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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DanMcS" data-source="post: 1219710" data-attributes="member: 6530">Ok, so it's a natural cave, the lair of a green dragon.  A waterfall flows down into a deeper level.  Elves hid a widget here.The first couple things point to this being a natural cave.  Probably limestone, carved out by this flowing water.  There's probably an exit for all this water, somewhere, after it winds down through the caverns down deeper.What would one find here?  Probably nothing intelligent, at least near the top.  Smart critters would have fled the arrival of the dragon, or driven it out.So your first instinct is probably correct- oozes, molds, cave-dwelling critters.  Piercers, I love piercers.The environment will be a major hazard.  All this moisture will make everything slippery and hard to climb.Deeper down, of course, the elven widget.  The elves wouldn't have just dropped it in a dark corner and left it.  There should be a fairly elaborate protected area for them to seal it in.Oh, it should be behind some reworked stone, though.  They didn't really intend for anyone else to find it, after all.  So the wall should look just like the rest of the wall there, but you know how slowly stalactites grow?  If the area was reworked as recently as a few hundred years ago, the stalagmites (the ones on the floor) in this area should be very small, while the ones hanging from the ceiling would be normal sized.  That's the clue for your players about where the entrance is.So in a big cavern, maybe have some combat here so you can have a map, there are lots of big stalagmites on the floor, except in one area, where they're very little.  So it's a visual clue, lots of big circles representing columns, except off to one side.  That might be too hard.  Hrm.What else could live here?  Maybe some jermelaine or something, guys that wouldn't want to drive out the dragon because it makes their back door that much safer.  The party doesn't have to fight them, just talk their way through to get on with their real mission.</blockquote>

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