the Dungeon Cliche
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Dark Jezter
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If the PCs are high-enough level, make sure there's a beholder for them to fight.
Along with the gelatinous cube, the beholder is one of those monsters that just screams Dungeons & Dragons.
Along with the gelatinous cube, the beholder is one of those monsters that just screams Dungeons & Dragons.
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MerakSpielman
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And the evil clerics need the princess to serve as a host for the spirit of their long-dead leader...
A room where goblins tend a garden of edible fungi.
(while we're thinking about fungi...) Lumenescent fungi.
A chest containing a blade trap (sword with strong spring attached to hilt)
A pile of valuable gems and stuff, but it's really an illusion!
A room that's a temple to a good god so the bad guys are afraid of it and have never gone in there (safe place to rest). This room contains a healing fountain that only works once per character per day.
A chest that's really a mimic!
A gargoyle that attacks the party and then flees into a neighboring room - which is full of statues of gargoyles. Which is the real one?
A pool of water. If drinking from the pool, roll 1d12 and consult the following table to determine the effects (include a table with wacky effects). This pool functions only once per individual.
A wishing well (non magical).
A crypt full of coffins standing upright against the walls - but surprise! They all contain animated skelitons!
Giant rats.
Giant bugs.
A magical sword in a stone that only one "of pure heart" can remove.
A wand of light.
A horde of kobolds.
A room with an arched ceiling. Thick webs conceal the top of the room. There's a giant spider in the webs.
A humanoid skull in a firepit with a semiprecious stone inside.
That's all I can think of for now...
A room where goblins tend a garden of edible fungi.
(while we're thinking about fungi...) Lumenescent fungi.
A chest containing a blade trap (sword with strong spring attached to hilt)
A pile of valuable gems and stuff, but it's really an illusion!
A room that's a temple to a good god so the bad guys are afraid of it and have never gone in there (safe place to rest). This room contains a healing fountain that only works once per character per day.
A chest that's really a mimic!
A gargoyle that attacks the party and then flees into a neighboring room - which is full of statues of gargoyles. Which is the real one?
A pool of water. If drinking from the pool, roll 1d12 and consult the following table to determine the effects (include a table with wacky effects). This pool functions only once per individual.
A wishing well (non magical).
A crypt full of coffins standing upright against the walls - but surprise! They all contain animated skelitons!
Giant rats.
Giant bugs.
A magical sword in a stone that only one "of pure heart" can remove.
A wand of light.
A horde of kobolds.
A room with an arched ceiling. Thick webs conceal the top of the room. There's a giant spider in the webs.
A humanoid skull in a firepit with a semiprecious stone inside.
That's all I can think of for now...
MerakSpielman
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Oh, I just remembered! Don't mark this stuff on your map. Just make a big table and every time they go into a new room, roll on the table to see what is inside.
And make the rooms 30'x30' (except for the orc & pie room). It's a standard D&D room size - almost cliched in my mind. Gives room to fight. Have a door in the center of each wall.
Have a section of the map where a room should be - but there are no doors. Surprise! It's accessable via secret doors instead! There's treasure inside!
Ok, I'm done now, really.
And make the rooms 30'x30' (except for the orc & pie room). It's a standard D&D room size - almost cliched in my mind. Gives room to fight. Have a door in the center of each wall.
Have a section of the map where a room should be - but there are no doors. Surprise! It's accessable via secret doors instead! There's treasure inside!
Ok, I'm done now, really.
Hypersmurf
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Brother Ezra
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Don't forget the skeleton in rusting chain mail, clutching a piece of parchment (somehow not affected by the elements) which contains the cryptic message:
"The dog-men live in the lower caves"
"The dog-men live in the lower caves"
Wippit Guud
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A maze.... with a minotaur.
Alterateloy, a maze with a goblin king... and a talking hat... it's so stimulating to be your hat...
Alterateloy, a maze with a goblin king... and a talking hat... it's so stimulating to be your hat...
Calico_Jack73
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dreaded_beast said:
OMG... I forgot all about Bargle. Don't forget a large poisonous snake and some ghouls. Bargle needs a charmed goblin (if I remember correctly). Bargle needs to kill the PC's love interest, a fairly attractive female cleric wearing form fitting chainmail and wielding a mace but no shield.
Water Weirds are also always cool as are wererats chasing the PC's through a dungeon. Give them a overhead room that they can get into by stepping on a stone block that is just sitting in the middle of a passageway. Of course the wererats figure out where the party has gone and begins breaking through the trapdoor.
A underwater skeleton covered by mineral deposits clutching a scroll tube which breaks off and begins flowing downstream.
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