MD 233 Fen of Frogore: Ooze, Booze and Canoes w/ Alex Kammer (Gamehole Con, Frog God Games, The End of Everything)

MD 233 Fen of Frogore: Ooze, Booze and Canoes w/ Alex Kammer

The Fen: This subterranean lake is a mix of groundwater, accumulated peat, nuclear waste and slimy frog skin. The smell of rot and decay is made worse by the strange mutated flora and fauna that inhabits this swamp. Nuclear barrels float next to hundreds of bowling-ball-sized disembodied Frogore eyes that watch you and blink. Other debris clutters the lake including a bookcase, red drapes, and a chest of drawers with fanciful carvings showing bucolic agrarian scenes of crops at different levels of maturity. Inside are moldy clothing, overalls, breakfast cereal and a banjo. Supplicants live in huts on long legs that stick out of the water. They’re connected by a network of docks with a canoe for every hut. You can use canoes to reach the idols.

Supplicants: These banjo-loving, mutated frog-folk have been blessed by Frogore. They aren’t interested in helping you out. They simply want to keep this area radioactive and toxic. They’re quite radioactive and use Geiger counters to make sure everyone and everything is radioactive enough for their liking. As caretakers of the idols, they arrange offerings of booze and cans of toxic sludge to venerate this god-like creature. They hang smaller versions of the idol on their doors and wear as pendants around their neck to identify each other as initiates.

Five Idols: These 10-foot stone images of a friendly frog in overalls with a wheat straw in its mouth undercut the folk-horror of the situation. Each idol has drifted to the center of the lake, facing in different directions. You can summon Frogore by either turning them to face the center of the lake, or arrange them in the shape of Frogore.

Frogore: This froghemoth elder god is wearing overalls and its skin is sloughing off from all the nuclear fallout. It has hundreds of eyes that fall off of its body, and grow back just as fast. Frogore loves getting offerings of bags of booze and cans of radioactive materials that it’ll pop open like beers. In return, Frogore will bless you with its ooze, giving you a mutation. A loot pile of discarded offerings rests at the bottom of the lake.

Mutation chart (Roll 1d6): 

1- Gain a prehensile sticky tongue, but you always have flies buzzing around you.  

2- Grow five bulging eyes with slit pupils, but gain perfect underwater vision even in murky water. 

3- Leap 4x as high, but now your resting position is squatting. 

4- Can make a slick, caustic slime coat your body, but you always stink like a marsh. 

5- You gain a swim speed with webbed hands & feet, but you can’t wear gloves or shoes without pain. 

6- Amphibious, but you must wet your skin once an hour or take one damage as you dry up.

Art: Tiger Wizard  Words: Steve Albertson

Story by: Andrew Bellury, Steve Albertson, Alex Kammer

Appendix N: The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Call of Cthulhu (weird mysteries and deep ones), Dig ‘Em Frog (mascot for Honey Smacks), The Three Investigators (Alfred Hitchcock), M. Night Shyamalan films, Kermit the Frog with a banjo, Deliverance, TNMT, Captain Planet.

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Also, Tiger Wizard speaks with Tony Vasinda of PlusOneExp where they discuss RPG Zine Club, a monthly membership subscription service featuring fresh zines from emerging and expanding creators across the globe.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Check out all the amazing dwarves from our Best Dwarf Drawing Contest with judges David Hoskins, Erol Otus, and our own Tiger Wizard. Congrats to winner Lukasz Piwinski and thanks to all the artists who participated! Keep your eyes open for another contest next year!

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Dungeon Cats is a rules-light, casual TTRPG by our own Tiger Wizard. The pre-launch page is now live on the Epic Level’s Kickstarter! Click the “notify me on launch” button to make sure you don’t miss out!

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Two new poster adventure maps are now available for purchase at Exalted Funeral.

The Worm that Glows based off of season one, episode 11 with Jenna Marie of Chaotic Click Clacks with amazing artwork from Oh! Oozi.

Oh! Oozi is also the artist and co-creator with Steve for their Image comic book Ghost Spy. 

Headkicker! The Musical based off of season one, episode 19 with Brian Shutter of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wastes with front side artwork from Mustafa Bekir.

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