Dark Tidings
A short Experimental Might/Ptolus dungeon adventure
By Monte Cook
Cover illustration by Jason Engle and Todd Lockwood.
Cartography by Eric Blische
Suitable for characters of 6th and 7th level.
20 page eBook on sale now.
The Dungeon below Ptolus
is sometimes called Ghul's Labyrinth. Carved out of the earth by slaves and
spells to house that evil lord's armies and dark laboratories, this is a place
where the wise tread carefully, if at all. And when adventurers run afoul of
the threats hiding in these deeps, it takes an even greater band of delvers
to find and rescue them.
Particularly when mysterious
dark tidings are afoot. . . .
Dark Tidings is a
short dungeon adventure for characters of 6th or 7th level. It is set within
Ptolus, Monte Cook's City by the
Spire, but it's suitable for any fantasy setting. It utilizes the feat rules,
magical disciplines, and spell progression system from The
Book of Experimental Might and The
Book of Experimental Might II—available soon in print as The
Collected Book of Experimental Might—but you can run the adventure
with the standard game rules as well.
Does your party dare to
risk the dangers of the realms below to rescue fellow delvers in terrible trouble?
For Revised 3rd Edition
games.
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