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Burial Mound of Esur the Red
Another One Page Dungeon download along with the Friday Map this week.
I love a well-placed and executed red herring. In this case, this dungeon will likely send the player characters on a wild goose chase to another much larger dungeon elsewhere to find a needed magic item for their quest – whereas in reality the item they need is hidden in a second tomb in the same structure.
The burial mound was fun to draw because of the smaller size. It probably took me about an hour and a half that was spent primarily watching a series of MMA fight highlights. I’ve provided a fully detailed and keyed version of the burial mound as a One Page Dungeon download, designed with B/X or Labyrinth Lord stats in mind.
Download the full One Page Dungeon that goes with this map here.
Next week’s Friday Map won’t just be a map and a one page dungeon, but a full 7-page PDF adventure for characters levels 5 to 8 that we just finished playtesting.
Burial Mound of Esur the Red
Wow, I’m really glad I found this. The whole premise of this adventure, including all the specific details, fit perfectly with the established milieu of my own sandbox fantasy campaign. It’ll be a cinch to plug it into the game. Thanks!
Very nice. Fun little package and I like how you’ve removed the borders from the classic 1PD format – it looks a lot cleaner like this.
I also love the idea of sending the players to find an item, and having a false treasure map practically right beside said item send them on a much longer quest. Now I just need to have that other dungeon have a hint that the item is back where they looked already.
Awesome, as usual. 😀
I’m really looking forward to next Friday’s dungeon, though…
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Absolutely love this! I’ll probably use it tonight in fact! Thanks so much.
Do you have other one page dungeons?
MANY.
Check out the downloads and the maps pages. Dyson’s Delve is a series of 11 one-page dungeons that link together into an 11 level mini-megadungeon. Plus I had entries into two of the 1 Page Dungeon contests, and a few others stuck around the site.
You know, right after I finished asking you, I realized I could just click your ‘One-Page Dungeon’ tag…felt pretty sheepish about that… 😦
Anyway, thanks for your wonderful maps. They are awesome!
Man, I just ran two 5th level characters through this thing (a Paladin and a dual-class Thief (ex-Cleric)) and they got MESSED. UP. The Thief was killed when, fleeing a mob of skeletons, she accidentally triggered the blade trap. The Paladin was down to 2 HP and, due to encumbrance, couldn’t get to the Thief before she hit -10 HP.
Admittedly we were using the “Charlemagne’s Paladins” sourcebook for 2e, in which magic items are noticeably harder to come by, but still: deadly as hell.
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