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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9112307" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 84: Jan/Feb 2001part 5/6Dungeon of the Fire Opal: Well, here’s a familiar sight I’ve occasionally wondered about over the years. The 1e DMG included a sample dungeon map, which was repeated with upgraded visuals in the 3.0 one as well, but even though each room was numbered, the descriptions petered out after number 3. Looks like Jonathan Tweet decided to finish it off, but it got cut for space and the rest of it only appears in here. Do you have what it takes to succeed where Tordek, Mialee, Jozan &amp; Lidda failed and penetrate the maze of rooms beneath the ruins of the Fire Opal Monastery? It turns out they were actually devil-worshippers, which gives a definite theme to many of the encounters, although there’s still plenty of random rodents and giant insects to make a nuisance of themselves if you sit around too long and keep you from getting a decent nights sleep if you try the 15 minute workday approach. It’s written to showcase that you can build weaker versions of iconic monsters for 3e and still make them interesting as combat encounters, making them more accessible than they were under the old rules. Oysluth skeletons &amp; zombies, a baby fiendish red dragon, a ghost gnoll, a lizardfolk druid, plus plenty of ghouls to keep you on your toes and punish you for splitting the party. So it’s a pure dungeoncrawl that lacks the story depth of most 2e adventures, but does lots of interesting things mechanically that you couldn’t before save by pure DM fiat and is easily expanded by adding more dungeon levels underneath. There are far worse ways to start a campaign off. Nodwick breaks the 4th wall and has the group play backseat editor to the adventure writer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 9112307, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 84: Jan/Feb 2001[/u][/b] part 5/6 Dungeon of the Fire Opal: Well, here’s a familiar sight I’ve occasionally wondered about over the years. The 1e DMG included a sample dungeon map, which was repeated with upgraded visuals in the 3.0 one as well, but even though each room was numbered, the descriptions petered out after number 3. Looks like Jonathan Tweet decided to finish it off, but it got cut for space and the rest of it only appears in here. Do you have what it takes to succeed where Tordek, Mialee, Jozan & Lidda failed and penetrate the maze of rooms beneath the ruins of the Fire Opal Monastery? It turns out they were actually devil-worshippers, which gives a definite theme to many of the encounters, although there’s still plenty of random rodents and giant insects to make a nuisance of themselves if you sit around too long and keep you from getting a decent nights sleep if you try the 15 minute workday approach. It’s written to showcase that you can build weaker versions of iconic monsters for 3e and still make them interesting as combat encounters, making them more accessible than they were under the old rules. Oysluth skeletons & zombies, a baby fiendish red dragon, a ghost gnoll, a lizardfolk druid, plus plenty of ghouls to keep you on your toes and punish you for splitting the party. So it’s a pure dungeoncrawl that lacks the story depth of most 2e adventures, but does lots of interesting things mechanically that you couldn’t before save by pure DM fiat and is easily expanded by adding more dungeon levels underneath. There are far worse ways to start a campaign off. Nodwick breaks the 4th wall and has the group play backseat editor to the adventure writer. [/QUOTE]

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