A secret room in the back of the Thoul hole leads to a larder, but this is no Troll or Thoul hole.
This is no larder of a troll or thoul. This is the storeroom of the Shadow Elves. There is food and water enough for five for a week here.
There is no treasure or weapons, but the characters gain 100 xp for finding this room.
No new monster today because I am working on the final bits of my new Monster Mash II: A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Monster Mash II: A Midsummer Night's Dream
More Monster Classes for Basic-era Games
For years brave adventures have been going into the dangerous wilderness and fighting monsters.
Now the monsters are fighting back.
Monster Mash II is an Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy compatible game that allows you to take on the role, not of a stalwart hero, but as one of the monsters.
This book features 12 faerie and sylvan-based classes.
Bugbears, Centaurs, Hamadryads, Leprechauns, Nymphs, Pixies, Púcas, Satyrs, Werebears, Werefoxes, Woodwoses, and the Faerie Witch.
New spells for Clerics, Druids, Illusionists, and Magic-users.
New spells, occult powers, and ritual spells for Faerie Witches.
All are completely compatible with Basic-era OSR games and my previous witch books.
Coming this Midsummer!
Going back and taking the central tunnel goes on for a long time (100') it leads to another room that appears to be another troll hole. Though in this room are not trolls, but Thouls.
These thouls (4 in total) are distantly related to the trolls in Room 5. They are not sure how, but they know there is a kinship there, so they do not attack each other.
They can cause paralysis (like ghouls) and regenerate like trolls.
There is Treasure Type C x5 here. The thouls have been very successful here.
Note: The shadow elves are immune to the thoul paralysis.
The tunnel continues on and splits into three other tunnels. The first one on the right leads to a dark hole-like room that smells terrible. The room is very dark and it is nearly impossible to see unless the characters have infravision.
Inside this room are two very large Trolls.
These trolls have maximum hp and are hungry. They have been eating shadow elves and are hungry for something with a bit more meat on them. They attack right away.
The tunnel opens up into another large cave system.
The party will encounter three Shadow Elves. They are on patrol.
Once this Shadow Elf community was vibrant, well. As vibrant as these elves ever get. But a thousand years of exposure to the Vampire Queen's evil and the necrotic forces here (not to mention what strange radiations are coming from the ship above) have reduced their numbers and made the remaining elves slightly better than ghouls. Their alignment is now Chaotic (Evil).
They will attempt to talk to the party, but on the first sign of advantage, they will attack.
In addition to treasure they have food (more of the good mushrooms) and wine.
Note: Dwarves will notice that these passages are steadily going down.
It's the first Friday of June! Growing up that meant it was time for some D&D. What better way to do that than some old-school adventures? Thankfully we have some great ones to choose from.
Maximum Mayhem Dungeons #0: Village on the Borderlands
Mark Taormino is a long-time friend of the Other Side and I have all of his Kickstarters. This one looks great as well and I can't wait to try it out. If it is half as fun as his other adventures then it will still be twice as fun as most of the adventures out there.
Tomb of the Dundel Chief - A D&D adventure, 5e, 1e and C&C
Ah, now this one comes from D&D royalty! Heidi Gygax-Garland and her husband Erik have already created some adventures. But this one looks rather epic in scope. Plus it has a Castles & Crusades version, the game that Gary himself felt was the spiritual successor to AD&D.
It also looks quite fun.
https://pacesettergames.com/collections/bx-rpg-1/products/things-better-left-alone
Ok. So not a Kickstarter, but on sale now. And it looks really cool and would jive well with all of these adventures.
So get out your circa 1983 rulebooks, color in your dice, and get these adventures. It's summer and time to play!
Moving through the cave away from the tunnel, you begin to spy smaller tunnels on either side.
As the party goes by several (1d4+2) giant white worms, Caecilia come from the tunnels and attack.
Each worm has Treasure Type B stored in its worm tunnel.
