I feel like I have slight writer's block for #dungeon23 so here are some concepts that jump around in my head.
- Bizzare garden full follies and patrolled by a medusa
- Medusa would be a stalking sorta creature; turns folks to semi-precious gems
- Statues exist of great value, but very heavy
- Statues are of other adventures breaking into secrets; study statues to learn this; some are people the town wants back
- Blind mole people patrol garden at night & agents of the Devil Swine (below▽) kidnapping adventures before they are turned to stone
- peacocktrice
- Rappaccini's Daughter situation
- Beholder kind guards a Deck of Many Things
- Uses Create Food & Water to attract humanoids to assist in guarding
- Humanoids have formed a religion around this phenomenon; have a special interest in cups/bowls/plates; People of the Feast/People of the Round Table
- Bothered that the "god" keeps mentioning the end will be in 1 year (this beholder only guards things for 99 years)
- Devil Swine disguised as a kindly wizard "trapped" in a tower
- Sends "press gangs" of guards to capture the most beautiful member of a party
- Want that member to plant a kiss, to wake his sleeping daughter
- Terrible twist: daughter is a vampire or daughter has to be revived for the swine's purpose
- Swine is actually the lord of the town the PCs are in?
- Or assemble every awesome katsuya terada Zelda image in a mood-board and go from there
- A gigantic pomegranate tree produces fruit that tempts the gods (to humans, the seeds are perfect rubies a single fruit is 10,000 GP + other effects)
- Rotten fruit has hideous effects
- A wyrm with brass scales and a poisonous breath is wrapped around the tree
- Waves of its vile breath float through the dungeon
- Roots extend downward to an underground cloud?
- A cloud giant's former castle is now underground; cloud atmosphere; avian monstrosities
- Dead or just dreaming?
- New occupants have a sorta parasitic relationship with giant
- Fay try to keep it asleep; the spinal fluid vampire skulks around taking sips
- This cloud is what feeds the giant tree above
- The Colossal Crab Cities of the Kuo-toa (posted about this here)
- Buried in a flooded plane now filled with sea creature
- 2+ factions of fish people fight it out
- PCs may become godlings in the presence of the kuo-toa's weird powers; may go crazy
- From former post: All the shell would be is a living reef of Kuo-toa singing mad hymns all the while. A tide pool from a briny hell. Maybe the crab would pick up chunks of cities, towers, and landscapes like decorator crab. Maybe it even has torn a piece of the night sky with it. Maybe this is actually the water elemental protecting itself from the eyes of other gods by disguising itself as a normal spiritual thing (See I have worshipers, cities, bits of land, factions, & sacrifice!). But really its just a crab that wants to eat everything.
- Cyclops/Ogre at the Ruined Moat-house
- Raised prised cerulean sheep and grapes of an exquisite type
- Ruined moat-house contains 2-3 entrances to the dungeon below
- Cyclops is periodically sleeping, sitting at the "front door" of the moat-house, counting sheep near by etc.; basically, PCs don't always have easy access to the dungeon
- Cyclops also has some great treasures too (Type E); e.g.
- 1,000cp, 10,000sp, 3,000ep, 3 × gems (10gp), 2 × gems (50gp), 2 × gems (100gp)
- piece of jewellery (500gp), piece of jewellery (700gp), piece of jewellery (800gp)
- 2 × pieces of jewellery (900gp), piece of jewellery (1100gp), 2 × pieces of jewellery (1200gp), piece of jewellery (1500gp), Potion of Diminution, Leather armour, Shield + 1, Sword +1 (+2 vs Lycanthropes), Spell scroll (light (darkness), remove fear (cause fear), remove fear (cause fear))
- Monsters Parts
- Gold dragon mummy
- Green slime merchants
- Troll with a magic sword stuck in its back
- Living statues that think they are gods?
Maybe I just wrote the whole thing? Stack all of these one top of each other?? What to do???
Ngl the level to which all the bloggers I follow seem to be prepping for this challenge is freaking me out a bit. I was planning to just sorta write one dungeon room a day haha. This seems like a lot of prep work. O_o
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Hard agree. And I think this thing is ripe for over thinking when it should be able just enjoying slapping down a dungeon as you like it. And enjoying to community portion of it. Share, repurpose, remix, and blog!
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