D&D General Dwarf adventure advice

[Paul Farquhar]

I would make the PC dwarves all from the same clan - clannishness is a dwarven trait. You could use the variant rules in Tasha's to give your pregens more variety, and include one "dwarf by adoption".

Poison gas. Causes poisoned status (no damage), so dwarves are immune without needing to save.

If your theme is dwarves, then you bad guys should also be dwarves. Have Duergar, aided by a traitor on the council, be behind the goblinoid attack. The Dragon Age games and Terry Pratchett's The Fifth Elephant are good sources for dwarven politics.

 

[Eltab]

The group can rescue Dwarven prisoners from near the Forge area. The prisoners provide information about enemy numbers and location and activity. They can know the way to any secret caches the PCs do not have any reason to know about. (One such cache should include a Goblinbane Warhammer +1 - so they can go knock heads. And/or a suit of Spiked Armor (from Sword Coast Adventurers Guide).)

The forge should feel inspired by the Hobbit movies. Use the maps from the Fire Giant chapter of Storm King's Thunder, maybe scaled down from Giant-size to Dwarf-size.

 

[Dioltach]

My advice for a dwarven adventure: keep it short.

 

[Stormonu]

For the climax, could be the dwarves need to get to the Defense vault, fix the machinery and dispense a poison gas (that does no harm to Dwarves - otherwise they risk killing the very subjects they're trying to save) into the complex to rout/clear the invaders that have overrun the hold. Highlight of the fight is to battle some enemy that has overrun the machinery (maybe Jubilex or Zzugutmoy and various slime/oozes/molds?)

 

[jayoungr]

Seems like you should involve Moradin somehow. Maybe a temple/forge with a puzzle or clue to how to proceed.

 

[wicked cool]

maybe before they can open the scret doors or objective they have to retrieve parts of the mechanism in the complex as either the orcs etc were fascinated by the mechanism (its shiny or valuable) or people left behind tried to hide the pieces before getting killed

Other idea. the pcs have a stone golem etc than needs to be activated that can act as an npc to help in the fight