Reynard
aka Ian Eller
Zonkies!
D&D General #Dungeon23
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
There are demon apes in the Temple Run mobile game that I've always thought deserved to be part of an RPG.
The original version of the game had a pack of them chasing the hero. Now I think it's just one super-sized gorilla. Either way, skull-faced man-eating demon apes!
The original version of the game had a pack of them chasing the hero. Now I think it's just one super-sized gorilla. Either way, skull-faced man-eating demon apes!
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Reynard
aka Ian Eller
01.15: Greater Dining Hall
Access: The greater dining hall is accessible through a locked and warded door in the south leading to the Welcome Chamber (01.12). There is also a door in the north wall leading to the grounds, a door in the west wall leading to the sitting room (01.11) and a door in the east wall leading to xxxxx (01.17). A hallway exits from the east wall as well, leading to the servant’s mess (01.16) or to the grounds near the kitchen (01.06).
Description: This room is exquisitely decorated, or at least was a century ago. Holes in the roof and the chimney have let the elements and pests in. Lacquered wood, polished silver, beautiful ceramics and lovely tapestries and paintings are all scoured by the decades. The main dining table is massive, surrounded by high backed chairs. Stools and small chairs surround the fire, apparently meant for minstrels or storytellers. There are cabinets here as well, holding spare dishes and tableware.
Feast of the Damned: If the PCs are present in the room upon the witching hour (3 AM) they will witness a most unsetting pantomime. First, the fireplace bursts into blue, heatless flame. Then the sounds of a low dirge played on untuned instruments can be heard as if off in the distance, soon followed by the clattering of forks and knives against china. After a moment, ghostly figures slowly coalesce: a troupe of musicians by the fire, a servant girl in the corner and figures at the great dining table. The man at the head of the table is the same man whose bust graces the door to this room, and his expression is a sour one. The others around the table are indistinct and shifting, perhaps representing different people through the ages. The patriarch seems to be castigating them -- his words cannot be understood but boom through the room nonetheless -- while stabbing and cutting at his plate. If anyone approaches to see what is on his plate, they see that same figure’s own head. The display goes on for a half an hour before the images, sounds and fire fade (in that order).
Treasure: As with the lesser dining room, the silverware here is strange but still worth its weight.
Access: The greater dining hall is accessible through a locked and warded door in the south leading to the Welcome Chamber (01.12). There is also a door in the north wall leading to the grounds, a door in the west wall leading to the sitting room (01.11) and a door in the east wall leading to xxxxx (01.17). A hallway exits from the east wall as well, leading to the servant’s mess (01.16) or to the grounds near the kitchen (01.06).
Description: This room is exquisitely decorated, or at least was a century ago. Holes in the roof and the chimney have let the elements and pests in. Lacquered wood, polished silver, beautiful ceramics and lovely tapestries and paintings are all scoured by the decades. The main dining table is massive, surrounded by high backed chairs. Stools and small chairs surround the fire, apparently meant for minstrels or storytellers. There are cabinets here as well, holding spare dishes and tableware.
Feast of the Damned: If the PCs are present in the room upon the witching hour (3 AM) they will witness a most unsetting pantomime. First, the fireplace bursts into blue, heatless flame. Then the sounds of a low dirge played on untuned instruments can be heard as if off in the distance, soon followed by the clattering of forks and knives against china. After a moment, ghostly figures slowly coalesce: a troupe of musicians by the fire, a servant girl in the corner and figures at the great dining table. The man at the head of the table is the same man whose bust graces the door to this room, and his expression is a sour one. The others around the table are indistinct and shifting, perhaps representing different people through the ages. The patriarch seems to be castigating them -- his words cannot be understood but boom through the room nonetheless -- while stabbing and cutting at his plate. If anyone approaches to see what is on his plate, they see that same figure’s own head. The display goes on for a half an hour before the images, sounds and fire fade (in that order).
Treasure: As with the lesser dining room, the silverware here is strange but still worth its weight.
Hriston
Dungeon Master of Middle-earth (He/him)
I revised my approach today and decided to write some slightly more detailed room descriptions (so I started a typed draft). Here's the result:
Upper level: The dungeon is located under a hill called The Wyncouche Height where a small tower once stood. If a wandering monster encounter is indicated in this area, it will be with “The Ragged Stalkers”, 14 weretigers belonging to a loose collection of weretiger packs that claims the hill for its territory.
Level One
1. Entrance: A 10’ wide stairway leads down 30’ into the hillside and opens onto a square 20’ x 20’ room with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. A secret passage leads to room 2 (See Level 1 map).
2. The secret passage from room 1 leads into this 10’ x 10’ room, inhabited by 4 orcs: Gurak, Gomoku, Opaugh, and Wurgoth.
3. This 10’ x 10’ room is empty.
4. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
5. This 30’ x 40’ room is inhabited by a giant toad and has no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to room 7 (See Level 1A map).
6. This 30’ x 30’ room is empty.
8. This 10’ x 20’ room is empty.
9. This 30’ x 40’ room is empty with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to Level 1B (See map).
10. This 20’ x 30’ room is empty with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hardchance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to Level 1C (See map).
11. This 30’ x 30’ room is empty.
13. This 85’ x 80’ room is inhabited by 9 orcs: Ulumpha, Snak, Teldgulg, Sharn, Bolar, Yonkathu, Sharog, Ghorza, and Ugghra. The orcs have 55 gp and a gem worth 55 gp.
14. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
E (Elevator room): Once the party has entered this 20’ x 20’ room, the room descends to Level 2 and will not ascend for 5 hours.
7. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
12. This 20’ x 20’ room is inhabited by a giant toad.
15. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty with two visible exits. There is also a secret door on the fourth wall which, if searched for, has a very hard difficulty to find. On a failure, a 10’ pit opens with a medium difficulty to avoid falling in.
Dungeon of the Erased Quarters
Upper level: The dungeon is located under a hill called The Wyncouche Height where a small tower once stood. If a wandering monster encounter is indicated in this area, it will be with “The Ragged Stalkers”, 14 weretigers belonging to a loose collection of weretiger packs that claims the hill for its territory.
Level One
1. Entrance: A 10’ wide stairway leads down 30’ into the hillside and opens onto a square 20’ x 20’ room with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. A secret passage leads to room 2 (See Level 1 map).
2. The secret passage from room 1 leads into this 10’ x 10’ room, inhabited by 4 orcs: Gurak, Gomoku, Opaugh, and Wurgoth.
3. This 10’ x 10’ room is empty.
4. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
5. This 30’ x 40’ room is inhabited by a giant toad and has no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to room 7 (See Level 1A map).
6. This 30’ x 30’ room is empty.
8. This 10’ x 20’ room is empty.
9. This 30’ x 40’ room is empty with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hard chance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to Level 1B (See map).
10. This 20’ x 30’ room is empty with no visible exit. For every ten minutes spent searching a ten foot section of wall for secret doors there is a very hardchance of finding one. On a success, there is a 50% chance that a wandering monster comes in through the door from the other side. The secret door leads to Level 1C (See map).
11. This 30’ x 30’ room is empty.
13. This 85’ x 80’ room is inhabited by 9 orcs: Ulumpha, Snak, Teldgulg, Sharn, Bolar, Yonkathu, Sharog, Ghorza, and Ugghra. The orcs have 55 gp and a gem worth 55 gp.
14. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
E (Elevator room): Once the party has entered this 20’ x 20’ room, the room descends to Level 2 and will not ascend for 5 hours.
7. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty.
12. This 20’ x 20’ room is inhabited by a giant toad.
15. This 20’ x 20’ room is empty with two visible exits. There is also a secret door on the fourth wall which, if searched for, has a very hard difficulty to find. On a failure, a 10’ pit opens with a medium difficulty to avoid falling in.
1/12 — Elemental Vortex (use Snow Day map)
Description: As one enters this portion of the cave, the cold remains sharp and the wind seems to suck down the wide passage. Faint flickering light emanates from around the corner to the north. The northern portion of the cave is about 15×20 yards. Snow fills the air and forms a bowl-shaped depression on the floor—deeper at the edges of the cave and descending toward the center. Bluish-white flashes of light emanate from beneath the snow at the center of the depression. If a PC spends some time examining the room, a successful Observation or Perception roll (at the current vision penalty) will reveal that the snow on the floor is slowly rotating and shifting, as if it is falling into a hole (see Zone of Attraction, below).
Vision: -6 (total darkness); max -3 with illumination (due to blowing snow)
Hearing: -3 (wind)
Exits: The entrance passage and an elemental portal (see Portal, below).
Hazards
Portal: The flashing lights come from an elemental portal beneath the snow. Anyone who touches it is transported to the elemental plane of ice (sometimes known by other names, such as Frostfell or Niflheim). Whether one can easily return is left up to the GM, though it will certainly be challenging to escape the zone of attraction.
Zone of Attraction: The planar interface has created a zone of attraction around the portal that pulls matter toward it. The pull weakens with distance from the portal. In the hex with the portal, the zone pulls with ST 20. Its strength diminished by 1 for each hex (yard) away from it. Thus the attraction can barely be felt from 20 yards away but is difficult to resist as one gets closer to the center. Creatures can resist the pull with a Quick Contest of ST every second. Don’t bother rolling until the pull is at least half the character’s ST.
Example: Grükuk has ST 14. She can safely approach within 14 yards of the portal. If she approaches further, to 13 yards, she will roll a Quick Contest of ST every second between her ST 14 and the portal’s effective ST 7. With each additional yard that she approaches, the portal’s ST will go up by one and she will need to roll again.
Description: As one enters this portion of the cave, the cold remains sharp and the wind seems to suck down the wide passage. Faint flickering light emanates from around the corner to the north. The northern portion of the cave is about 15×20 yards. Snow fills the air and forms a bowl-shaped depression on the floor—deeper at the edges of the cave and descending toward the center. Bluish-white flashes of light emanate from beneath the snow at the center of the depression. If a PC spends some time examining the room, a successful Observation or Perception roll (at the current vision penalty) will reveal that the snow on the floor is slowly rotating and shifting, as if it is falling into a hole (see Zone of Attraction, below).
Vision: -6 (total darkness); max -3 with illumination (due to blowing snow)
Hearing: -3 (wind)
Exits: The entrance passage and an elemental portal (see Portal, below).
Hazards
Portal: The flashing lights come from an elemental portal beneath the snow. Anyone who touches it is transported to the elemental plane of ice (sometimes known by other names, such as Frostfell or Niflheim). Whether one can easily return is left up to the GM, though it will certainly be challenging to escape the zone of attraction.
Zone of Attraction: The planar interface has created a zone of attraction around the portal that pulls matter toward it. The pull weakens with distance from the portal. In the hex with the portal, the zone pulls with ST 20. Its strength diminished by 1 for each hex (yard) away from it. Thus the attraction can barely be felt from 20 yards away but is difficult to resist as one gets closer to the center. Creatures can resist the pull with a Quick Contest of ST every second. Don’t bother rolling until the pull is at least half the character’s ST.
Example: Grükuk has ST 14. She can safely approach within 14 yards of the portal. If she approaches further, to 13 yards, she will roll a Quick Contest of ST every second between her ST 14 and the portal’s effective ST 7. With each additional yard that she approaches, the portal’s ST will go up by one and she will need to roll again.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
1.14 Library/Study
- Destroyed. Furniture splintered, books torn asunder.
- (Skill check) This room has been searched for loot, long after it was wrecked and abandoned.
- (Skill check) Journal. Details experiments on some kind of summoned beast held in a cell.
- Also destroyed and searched.
- (Skill check) Herbalist or Alchemist can find useful ingredients.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
@Quickleaf If you simply printed copies of your journal I would probably buy one. Even just to look at.
Room 71 - The Entryway to Madness
A 15' x 15' room with a trapdoor in the center of the floor, a grate in the center of the ceiling, and doors in the center of each wall. Only the north door is locked.
The sewer grate in the ceiling leads to the floor grate in room 76.
The trap door in the floor leads through the ceiling in room 70.
The west door leads to south door in 72.
The locked north door leads to south door in 74.
The east door leads to south door in 71.
The south door leads to north door in 76.
The Gibbering Mouther in 76 can see the party through the floor grate in its room and will gibber as soon as either the trap door in the floor is shut or four people are in the room.
The two Invisible Guardians in the room (one in NE corner and one in SW corner) will wait until the gibbering (to which they are immune) starts to attack. As Invisible Stalkers except HP are 30 each, to hit bonus are +5, damage are 7 (2d6), and their purpose is to attack things in the room.
The next room created (#76) is in post #298 D&D General - #Dungeon23
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