Borough Bound

Pelgrut Hideaway 03 - Captive

Added 2024-07-23 15:10:36 +0000 UTC

Not much time left to escape now...

Hello all, and welcome back to Pelgrut Hideaway! This is our third of four releases for the modular bandit camp. This release includes a perfect map for jailbreaks, a bonus exterior map for tactical combat, one of our more thrilling battle tracks, and another collaboration with our good friend Fluffy. Let's dive in!

Borough Guide

This guide is all about Pelgrut Hideaway's prisoners. Whether your party gets captured and has to plan a daring escape or beloved NPCs end up locked away in the camp, this guide has everything you need. A lengthy plot hook describes how you might run a protracted escape sequence. In addition to the captive life, this guide introduces you to Pelgrut Hideaway's obedient boar population. These porcine pets will be a horrible nuisance to any fleeing party members!

Maps

The main map for our third release includes the cages where captives are kept, as well as wild woman Ayumi's smoky tent. If you GM a long prison sequence, your players might end up exceedingly familiar with this map. For each of our Pelgrut Hideaway maps, we have a bunch of variants. In addition to variant nighttime lighting and a massacre map, we have:

Moody Island - a barrier island off the coast of Yllmourne
Misty Fen - a miserable hike from Thestwick
Dungeon - deep below Zahuatil Ruins
Desert - inexplicably astride Kadhizi
Snowy Hillside - on a peak adjacent to Falthringor or south of Vyndurvoht
Ravine - in the badlands east of Meddenfirth
Tropical Coast - along the beach from Ancora Bay

Patrons at the Chief Courier tier also gain access to an additional exterior map for this release: the Pelgrut Logging Camp! Look, the main bandit camp requires a whole bunch of wood, and it's gotta come from somewhere. Use this map for tactical battles with Pack members, or reveal it to an exploring party as a hint of what's to come.

This map was created by Matt of Fantasy Atlas who usually tackles our interior maps. We don't sing Matt's praises enough. If you like his work, please consider supporting his personal Patreon!

Music

"The Boars" is tactical combat music. This is not wild and frenetic chaos music, but instead vicious and strategic music. Why? Because the Pack's boars act with coordination. This track was—of course—recorded specifically for Pelgrut Hideaway, but we suspect you'll find plenty of uses for it in other combat scenarios as well. For more sneaky/sleuthy/recon vibes, throw on the "Stealth" variant.

Sounder of Boars | Collaboration with The Fluffy Folio

We yet again teamed up with our good friend Fluffy of the The Fluffy Folio to bring you unique 5e statblocks and stunning art for this release. Fluffy's Sounder of Boars is the perfect way to introduce animals into a mid-level campaign without them being total pushovers. It was quite fun to work with Fluffy to design these creatures. Plus, he threw in a little bonus "boarlet," just ripe to complicate an already chaotic battle.

The Fluffy Folio is your source for strange and wonderful 5e monsters, cute and creepy art, and zany magical potions. Please go follow Fluffy on Patreon!