Players unaware that this is possible are in for a rude awakening. After a scan of your list, I am thinking of another approach. When updates are added to this document, its version number increases, and the word "New" appears before the latest changes. Dungeons & Dragons and D&D are property of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the U.S.A. and other countries. If the effect occurs, Id talk to the player in question separately, explain their current situation, and ask them if they are ok with it. George, level 9 Tortle Battle Master Fighter/Rogue Tomb of Annihilation. Chidi volunteered to climb around (fell once, great save by Andor) to reach the chest, but the second he touched it, it sprang to life! Yellow Musk Zombie. Wikidot.com Terms of Service - what you can, what you should not etc. View all posts by roguewatson, Your email address will not be published. 52 49 The knight statue seemed to be some kind of magical magnet that attracted metals to it. Koopa drank water from the fountain, and felt pretty ill afterward. So option 3 of the possible magical effects of the fountain says that it changes your sex. Support my channel via Patreon! On the wall behind the sarcophagus, two large statues of bears grip a five-foot diameter bronze disk embossed with a dozen glaring eyes that dart about. Three marble maidens stand in the fountain holding pitchers out of which water flows. Shards and flakes of rusted metal cover the floor around the statues feet. Descending the steps a ways, the adventures find a bronze plaque fixed to the wall that reads: The ring is a path to another tomb. Adventurers are sought out and sent to the jungle peninsula of Chult, where they must face . 0000029231 00000 n Following a passage to the east, the adventurers discover a grand chamber, fifty feet across that plunges into darkness below. Adventure for Levels 1-11. I run the Discord server and am a mod on the Reddit sub. Finn explored down the left hallway instead, checking for traps as he went. Search for the perfect addition to your deck. Koopa drank water from the fountain, and felt pretty ill afterward. 0000008200 00000 n Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0, TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History, Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News, Tomb of Annihilation NPC name source/generator, Too Many NPCs! View/set parent page (used for creating breadcrumbs and structured layout). Zindar. 52 0 obj <> endobj xref 0000049357 00000 n Once again, if the player disagrees, offer the more neutral alternative. Another one can be growing a foot tall or foot shorter. They spotted that triangle-head skeleton here. The dead abhor sunlight. He received "weal and woe" for an answer. A deep pit opens up at the entrance to this tomb, with a stone sarcophagus resting at the bottom. Communities, Guides, and Extra Content for the. The door to the north led to stairs and the underground river, but once again the adventurers refrained from going the water route. /- ~<0=p%KS>}D The talk of the streets and taverns has all been about the so-called death curse: a wasting disease afflicting everyone whos ever been raised from the dead. In a grand staircase that descended into darkness, the heroes stayed on this level and traveled to the opposite side. The cause is a necromantic artifact called the Soulmonger, which is located somewhere in Chult, a mysterious peninsula far to the south, ringed with mountains and choked with rainforests. Hundreds of skulls crusted with dried mud glowered from niches cut into the walls of the next room. the fountain. Dozens of eyes suddenly opened all over the disk, all of them fixated on him. LOL. The rest of the party lost their minds, "Can we do something to save him", "Oh god oh no". By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. They were leery about ducking inside, so Mannix summoned his frog statue and commanded it to enter. He laid bleeding out on the other side of the fan where Billie had to go back, heal him, and get him through. But Chenin and Ohgram failed over and over, and over, and over again. The adventurers stop to examine the corridor as the skeleton scrambles past the propeller. After a minute, the stone barrier rose and the puzzle cubes still in the wall were ejected. 0000069273 00000 n 0000016128 00000 n Watch the full live session here: https://youtu.be/nRfT8EzcoqE While I think the rest of ToA is pretty garbage for a large part of it, so far the Tomb itself has given us some of the best roleplay opportunities and events. Chidi mapped out in his mind, what should go where considering each of the rivals for the cubes. Calmer heads prevails and the heroes decided to take a short rest after acquiring the Triangle-head from the skeleton nearby. Click to enlarge. The record I found ended with, 'And so the two remaining companions of Falon returned with him to Beregost, the town of Falon's birth. 0000015956 00000 n The hallway then split left and right. In this door, though, there are nine cavities. Necessary cookies can be opted out through your browser settings. 7/23/2021: Dungeon cards may be put into a player's command zone using the venture into the dungeon keyword action found on some cards from the Adventures in the Forgotten Realms set. Browse through cards from Magic's entire history. Here they encountered the stone skull that had crushed Sather's leg; the chamber beyond could be seen through the skull's open jaws. Wearing a mask that is a replica of the devil face at the tomb entrance, the creature steps out of sight without saying a word. Manufacturer: WizKids/NECA. Finn used his slippers of spider climbing to reach the stone door. This is the first official adventure I ran (thus the insane amount of resources on this page). 0000037863 00000 n 0000009589 00000 n Yuan-ti Broodguard. Nothing truly game changing, just a fun little side gag! 0000026375 00000 n It should be something similar, meaning that it should provide a "permanent" change to the player without actually harming them. Koopa realized the voice was coming from the skull. As it does so, swarms of spiders appear from the cracks in the walls. A bas-relief carving of a green devil's face adorned the wall at the T-shaped intersection; the devil's open mouth was a well of darkness. They were being watched. A second later, swarms of undead spiders poured out from the walls! (Leads to: Cradle of the Death God) In an adjoining room, a rusting statue of a knight stands at the west end of the hall, gripping a large iron shield. Opening the chests, the adventurers hear a click. Ohgram found a secret door in this room that led north to the underground stream again. If you want to discuss contents of this page - this is the easiest way to do it. After a long debate about a single-file marching order (Chidi, Andor, Vigrid, Ohgram, Chenin, Belethor, Billie) the heroes investigated the area: Here the statues were opposite each other in these alcoves and when the cubes were brought in, the oil basins beneath them lit up. $24.99 Add to Cart With a Master Tier subscription, save your party some gold when you share this book/content with other players in your D&D Beyond campaign! And they only reason the heroes found the 9th one was because that cube (Unkh) when in this tunnel, illuminated the edge of a secret door at the far end of the tunnel. Once the swarms and the flameskull were dealt with, Billie explained that he was con-inhabited by the spirit of Moa, one of the Nine Trickster Gods, who gave him the power of Invisibility but forced him to tell the truth always. I go with the book. Pulling aside the heavy undergrowth, they see a similar entrance to the one they just found with old bones littering its threshold. Before descending any further, the adventurers decide to finish exploring the upper level. Andor came back from a nap and did the Fan Challenge and he made it through unscathed as well. 0000211347 00000 n A sibilant voice whispers in his ear. Vigrid donned the mask, opened the lid, grabbed the ring, and because inhabitet by the spirit of Obolaka, which gave him the ability to wear the +1 Ring of Protection but Vigrid became risk-adverse. Chapter 2 [New] Mad Monkey Fever (pg. Click here to edit contents of this page. Spying a chest on cliff ledge above a large chasm, the adventurers create a magical stone walkway to reach it, only to discover that the chest is, in fact, a mimic. The heroes got into the water and headed upstream where they found a chest at the head of the waterway. He recalled that his company traveled far away, to "the place of smelly mud," until they finally entered a place "under the ground, a bad place," and it was here that a "black mouth" ate his left hand. He was already heavily injured from the hallway spike trap in the previous session, and the water appeared to heal him. Picture 1 of 11. General Wikidot.com documentation and help section. Billie wanted to investigate the eastern passage. Defeated, Falon never again left his place at the end of Elmwood Lane.'". Exploring the area further, the adventurers eventually discover another, secret entrance to the west. Ill follow the enlarge/reduce mechanics. Meanwhile, inside the chest, Yareck casts dispel magic, dispelling the magic powering the magical trap on the chest, thus freeing himself. Mannix called out another of the clues from the obelisk, Don the Mask or Be Seen! Therin swiped the mask from the corpse in front of him before stepping into the room. It is meant as a gag and thats not cool - trans player or not. Once the tunnel is sealed, caustic gas billows out from the mouths of the relief-carved skulls. APEuAAAAX n>WL,VePaCp @7/bXqWf$lf-`O`+aTm3u^ Now they could fully investigate the room: Through some trial and error, the heroes learned that someone had to get into each of the three chests to turn the interior key. Your email address will not be published. Then they headed down to the 2nd level. Finn convinced Grunther to crawl into the rusted iron chest, and Koopa took the black onyx chest, both of which also had golden keys inside their lids. Secret doors were found to the north and to the south. Finn ran up to the skeleton, punched it three times, destroying it, and retrieved its square-shaped skull. Also available through our digital partners. Maybe it's just me absolutely loving death trap dungeons, but the puzzles and Traps are incredibly fun to run/watch my players try to figure out. The middle of the room held a sarcophagus with a serpent on the lid, but his eyes were drawn to a glass box containing a floating, flaming skull. To the north, a stone staircase descends to the lower levels. It briefly grabbed Chidi but the heroes were able to slay the creature. It yelped when it noticed them, turn and ran into a giant skull head in the wall. Andor first and then Billie crawled through the skulls mouth, and wisely Chidi stayed back as he saw both lights from the eyes of the skull go out. I need a little help/group brainstorming to assist me with altering one of the effects of the magic fountain found in room 9 of the tomb's Rotten Halls. 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This made the party amused, thinking this was a fun little fountain of good times. 0000015845 00000 n The group just entered the tomb last session, so this could come up as soon as next week. Disclaimer: This adventure will make your players hate you the kind of simmering hatred that eats away at their souls until all that remains are dark little spheres of annihilation where their hearts . She said that Desatysso had used the Dreamer's Amulet to get them out of the tomb, that he had broken it into three pieces. So they decided to slam a bunch of potions of healing and continue on. Instead of breaking through the window, George and Therin lifted up the nearby iron grate, and the party began dropping down into the claustrophobic water tunnel below. Find out what you can do. Three marble maidens stand in the fountain holding pitchers out of which water flows. The rest of the companions took cover while Koopa hurled his dwarven thrower at the window, shattering it. Astone sarcophagus rests on a stepped dais in the mid-Any creature that drinks from the fountain experiences dle ofthe floor. Dak and Koopa gave chase, cornering it in the room north of the knight statue room. Trying to remove the keys, the adventurers discover they are clamped in place. A Guide to Tomb of Annihilation (pay what you want) Tomb of Annihilation Companion SlyFlourish Guide DMs Workshop Guides Using Adventurer's League Modules Adventurer's League Official Modules World Timeline Through the Events of the Adventure List of Magic Items and their locations in ToA Recommended Materials Preparation A sibilant voice whispers in your ear: Let me help you! Blocking the passage near its northern end is a large adamantine propeller with five sharp blades. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. We use necessary cookies to allow our site to function correctly and collect anonymous session data. 0000001848 00000 n Xandala. A stone balcony winds around the walls to connect four archways. JavaScript is currently disabled. A large fountain dominated the center of the room, with three marble maidens holding pitchers out of which the water flowed. The jaws snapped shut, but missed the tortle completely, who scampered into the next room. Now that they were done in this room, the heroes headed back through the fan to get back to the others. Click here to toggle editing of individual sections of the page (if possible). He also saw a skeleton with a triangle head wandering around in here. The group just entered the tomb last session, so this could come up as soon as next week. 0000016025 00000 n George, was curious. Everyone was eager to continue on, but Finn warned about the possibility of further traps. 0000071139 00000 n Trapped Entry Each player loses 1 life. Tomb of Annihilation # Mini Rarity Size; Acererak (No Rarity) Medium : Acererak (Invisible) Very Rare : Medium : Acererak (Demilich) Skull . Koopa, inside the first chest, suffered an immense blast of force damage; Grunther had all of his non-magical metal items decay into dust; and Gresh endured a burst of cold damage, which he was fine with, being a silver dragonborn as he was. A stone sarcophagus rests on a stepped dais in the middle of the floor. Magic Fountain Result of a 1 - DC 12 or CON 44 (8d10) Necrotic - Disintegrates at 0 HP 16. His voice got higherhis hips widenhis beard fell outhis breasts grew. It ran away as soon as it saw them. His strength easily withstood the magnetic pull, but the others werent so confident. Noticing that the area of the mouth is obscured by magical darkness, the adventurers dispel it, releasing a shadow demon. While Koopa ripped up the grate, Finn looked through a glass window at the end of the hall into the next room, but it was dark and he couldn't make out much more than a sarcophagus in the center of the room. One of the failings of ToA is that there's insufficient foreshadowing of the Tomb, the traps within, its magical conditions, its creator, the atropal, and Acererak. In the meantime, Belethor, Chenin, and Vigrid leveled up. Inside the room, George could see a network of tiny tunnels all along the walls, with hundreds of spiders crawling within. Obsidian Portal has a lot of really cool features that use JavaScript. 0000003695 00000 n Las mejores ofertas para - Tomb of Annihilation (Dungeons & Dragons) por Wizards RPG Team estn en eBay Compara precios y caractersticas de productos nuevos y usados Muchos artculos con envo gratis! Four lines engraved at the center of the slab cross one to another to form a star, with both ends of each line marking the location of a cube shaped cavity cut into the door eight cavities in all. At one point George suggested ripping the eyeball disk free and using it on the dwarves, despite not knowing what it actually does. He informed her that she was dead, that she was just a skull now. Story consulting by the award-winning creator of Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward. The cause is a necromantic artifact called the Soulmonger . Temples and scholars of divine magic are at a loss to explain a curse that has affected the entire region, and possibly the entire world. Investigating further, the adventurers discover a statue of Unkh behind a secret door. Meanwhile Gillian opened the secret door and saw they had made it around to the other side of the tomb within a tomb, which Orvex identified as one of the former gods of Omu Obolaka, judging by the bear statues gripping the eyeball disk. Immediately, all of the eyes on the bronze disk turn to them and the corpses on the thrones begin to rise. Finally Mannix agreed to drink but only if Khaless drank first, and only if she received the positive effects that Orvex did. Although the lead up to the Tomb is not so deadly of course. Undeterred by this, Chidi drank from it as well. All she could offer to aid the adventurers was a map that showed the location of the tomb in the Snakewood, about a week's travel east of here. To the right appeared to be a balcony and stairway leading down. Whats happening? Then four wights burst from the walls to attack! Alyssa teleported the party straight to Beregost, but when they reached the end of Elmwood Lane, they found only the Beregost cemetery. Don the mask or be seen. My group also had a run in with the fountain, nearly killing the dragon born paladin (who later fell to the trap in wongo's tomb). 2023 Wizards. Previously on Tomb of Annihilation Tomb of Annihilation Session 71: The Rotten Halls p1 Starring: 0000001693 00000 n (Leads to: Veils of Fear, Oubliette) Veils of Fear Each player loses 2 life unless they discard a card. Knowing my group, I am considering just telling them where the 'danger zone' is: * Although I normally roll behind the screen or take the average, I think in these cases i will amp up the drama by doing the insta-kill damage rolls out in front of everyone. Billie investigated the sarcophagus and grabbed a staff lying on top. Plus there's a human who would then become a variant human, throwing most his stats out of whack and granting him a feat suddenly. JavaScript is currently disabled. Since that has no bearing on health, stats, or really anything other than RP, it really just seems to be in there as a gag (I'm aware that a similar feature exists in one of the portals in the Tomb of Horrors). Victims grow thinner and weaker each day, slowly but steadily sliding toward the death they once denied. 0000037234 00000 n Why cant I see anything? 0000025709 00000 n As he does so, green smoke billows from the staff, coiling around him like a serpent. %PDF-1.4 % The girl shrieked in horror, shattering the crystal box. Available to buy now at your local game store, bookstores, or online retailers. Andor smashed through the sarcophagus and the mummy was quickly put down, but not before it hit Andor with a Rotting Fist attack. Don't play it. Dak and Gresh watched the skulls on the walls uncomfortably. It had been awhile since we last left, so to start this weeks session I repeated the important cutscene that we ended Session 70 with Withers appearing in a magically projected image to welcome the latest victims to Acereraks deathtrap dungeon(tm). In darkness, it hides. When they finally succumb, they cant be raisedand neither can anyone else, regardless of whether theyve ever received that miracle in the past. Examining each of the statues, the adventurers notice that they are images of eight of the nine trickster gods of Omu. But, during the fight, Andor was inhabited by the spirit of Wongo. 0000001527 00000 n Let me help you! I'll instead have it reduce a character to dying with one auto failed death saving throw. Therin noted a buildup of gas around the corner, but Gillian fired off a Gust of Wind using her Triton mastery over air and water to disperse it, ran up the nearby stairs, and spotted the secret door right away. Obsidian Portal has a lot of really cool features that use JavaScript. I need a little help/group brainstorming to assist me with altering one of the effects of the magic fountain found in room 9 of the tomb's Rotten Halls. After some initial confusion, everyone opted to stay inside and ended up dealing with the poisonous gas. September 30th, 2014, Release Date: Initially I'll be allowing Medium DC saving throws when they're not normally allowed. Drinking from the fountain, Yareck finds himself magically transformed into a woman. Release Date: The major heroes had plenty of health to jump through, but Ohgram.attempted this with only 5 hit points. He had to get in on this weird action. A large green devil face dominated the end of the T-intersection hallway leading deeper into the first level of the tomb. Tomb of Annihilation centers around the Deathcurse, a wasting disease that slowly kills anyone who's ever been raised from the dead and prevents anyone who has died from being raised, and the Soulmonger artifact that caused the disease. Billie also acquired the Staff of the Serpent here. Then they explored this room more closely. Tomb of Annihilation Dare to defy death in this adventure for the world's greatest roleplaying game. After defeating the flesh golem, Dak, Nori, and Finn pushed all three buttons on the sarcophagus. Eventually, the voice becomes so frantic that it turns into a shriek. The puzzle cubes flashed and then disappeared and the stone door began to open slowly. Failed the save. Finn invited Grunther to join the companions on their quest to find and destroy the Soulmonger, and Grunther was more than happy to accept. Pulled towards it, one of the characters finds their suit of armor turns to a pile of powdered rust. My current thought: The creature's physical ability The devils open mouth is a well of utter darkness. See cards from the most recent sets and discover what players just like you are saying about them. Nori was especially curious about this carving. Or He is only mostly dead. Mannix produced a 25-ft wooden ladder from his Vest of Useful Items, and George helped prop it up to the other side of the room, creating a side-ways bridge. He cast augury as a ritual, asking Illmater if pushing the first button would be a good idea. A second, smaller tunnel burrows into the base of the cliff to the east. Here they looked in through a thick window and saw a stone sarcophagus with six corpses sitting in thrones, as well as a skeleton with a triangle-shaped thing on its head. Now I just need to know what to replace it with. Dungeon cards are nontraditional Magic cards that begin outside the game. 0000069534 00000 n With a shattering crash, the skull rises from the box, exploding in flame, attacking the adventurers. 0000005477 00000 n Volothamp "Volo" Geddarm. You know, I think I like that option best. While Dak threw a rope down to Koopa and helped the tortle out of the pit, Finn reset the trap, jammed the pit closed, and opened the stone door. If you just want to replace it with a harmless effect you could make it change their skin color to something unnatural but annoying like red or bright green. Send a suggestion; Uninstall Wikiwand; Upgrade to Wikiwand 2.0 Our magic isn't perfect. Going through the north door, Dak and Finn found a rusting statue of a knight standing at the west end of a hall, gripping a large iron shield. The halfling found three pressure plates on the floor in the next hallway. Chidi got a better look at the obelisk and found this sign on it: Boldly the heroes investigated the central passageway, and found inserts for 8 of the cubes. If the goal is to have an effect that would make them drink twice then it kind of has to affect some sort of binary status of the player so that they see it as a switch that they can flip back by drinking again. A stone sarcophagus stands at the center of the chamber, its lid adorned with a coiled serpent carved in relief. Starfinder Battles Galactic Heroes Galactic Villains . 1993-2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A rusted iron grate is set into the corridor floor. It had this message around the lock: Billie calmly shrugged his shoulders and cast Knock and easily opened the chest, and found some treasure. Afraid of the fountains other potential powers, the adventurers return to the previous chamber, using a wall of stone spell to prevent the statue from destroying anymore of their equipment. 40). 0000014707 00000 n Other balcony levels are visible below, with corridors radiating off in all directions. Those who dare enter take heed: The enemies oppose. The creature looks up at them with disinterest and continues walking through the muddy water. 0000001276 00000 n Freelance Writer In this case, Id start with your trans player. The first drink of the fountain was our parties Gnoll Bloodhunter, who rolled a 3 and became a woman. It looked smaller than an adults skull, however. Tomb of Annihilation is an adventure module for the 5th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. Required fields are marked *. Discovering a pair of secret doors to the north and south, the characters decide to explore the passage to the north. $3.99 delivery Jan 20 - 24. 0000013576 00000 n 0000037503 00000 n Inside, they discover three keys, one in each of the chests. After Koopa and Dak returned to the rest of the party, they explored down the eastern hallway. We also use optional cookies to personalize content and ads, provide social medial features and analyze web traffic. Ahead, a bas-relief carving of a bearded devils face adorns the wall at a T-shaped intersection. After encountering Mr. Withers, aka the Dungeon Concierge, the party explores most of the first level of the Tomb of the Nine Gods (the Rotten Halls), performing admirably except for one magical fountain they just couldnt resist. Grunther got extremely distressed upon seeing it, stating that this was the hole that had eaten his hand. There's no record as to the specifics, but the expedition met with utter disaster.