adventure within a dragon skeleton?
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Treebore
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I've seen a couple about adventuring inside the carcass of dragons before. One being in the old Castle Greyhawk module. The other I seem to remember being related to the Faerun Time of Troubles and the Dead Gods scenarios. I don't think I have seen anything more recent, let alone involving just the skeleton.
Mark
CreativeMountainGames.com
The skeleton could be what is holding up the ceiling of a vast cavern. That essentially, if you come in from the tail, gives you some side passages off of the body/cavern to "rooms" at the rear feet, a couple of larger rooms along the wings (perhaps several are just deadends), a couple more out to foreleg "rooms" then one at the head. You might even have the beast having died with its head near a forefoot/hand to make things a little less predicatable. Might be best to have the fossil/bones exposed in only a few areas, to give only early hints at where the PCs are exploring, then make things plain when they are in the skull.
I'd defintely make the fossil/bones lie in a 3D pose so that they are climbing upward into a mountain or down into the depths of the earth. The skull might look out from high in a mountain, for instance, and even be something that locals have dubbed as a promontory known as The Dragon's Skull, though they should be unaware of the actual relation to a fossil or bones.
I'd defintely make the fossil/bones lie in a 3D pose so that they are climbing upward into a mountain or down into the depths of the earth. The skull might look out from high in a mountain, for instance, and even be something that locals have dubbed as a promontory known as The Dragon's Skull, though they should be unaware of the actual relation to a fossil or bones.
Looking that up now. I've only used a whale corpse as a lair before, and they don't really lend themselves to non-linear maps...
Piratecat
Sesquipedalian
Thanks for the mention!
My adventure included a fight that took place inside a mummified dragon corpse; there's a foe with a long-spear (and something that you want!) holding you off as you try to climb in through the dead dragon's gullet. I really loved writing that encounter. That said, it wasn't so large an area that it needed its own unique map.
My adventure included a fight that took place inside a mummified dragon corpse; there's a foe with a long-spear (and something that you want!) holding you off as you try to climb in through the dead dragon's gullet. I really loved writing that encounter. That said, it wasn't so large an area that it needed its own unique map.
Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
What about making the bones that protrude from the earth some sort of Gate? Traverse the bones in a certain way, and end up in... whatever random plane.
Obviously, somes plane are worse than others, and detailed research is in order before one walks haphazardly betwixt those great bleached stones jutting out of the desert.
Obviously, somes plane are worse than others, and detailed research is in order before one walks haphazardly betwixt those great bleached stones jutting out of the desert.
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Ambrus
Explorer
The 3e Races of the Dragon features a shrine to Io housed within the petrified ribcage of an immense great wyrm gold dragon's corpse. It features a simple though colorful map and briefly describes the relevant areas of the "dungeon"; the entrance (the dragon's hollow skull), the dragon's throat and the shrine (the cathedral-like ribcage interior).
Hope that's of some use.
Hope that's of some use.
Merlin's Shadow
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Check out Perdido Street Station by China Mieville for a city built within the massive skeleton of some long dead beast.
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