Continuing through the door of Room #23, the hallway continues there is a cell on your immediate right.
Inside this room are three (3) large Giant Crab Spiders. They have maximum hp. Their bite has poison as per the B/X rules.
There is a glow coming from a portal 10' from the ground. If the PCs stay in this room for longer than 1 hour three more crab spiders will appear.
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Another dip into my Monster and Treasure Assortment tonight!
Returning to Room #20, the characters can now go to the right (previously left).
This hallway leads to a closed door. The door is not locked. Inside is a circular chamber. There is a door just like the one the PCs entered on the other side.
On the walls above the characters are 2 Gargoyles. As soon as the PCs are all in the room, they will swoop down and attack.
Behind a loose stone near their roosts is their treasure hoard. There is C x2 treasure, as well as an additional 1,000 gp in assorted gems.
Going straight takes the characters to a large room with wooden doors. There is an eerie glow from the inside of the room.
This is a storage chamber for various items needed to keep and feed the monsters here. All the food is long gone, but there are a few normal weapons here as well as the following magical ones.
A sword +1 / +2 vs Lycanthropes.
A gem of light (casts light 3 times per day) This is causing the glow.
A shield +2
A dagger +1
A mace +1 / +2 vs Undead
Finding these items is worth 1,500 xp total.
This room is a dead end.
This room is another semi-circular chamber, like Room #12. The room has a hallway to the left, and the hallway continues straight.
This room, like Room 12, shows signs of a recent battle. There is a dead orc here with a usable sword, non-magical. He has a pouch of 23 cp that his "killers" missed. There is a poison dart in his neck.
The orc is lying on top of a trap trigger; this is what killed him. Moving the orc will trigger it again.
Finding the trap and disarming before it fires is worth 50xp. After it fires, it is only worth 0 xp.
Moving down the hall another 10', there is another cell on the left.
This room was recently sacked by the group in room 18. There are three dead orcs here. If the party searched they will find a potion of healing that was missed.
Taking the left turn you continue down the hallway there is a door to your immediate right (18), and another further down to the left (19). The door to the right is open.
This is a much larger cell, and inside are 6 Human Fighters (level 3, Chaotic). They all wear platemail (AC 4) and carry swords (1d8+1). Their hp are 16, 13, 11, 11, 10, 9.
Fighter #1 (16hp) has a dagger +1 that he will use if combat is going against them.
They have a total of 250 pp, 800 gp, 1,250 ep, 220 sp, and 3,000 cp. This is the group that has been looting the dungeon ahead of the characters. Adjust their number and hp as needed.
The hallway continues a bit and then turns to the left, but before that, there is another cell on the right.
The doors are open. Inside this cell are three orcs with swords. They are searching the cell, but have not found anything, they attack the party.
They have normal amounts of treasure for wandering orcs.
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The orcs come from a portal on the second level.
This room is down the hall and to the left.
Inside this room is a Lesser Iron Golem. It is like an iron golem in all respects, but only has 4HD and it does 1d8+1 points of damage per hit.
It instructed to attack, the problem was it attacks everyone even its makers. So they left it here.
There is double treasure type E scattered about the floor of this room.
Continuing down the hallway there is another cell on the right (where the ghosts seemed to have been running too).
This room also has two more Wraiths. They appear to be two adventurers in the process of looting a corpse. The corpse is now only old bones.
The wraiths will break their loop and attack the characters.
The skeleton has a rusted sword, tattered clothes, and a dagger in its back. There is a bag with 15 gp in it.
Continuing down the hallway, you see two figures leaving the cell on the left.
The figures are two Wraiths and they are leaving the cell, as they have done 1000 times since they died. They are vaguely humanoid. One appears to be a male fighter and the other a female wizard or cleric.
When they spot the PCs they will attack.
There is a small hoard of treasure in Cell #14. Items from previous victims. They used to be adventurers themselves but are now dead.
Taking the Right-hand turn in the chamber, you move about 20' in, and another cell is on your right.
This cell is large and empty save for the glowing light coming from it.
Standing in the light for a full turn will heal 1 hp of damage. Characters can be healed for a total of 1d6+1 hp in this manner.
Continuing on the hallway opens up to a large semi-circular chamber. The hallway continues on beyond the chamber and there is another hallway to the right.
There are signs here of a recent battle. There is blood on the ground and spent arrows.
There are no bodies and no treasure.
Continuing down this hallway, there is another cell on the right.
The door to this cell is open. Inside are three Zombies. Two are visible in the center of the cell, and the other is propped up against the wall and blends in.
The first two will attack per normal, the other will not attack until the characters are within arm's reach (5 ft). The third zombie is the experiment, it has a bit more intelligence and cunning for an undead corpse and can move faster. It surprises on a roll of 3 or less on a d6 and can attack at any point with its initiative rolls. It attacks as a 3HD monster and has the respective XP.
The zombies have no treasure.
This cell is around the corner on the right. The cell door on the right is open and inside is a glowing portal.
Standing in the room is a human woman. She has two crystals in one hand and is furiously writing notes. She speaks to the party very excitedly, but her language is unknown. She ignores whatever the party says to her; she is too excited about whatever it is she writing.
She is really only interested in this portal. She has no treasure to mention. If she is attacked she jumps through the portal and runs off.
If the characters follow, the portal will close behind. Take the character sheets from the players and hand them their new Castles & Crusades character sheets for the same characters.
You come to a turn in the hallway. It turns to right, but before it does, there is another cell door on your left. These cell doors are open.
This room is empty. There are signs of a recent battle. A pile of bones that look like they belonged to a couple of dire wolves is here.
There is no treasure in this room.
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There is still a group of ahead of the party and they dealt with the skeletal dire wolves.
Continuing down the hall there is another cell on the right.
This cell appears to be used as a storage area. There are several chests, all are empty except for two.
Chest #1: has a Small Bag of Holding inside. The bag itself is empty.
Chest #2: Is actually a Mimic and it is starving.
The mimic itself has no treasure.
Well...not exactly a Mail Call Tuesday today. Though it will be sometime in June/July. But I had to mention these.
ReAction, the company that makes action figures for various properties in the style of the old Kenner Star Wars figures (3.75" scale), has a new series coming out.
Wave 1 of their Dungeons & Dragons line has some very familiar faces.
There is the Sorceress (D&D Moldvay Basic), the Efreeti (DMG), and the Githyanki (Fiend Folio) in the first wave for preorder now.
Damn it. Just when I was in a good place NOT to give WotC any money out of protest for the OGL shenanigans.
Anyway. As someone who really went hardcore with D&D with the Moldvay Basic (my first proper D&D) and writes so much about witches, I am morally obligated to buy the Sorceress. I owe it to that 11-year-old I once was. Besides, she is certainly popular.
The other figures also look great.
The Efreeti also has another advantage. At 3.75", that translates to 18.75' in D&D 3/4/5 scale. So I could use it as the Efreeti Pasha. It would have a certain level of "street cred" to use the same figure as the front of the DMG for it. Everyone in my current gaming groups knows all about 1st Ed AD&D, so to them, pulling this guy would have the same effect as pulling out Tiamat or Orcus.
All three of these figures have also, in one form or another, have had premium statues made of them. The Efreeti and the Githyanki from Wizkids and the Sorceress, in her modern guise of Seoni, from Dynamite. These figures are a lot cheaper.
You should be able to preorder these anywhere.
I am getting mine from Super7, which has better shipping. But I have seen them at Entertainment Earth as well. They will likely be on Amazon soon. Of course you could order them from your FLGS or FLCS.
These are not the same scale as the new D&D Cartoon figures, but they are close to last year's NECA Skyla and Kelek figures. Come back around in June/July, and we will see.
This cell is locked and boarded up. Movement can be heard inside. There are two doors here, the cell and the doors behind it.
Inside this room is an ancient and immortal Grimlock. The Grimlock is very old and blind. The magical experiments done on him have made him immortal, hungry, and insane. It will attack as long as there is no light greater than torchlight.
This cell, just down the passageway and on the right, has an eerie glow inside.
The glow comes from somewhere inside the cell but it is difficult tell exactly where. Everywhere the characters look for it seems to be somewhere else.
There are no monsters in this cell and the glow is from the pervasive magic in this area.
This room looks much like the last, save there is no mistake about what is here.
This room houses a creature similar to the one before it. A human-bugbear hybrid, but this one has other features. It is a wight, and its arms have been removed and large crab-like arms end in claws.
It uses the same stats as a wight but adds +1 to all damage rolls.
Like the wraith before it, this creature has been imprisoned for so long that it gives no thought to freedom but only the chance to kill.
