Rise of the Pumpkin King

Something rotten is growing in Goldgrain… and it’s not the fertilizer.

The quiet pumpkin‑farming town has become a full‑blown produce‑based nightmare. In a deliciously ironic twist, the crops have decided it’s harvest time—and the farmers are on the menu. Pumpkins wobble through the fields on twisted vines, their carved maws glowing with murderous intent, dragging screaming victims into the woods for reasons no sane vegetable should have.

Is this the lingering curse of a witch burned at the pyre long ago?

Or has something even darker taken root beneath the soil?

Travelers on the road stumble upon the aftermath of a fresh attack—wagons overturned, goods scattered, and wounded survivors being hauled away by a gang of gourd‑shaped goons itching for a brawl. In Goldgrain itself, shutters slam, windows are boarded, and the bravest farmers hide behind pitchforks that suddenly feel very inadequate. Meanwhile, a jittery alchemist brews concoctions strong enough to peel paint, praying one of them might melt a pumpkin before it melts him.

But hope arrives in the form of new heroes—just in time to face the wrath of the haunted harvest.

Who commands these vengeful vegetables?

Why are they collecting corpses like macabre trophies?

And what monstrous force waits at the heart of the pumpkin patch?

One thing’s certain: the answers are out there…

if the party survives long enough to dig them up.