Published adventures - weirdest treasure placement

[Quasqueton]

We had a thread a couple weeks ago about finding treasure on wandering monsters -- the novice player misunderstanding of how treasure "works". [Search function won't bring up that thread.]

But this thread is a little different. Where is the most unusual place you've read or found treasure in a *published* adventure?

In the moat house (The Village of Hommlet), one room has a giant lizard. "Inside this creature is a shield +1."

Can you beat this treasure location from a published adventure?

Quasqueton

 

[Henry]

In R1, Rappan Athuk,

[sblock]There is a mushroom that drastically removes aging (somewhere from 50 to 150 years!) just growing among other mushrooms on an underground riverbank beside a bridge! The thing only produces viable spores 1 every 100 years, and only if you don't eat it. I can't remember the check DC to spot the thing's unusual coloration, but the odds of a PC finding it I would think are VERY small.[/sblock]

 

[Klaus]

There's the sweeeet treasure inside the roper in Forge of Fury.

Rappan Athuk also has treasure beneath the Dung Monster.

NeMoren's Vault has lots of treasure inside a room totally inaccessible to PCs of the adventure's recommended level. By the time they're able to retrieve it, the treasure is adequate for the PCs' level.

 

[Chimera]

Not a published adventure but...

I once had a large, 50x100 room located down an incline from the rest of the lower level. It was about knee deep in sewage. At the center was a large (6' tall) pile of gunk which was an Otyugh nest. Two parental Otyughs and 6 young.

Inside the nest (buried in the...manure) was their treasure.

YES, my players dug through it looking.

No amounts of die rolls, descriptions, nausea and so forth would stop them from getting that treasure!!!

 

[EdL]

There are at least a couple of old (1e or Basic) modules with treasure that can only be gotten to if the characters use certain spells in the correct order at a certain place... for absolutely no logical reason! Sorry I can't remember any names, I've done a good job of forgetting them.

 

[Jeremy Walker]

My personal favorite from recent Dungeon issues was the following:

"A DC 25 Search check of the ashes under the fireplace reveals a ring of feather falling that had been swallowed by a greedy pirate only a few hours before he was caught by the kenku and subsequently roasted in this fire several months ago."

That was from "The Forsaken Arch" in issue 120.

Jeremy Walker
Editorial Assistant: Dungeon Magazine

 

[Tuzenbach]

I'm vaguely certain that there's a Ring of Regeneration (perhaps?) inside a very large dinosaur (diplodocus?) in the "Isle of Dread" module. But seriously, who'd have the patience to look inside something as large as a dinosaur?


*goes and checks dusty copy of said 20+year-old module sitting on the shelf*

 

[Tuzenbach]

Hey, I was close! It's a plesiosaur, whatever that is.

 

[BWP]

I'm vaguely certain that there's a Ring of Regeneration (perhaps?) inside a very large dinosaur (diplodocus?) in the "Isle of Dread" module. But seriously, who'd have the patience to look inside something as large as a dinosaur?

Bah. The old "Flying Trollkin" adventure for RuneQuest (originally published in the first edition of TrollPak for 2nd ed.; I forget which of the numerous 3rd ed. supplements it was reprinted in) requires that the adventurers pursue the trollkin into the rotting corpse of a brontosaur which the trollkin are using as their lair. (The trollkin can fly because they've tamed some giant flies and use them as mounts. Guess where they get the maggots from?)

Consequently, the treasure for the module (such as it is; defeating the trollkin is the only real aim) is contained within the brontosaurus corpse. It certainly makes for one of the more interesting maps I've ever seen in a published adventure.

 

[JediSoth]

My players thought it was odd that they should find a Ring of Feather Falling on a skeletal hand & arm just sitting inside a brazier sitting by one of the entrances to Region J of The World's Largest Dungeon.

JediSoth