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0one's Blueprints: The Ruined Town—Dungeon of the Thirteen Undead PDF
0one Games

Under the Ruins of Castle Blackcrow lies the famed Dungeon of Thirteen Undead.

Legend tells that the warlord Graunth Obadai wasn’t able to conquer Castle Blackcrow, inhabited by a human clan of fierce warriors. It is said that the warlord killed 13 of his bravest warriors and his shaman turned them into frightening undead. The undead eventually conquered the castle but were forced to rest under its ground, in the ancient catacombs under the castle…

Graunth Obadai, surprised by the might of his newly created undead army, wanted them forever at his service, but when the shaman told him it wasn’t possible and that the undead were bound to the ground they were created, the warlord brutally killed his loyal shaman.

Eventually the warlord left the place, but the ghost of the shaman is still said to haunt the Dungeon of Thirteen Undead, as well as the 13 undead lieutenants, of course…

This product expands on a location found in 0one's Blueprints: The Ruined Town.

"Rule the Dungeon" feature
Enhanced customization (doors and furniture are separate, for example)
Alternative hexagonal grid available
"North" mark available and orientable
Master control panel allows you to control all the maps at once
Buttons for printing only blue maps or black and white maps
NOTE: You must use Adobe Acrobat 6+ in order to use all the features of this product

The Blueprints product line offers you old-fashioned blueprint-style maps for your adventures and campaigns. Each map comes in a blueprint version and a standard black-and-white version. The maps are all vector-based for maximum print resolution. Despite their old-fashioned appearance, each map offers some degree of customization, using PDF technology at its best. A button (which will not be printed) on each map allows you to turn the grid on and off, eliminate the room numbers, fill in walls, hide doors and furniture, and many other options, depending on the map. Each 0one's Blueprints product features a classic fantasy adventure location: a dungeon, a keep, a temple complex, a thieves' guild and so on. You can use these maps as reference to build your own adventures or simply have them at hand in case your players go in an unexpected direction during the campaign.

While offering you the best quality, these products are really inexpensive.

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An RPG Resource Review
Reviewer: Megan Robertson
Thu, Apr 3, 2008, 08:45 AM

While many of 0one's Blueprints are single locations, this one is a complete - if compact - dungeon! There's a short backstory which explains the dungeon's name and gives you some idea of how to populate it, but of course you can substitute any appropriate story more suitable to events and locations in your campaign.

The dungeon consists of a ground level, a small cave system that serves as the entrance, and three levels of underground complex. The ground level is very overgrown and has but the remains of a small guard post still more or less standing. If you're lucky (or is that unlucky) you can find a path to a bone-strewn cave entrance which leads to the horrors beyond!

The initial caves lead to constructed areas which are under a long-gone castle, and both the cave system and the built bit lead down to 3 lower levels. It's quite a big complex actually, although in a state of disrepair with a lot of cave-ins and fallen rocks... and may well prove to still be unstable when your adventurers start rooting around.

The usual technical talents of 0one allow for customisation to some extent - print blue or black and white pages, have a compass rose or grid overlay and so on.

This is a fine example of what might be left behind when the above-ground structures are long gone, and provides plenty of scope for a traditional dungeon-crawl.