Wet Grandpa

By Evey Lockhart

Wet Grandpa don't care to say much, but his brain is always running. (It was that way before, too). Mostly now it plays back his wife's freshly dead eyes and his own terrible drowning. Sadness and fear haunt his living corpse. In his dreams he reaches out and the water listens. In dreams (and unexamined thoughts) he needs others to be like him. And so the river thrashes landward.



Wet Grandpa is system neutral/D20 agnostic adventure for however many players you can gather together. In it they will seek dubious treasure, find a village on its last legs, and possibly avert a quite unnatural disaster.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melsonian Arts Council
• Release date: Apr 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781914319150

Book preview

A man with crooked teeth hangs about the alewife’s garden. He sells copies of a treasure map obtained from an estate sale. They’re crudely printed by hand, from a wooden block onto scraps of canvas.

With breath like onions and soured beer, he says no one as yet has claimed the treasure.

Or at least ain’t nobody made it back alive, the fellow often chortles without mirth.

"Most folks reckon that symbol means FATFISH VILLAGE, ‘bout two weeks upstream, along the river WHEY."

Jedlin Tolling was a quiet man, always working, never in a hurry. He busied himself each day, dawn to dusk, with nary a break at all. Buildings needed mending. Fish traps needed pulled, set, and baited. Gardens needed tending. Children needed minding.

Though infertile, Brigit & Jedlin Tolling boasted one dozen fine children. They lived on an island, in a river, at the very edge of a vast and unmanageable wilderness… the sort of land that called to scofflaws, second sons, and the starving desperate of all stripes.

This sort of land bred orphans, and word spread of a kindly older couple forever willing to adopt. Grandpa & Grandma Tolling always found room for one more to sleep and had no worries for another mouth to