Rooms & Encounters: The Living Tomb (5e)
The trap door opens¸ dim light flickers and unearthly shadows bounce and reflect from every angle and you're immediately assaulted by the foul stench of ancient rotting blood. A faint creaking sound comes from the ceiling above. As your eyes quickly adjust¸ you realize that the walls and ceiling of the room are covered in large mirrored panels set into a spidery framework of black lacquered bone. The ceiling arches up in the center into a high dome¸ no less than twenty feet above the floor. Horrifically suspended in the middle is a large¸ ten-foot-radius¸ bone chandelier¸ with a most grisly center piece- a humanoid corpse entwined in cobwebs¸ hanging by its back from flesh hooks with its throat slit open laterally.
"'Welcome...' it says calmly in a dry¸ toneless¸ non-sibilant voice¸ 'I am Qomaq¸ welcome to my living tomb.'
The trap door opens¸ dim light flickers and unearthly shadows bounce and reflect from every angle and you're immediately assaulted by the foul stench of ancient rotting blood. A faint creaking sound comes from the ceiling above. As your eyes quickly adjust¸ you realize that the walls and ceiling of the room are covered in large mirrored panels set into a spidery framework of black lacquered bone.
The ceiling arches up in the center into a high dome¸ no less than twenty feet above the floor. Horrifically suspended in the middle is a large¸ ten-foot-radius¸ bone chandelier¸ with a most grisly center piece- a humanoid corpse entwined in cobwebs¸ hanging by its back from flesh hooks with its throat slit open laterally.
"Welcome…." it says calmly in a dry¸ toneless¸ non-sibilant voice¸ "I am Qomaq¸ welcome to my living tomb"
Discover the Living Tomb!
Written by Tim Hitchcock
The Dungeon Under the Mountain is a massive dungeon complex extending endlessly below the ground. In a remote past¸ ancient evil beings dwelled in the area. Now¸ the remaining of these mysterious evil beings have seized the dungeons and filled it with deadly traps and monsters. Also¸ many known villains have established their strongholds in the depths of The Dungeon Under the Mountain. Nobody knows why this dungeon is filled by danger¸ but nobody cares¸ since this dungeon is the most prized adventure ground of the world. However be warned¸ adventurers¸ your life will be not easy here and dozens of self-calling heroes never returned from the Dungeon Under the Mountain!
You Have Been Warned!
This is the second of a series of products detailing the rooms in the massive Dungeon Under the Mountain environment. This is the Room 8¸ Level 1
This product contains one room or one dungeon-based encounter. All the rooms featured here are taken from one of The Dungeon Under the Mountain products¸ although these products are not necessary¸ since the encounter can be adapted without effort to any existing dungeon.
This product takes advantage from the PDF technology¸ joining old-fashioned style with the most advanced electronic features. In order to use this product you must use Adobe Acrobat 6 or later.
This product has been designed to help busy referees in preparing dungeon adventures and encounters. Instead of wasting time scaling the encounters and adapting them to your party¸ here you will find a pre-scaled encounter suitable in three different versions (for low¸ mid and high level of play). At the beginning of the encounter text¸ you will find a big button like this.
By clicking on this button you can choose which level want to play (low¸ medium¸ high). When you have made your choice all the relevant portions of the text will change accordingly.
Monsters will scale¸ DCs will change¸ traps and behaviors of the villains will change¸ according with the level of play you choose.
Nevertheless¸ this is not all.
Beside each paragraph you will find the same button found before¸ but much smaller. This button allows you to change only the appropriate paragraph. Therefore¸ if you need stronger monsters in your low-level encounter¸ you can adjust them and use mid-level monsters instead of low-level ones. Likewise¸ if you want traps tougher¸ just click on the paragraph button and change the level of the traps paragraph. Blank spaces¸ due to different text lengths¸ will be filled with placeholder artwork¸ so you will have a good-looking page.
The product also features simple and clear maps and miniature-scale maps.
Those familiar with The Dungeon Under the Mountain products will found the maps easy to use. The smaller maps feature a