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Day 137 #dungeon25 Disaster Evidence: Looking through the portal shows translucent wizards performing experiments on living creatures, summoned beings, and people. The scenes play out on a loop over several hours, moving forward and backwards through time. A final cataclysmic moment ends the scene.
May 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Day 137 #dungeon25 Disaster Evidence: Looking through the portal shows translucent wizards performing experiments on living creatures, summoned beings, and people. The scenes play out on a loop over several hours, moving forward and backwards through time. A final cataclysmic moment ends the scene.
Day 136 #dungeon25 Research facility: This ruined laboratory contains lost evocation research. A series of intact glass tubes criss-cross the lab, and a gibbering mouther slides along the tubes towards movement and sounds. It can't attack unless the glass is broken, but its gibbering affects you.
May 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Day 136 #dungeon25 Research facility: This ruined laboratory contains lost evocation research. A series of intact glass tubes criss-cross the lab, and a gibbering mouther slides along the tubes towards movement and sounds. It can't attack unless the glass is broken, but its gibbering affects you.
Day 135 #dungeon25 Hellgate: The gate is mostly closed, but the room is hot and reeks of sulfur. Occasional ripples in the air reveal scenes of hell and an army of devils amassing. Your presence disturbs the gate, and several lemures and a couple of imps squeeze through a temporary tear in reality.
May 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Day 135 #dungeon25 Hellgate: The gate is mostly closed, but the room is hot and reeks of sulfur. Occasional ripples in the air reveal scenes of hell and an army of devils amassing. Your presence disturbs the gate, and several lemures and a couple of imps squeeze through a temporary tear in reality.
Day 134 #dungeon25 Cultist preparations: The room is filled with treasures; gold, gems, books and scrolls. The air reeks of brimstone. A summoned bearded devil and 5 cultists attack you!
The treasure here has been offered to hell, and spontaneously combusts or melts into ash if taken from the ruins.
The treasure here has been offered to hell, and spontaneously combusts or melts into ash if taken from the ruins.
May 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Day 134 #dungeon25 Cultist preparations: The room is filled with treasures; gold, gems, books and scrolls. The air reeks of brimstone. A summoned bearded devil and 5 cultists attack you!
The treasure here has been offered to hell, and spontaneously combusts or melts into ash if taken from the ruins.
The treasure here has been offered to hell, and spontaneously combusts or melts into ash if taken from the ruins.
Day 133 #dungeon25 Missing professor: Imrelith Greeb, Transmutation professor, has made himself a temporary home here. A coward, he will either attempt to flee combat or surrender if escape is difficult. He will sell out the rest of the cultists to save himself.
Use Transmuter stat block.
Use Transmuter stat block.
May 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Day 133 #dungeon25 Missing professor: Imrelith Greeb, Transmutation professor, has made himself a temporary home here. A coward, he will either attempt to flee combat or surrender if escape is difficult. He will sell out the rest of the cultists to save himself.
Use Transmuter stat block.
Use Transmuter stat block.
Day 132 #dungeon25 Guarded entrance: The University administration has placed a team of 5 guards outside the ruin to prevent exploration by inquisitive students. Three of these guards are cultists who have allowed other cultists entry already, the other two are completely ignorant of the cult.
May 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Day 132 #dungeon25 Guarded entrance: The University administration has placed a team of 5 guards outside the ruin to prevent exploration by inquisitive students. Three of these guards are cultists who have allowed other cultists entry already, the other two are completely ignorant of the cult.
Day 131 #dungeon25 Evocation ruins map for level 5 characters.
May 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Day 131 #dungeon25 Evocation ruins map for level 5 characters.
Day 107 #dungeon25 Assassination attempt - Encounter:
An Invisible Stalker controlled by Maria is attacking King Casimar.
The King is a human noble with a bonus 30 temporary hit points. The Invisible Stalker will focus its attacks on the King.
4 Knights defend the king.
Maria and Claude hang back.
An Invisible Stalker controlled by Maria is attacking King Casimar.
The King is a human noble with a bonus 30 temporary hit points. The Invisible Stalker will focus its attacks on the King.
4 Knights defend the king.
Maria and Claude hang back.
April 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Day 107 #dungeon25 Assassination attempt - Encounter:
An Invisible Stalker controlled by Maria is attacking King Casimar.
The King is a human noble with a bonus 30 temporary hit points. The Invisible Stalker will focus its attacks on the King.
4 Knights defend the king.
Maria and Claude hang back.
An Invisible Stalker controlled by Maria is attacking King Casimar.
The King is a human noble with a bonus 30 temporary hit points. The Invisible Stalker will focus its attacks on the King.
4 Knights defend the king.
Maria and Claude hang back.
Day 77 #dungeon25 Ritual site: The room stinks of sulfur. A natural opening in the stone, into which the mine has tunnelled. Crystals still line much of the ceiling, although the walls have been chipped away. The floor is covered in fine sand, into which a ritual circle has been outlined.
March 19, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Day 77 #dungeon25 Ritual site: The room stinks of sulfur. A natural opening in the stone, into which the mine has tunnelled. Crystals still line much of the ceiling, although the walls have been chipped away. The floor is covered in fine sand, into which a ritual circle has been outlined.
Day 76 #dungeon25 Cult preparations: A school desk has been dragged here, covered in papers, wax and burnt down candles. Next to the desk is a sack, and inside the desk is a pouch.
The papers include a list of items, featuring mundane and unusual items, many of them ticked off or crossed out.
The papers include a list of items, featuring mundane and unusual items, many of them ticked off or crossed out.
March 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Day 76 #dungeon25 Cult preparations: A school desk has been dragged here, covered in papers, wax and burnt down candles. Next to the desk is a sack, and inside the desk is a pouch.
The papers include a list of items, featuring mundane and unusual items, many of them ticked off or crossed out.
The papers include a list of items, featuring mundane and unusual items, many of them ticked off or crossed out.
Day 75 #dungeon25 Diamonds: The walls of this mineshaft glitter with a vein of diamonds. Some are relatively easy to chip from the stone with a mining pick, and with a few hours of work you can come away with around 100gp worth of diamond dust.
March 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Day 75 #dungeon25 Diamonds: The walls of this mineshaft glitter with a vein of diamonds. Some are relatively easy to chip from the stone with a mining pick, and with a few hours of work you can come away with around 100gp worth of diamond dust.
Day 74 #dungeon25 Oozes: These tunnels are damp and greasy looking puddles cover the floor. Wooden rods, presumably the handles of mining picks, are scattered about haphazardly. The puddles seem to be slowly pooling towards you... They're not puddles! They are gray oozes!
March 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Day 74 #dungeon25 Oozes: These tunnels are damp and greasy looking puddles cover the floor. Wooden rods, presumably the handles of mining picks, are scattered about haphazardly. The puddles seem to be slowly pooling towards you... They're not puddles! They are gray oozes!
Day 73 #dungeon25 Into the mine: Light from outside dims quickly as you descend the slope into the mine. After a short way the chamber opens outwards and a circle of runes around a cluster of bones, skin and hair, pulses with a deep red glow. A vision of terror and revulsion fills the dark chamber!
March 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Day 73 #dungeon25 Into the mine: Light from outside dims quickly as you descend the slope into the mine. After a short way the chamber opens outwards and a circle of runes around a cluster of bones, skin and hair, pulses with a deep red glow. A vision of terror and revulsion fills the dark chamber!
Day 72 #dungeon25 Store room: This sturdy wooden building has its door and small high windows boarded up. On the outside wall facing a stone cliff, a rune has been carved into the wood. Anyone proficient in religion recognises it as a fiend-sign for the Lord of Oozes.
March 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Day 72 #dungeon25 Store room: This sturdy wooden building has its door and small high windows boarded up. On the outside wall facing a stone cliff, a rune has been carved into the wood. Anyone proficient in religion recognises it as a fiend-sign for the Lord of Oozes.
Day 70 #dungeon25 Coalbottom mine map. Dungeon aimed at level 3 characters.
March 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Day 70 #dungeon25 Coalbottom mine map. Dungeon aimed at level 3 characters.
Day 42 #dungeon25 The Hellgate. The large circular room, lit by hundreds of dark candles, has a smooth stone floor etched with a series of runed concentric circles, which are slowly filling with blood, from an unmoving bullywug strapped to an upright bronze statue of a giant skeletal hand.
February 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Day 42 #dungeon25 The Hellgate. The large circular room, lit by hundreds of dark candles, has a smooth stone floor etched with a series of runed concentric circles, which are slowly filling with blood, from an unmoving bullywug strapped to an upright bronze statue of a giant skeletal hand.
Day 41 #dungeon25 Art is painted and carved into the walls, depicting a panorama view of a hellscape with visions of horror and torture. There is a carved representation of a portal looking out at a city on the north wall. On the south wall, a huge bronze double-door, shaped like fire.
February 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Day 41 #dungeon25 Art is painted and carved into the walls, depicting a panorama view of a hellscape with visions of horror and torture. There is a carved representation of a portal looking out at a city on the north wall. On the south wall, a huge bronze double-door, shaped like fire.
Day 40 #dungeon25 Secret passage. Within the passage the doors at each end are obvious, only hidden from the outside.
The walls are carved with a representation of a journey between planes. A small drip-fed fountain is a shrine to the Guardian God, The watcher of the ways.
The walls are carved with a representation of a journey between planes. A small drip-fed fountain is a shrine to the Guardian God, The watcher of the ways.
February 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Day 40 #dungeon25 Secret passage. Within the passage the doors at each end are obvious, only hidden from the outside.
The walls are carved with a representation of a journey between planes. A small drip-fed fountain is a shrine to the Guardian God, The watcher of the ways.
The walls are carved with a representation of a journey between planes. A small drip-fed fountain is a shrine to the Guardian God, The watcher of the ways.
Day 39 #dungeon25 This room is decorated with beautiful painted relief sculptures carved into the walls, showing angels pushing beast-like devils back through a hellish portal. Religious symbols of three gods are depicted, gods of the Sun, Moon, and Fertility.
February 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Day 39 #dungeon25 This room is decorated with beautiful painted relief sculptures carved into the walls, showing angels pushing beast-like devils back through a hellish portal. Religious symbols of three gods are depicted, gods of the Sun, Moon, and Fertility.
Day 38 #dungeon25 Cultist encounter:
In this section of natural cave, cultists are hidden behind stalagmites, ready to attack anyone coming from the direction of the waterfall. The trap being set off immediately triggers combat. They would be surprised if an attack was launched from behind them.
In this section of natural cave, cultists are hidden behind stalagmites, ready to attack anyone coming from the direction of the waterfall. The trap being set off immediately triggers combat. They would be surprised if an attack was launched from behind them.
February 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Day 38 #dungeon25 Cultist encounter:
In this section of natural cave, cultists are hidden behind stalagmites, ready to attack anyone coming from the direction of the waterfall. The trap being set off immediately triggers combat. They would be surprised if an attack was launched from behind them.
In this section of natural cave, cultists are hidden behind stalagmites, ready to attack anyone coming from the direction of the waterfall. The trap being set off immediately triggers combat. They would be surprised if an attack was launched from behind them.
Day 37 #dungeon25 Trap! Bone chimes on string are tied across the forked hallway, adhered to the damp walls with sticky sap. It is possible to crawl beneath them, but there is a rune of warding hidden on the floor, which fills the room with magical webbing if triggered, also rattling the bones!
February 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Day 37 #dungeon25 Trap! Bone chimes on string are tied across the forked hallway, adhered to the damp walls with sticky sap. It is possible to crawl beneath them, but there is a rune of warding hidden on the floor, which fills the room with magical webbing if triggered, also rattling the bones!
Day 36 #dungeon25 Water from the pool and waterfall rushes into a dark chasm, with a dreadful gurgling and slurping sound. The floor around the pit is slippery and treacherous. Anyone moving across the floor must make a DC 10 Dex save to avoid falling prone, and rolling into initiative.
February 6, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Day 36 #dungeon25 Water from the pool and waterfall rushes into a dark chasm, with a dreadful gurgling and slurping sound. The floor around the pit is slippery and treacherous. Anyone moving across the floor must make a DC 10 Dex save to avoid falling prone, and rolling into initiative.
Day 35 #dungeon25 The halls behind the falls. Made a quick map for my first dungeon of 2025. Aimed at level 2 characters.
February 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Day 35 #dungeon25 The halls behind the falls. Made a quick map for my first dungeon of 2025. Aimed at level 2 characters.
Solution pictured.
Other possible solutions:
- One of the bodies has magical incense which can be burned to cast speak with dead (consumed after 1 use).
- Ardor Black could tell you the location of the hell gate, for a price.
- After encountering the Hell Hounds, follow its tracks to the gate.
Other possible solutions:
- One of the bodies has magical incense which can be burned to cast speak with dead (consumed after 1 use).
- Ardor Black could tell you the location of the hell gate, for a price.
- After encountering the Hell Hounds, follow its tracks to the gate.
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Solution pictured.
Other possible solutions:
- One of the bodies has magical incense which can be burned to cast speak with dead (consumed after 1 use).
- Ardor Black could tell you the location of the hell gate, for a price.
- After encountering the Hell Hounds, follow its tracks to the gate.
Other possible solutions:
- One of the bodies has magical incense which can be burned to cast speak with dead (consumed after 1 use).
- Ardor Black could tell you the location of the hell gate, for a price.
- After encountering the Hell Hounds, follow its tracks to the gate.
Day 20 #dungeon25 In the commune prayer room are clues to the location of the hell gate:
- An unmarked map of the region carved into the stone altar
- 7 unusual coins: 1 gold depicting a Tome, 2 silver; a Dragon and a Wand, 4 copper; Wolf, Songbird, Moon and Pool.
- A riddle for placing the coins
- An unmarked map of the region carved into the stone altar
- 7 unusual coins: 1 gold depicting a Tome, 2 silver; a Dragon and a Wand, 4 copper; Wolf, Songbird, Moon and Pool.
- A riddle for placing the coins
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Day 20 #dungeon25 In the commune prayer room are clues to the location of the hell gate:
- An unmarked map of the region carved into the stone altar
- 7 unusual coins: 1 gold depicting a Tome, 2 silver; a Dragon and a Wand, 4 copper; Wolf, Songbird, Moon and Pool.
- A riddle for placing the coins
- An unmarked map of the region carved into the stone altar
- 7 unusual coins: 1 gold depicting a Tome, 2 silver; a Dragon and a Wand, 4 copper; Wolf, Songbird, Moon and Pool.
- A riddle for placing the coins