Cape Weir’s terminal isle has taken many names over the ages: Seaspear, Demon’s Fork, Daggercrown. 

On Company seacharts it’s marked as Keelsnare Beacon. 

A looming clutch of bladelike spires, the Bay Folk simply say “Arrowheads”.

Atop the it stands a lighthouse that has gone dark.

Perhaps the lightkeepers are keeping secrets instead.

A
Vertiginous
Islandcrawl
Psychodrama
Betwixt Stormy Seas
& An Otherworldly Tide

Hook, Line, & Sinker is an adventure heavily inspired by The Lighthouse, Moby Dick, and Myst, with a side of Annihilation, anti-canon Lovecraft, and sea life stranger than fiction. Deeply steeped in turbulent maritime atmosphere, while eschewing (or twisting) many common nautical tropes to explore the fruitful void left in their wake. It explores themes of tides, hooks, lures, temptation, obsession, and catharsis.

The island is presented in a “point-crawl” format, the craggy environment and hostile weather enforcing dungeon-like navigation. Each site may change with the weather, as well as the rising tides - both from the sea below, but also a strange tide that descends from above. It contains many unique magic items, entirely unique creatures, and a Strange Profundal Lifeform Generator to create even more.

It assumes a fairly grounded and low-fantasy setting, but it should fit right in to less mundane settings as well. Weird "alien" aspects are revealed gradually, culminating in the opportunity for an upward dive into a vast & strange Spelljammer-esque frontier (not included, yet).

Vaguely statted for Old School Essentials, but very suitable for any Old & New School Thinky-Adventurey RPG such as Shadowdark, Cairn, Mork (or Pirate) Borg, Knave, Into the Odd, or Quick & Dicey.

HOLD FAST
Hook, Line, & Sinker is
currently in playtesting

If you would like to hear as soon as the initial release (and other milestones) are available, toss your email into the Foolish Endeavor mailing list.

This adventure will follow an incremental, early access release style, with a low initial price which will increase as it is refined and polished.

Images to the right are very early placeholders.

This adventure is a Foolish Endeavor by David Perry