reached the mound and defeated the trollocs there. Kayden nor any of his human allies, including his uncle met their deaths that day, but seven of the wolves died in reclaiming the mound for the wolves.

After spending a few hours digging, they located the decayed skeleton of Claw Forger. Kayden claimed the left-handed masterpiece gauntlet. Liam claimed the masterpiece breastplate armor. Cormac claimed the masterpiece handaxe. Aoife and Orla each claimed one of the masterpiece daggers.

Kayden and his fellow midlanders leveled up to 9th level and Cormac leveled up to 13th level. Kayden gained the Mental Stability feat; -20 madness (MR 15).

The five humans traveled to Two Rivers after the fight at the wolves ancestral burial mound. Splasher told Muddy Paws to continue to travel with Kayden, who's new wolf name is Metal Paw.

I left Liam's, Aoife's and Orla's classes open, in case you and other players would like to make use of them once they arrive back at Two Rivers.