1000 features, traps, and other things to spice up a dragon's lair

Morrus · Mar 23, 2013

You know the drill. Go!

1. A narrow stone bridge over a river of lava, flanked by ledges upon which stand kobold archers.

Derren · Mar 24, 2013

2. No stone bridge over a river of lava. When you can fly why build bridges for intruders to use?

Morrus · Mar 24, 2013

Derren said:
2. No stone bridge over a river of lava. When you can fly why build bridges for intruders to use?

It's for the minions!

aco175 · Mar 26, 2013

Dung Beetles, to help clean up.
Giant Dung Beetles, to make them more a threat.
Giant, Fire Breathing Dung Beetles, but who would want to live there.

darjr · Mar 26, 2013

A kobold cat herder with dozens of invisible cats. He will threaten the party but only unleash the pride when it's clear the party doesn't believe him.

darjr · Mar 26, 2013

A room with a chess board for a floor. After the party enters and maybe after a combat begins the 'black' squares shoot up into the room, then after a round or two, randomly determined, they switch with the 'white' ones.

Maybe some of them go all the way to the ceiling.

Argyle King · Mar 26, 2013

8. The charred remains of adventurers

9. A sword which is a work of art resting upon a pile of silver coins. The 'blade' is carved from what appears to be emerald; the handle and hilt are made of gold.

10. Dragon Eggs

Razjah · Mar 26, 2013

11. Stalactites the dragon can claw while in the air to drop down on intruders and theives

12. The wreckage of ancient ships lie scattered around the dark cave, small beams of light pierce the ceiling and fall upon the skeletons of once great vessels. This wyrm has taken to using plundered vessels as decorations in its lair.

13. The mountain the dragon calls home is hollowed out completely. Inside is a great spire that rises to the mountains peak. Here the dragon makes its nest. There are no stairs to climb the spire, it is perfect smooth except where The dragon's young have made small nests of their own.

14. In the dank marshes lies a terrible black dragon. Having long ago destroyed the empire and turned the verdant land to fetid swamps and bogs, the foul beast has performed century long necromantic rituals. Should the dragon even whisper a command an entire empire of ghosts will rise and obey the wyrms every command.

15. An entire wall of the lair is covered in runes. Should these runes be deciphered, they are revealed to be poetry so beautiful and moving that it would bring tears to a dwarf's eye to hear.

BriarMonkey · Mar 26, 2013

16. A Dragon.

darjr · Mar 26, 2013

17. A room filled with glass bottles looking like a refuse pile. Each one contains a dungeon, touch one and you're pulled into it. Don't split the party.