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Posts: 173 (05/21/09 10:35:17) |
What do you think of the idea of placing Bottle City inside the Tomb of Horrors. Instead of the Siren's grotto, you have this little glass bottle on a
stand . . . (perhaps with the Siren and/or other prisoners of the Demi Lich inside).
What fun would ensue . . . .
"As though to breathe were life . . . ." -- Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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Posts: 6204 (05/21/09 13:59:27) Lord of Dimensions |
Wow, that's insidious, Endymion. I will remember if I ever need a co-DM o keep you in mind. I like the way you think.
"How now, varlet!" said Ralibar Vooz... "Who are you that speak so churlishly to a magistrate of Commoriom and a cousin
to King Homquat?" -- C.A. Smith's, The Seven Geases.
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Posts: 1409 (05/21/09 19:00:15) Grand Marshall of Kalibruhn, |
BC is a bit of a mood-change from ToH, but it's still an insidious idea, Mark!
grodog
---- Allan Grohe Editor and Project Manager, Pied Piper Publishing Works by Robert J. Kuntz, author of Maure Castle and Bottle City grodog@gmail.com www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/ www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/greyhawk.html for my Greyhawk site |
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Posts: 2122 (05/21/09 20:15:46) Major Pain |
I'm glad you guys don't live near me.
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~Clangador "I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be." ~George Taylor Clang's Corner |
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Posts: 176 (05/22/09 02:47:51) |
Oooh . . . I could even add in some of the elements I liked from the Return to the Tomb of Horrors. Given the added risk of Bottle City, I could put in some
tangible benefits, like NPCs who maybe have some inside information on how to combat Ace (or, at least about what DOESN'T work). I could put in that NPC
from the Return who's the last survivor of a failed attempt -- he'd be mad, of course, unable to give detailed information, but he would have some
useful tidbits. Maybe even the City of Moil could be part of the upper works to Bottle City. There are all sorts of tonal shifts to negotiate (as Grodog
notes), but it could be done. I never really liked the rest of the Return to the Tomb, especially the part about a temple/city being built around the tomb
(which to my mind must always be in some desolate, wind swept locale) -- there's some other good (and killer) stuff in it, though.
Now, what to do with the Gods in Bottle City -- old enemies of Ace? Friends/henchmen?
"As though to breathe were life . . . ." -- Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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Posts: 2123 (05/24/09 13:43:55) Major Pain |
I stand by my first statement.
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Posts: 3 (05/25/09 06:27:03) |
Oh my....my players are currently in the middle of ToH, which is set in an ancient, long forgotten sealed tomb in the Necropolis of Ptolus.....
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Posts: 285 (05/25/09 09:22:20) Earl of the Realm |
Welcome aboard Harneloot!
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Posts: 181 (05/25/09 11:24:45) |
BWAHAHAHAH
Yes, Welcome Harneloot. So . . .how are your victims er I mean "players" doing in the Tomb?
"As though to breathe were life . . . ." -- Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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Posts: 2133 (06/07/09 10:18:57) Major Pain |
Mose likely dead by now.
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Posts: 186 (06/09/09 12:41:52) |
Yup, either dead or "spat out naked" -- he, he, he.
"As though to breathe were life . . . ." -- Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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Posts: 2146 (06/21/09 12:27:54) Major Pain |
That orb of oblivion (or whatever it was called) was/is real REAL nasty!
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Posts: 182 (06/25/09 20:41:29) Baron of the Realm |
Clangador wrote:The two times I've run it at conventions, no one has jumped to their doom from that particular trap. I did manage to kill the PCs when the idiot Ranger picked up Acerarak's skull. He sucked the life out of the Mage first and proceeded down the list. 
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Posts: 2150 (06/28/09 12:24:54) Major Pain |
I took a guy thru the module decades ago. IIRC, he was playing a cleric and died pretty damn fast. Don't recall how.
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