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Post by aldarron on Oct 5, 2009 19:42:35 GMT -6
heh. I bet you are thinking Vampire Queen or some such module, but I'm actually talking about the sample dungeon on page 4 and 5 of Underground and Wilderness Adventures. This spare and sparcely described dungeon must surely have been the starting point for many groups back in the day. I'm wondering if any of you out there have actually used or played in this dungeon or if anybody has written up a more detailed version based on the notes in the book? I'd love to hear your stories or see any expanded versions anybody might have.
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Post by tavis on Oct 5, 2009 20:14:26 GMT -6
Yes, I used it for the first OD&D game I ever ran. I placed it on a spire of rock off the coast of the place the PCs were sailing. Random encounters created a red dragon perched on the spire, and another one attacking it. The PCs snuck into the spire dungeon while the dragons were fighting.
Inside, we were all puzzled by the wheel of doors - the players mostly surprised that the top of the spire was just steam-warped doors that were a pain to bust through, while I was freaked out by making sense of the rules about doors being stuck and shutting automatically.
I hadn't yet figured out that I should roll a bunch of d6s behind the screen wargame-style instead of telling the players to roll, so this bashing-down of doors went on for a long time without attracting a wandering monster.
On the next level I put some minotaurs - don't remember if those were also random or something I chose to make sense of the weirdness of the tower's architecture. These terrorized the party by coming and going through secret doors, often carrying off bodies.
My feeling was that it's not really a sample dungeon, but a master class in tricky things that would screw with the party's mapper. Then again, it certainly did create the weird Arnesonian sense of venturing into a place where nonsensical and alien architecture is jutting out of the sea!
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Post by Finarvyn on Oct 5, 2009 21:35:28 GMT -6
Yeah, it was our first dungeon crawl as well. My friend was creating his own dungeon map but we couldn't wait so he ran us through the sample one first. :-)
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