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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6810982" data-attributes="member: 11697">I'm here and you didn't even need to sacrifice anything or pen a binding circle in blood or salt. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />In one of my long-term campaigns I ran the PCs through a plot arc in the depths of Pandemonium, specifically the location known as Howler's Crag in the plane's second layer Cocytus. Heavy agoraphobic emphasis on the fact that you aren't in tight, confined tunnels, but you're in a massive cavity while also utterly blind beyond the edge of your light source or darkvision. Who knows what's out there lurking and waiting, and something was very much hunting down NPCs in the group the PCs had been paid to protect. Fun times.The monsters I used included the ever fun howlers, a hive of bebeliths and their webbed over tunnels burrowing into the depths of the Crag itself, some random tanar'ri, some hints of Keeper activity in the past (2e/3e versions), and a sporadic gateway to the lair of an ancient and very much insane great wyrm howling dragon in the lowest layer, Agathion.The monsters were honestly a secondary player to the atmospheric descriptions, the environmental hazards such as wind bursts, near deafness at times, and the overwhelming, oppressive darkness and the unknown fear of what might or might not be out there. Fun stuff. I wrote up that particular adventure within my 1st storyhour if curious (it straddles the first and second threads of that one).If I went back now, I'd probably add in some undead, especially some bodaks, shadows, and various things connected to those who died within the plane itself (it might just be their reanimated remains, or an intersection of ambient planar energies acting on the remains rather than true undead), and absolutely some bonkers mad petitioners out in the howling darkness.</blockquote>

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