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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 4764949" data-attributes="member: 59411">A ruined Temple of Greed, that once championed the sin of greed, makes me wonder how it came into disarray. A plausible and parable-like cause could likely have been that they bit off more than they could chew, that they took something beyond their power to control or house. An evil or cursed magic item seems a likely choice. Now what if this item was in fact intelligent, your BBEG for this romp. The idea that in a ruined temple of greed the prime loot at the end is the villain is pretty entertaining to me. Here's a few ideas off the top of my head:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This magic item is putting out a call to other intelligent items, in which case the group encounters everal different intelligent items as enemies along the way (unbeknownst to them or not).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This magic item, having destroyed this temple and its supplicants, wants out to repeat the process somewhere else, hoping to be taken by a group such as the heroes.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This magic item wants its own hoard, a hoard of people, admirers or status symbols perhaps. Basically its the treasure's equivalent to some miser and his gold. Have traps meant to capture and contain people versus outright annihilation, and the lower levels might be filled with a wide variety of races and monsters like so many gems contained as if in a zoo, or more aptly a bank.</li> </ul>Not sure that was anything you were looking for... For monsters, I think dragons epitomize greed more than any other in D&D. Insects do a nice job of that too, in their way. Whenever there is food or material for hives, nests or the like they will take it, regardless. Some animals are also that way, especially with shiny things... maybe have ferrets or ferret people hehe.</blockquote>

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