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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 7901115" data-attributes="member: 5724">Heya Folks, thought everyone should know about the upcoming OSRIC/1e megadungeon The Halls of Arden Vul! Richard Barton (author), Andreas Claren (cartography), and I (editor) have been working on it for a long time. Rick started working on it about a decade or so ago (I believe) and Andreas jumped aboard soon thereafter. I've been working with them since 2013. I'm proud to say we're now in the final art-acquisition phase with a mid-2020 release date.Arden Vul is more than 1,300 pages long in five volumes. The dungeon is composed of 5 surface levels, 10 main levels, and 15 sublevels. Over 2,000 different encounter locations are described, along with more than 150 new monsters and over 300 new magic items. There are about a dozen or so factions in the dungeon, to which the PCs can align or oppose. It is, IMO, a work of beauty. Something never seen before, and something that will never be seen again.A preview of one of the level maps is below: Level 4, the Forum of Set. The levels are highly interconnected for good play. For example, here's the list of access and egress points for level 4.Access and Egress PointsTo surface: stairs at 4-122A, leading up to AV-39To surface: teleportation via blue pillar at 4-167, leading to AV-29To Level 3: stairs at 4-1, leading up to 3-110To Level 3: tunnel at 4-88, leading up to 3-115To Level 3: tunnel at 4-157 leading to escape tunnel at 3-105DTo Level 3: stairs at 4-159 leading up to 3-212ATo Level 3: teleportation via blue pillar at 4-167, leading to 3-123To Level 5: tunnel at 4-87 leading down to 5-33To Level 5: tunnel at 4-117, leading down to 5-117To Level 5: river and whirlpool at 4-65 leading down to 5-103To Level 6 (arena): corridor at 4-161 leading down to 6-67To Level 6: teleportation via blue pillar at 4-167 leading to 6-48To Level 7: tunnel at 4-90 leading down to 7-118To Level 7: teleportation via blue pillar at 4-167 leading to 7-1To Level 9: teleport via pukel-manders at 4-74 and 4-151A leading to 9-40To Level 10: heqeti teleport well at 4-74, leading to 10-24To Sub-Level 4 (Goblin Warrens): teleportation via blue pillar at 4-167 leading to SL4-53To Sub-Level 5 (Lizardman caves): tunnel at 4-165 leading down to SL5-1To Sub-Level 7 (Flooded Vaults): tunnel at 4-76, leading down to SL7-37To Sub-Level 8 (Caves behind the falls): stairs at 4-162 leading down to SL8-19To Sub-Level 9 (Kaliyani pits): oval staircase at 4-51B leading down to SL9-75To Sub-Level 12 (Workshop of Kerbog Khan): tunnel at 4-175A leading down to SL12-13To Sub-Level 13 (Lost Chambers of Arden): stairs at 4-168 leading down to SL13-09To various areas: Thothian teleportation rings at 4-122 and 4-171To the Abyss: gate at 4-152Teleport destinations on Level 4:4-167: from one of the teleporters in 6-48[ATTACH=full]117771[/ATTACH]joe b.</blockquote>

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