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Benji said:

The Tomb isn't filled with monsters. In fact has almost no combat encounters. It's more like a deadly trap filled puzzle box than a series of fights.



If you want to know who the big bad is, take a look at the front cover of the DMG. That's him before he gets an upgrade. Tomb is post-upgrade. I have don't want to spoil it for players so SPOILER tag.
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In the version I played, He's a Demilich but more and less than that. Mummy Lord is weak chips compared to this.



It's the top of the stack, highest level dungeon. I think they said either 13th or 15th level appropriate.
So with level 8, you might be looking at a few dead players.

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flametitan said:

From the Tomb of Horrors Preview they continue to acknowledge Greyhawk. There's a sidebar where they list the original six locations Gygax provided, before listing off locations for Eberron, Dragonlance, and the Realms. The actual text of the adventure outside the sidebar is location neutral, at no point acknowledging there's a "canonical" location for the tomb.

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Gradine said:

This also appears to kill the (admittedly unsupported) speculation that the Rod of Seven Parts would somehow be an officially included meta-narrative to tie everything together.

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spongebob1138 said:

Not terribly disappointed that didn't pan out, as it seemed pretty thin and contrived, even by D&D standards. Like the Loc-Nar in "Heavy Metal"...

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Ath-kethin said:

Could you point me to the specific section of the preview you reference? Cause I sure don't see it.

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flametitan said:

http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/dragon/DnD_TYP_211-212.pdf

Very large sidebar on the first page of this preview.

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phantomK9 said:

For anyone who has experience with Tomb of Horrors, I have some questions.

Right now in my LMoP campaign, the PCs are approaching level 8 and at one point they used a bean from a Bag of Beans and summoned up a pyramid (fortunately it was in an out of the way place on the road to Conyberry).

I've been thinking that Tomb of Horrors might be a good dungeon for the pyramid when they decide to tackle it, but know next to nothing about it. Basically if it will fit the bill, as it were, then I'm definitely going to pick this up (heck, I probably will anyway).

Is the Tomb filled with undead?
What is the BBEG like? (He said hoping for mummy lord.)
The excerpt says it is a high level dungeon. How high?
Can it be easily ported as a pyramid? What is the general shape?

Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Ath-kethin said:

Ahh. So it's not in the preview this entire thread is referencing. I didn't miss it.

I honestly don't even bother with the WotC website much since they took down the forums. I never would have seen that.

So thank you for the link!

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phantomK9 said:

For anyone who has experience with Tomb of Horrors, I have some questions.

Right now in my LMoP campaign, the PCs are approaching level 8 and at one point they used a bean from a Bag of Beans and summoned up a pyramid (fortunately it was in an out of the way place on the road to Conyberry).

I've been thinking that Tomb of Horrors might be a good dungeon for the pyramid when they decide to tackle it, but know next to nothing about it. Basically if it will fit the bill, as it were, then I'm definitely going to pick this up (heck, I probably will anyway).

Is the Tomb filled with undead?
What is the BBEG like? (He said hoping for mummy lord.)
The excerpt says it is a high level dungeon. How high?
Can it be easily ported as a pyramid? What is the general shape?

Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks.

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