Drakevarg
2010-05-27, 11:41 PM
Dungeon is in quotes up there because what I'm working on isn't a Dungeon. It's a tower that's made out of crazy. Eh. Changing the title anyway.
In the setting that I'm working on, wizards are limited by the fact that casting arcane magic basicly causes the universe to turn around and punch you in the groin occassionally. The more powerful you get, the more powerful the backlash gets, until inevitably the wizard either goes insane or is outright consumed by the backlash.
The tower in question was an attempt by the main religious faction, the Templars, to protect bystanders from rampant wizardry by building a tower waaaay out in the boonies and sticking all the wizards in it. Unfortunately all that magic in the same spot just made it worse. All the wizards are now long since insane, dead, or worse. The tower itself has been warped into a monument to insanity, and various creepy-crawlies swarm its halls.
My question to you is, what can you think of to stick in here? So far I've got a library full of books that want to kill you, and a large scrying pool where the water wants to kill you and what's left of the seer wants you to Go Mad From The Revelation (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation). Other than that it's mostly just really confusing hallways.
This tower is intended to be entered by Level 1 characters, but since I'm a killer DM I'd prefer it to be set so that any given encounter is a genuinely dangerous one that could potentially kill at least one member of the party. That's just how I roll. None of that "chosen ones" tripe.
The tower's about 10 stories tall (plus catacombs of unknown depth. PCs won't be going there) and a potential Big Bad will be found on the roof. Due to the theme of the tower, the two source books I own don't really fit so we'll be sticking to Core. Elementals, Outsiders with elemental subtypes, and Abberations will be most of the monsters, plus a few here and there with specific thematic origins, possibly including ones I'll have to homebrew. (IE, the Pagebound Soul in my sig.)
I can probably come up with my own stuff with enough time (it'd be alot easier if the party wasn't so damned squishy), but having a public forum to bounce ideas off of is always nice.
In the setting that I'm working on, wizards are limited by the fact that casting arcane magic basicly causes the universe to turn around and punch you in the groin occassionally. The more powerful you get, the more powerful the backlash gets, until inevitably the wizard either goes insane or is outright consumed by the backlash.
The tower in question was an attempt by the main religious faction, the Templars, to protect bystanders from rampant wizardry by building a tower waaaay out in the boonies and sticking all the wizards in it. Unfortunately all that magic in the same spot just made it worse. All the wizards are now long since insane, dead, or worse. The tower itself has been warped into a monument to insanity, and various creepy-crawlies swarm its halls.
My question to you is, what can you think of to stick in here? So far I've got a library full of books that want to kill you, and a large scrying pool where the water wants to kill you and what's left of the seer wants you to Go Mad From The Revelation (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoMadFromTheRevelation). Other than that it's mostly just really confusing hallways.
This tower is intended to be entered by Level 1 characters, but since I'm a killer DM I'd prefer it to be set so that any given encounter is a genuinely dangerous one that could potentially kill at least one member of the party. That's just how I roll. None of that "chosen ones" tripe.
The tower's about 10 stories tall (plus catacombs of unknown depth. PCs won't be going there) and a potential Big Bad will be found on the roof. Due to the theme of the tower, the two source books I own don't really fit so we'll be sticking to Core. Elementals, Outsiders with elemental subtypes, and Abberations will be most of the monsters, plus a few here and there with specific thematic origins, possibly including ones I'll have to homebrew. (IE, the Pagebound Soul in my sig.)
I can probably come up with my own stuff with enough time (it'd be alot easier if the party wasn't so damned squishy), but having a public forum to bounce ideas off of is always nice.