D&D 5E Domain of Dread: Grognardia

[Shades of Eternity]

I have this idea for a domain of dread, but don't own the books, so want help fleshing it out and see where it leads.

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There is this starting adventure where you send 1st level characters.

It takes place by a cabin on a lake where it keeps advertising: this is where you become the best.

The dark powers have held a high level 20th level adventuring party....whom ran originally in 1st edition.

What they want to do is "teach" the party the proper skills of dungeon hack by trial and error

If the newbie party dies, they wake up the next day in their beds to "do it again."

The objective is to escape grognardia and return to their regular game, but will be forever scarred by the experience.

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so how do you do this using the new rules and what trials are a must?

 

[Swarmkeeper]

1st trial: using 10' poles to traverse a 100' corridor in 1 hour of real-time.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

2nd trial: Polearm quiz.

 

[J.Quondam]

3rd trial: Save... or die!

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Ha

The reason the Dark Powers picked this party is they have real hatred towards their students. They are cheezed that their edition is no longer in vogue and everything changed.

Most instructions need to be done in high gygaxian

4th trial. you check all doors or die..

5th trial. did we mention there were ear seekers on the doors?

 

[Lanefan]

Along with all these risks there also need to be signficant (if somewhat random) rewards for the PCs to find should they be so thorough.

Maybe some of these could be the once-possessions of that captive 20th-level crew....?

 

[Eubani]

6th Trial: Scream like a banshee whenever anything new is put forward or a Fighter gets something.

 

[overgeeked]

Once you get their money...rocks fall, everyone dies.

 

[Dire Bare]

I have this idea for a domain of dread, but don't own the books, so want help fleshing it out and see where it leads.

******************************************
There is this starting adventure where you send 1st level characters.

It takes place by a cabin on a lake where it keeps advertising: this is where you become the best.

The dark powers have held a high level 20th level adventuring party....whom ran originally in 1st edition.

What they want to do is "teach" the party the proper skills of dungeon hack by trial and error

If the newbie party dies, they wake up the next day in their beds to "do it again."

The objective is to escape grognardia and return to their regular game, but will be forever scarred by the experience.

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so how do you do this using the new rules and what trials are a must?

This domain sounds scary! Perhaps too scary!

 

[DEFCON 1]

7th Trial: Learn how to change all distances from inches to 10s of feet while inside and inches to 10s of yards outside.