Dungeon Crawl -- Ideas Wanted --

[TheAuldGrump]

Hmm, for 'neat special effect how about secret doors that lliterally form by earth elementals within the walls themselves? If you've seen Return to Oz you know what I mean. Hands titerall form in the stone and pull it back a layer at a time.

A place where rock flows like a river.

A pair of doors that when closed form a stone golem. (See Labarynth for a variant on this idea.

A fossil used to create either an elemental or a golem.

Natural pipe organs creating an eerie concert throughout the halls,echoing eternally.

The Auld Grump

 

[Savage Wombat]

It used to be that if you stayed on the Elemental Earth planes too long, you risked fossilization.

For that matter, if a dinosaur died and became fossilized, is it still a skeleton? Could you cast Animate Dead on it?

For THAT matter, if you couldn't cast Animate Dead on it, you could cast Animate Objects on it, or even make a stone golem out of it. Then your PCs see something that LOOKS like a skeleton - but isn't...

 

[diaglo]

Goodman Games recently released several Dungeon Crawls. #3.5 was written by Dave Arneson.

edit: they were for 1-3 lvl so you will need to scale them up.

 

[Krieg]

Since most earth creatures can burrow pretty much at will, why do they need to have dungeons?

For the same reason spider's spin webs...to lure & trap food.