The Garden of Phaeve by Jospeh Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available as a 21 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraphs explain how local villagers have warned their children for years to stay away from some caves, where there is reputedly a beautiful woman living in a garden, as well as riches and an artefact.
For the Dungeon Master explains that the adventure is intended for six 4th level characters and the primary villain is a medusa. The caves are filled with lifelike statues, and the characters may notice they are too lifelike. The medusa, Phaeve, also possesses a necklace that makes her more dangerous as well as having blinded servants.
Random Encounters Within the Caves has a d8 table of encounters.
Key to the Garden of Phaeve details the caves, a small complex with a limited number of creatures as well as traps and treasure.
New Magical Item details Phaeve’s necklace, a powerful one but with drawbacks.
Monster Stat Blocks for this Adventure has the various stats.
Servants of Phaeve has stats and details on the medusa’s NPC servants.
The final page of content has a map of the caves.
The Garden of Phaeve in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. Bar the map and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a relatively short and simple adventure. The caves are not large and the characters just need to enter them and deal with the medusa and any of her servants or monsters. The problem is that medusas can easily be dangerous, thanks to their ability to turn things to stone, and her artefact ups her danger. The Garden of Phaeve can be found by clicking here.
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