Sentient dungeon?

Thurbane

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #1

HI,

I cracked out my old Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper II games the other day (it's a crying shame they never made any more), and it got me to thinking...how would you handle a sentient dungeon in D&D? Has anyone ever tried anything similar?

Cheers - T

 

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Warren Okuma

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #2

Hmm... 200 HD AC 10
20 Hardness
20 Elemental Resistance
1 Wish per day. (to create loot, food, and magic items)
SQ: Dungeon. Immune to scrying (self only not the creatures that live within), immune to all mind effects.

 

Alzrius

The EN World kitten

• Feb 3, 2007

• #3

I think the best way to do this is use the Dungeon Warden monster from Misfit Studios's SpirosBlaak: Creatures of the Archduchy book. The Dungeon Warden is a construct that can basically act as a clockwork brain for a dungeon, activating traps, closing and opening doors, and always monitoring the people in it.

 

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PhoenixDarkDirk

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #4

This has a dungeon as a creature, http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=148&.

 

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Olgar Shiverstone

Legend

• Feb 3, 2007

• #5

The modules Ravenloft (and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft) and City of the Spider Queen have sections where the party is essentially exploring a (semi-)sentient dungeon, which attacks them in different ways depending upon thei ractions.

 

Mark Hope

Hero

• Feb 3, 2007

• #6

You could also check out the high-level 2e adventure Nightmare Keep, which had a living dungeon as its central concept. Pretty much all of the creatures have been converted over to 3e (either officially or in Eric L. Boyd's Bestiary of the Realms netbooks) so it would be easy enough to run.

 

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DMH

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #7

Bastion's Complete Minions has the hearth horror. It mentally enslaves people (however you want to define that) from miles around to rebuild evil structures after they have been destroyed. It would be really easy to change it to fit your concept.

 

Slife

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #8

Living Spell: Maze

 

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philreed

Adventurer

Supporter

• Feb 3, 2007

• #9

Bruce Baugh was describing an idea to me for treating dungeons as characters; with classes and levels and feats. It was pretty awesome.

 

Tinner

First Post

• Feb 3, 2007

• #10

Mearls had a high level adventure in Dungeon maybe a year and a half ago that involved the PC's entering a titanic living, evil tree infested with a hag druid and her T-Rex companion.
The tree was sentient, and would spray sap/acid on the party, constrict its chambers at inconvenient times, etc.
Good adventure too. Can't recall the name for the life of me though. I'm at work and don't have my books.