d20 Silven Publishing Horrendous Habitats - Ironstorm Mountain.pdf - Silven Publishing - R5700

Credits

by B. Matthew Conklin III, Greg Oppedisano and Christopher Wissel

Content Editor: E.P. Healy

Mechanics Editor: Michael hompson

Artwork: Cover by Mariusz Gandzel, Interior work by the Chris Malidore,

Cartography by Kosala Ubayasekara

Art Direction & Layout: Kosala Ubayasekara

<http://www.silven.com/>

About the Author

Matt Conklin has freelance credits with Paizo, Goodman Games, Wizards

of the Coast. He is one of the founding members of the Were-Cabbages

RPG Design group. He lives a bohemian existence in Metropolitan Detroit.

Matt would like to thank his group (Chad, Craig, Dave, Jason, John, Mike,

Mike Pat, and Tom) for “running with it” the night he came up with this

crazy idea. Who says a group composed of all dwarves (four of whom are

barbarians) can’t work?

Greg Oppedisano agreed to be bitten by the Were-Cabbage because he

thought that he would look more like Swamp hing and less like a brussel

sprout with arms... Happy husband, soon to be father of three, teacher of

history, coach of championship footbal teams, master of dungeons. Greg

would write more if he wasn’t commited to watching the Leafs extend their

Stanley Cup drought into the year 2050. Go Leafs Go!

Horrendous Habitats

Ironstorm Mountain

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s

Handbook , hird Edition, published by Wizards of the

Coast, Inc. his product utilizes updated material from

the v.3.5 revision.

About the Mechanics Editor

Michael hompson is a computer engineer and IT manager by trade,

but a dreamer and idea man at heart. He is a veteran of 25+ years of

RPG gaming, including D&D, World of Darkness, GURPS, Villains

& Vigilantes, and too many others to list. In addition to writing, he is

currently a D20 Mechanics Editor for Silven Publishing and a forum

moderator at the company’s website. Mike lives in Norton, Massachusetts, a

small town 15 minutes north of Providence, RI.

Web enhancements and free articles and updates can be

found on the Silven Publishing website at http://www.

silven.com.

“d20 System” and the “d20 System” logo are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and are used according to the terms of

the d20 System License version 6.0. A copy of this License can be found at <www.wizards.com/d20>. Dungeons & Dragons ®, D&D ® and Wizards of the

Coast® are registered trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc., and are used with permission.

he contents of this book is copyright as listed in section 15 of the Open Game License at the end of this book. he mention of or reference to any

company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. Ironstorm Mountain is created under version 1.0a,

6.0, and/or draft versions of the Open Game License, the d20 System Trademark Logo Guide, and the System Reference Document by permission of

Wizards of the Coast.

Designation of Open Game Content: All mechanics and descriptions are to be considered Open Game Content.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE his material is protected under international copyright laws. Any reproduction, retransmission, or unauthorized use of the

artwork or non-Open Game Content herein is prohibited without express written permission from the author or publisher, except for purposes of re-

view or use of Open Game Content consistent with the Open Game License. he original purchaser may print or photocopy copies for his or her own

personal use only. his document is a work of iction. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places, or events is purely coincidental.

Contents

High Shoal

High Pointe

hree Pointes

Murky Bottom

Introduction

Myrwinn’s Maze

he Black Cells

How to Use his Book

Adventure Hooks for Ironstorm Mountain

Who is his Book For?

Pioneering Spirit

Prison Break

What is Ironstorm Mountain?

Dragonslayers

he Cult of the Black Stone

he History of Angstradt (as it is known)

Restoring the Glory

he Secrets that History Forgot

Stopping the Slavers

Ironstorm Prison

Adapting the Setting

Getting to Ironstorm Mountain 10

Horrendous Characters

and Creatures

1. Ruined Garrisons

2. he Forest of Stone

New Monsters

3. Tommerast

4. Anvil’s Rest

5. Ironstorm Prison

he God on the Black Rock

7. he Swing

Horrendous Spells

he Perilous Ascent

Pebbleruns

Angstradt Overrun

Horrendous Magic Items

he Troglodyte Clans

Getting Around the Mountain

he Upper Mines

New Material

Boraddin’s Chalice

he Upper Garrison

he Grand Walk

Lower Mines

he Gem Mines

Angstradt proper

Spirehome

Downtowne

Uptowne

Towne B’twixt

Iron Crown and Hall of the Departed

Temple Column

Introduction

he Horrendous Habitats series features ready-to-use lairs and

hideaways to be integrated easily into your game. he idea

is to feature a complete and detailed “home” for your chief

antagonist, one worthy of striking fear and loathing into the

heart of the players upon entering it.

Our goal with this series is to furnish DMs with a set of easily

adaptable and usable locations that can be used to enhance

your already existing adventures, and which serve

as an inspiration or standing plot hook for a

longer campaign.

How to Use This Book

his book details a complete lair or hideaway

to be used by a chief antagonist in your game.

he text is written in as generic a manner as

possible for you to be able to drag and drop

this directly into your campaign and use with

your own information. However, DMs without

their own characters to populate this lair will

ind ready-made NPCs in the Appendix at the

back of this book.

he irst section will cover using Ironstorm

Mountain in your games, while Sections

2 and 3 go into depth on the Ironstorm

Mountain itself and the area surrounding it.

Who is This Book For?

his book is for DMs and is not designed to

be used by players. It would be detrimental

to read this if you are a player in a campaign

where the DM is planning on using this

hideaway.

What is Ironstorm

Mountain?

Ironstorm Mountain has many locations ripe for adventure,

including prisons, crumbling cities, dueling dragons, and the

sleeping form of a dark god. In addition to a number of physical

dangers, enterprising azers, nefarious slavers, insane derro,

cloaker assassins, and a devious cult that includes four clans of

troglodytes also populate the mountain.

Parties of adventurers should ind themselves amazed and

challenged by what they ind in the depths of Ironstorm

Mountain.

The History of Angstradt (as it is

known)

Centuries ago dwarven prospectors found the mountain that

would later become known as Ironstorm (or Cair-Ebok to the

dwarves) on the southern tip of a temperate east-west range. It

was a veritable miner’s cornucopia rich in iron, nickel, silver,

zinc and that rarest of metals – mithral. Veins of precious

gemstones ran through her core like frozen streams, for the

mountain was closely connected to the Elemental Plane of

Earth. Planar and geological luctuations between the two

realms caused new deposits of ore to appear spontaneously

within the mountain.

he Dwarves they dug deep, they dug greedily!

were given the duty of safeguarding the mountain and its secrets,

orders they fulill even to this day.

Centuries passed, and the dwarves and their servants grew rich

in their mountain even as humans and elves moved in the forests

and plains surrounding it. he irst people who settled around

the mountain heard the sounds of the dwarven craftsmen and so

named the peak Ironstorm.

Almost immediately a colony was established along the shores

of a lake in a high mountain vale. he vale was later called

Boraddin’s Chalice after the lead surveyor. An unusually

adventuresome dwarf by all accounts, he undertook many of the

dangerous irst delves into the heart of Ironstorm itself. hese

journeys were fraught with peril as the elemental denizens were

eager to keep the mountain to themselves.

It wasn’t long before contact and then dialogue between the

races began, but most of the dwarven kings never took much

interest in the goings on outside their mountain, and so they

became distant from their more frivolous neighbors. heir

representatives stopped attending meetings and they stopped

answering the mountain gates, trading exclusively with other

dwarven communities in the mountains to the north and their

deep gnome kin in the depths. Years passed and the humans and

elves became suspicious after not hearing from their neighbors

for so long. hey inally sent a small military force to the

mountain to see what had become of the dwarves. Whatever the

actual intent of the visit, the dwarves took the act as an invasion

and a series of small, but bloody wars gripped the region for the

next sixty years. Eventually the Outsiders, as the dwarves called

the humans and elves, simply ceased coming to the mountain,

thus ending the Summit War. Claiming victory, the dwarves

returned to their work.

In addition to the various earth elementals, rogue mephits and

magmin from the lava-illed strata further below attempted to

sideline the expedition. But Boraddin would have none of it

and pressed on, much to the anguish of his wife, Bronwen, who

wept bitterly while he was gone. It was during these expeditions

that Boraddin found the hollow core of the mountain, a huge

terraced cavern near its center, its base illed with water from the

higher altitudes.

Seeing this as the ideal place from which to survey the rest

of the mountain, it was decided the colony would move into

the issure. And thus was born the city of Angstradt, a proper

kingdom away from the eyes of the local migrating human tribes

and nosy elves. For his great accomplishments, Boraddin was

made its irst king.

A century passed and Angstradt’s population grew, as did its

need for space. King Baltuck Ironhame II, bitter memories still

fresh in his head from the Summit War in which he had fought

as a prince, ordered the mountain’s lowest mines be dug deeper.

he mines were expanded outward under the neighboring

kingdoms and even into the remote wilds to the south and

west. Branches went north beneath the hidden mountain vales.

Ironhame envisioned one day that Angstradt would form the

In the depths, powerful dwarven arcanists and clerics performed

a great magical rite that bent the earth elementals within the

mountain to their will and bound them to eternal service. With

the elementals at their side, constructing the city and driving of

the rogue magmin was a simple task. Later still, the elementals

d20 Silven Publishing Horrendous Habitats - Ironstorm Mountain.pdf

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: