Back around the birth of 3e – maybe before, I’m just not sure – there was a Dungeon adventure that featured a whale with druid levels. Does anyone remember what issue that was in?
I remember thinking at the time what a great concept that was, and as I’m looking for sea-related adventures right now, I’d love to pull that one out. Any help is greatly appreciated.
the dungeon you are looking for is an epic scale adventure about a druid who gets trapped into the form of a humpback whale by three assassins. the module is written for 21st level and above. i don't really know the number of it, but i used the npc assassins for another adventure. i did read the adventure you are speaking of, and it isn't that great IMO. the idea seems a little farfetched, and the execution of it seems a little of plot hammering, but the main villains are pretty cool. i wouldn't suggest it for any party that is lower than 18th level, because these guys don't mess around and could kill a weaker party. anyway, hope this helps.
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of "The Razing of Redshore." It features a cachelot whale who was once the companion of an aquatic druid, was awakened by her, and now is a druid himself. It was designed for 20th level characters as a means of introducing the Epic rules into a game (it was published at about the same time as the 3.0 Epic Level Handbook was released). The whale druid was guarding a mystical pool in the ocean that had allowed his former druid mistress to breach the 20th level threshold, but it's been discovered by a cabal of assassins who, somehow, have managed to access the pool and all become 21st level. That's about as close to a general plot summary as I can remember; I have the issue, and can look up the specific number for you if you're interested.
It's issue 92. For clarity, that's the May/June '02 issue; Sept/Oct '02 was also labeled 92 on the spine, but is actually 94.
Fantastic – thank you all for the quick responses! I appreciate the plot summary as well. It may not be exactly what I’m looking for as an adventure, but I’ll definitely give it another read. Now I just have to find that issue amongst my archived boxes in the attic... so, anyone have a spare locate object scroll?
Uhhh... I used my locate object scrolls finding my keys this morning...
The Shadar Pool mentioned in that issue was pretty spiffy too...
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Yeah, some hack named James Jacobs wrote that Redshore thing...
Actually, I think that issue #92 was awesome through and through. I loved Redshore (you WILL respect the druid!), I thought 'The Swarm' was a really fun low-level adventure, and I was working a group toward the Githyanki themed 'Interloper's' adventure before it imploded (the group, that is).
There's another adventure that featured a druid/whale combo - The Quadripartite Rod or some such title. It had 4 different tests the PCs had to do - an efreet in a burning tower, a lich I think, another I can't remember - and then the final test had something to do with a druid that lived within a whale and you had to convince her to give you the whale's heart or something. To stop a rampaging chaos beast.