D&D General Dwarven adventures recommendations

[toucanbuzz]

Looking to craft a network of lost dwarven towns, forts and crossroads during a portion of our campaign wherein the party is tracking clues to follow someone through a vast network of a dwarven empire long ago overrun, connected once by a massive underground road system. If familiar with Dragon Age, the Deep Roads where the party discovers the truth about golems, leading to some consequential decisions. As a lifelong DM, I consider it an art to piece together work from any system, so long as it's quality. I want to avoid it becoming a dungeon crawl slog, so that each exploration area becomes something novel. This could be things like:

• Good ole hack n slash
• Puzzles/riddles
• Clever environmental that takes more than skill checks to resolve
• A true roleplaying opportunity
• Something disconnected from the main plot (search for an NPC's fate) but still tempting to sidetrack

 

[pukunui]

I'd start with The Forge of Fury - originally written for D&D 3.5e but updated to 5e in Tales from the Yawning Portal.

Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage includes numerous dungeon levels that were originally dwarf halls, including:

• Level 2 (Arcane Chambers)
• Level 3 (Sargauth Level)
• Level 6 (Lost Level)
• Level 15 (Obstacle Course)
• Level 21 (Terminus Level)

You could run these as separate locations along the Deep Roads rather than stacked levels in a single dungeon.

 

[MNblockhead]

If you can find a cheap copy of the old Role Aid's book Dwarves (https://www.amazon.com/Dwarves-Complete-Adventure-Suitable-Advanced/dp/B000K07F4Y), it provides a campaign area and some adventure hooks.
For maps 0one Games has an excellent set of maps with their in-PDF tools, as well as VTT assets in their Dwarven Depths Virtual Box Set Dwarven Depths - Virtual Boxed Set - The Complete Edition + VTT, 0one Games. But it is just maps and used the old-school blueprint style.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Isn't there a Moria book for the latest version of The One Ring? If you're going to drink from this particular (excellent) firehose, you might as well go straight to the source.

 

[Koppe]

Couple of things to drop in:
Deep Dwarven delve
Mountains of Madness (A very good resource book with 4 adventures for Pathfinder)
Hammers of the god

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Hammerfast: A Dwarven Outpost for 4e is really good. I missed it in the firehose of products when it first came out, but it's full of adventure hooks and doesn't just feel like an iteration on the standard dwarven realm tropes (which, granted, some of them are there).

 

[cimbrog]

When it comes to dwarven cities you can't beat Milby's Brazenthrone. They're maps, not adventures, but they are fully labelled in a way that makes running them easy.

 

[majorarcana02]

I ran my players through this one, and it was a lot of fun: Glitterdoom -- Fifth Edition Fantasy #1 by Goodman Games.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I feel like there was a well-regarded one for 3E (linked to a drow city setting as well) from ... Green Ronin?

 

[Atomoctba]

For an amazing dwarven fortress map, I would look to Moria for TOR.

There is a good map also in the AD&D 2e adventure Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. These one is fun. A goblin tribe move to an abandoned dwarven fortress and find an artifact (the axe in the name of the adventure). The trouble? Goblin leader becomes very ugly for his people's standards (the axe turns the wielder in a dwarf).