Swick
First Post
This is my first time DMing since I was a freshman in high school--about 20 years ago. I decided to run my campiagn with the D&D playtest materails, and it has been going well so far (we just completed session 6).
Story background:
During the first session, the PCs took care of a party of goblins who had invaded an elven city's astronomy tower atop a nearby mountain range. While searching the tower, they found a contraption the goblins had made piecemealing the lens of the telescope together. Naturally, the PCs believed the goblins were making a "death ray" to destroy the Elven city below.
Lately in my campaign, my PCs have been hunting down these ancient artifacts protected by these "guardians." So last night, while thinking about where some of the other hidden temples could be located, I had an idea: what if one of the temples was located within the goblins' land, and what if they hadn't been building a death ray, but were building something to attract a guardian they had accidentally unleashed because they wanted it our of their region--make it someone else's problem.
So, here is my question: Is there a monster who would be attracted to something shiny/bright?
I was thinking a rust monster would be too single-minded...want to eat metal rather then attacking those who would dare disturb the temple. A dragon would be too strong for my PCs and too smart to fall for the goblins distraction. Any other ideas?
Story background:
During the first session, the PCs took care of a party of goblins who had invaded an elven city's astronomy tower atop a nearby mountain range. While searching the tower, they found a contraption the goblins had made piecemealing the lens of the telescope together. Naturally, the PCs believed the goblins were making a "death ray" to destroy the Elven city below.
Lately in my campaign, my PCs have been hunting down these ancient artifacts protected by these "guardians." So last night, while thinking about where some of the other hidden temples could be located, I had an idea: what if one of the temples was located within the goblins' land, and what if they hadn't been building a death ray, but were building something to attract a guardian they had accidentally unleashed because they wanted it our of their region--make it someone else's problem.
So, here is my question: Is there a monster who would be attracted to something shiny/bright?
I was thinking a rust monster would be too single-minded...want to eat metal rather then attacking those who would dare disturb the temple. A dragon would be too strong for my PCs and too smart to fall for the goblins distraction. Any other ideas?