Dungeon 159 - The Ziggurat Beyond Time

[Shroomy]

I haven't read it yet, but Dungeon released its first epic 4e adventure (for 21st level characters) tonight. I can say that it includes a new group of Far Realm monsters (sebaceans) and their mutant minions, as well as a new artifact.

Dungeon Adventure: Ziggurat Beyond Time

 

[MerricB]

I've just read through the adventure. There's some great encounters, good advice on using the adventure, and suchlike... but it's somewhat monotonously one combat after another. You're looking at a dungeoncrawl here with more meaning as you add to it.

Ok for a once-off. I hope later epic adventures are more distinctive.

Cheers!

 

[Vael]

includes a new group of Far Realm monsters (sebaceans)

Do they look like Peacekeepers?

 

[Hammerhead]

Do they look like Peacekeepers?

Heh, I made that same joke in my head.

 

[Shemeska]

Heh, I made that same joke in my head.

With a name like sebaceans, I imagined them as giant zits or something. Sebaceous and all.

Edit: But since I'm not paying for access, for all I know they might be that way.

 

[D.Shaffer]

Sebaceans are large, Far Realms influenced wasp/ant men who breed mutant insect-ape crosses. Kind of like the Far Realms version of a Formorian. I found em kind of unoriginal myself, honestly.

 

[Shroomy]

I've just read through the adventure. There's some great encounters, good advice on using the adventure, and suchlike... but it's somewhat monotonously one combat after another. You're looking at a dungeoncrawl here with more meaning as you add to it.

Ok for a once-off. I hope later epic adventures are more distinctive.

Cheers!

Yeah, after reading the first few encounters, its clearly meant to be used as an introductory epic adventure.

 

[Yair]

A 21st level dungeoncrawl? Sounds rather disappointing. I like combat, but introducing the Epic tier should be about more than that.

Oh well. It's not like I subscribe

 

[TerraDave]

Its dungeon-crawlyness did seem a little non-epic.

But then again, it does have mutants insecto-apes as minions.

 

[frankthedm]

A 21st level dungeoncrawl? Sounds rather disappointing. I like combat, but introducing the Epic tier should be about more than that.

Uhm, I thought that was part of 4e's goal to "stretch the sweet spot" of 3E's levels 3-14. Your characters don't "outgrow the dungeon", rather go from underground dungeons in heroic, to the underdark/shadowfell/feywild at paragon and then delve into extraplanar labyrinths in epic.

Yeah, after reading the first few encounters, its clearly meant to be used as an introductory epic adventure.

Well, how many epic adventures have they written so far?

Sebaceans are large, Far Realms influenced wasp/ant men who breed mutant insect-ape crosses.

Sounds like an umber hulk and/or a dimensional shambler

Shuffling toward him in the darkness was the gigantic, blasphemous form of a black thing not wholly ape and not wholly insect. Its hide hung loosely upon its frame, and its rugose, dead-eyed rudiment of a head swayed drunkenly from side to side. Its forepaws were extended, with talons spread wide, and its whole body was taut with murderous malignity despite its utter lack of facial expression.

Anybody care to give a monster tally list?