Looking for setting: Dragon lair in underground city.

[afetbinttuzani]

Hi, all.
I'm wondering if you can help me to find a needle in the immense haystack that is all D&D materials ever published.

My Level 8 PCs may be heading underground and I'd like to challenge them with a black dragon's lair in an abandoned underground dwarven city. I'd rather adapt than start from scratch. I don't expect to find exactly what I'm looking for in terms of level or setting, but something relatively close would be good. I'll adapt from any edition.

Ideas or suggestions?

Cheers,
Afet

 

[Vanye]

Hi, all.
I'm wondering if you can help me to find a needle in the immense haystack that is all D&D materials ever published.

My Level 8 PCs may be heading underground and I'd like to challenge them with a black dragon's lair in an abandoned underground dwarven city. I'd rather adapt than start from scratch. I don't expect to find exactly what I'm looking for in terms of level or setting, but something relatively close would be good. I'll adapt from any edition.

I don't have a specific adventure or anything, but for the map, you could use the Murial's Gauntlet map from the Expedition to Undermountain. One cavern has an extensive pool of water that could possibly lead, via an underground passage, to a local swamp that the black hunts in.

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ExpUndermountain_Maps/106139.jpg

 

[afetbinttuzani]

That offers some possibilities. Thanks.

 

[cowgillbones]

What about the black dragon lair in the first dragon lance book. The module that goes with that would have the lair.

 

[wedgeski]

What about the black dragon lair in the first dragon lance book. The module that goes with that would have the lair.

Xak Tsaroth from Dragons of Despair, with the added benefit of one of the greatest dungeon maps ever published.

 

[DMZ2112]

What about the black dragon lair in the first dragon lance book. The module that goes with that would have the lair.

Xak Tsaroth, in Dragons of Despair. Great dungeon.

No less true for being said twice. It is a great dungeon map, and Karen Wynn Fonstad's isometric cutaways of the caverns in the Atlas of the Dragonlance World are a great reference as well. They're available to find online if you look a bit -- the book itself is almost prohibitively expensive these days.

 

[Blackbrrd]

Xak Tsaroth, in Dragons of Despair. Great dungeon.

No less true for being said twice. It is a great dungeon map, and Karen Wynn Fonstad's isometric cutaways of the caverns in the Atlas of the Dragonlance World are a great reference as well. They're available to find online if you look a bit -- the book itself is almost prohibitively expensive these days.

Yeah, I read the first post and was going... what was the name of that city? So yeah, Xak Tsaroth would be my choice as well. Three times mentioned is the charm?

 

[afetbinttuzani]

Fantastic! Judging by the description at RPGnow, where I can get it on pdf, this is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks, guys!
Cheers,
Afet

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

There's also the 3E adventure Forge of Fury, which is literally

Spoiler

a black dragon's lair in a lost dwarven ruin.

DL1 has a better map, true. Chuck the rest of the DL1 adventure, though. Outside of Xak Tsaroth, it's a great example of poor adventure design. Choo, choo ...

 

[afetbinttuzani]

There's also the 3E adventure Forge of Fury, which is literally

Spoiler

a black dragon's lair in a lost dwarven ruin.

DL1 has a better map, true. Chuck the rest of the DL1 adventure, though. Outside of Xak Tsaroth, it's a great example of poor adventure design. Choo, choo ...

Awesome. I´ll have a look at this as well. Thanks.