Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

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Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby Dyson Logos » Sat Jul 02, 2011 1:50 am

I keep wanting to post this map and then don’t do it because I want to stock it first. But I never actually get around to stocking it. I’ve USED it three times now in my games, but always stocking it “on the fly” using random stocking from the various rules we were playing with at the time. Thus, to celebrate Canada Day, I’m finally going to post it here and see if anyone else can do a decent job of turning this map into the awesome it deserves to be.

The map itself is centred around a massive shaft some 70 feet across spanned by four bridges on four different levels. I’ve run it as a rapid delve through four dungeon levels using level-appropriate encounters at each level (appropriate to the dungeon level, not the character level). In other words, it quickly goes from a team of halflings at the beginning to 8 hungry trolls guarding the exit.

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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby Blood axe » Sat Jul 02, 2011 3:36 am

Fred Saberhagen used that idae in one of his Book of Swords novels.
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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby Dyson Logos » Sat Jul 02, 2011 4:52 pm

Really? I don't recall teams of halflings and 8 hungry trolls.

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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby Blood axe » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:47 pm

Dyson Logos wrote:Really? I don't recall teams of halflings and 8 hungry trolls.

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Nah...just the rotating shaft. (that sounds wrong....) :oops:
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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby greyarea » Sat Jul 02, 2011 9:02 pm

Beware my giant rotating shaft! :mrgreen:

It would be interesting if the shaft itself was a plot point and something below was the goal of the party.
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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby monk » Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:03 pm

I can't wait to stock my shaft and show it to all you guys. Wait...
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Re: Give your players the shaft... With the Circle of Doom!

Postby Denim N Leather » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:14 am

That map is insane; very inspiring!
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