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<blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7495680" data-attributes="member: 6785802"><p>B10 Night's Dark Terror has a short encounter involving a mine. It's a side quest so it's not part of the main story and could be used basically anywhere.</p><p></p><p>Premise: Gnome and some dwarves can't go back into a small mine because there's a big nasty spider attacking them. Also, at the other end is a small group of orcs.</p><p></p><p>PCs encounter some traps, including some very small silver living statues. The spider lurks throughout the dungeon and it's beady eyes can be seen until it attacks! Also, the PCs can free some dwarves tied up by the spider in its web.</p><p></p><p>The orcs can be encountered on the other side of the mine and have their own entrance (unknown to the gnome and dwarves) so if the PCs are clever enough they can drive the orcs out without having to fight them.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: Checking the actual adventure - the series of encounters is all of 1 2/3 pages with the map maybe being 1/2 a page. The entire adventure is a marvel of page economy. </p><p></p><p>It turns out it's two gnomes and a dozen dwarves. They don't know about the spider but they do know about the orcs. Four dwarves and one gnome are missing. There is a fragment of a web that is numb to the touch. The orcs worship the shroud spider but fear it.</p><p></p><p>The social encounters are whatever interactions you want with the one remaining gnome and 8 remaining dwarves. There are some exploration encounters in the mine - paralyzed orc, old workfaces, a roof that collapses, yellow mold, an unsafe floor.</p><p></p><p>Encounters:</p><p>- The dozen one foot tall silver living statues.</p><p>- An ochre jelly</p><p>- Shroud spider lair (spider might not be there) with a skeleton with treasure - a silver and gold belt.</p><p>- Spider food store with web-shrouded bodies - two orcs, two dwarves, and one gnome</p><p>- Smaller caverns with orcs</p><p>- Orc lair with remaining orcs. Lots of treasure.</p><p></p><p>That's it. It turns out it's probably more than the 6-8 encounters you'd want in a day if only because the shroud spider and orc lair can be quite tough. But if the PCs were level 3 or the numbers of orcs reduced and the spider less threatening (It's 5HD and 28 HP, which is a lot for Basic D&D) it should be doable.</p><p></p><p>Good mix of encounter types. Good fun!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="guachi, post: 7495680, member: 6785802"] B10 Night's Dark Terror has a short encounter involving a mine. It's a side quest so it's not part of the main story and could be used basically anywhere. Premise: Gnome and some dwarves can't go back into a small mine because there's a big nasty spider attacking them. Also, at the other end is a small group of orcs. PCs encounter some traps, including some very small silver living statues. The spider lurks throughout the dungeon and it's beady eyes can be seen until it attacks! Also, the PCs can free some dwarves tied up by the spider in its web. The orcs can be encountered on the other side of the mine and have their own entrance (unknown to the gnome and dwarves) so if the PCs are clever enough they can drive the orcs out without having to fight them. EDIT: Checking the actual adventure - the series of encounters is all of 1 2/3 pages with the map maybe being 1/2 a page. The entire adventure is a marvel of page economy. It turns out it's two gnomes and a dozen dwarves. They don't know about the spider but they do know about the orcs. Four dwarves and one gnome are missing. There is a fragment of a web that is numb to the touch. The orcs worship the shroud spider but fear it. The social encounters are whatever interactions you want with the one remaining gnome and 8 remaining dwarves. There are some exploration encounters in the mine - paralyzed orc, old workfaces, a roof that collapses, yellow mold, an unsafe floor. Encounters: - The dozen one foot tall silver living statues. - An ochre jelly - Shroud spider lair (spider might not be there) with a skeleton with treasure - a silver and gold belt. - Spider food store with web-shrouded bodies - two orcs, two dwarves, and one gnome - Smaller caverns with orcs - Orc lair with remaining orcs. Lots of treasure. That's it. It turns out it's probably more than the 6-8 encounters you'd want in a day if only because the shroud spider and orc lair can be quite tough. But if the PCs were level 3 or the numbers of orcs reduced and the spider less threatening (It's 5HD and 28 HP, which is a lot for Basic D&D) it should be doable. Good mix of encounter types. Good fun! [/QUOTE]
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