Redfang Expanse
- Adversary
- Exploration
- Tier 2
Appears in: Urban Intrigue, Wilderness and Survival
Redfang Expanse
- HP
- Stress
- Difficulty
- 14
- Attack
Knife-Edge Ridges. Moving across the tilted fins is perilous. PCs can make an Agility Roll (12) to traverse quickly; on a failure, they mark 1 HP from cuts and slips.
Dust Devil Ambush. Spend a Fear to whip up blinding dust between the ridges. All targets within Close range must succeed on an Instinct Reaction Roll (14) or be Vulnerable until they clear a Stress and take 1d8+3 physical damage from flying grit and rock.
How to run Redfang Expanse
Redfang Expanse is a tier 2 exploration for Daggerheart. Drop it into any fitting scene; the statblock above is free to add to your compendium in the app, and the one-shot below gives you somewhere to run it.
Where it begins
- 1
Blood-red dust clings to boots and never washes out.
- 2
Wind funnels through the ridges, carrying distant war horns.
- 3
An old cairn map marks a ‘safe path’ that shifts every season.
The Blood-Red Trail
A treacherous journey through the Redfang Expanse, where the party must navigate knife-edge ridges, survive dust storms, and evade desert predators while following a shifting path through the parched wasteland.
The Shifting Path
The Redfang Expanse stretches before you like a vast, broken jawbone, its stone fangs reaching skyward in jagged rows. The heat shimmers off the parched earth, and the wind carries the distant sound of war horns - or perhaps just the howling of the desert itself. Blood-red dust clings to everything, and you notice the cairn markers that once marked a 'safe path' have shifted with the seasons, their stones now pointing in contradictory directions. The air is thick with the promise of danger, and you sense you're being watched from the shadows between the ridges.
The party has entered the Redfang Expanse, a treacherous desert where the very landscape is hostile. The shifting cairn markers create confusion and uncertainty, while the blood-red dust creates an oppressive atmosphere. The party must navigate the knife-edge ridges carefully, as a misstep could be fatal. Bandits and desert predators lurk in the shadows, waiting for the unwary. The party should feel the weight of the desert pressing down on them, as if the very air is thick with malevolent energy. The shifting path creates opportunities for exploration and discovery, but also for danger and ambush.
