If so, grab this map I just created, and the small adventure intro if you're also a module short!
The Dread Temple Caverns
Originally constructed by the dwarven outcast Banz Schteinkopf half a century ago, these caverns have seen a lot of different residents since. A couple of years ago some goblinoids moved in. One evening, when they woke up, a large snake with a gorgeous female head was staring at them. She bade them kneel, and they did. In fact so overwhelming was Her charm that they did all She asked, and fought each other in order to please Her when orders where absent.
She ordered them kidnap travellers, and the prisoners flesh made Her satisfied and sleepy. But the blood of the prisoners was bottled and corked...
Now, years later, She has charmed a priest into service. Together, they await the oncoming constellation when the serpent is high and the waning moon is low on the sky. Then all the bottles, vintage and fresh alike, will be decantered just so onto the altar, and the Dutchess of Serpents will appear, and lo, all the guile and poison and violence of snakes shall be imparted upon them.
Yes, the time draws near. As luck would have it, a band of adventurers stumble upon these caverns. Will they be in time to stop the sanguine ritual? Or will they succumb to Her charms, and fill Her belly and Her bottles, like so many before them?
This map has also been posted over at the Cartographers Guild.
This is a very cool hand-drawn map! I'm also grateful for the accompanying adventure. It sounds like a fun one-shot.
1 Question: Why would a naga or her goblins have 2 pits of alchemical sludge that when mixed explode? Is there an alchemist among them or did they figure it out by accident and now they have areas where they dump the 2 substances on intruders to make them blow up?
Anyway thanks again for the post.
Do you know the one page dungeon contest? Might want to polish this a bit and enter next time around...
This is a very cool hand-drawn map! I'm also grateful for the accompanying adventure. It sounds like a fun one-shot.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
1 Question: Why would a naga or her goblins have 2 pits of alchemical sludge that when mixed explode? Is there an alchemist among them or did they figure it out by accident and now they have areas where they dump the 2 substances on intruders to make them blow up?
My original thought was that the sludge has been there for a long time. Perhaps installed/created by an alchemist who was funded by a local lord to produce explosives, but said lord would not allow such experimentation to take place in proximity of his land and keep?
I did in fact put some players of mine through this dungeon a couple of weeks ago. They encountered the place when an unmanned wagon came rolling down a slanting field towards them. Under a tarp on the wagon were four barrels of each of the two sludges. The wagon was trivial to dodge, but the explosion, when the wagon smashed into the rocks where our heroes where camping out, was both significant and unexpected.
Naturally, they had to find out who attempted to murder them, and followed the tracks back to the caverns :-)
Do you know the one page dungeon contest? Might want to polish this a bit and enter next time around...
I wasn't aware of this. Thanks a lot for the tip!
Is this the one: http://campaignwiki.org/wiki/DungeonMaps/One_Page_Dungeon_Contest_2013?
I finally got an RPG blog up and running! From now on you'll find maps like the one I posted here, and other morsels, over at Also, adventure!