Room 11
This room is empty.
Random Encounter
A gelatinous cube.
Room 11
This room is empty.
Random Encounter
A gelatinous cube.
Room 10
This room is empty.
Random Encounter
Randomly select a door. A cave-in blocks this door and does 1d6 damage to any character near it who fails a save.
Every time the party returns to the dungeon, the doorway is completely repaired, without a trace of the cave in, on a 1/10 chance.
Room 9
This room contains a stairway down to Level 2. It is guarded by 3d4 Giant Ant Soldiers, each with gold tracings throughout their carapaces.
Random Encounter
2d4 piercers. If your system has piercers of different hit dice, roll to randomly select how big each one is.
Room 8
This room is used as a graveyard by the giant ants on Level 2. The giant ants have traces of gold in their carapaces. There is a 1/8 chance that a scavenger is consuming or removing a giant ant corpse. If so, roll 1d6:
Room 7:
All doors to this room are locked with Lock #1. Unlike the rest of this level, which is carved into solid stone, this room's floor is covered in flagstones.
Four levers are set into a wall (roll each time to determine which wall; they shift).
The first lever is set with a four-leafed clover emblem in its handle. Roll 1d8 to determine the effect on the first character to pull it:
Room 6
This room is empty. There is a dripping sound, but it is impossible to locate.
Random Encounter
2d4 giant centipedes.
Room 5
A family of harmless mushroom people live in a corner, sheltered by some large fungi. Three of these large fungi are Shriekers who ignore the mushroom people but will not ignore anyone else who approaches the corner.
If attacked, the mushroom people will try to run but will not otherwise defend themselves. If a mushroom person dies, it will release a cloud of spores; all who breath them save or die. Most denizens of the dungeon know this and leave the mushroom people alone.
If treated kindly, these mushroom people will offer a stew which will heal one hp for all who consume it.
The mushroom people survive by scavenging corpses throughout the dungeon and bringing them back for their fungi to consume. They feed on their fungi as well as the corpses themselves.
The mushroom people do not use names.
Random Encounter
1d8 small fungi no one in your party has ever encountered before. A sage or herbalist will be able to identify them, but there is as 1/6 chance that they will have lost their potency by then. Roll 1d6 for the effect of these fungi; roll again each time this encounter is rolled.
Room 4
This room is empty. I have to remind myself that a good number of them are supposed to be in a classic dungeon.
Random Encounter
2d4 giant scorpions. I'm not sure I've ever run those before.
Room 3
Against a wall is a semi-circular pool. There are other pools like it throughout the dungeon. If a character pours water from one pool into a second pool, that character may teleport freely from either pool to the other from then on. This is Pool #1.
Random Encounter
The twin dragons Mardulopennum and Vergilotolabathar. They are fire-breathing dragons of the youngest age category, barely a year old. They are keenly aware of their vulnerability and willing to have conversation with PCs.
Both are able to speak.
Mardulopennum can cast the spell Sleep once per day. She is inclined to arrange the death of PCs – whether through direct attack, trickery, or timely betrayal – if she suspects they will be a threat to her or her brother.
Vergilotolabathar can cast the spell Charm Person once per day. He is most interested in building the twins' horde. He may suggest teaming up with the party against a stronger monster he believes has prime treasure (and he is correct in choosing treasure-rich targets 90% of the time). He may also betray the party if they have particularly choice treasure on their person – powerful magic items or lots of loot on their way out of the dungeon, for example. He will become very loyal for 3d4 months if the party gives him valuable treasure – a choice magic item or over 1000 gp – and resist any attempts by his sister to kill the party.
Neither dragon is stupid or evil for the sake of evil. If they betray or attack the party it will be when they have maximal advantage – unless they are defending themselves in desperation.
Room 2
This room's floor, walls, and ceiling are covered in a mosaic depicting a solar system. None of the planets or constellations match those familiar to the party.
This room is home to a giant trapdoor spider who – if not discovered by the party – will wait until the party is leaving the room before emerging from a cutout in the floor and silently attacking the last member of the party to leave the room, attempting to do so without the rest of the party noticing – at least until the party member has been dragged back into the spider's tunnel and the cutout is safely replaced.
Use Dexterity and Wisdom checks, grappling rules, saving throws, called shots, or whatever your system uses to adjudicate the spider's success. Other than that, stat as a standard giant spider.
The corpses of previous prey are buried in the silken walls of the tunnel. PCs who search them can find assorted coinage totaling 5d100 gp but will need to deal with 2d4 lesser giant frogs that serve as pest-control for the spider.
Random Encounter
Giant Net-Casting Spider
Stat as a normal giant spider. Hangs out on the ceilings and drops a sticky web net down on a character. Net does no damage but net attack hits at +4. Anyone caught in the net should have a really hard time getting out of it. The character caught in the net is pulled up to the ceiling so only ranged attacks will do anything – and they have a 1/2 chance to hit the character rather than the spider.