The Witches of Rosewood Hollow

A nice little adventure that takes around 6 hours to complete.

The descriptions are pretty good with scope to be fleshed out. Like most DM Guild adventures it suffers from those moments where if the players don't pass a check then the adventure doesn't continue for example finding the fort requires a pretty high perception roll. I amended this to a lower score and included an auditory component (rattling chains) that players could follow easier than the crapshoot required to enter the fort.

Another change: I had the children be asleep due to a sleeping potion concocted in the upstairs workshop. They cannot be roused through normal means until the next dawn. Otherwise, you've got to roleplay 10 kids with zero information and if your players are an inquisitive bunch you're going to have think very fast to come up with feasible answers. That's not happening so the kids were charmed in town, given a potion, carried to the fort. Easy. Then they wake up when the players exit after the fight....See more />
Another thing I would like to include would be random encounter tables. The first fight is beasty but there's nothing stopping the players taking a long rest right after the fight as the set pieces (as written) aren't triggered until certain points afterward. I'd like to see it like one of the hags ventures outside on the way to the town and sees the resting party. Otherwise it's a little too easy for 3 lvl 8 adventurers. I guess this depends on how lethal/dangerous you want to be to your party but the opportunity is there to really make them hurt.

The ending is super duper rushed and one of my players remarked it didn't feel like closure despite rescuing the kids. If the mayor and the witch run off the players are SOL and because they're players they want to track for 5 hours until they find something. I wrapped this up by having the ranger from the town capture the fleeing mayor, bring him back to town where he was summarily hanged due to some evidence the villagers found on his desk (a letter from Madrigal or whatever) and then the ranger is nowhere to be found.

Also, if you're running this as part of another campaign because you didn't prep anything be advised the items they find can be very very powerful. I basically removed nearly all of them but kept the gems and gold. Just an FYI.

Overall a very good adventure and with some more nitpicky playtesting could be one of the best.