In honor of GM's Day, and in celebration of the release of Curse of Strahd from Wizards of the Coast we put together an encounter based on the map I posted earlier in the week.
The Boatman's Dog is a low level encounter for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons inspired by Ravenloft but can be set in the Frogotten Realms or your homebrew campgain.
Designing the encounter, we wanted something that was a little dark but could be scaled to fit the tone of your campaign. We came up with Angus Thickheel, a charismatic chef and proprietor of the encounter's namesake, The Boatman's Dog inn. He can be played as a greedy, sinister character, or more lighthearted, inadverntently disturbing, bumbling type of character.
If your players get to visit "The Dog" they will meet the colorful locals, and have a chance to find out if the rumors are true: that guests of the inn go missing, and end up in the stew.