The K-Team: Best Undead Adventures?

[Aeolius]

Tammeraut's Fate, Dungeon #106. Greg A. Vaughan drops off the PCs at an abandoned island monastery right before the drowned ones emerge....

Sounds like Shock Waves , with the exception of the drowned ones being aquatic nazi zombies, of course.

"Once They Were Almost Human! Beneath the living... Beyond the dead... From the depths of Hell's Ocean! The Deep End of Horror!"

 

[roguerouge]

Hell House

Might I suggest "Cage of Delirium"?

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/12/12495.phtml

I've read it and it is AWESOME. Absolutely superb backstory with no forced soundtrack integration.

 

[Psion]

Tomb of Abysthor and Rappan Athuk are both dungeon crawls with a heavy undead assortment. However, they are pretty extensive complexes; don't expect to knock through the whole thing. That said, I ran a special ops technothriller (rather, "arcanothriller" ) type game with ToA and second world characters.

Spoiler

Tentacle grenades are real useful when facing the font of bones.

I always though the old 1e mini-adventure "The Fifth Sepulchure" by FFG was a pretty cool little undead themed adventure.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Filge's tower in the first adventure in the Age of Worms...I will be running this whole campaign so I'll hold this one, but good thought!

Tegel Manor-Clark says there will be downloadable 3.5 stats? I might look at this!

Dream Machine Production's Complex of Zombies-never heard of it, I will have to googleize it.'

Crypt of the Devil Lich - that's right, that one rocks!

Mayfair Games - Undead - will have to find this on ebay.

"The Styes" by Richard Pett and Greg Vaughn's "Tammeraut's Fate" from Dungeon - THAT's the stuff, I recall reading the opening of these and couldn't remember where they were, these two are super, thank for the reminder!

Pathfinder 2: The Skinsaw Murders - I'm reading this now and planing on running the entire campaign - it's super.

And, of course, a pared-down, one-shotified rendition of Castle Ravenloft would be perfect - yes, actually if this goes to an entire campaign this will be the crux of the campaign - I really like what they did with it.

L1: Secret of Bone Hill for the nostalgia-I still own this, since the 80's, and never ran it. Must look it up now...

Empire of the Ghouls (Wolfgang Baur, Open Design - REALLY? I must check this one out.

REF5 Lords of Darkness - I think i ran every story in this one, twice, back in the day!

Return to the Tomb of Horrors is fantastic - I ran this, it was indeed quite a trip.

Might I suggest "Cage of Delirium"? - Yeah, the one with the CD, I have to open that one, thanks!

Tomb of Abysthor and Rappan Athuk - I am planning on running these in full one day - love 'em both.

"The Fifth Sepulchure" by FFG - That's right, I still have all those little FFG things around here - GOOD CALL!

Thanks everyone, this is quite a great lead!

-DM Jeff

 

[Psychotic Jim]

I would recommend Totentanz from Dungeon #90, for 4th level characters. My players had a hoot with that one. The dancing dead were macabre and interesting, and the Wraith King became a regular foe in my games. The players will never forget stripping the town of every door to create an impromptu siege machine to attacke the castle filled with skeletal archers.

There are a few other adventures involve undead in that issue, but I never ran or played through them. Might be 3.0 though.

 

[Darklone]

Kalamar: Harvest of Death. 4 adventures for a good range of levels. I put them into two different campaigns so far and loved it. There are variant vampires in different stages of Undeath in there, the Shar'jani. More traditional vampires out of the books than D&D vampires who don't need to drink blood.

Horror movie zombies can be found in Liavens Fall, a pirate and zombies adventure. Great thing, we have a blast to play it ATM. Nothing like having some hundred zombies taking over a pirate town.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

I remember reading Tortentanz. That was very cool and imaginitive.

You can read about Empire of the Ghouls and Open Design here.

 

[Hammer_of_Tyr]

Tammeraut's Fate, Dungeon #106. Greg A. Vaughan drops off the PCs at an abandoned island monastery right before the drowned ones emerge....

--Erik

Erik Mona for the win.

We ran through "Tammeraut's fate" last night and had a blast. It had a "classic zombie movie" feel. We were stranded on an island till the next day, we knew that the zombies were coming out of the sea at nightfall. After a couple of encounters not involving the undead. We secured the manor house and began fortifying it. The plan was to board up all the entrances but the front and funnel all the zombies into the front room and then attack them from the balcony. Have our priest turn them or cast "holy storm". Our plan lasted about 3 rounds.

Little did we know that they had

Spoiler

Ninja Pirate zombies

It turned into a free for all. After many rounds of chaotic combat, and we persevered and emerged victorious. Next week I think we are rowing out the the wreck to investigate.

Wish us luck

 

[RangerWickett]

The sixth installment of War of the Burning Sky takes place in a necromantically-charged burnt out castle, whose entire garrison of once-soldiers-now-burning-undead stand between you and a treasure you seek. It's not just a dungeon crawl, though, because the wraith in charge of the defenses actively sends his forces after you, so you have to hole up inside the complex and hold them off. Also, there's another band of treasure hunters seeking the same prize, which provides for some fun rivalry. Who can kill the most undead?

It's not a horror adventure, but is more of a 'bug hunt,' as someone put it, but you could easily play up the horror aspect, and there's enough other components aside from the undead to keep the PCs guessing. It's called Tears of the Burning Sky, for levels 11 to 12.

 

[DM_Jeff]

I Fell Out Of My Frickin' Chair

As Hammer of Tyr noted above, I ran this adventure last night after carefully weighing the suggestions, and it was super fun, so much fun I FELL OUT OF MY FRICKIN' CHAIR.

I was full into the descriptions when the party came to the edge of the sea near the wrecked rowboat. I was trying to distract them from the true horror below, and made a "body loooking up through the water dead" floating effect and my hands went up, my eyes rolled back, and I tilted, and...CRASH. My DM's chair took a flat-out smash into the floor. I wisely pulled my head forward to avoid brain damage, and the chair is this ultra-padded thing so I suffered no nonlethal damage.

Without missing a beat I stood myself and the chair up to the looks of 5 horrified players and said "what do you do?!"

What a night. And I have logged many of the fine adventures suggested above for future expeditions, thanks again!

-DM Jeff