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Love Bites: Holiday One Shot

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Love Bites

Love Bugs are terrorizing the city of Port Nyanzaru! (You don't need the Tomb of Annihilation hardcover to run this adventure. A map of the city would be helpful, but isn't needed.) Can your players put an end to the infestation and help a kenku find love? Love Bites has something for everyone—a tale of unrequited love, a dinosaur chase, intrigue, and a fiendish plot!

This adventure is designed to work well inserted into a low level Tomb of Annihilation campaign, or as an introductory adventure to D&D as a whole. Additional guidance is included for running the adventure for a single player, so if you've ever thought about introducing a loved one to D&D, Love Bites is the perfect choice for a d8 night!

The adventure contains a few new magic items, several unique NPCs, and a few special monsters. Also included is a link to a thematically appropriate music playlist!

A few adjustments were made to better reflect the relationship between Buzz-Buzz and Aello, and I included the uncompressed art as standalone files for showing your players without having to give anything away in the adventure.

You can follow me on Twitter and Reddit as @derixyleth.

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Nena G February 12, 2020 1:03 pm UTC
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Hey, I'll be dm'ing this for upcoming valentines day. I cannot seem to find the YouTube Playlist however? Where can I find it?
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Ife E February 12, 2020 4:10 pm UTC
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There's a link to it in Appendix 3 on page 21. I'm on mobile ATM or I'd just post the link here, but I can grab a proper link for you tonight if you can't find it.
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Nena G February 13, 2020 12:00 pm UTC
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Thank you for your quick response! I printed the document so I didn't know there was a link. I've found the playlist now, thank you!
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Jessica H February 02, 2020 9:51 pm UTC
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On which page is the "adventure description" (mentioned on page 2) I am to read/reread to the players? I'm new at DMing and I want to be sure I only give them the info I should be giving them. I'm nervous about it. Thanks for the help!
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Ife E February 03, 2020 5:10 am UTC
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I think what I meant by that was the subheading from the title, the "An infestation of literal Love Bugs is plaguing the city of Port Nyanzaru! It's up to the
player characters to find the source of the infestation and put an end to the chaos."

But in the end it's up to you how much you want to inform them. If they know nothing of Port Nyanzaru, you may want to read them some things from Tomb of Annihilation, where all of Chult is described in detail.
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Jessica H January 31, 2020 12:47 am UTC
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Hello! Could this easily be scaled up for 8th-level characters?
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Ife E February 02, 2020 7:58 pm UTC
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Yup, it can. You'll want to check the Pump Up The Jam sidebars throughout for the suggestions for running at tier 2.
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Jessica H February 02, 2020 9:44 pm UTC
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I went ahead and bought this campaign, pretty sure I could scale it up myself. But, YES! There are tips in there for scaling it up to a tier-2 adventure.
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Jessica H February 02, 2020 10:07 pm UTC
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Thank you! This is going to be a lot of fun!!!
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Trinity H February 20, 2018 2:35 am UTC
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I ran this with a party of three level-4 characters. The part and I had a lot of fun with the whole module. The beginning fight took a literal hour in real time as they all tried to figure out ways they could hit the bugs because only ONE of them had spells, but kept rolling badly to hit. I eventually had to rule that the bug repellent they had bought when they entered the city could be used as the spell poison spray. I was very surprised with how strong the incubus was. I had read the module beforehand, but not the stats so when he swooped down to draining kiss one of the characters I drained them of all their health, and then some. In fact, between draining kiss and Meile's spells, they all died except Kenku who was blasted into the closet with Meile's lightning bolt and managed to survive with a single HP left. Wondering if I was supposed to level them down or what. Despite it taking 5 hours, we had a LOT of fun, and none of my players were upset with their deaths.
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Ife E February 20, 2018 7:32 am UTC
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Draining Kiss is a very powerful ability, and the target needs to either be willing to kiss him or be charmed by him for it to work. With a party of only three people, I would recommend not using the charm ability since it can swing the odds too out of the players' favor. That would then entirely remove Draining Kiss from the calculations. Also, if you had Sanguliauti and Meile in the fight at the same time, he wouldn't be able to use his charm since he can only have one person charmed at a time and he already had Meile charmed. It's also important to remember that creatures charmed by an incubus can attempt the saving throw again every time they take damage. Meile doesn't have a great chance to break it, but it happened one of the times I ran it. She then helped take out Sanguliauti with a lightning bolt.

Meanwhile, prior to that fight, I had a player willingly go into the other room with Sanguliauti to try to "convince" him to stop his wicked ways. Like kissing an ash tray...
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Kris S February 16, 2018 2:06 pm UTC
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Is it just me, or is the Average Party Level table incomplete? It has no values. It just says "less than ____" or "equivalent than ___". I understand the calculation. That's not part of it. It says "3 characters, APL less than ____ Very weak", for example. Less than what? I know 4 characters of level 2 is the base, but this table seems incomplete to me. It's a thoughtful addition, but doesn't work well if there's no APL numbers to reference in the table.
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Ife E February 19, 2018 3:42 am UTC
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Less than, equivalent to, or greater than the recommended APL of the adventure (which is, as you said, 4 2nd-level characters). It's too many words to squeeze into a table, so I did it how the AL modules do it. I'll try to figure out a way to make it more clear in future releases without taking up too much additional space.
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Michael H February 04, 2018 12:45 am UTC
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This was a great module. So many inside jokes and awkward situations. My party laoughed through the whole thing.
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