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GLADES OF DEATH

Credits

Concept and Design:

Lance Hawvermale

D20 Content Editing:

Erica Balsley

Writing Team:

Lance Hawvermale, Rob Mason, Robert Hunter,

Patrick Goulah, Greg Ragland, Matt McGee, Chris

Bernhardt, Casey W. Christofferson, Chad Coulter,

Skeeter Green, and Travis Hawvermale.

Att Direction and Design:

Mike Chaney

Interior Art:

Brian Leblanc, Llyn Hunter, James Stowe,

Chad Sergesketter, Grey Thornberry, Eric Lofgren,

Richard Thomas,Becky Jollensten, Jeff Rebner, and

Ed Bourelle

Additional Contributors:

Erica Balsley, Lindsey Barrentine, Jay Decker, Rachel

Mason, and Nadine Oatmeyer

Front Cover Art:

Rick Sardinha

Developer:

Erica Balsley and Bill Webb

Cartography:

Matt Milberger

Producer:

Clark Peterson

Playtesters:

Shane and Danielle Shirley, Kathy Christofferson, Clint

Bennett, Bill Webb, and Steve Meyer..

Editor:

Pat Lawinger

Special Thanks:

This book is dedicated to June McGee and Linda

Mason; you are the wind in our sails.

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THIRD EDITION RULES,

FIRST EDITION FEEL

CHAPTER TWO: CREATING A FANTASY FOREST

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One: An Oceanography Primer

Chapter Two: Supplemental Ship and Sea Rules

Chapter Three: Weather

Chapter Four: Feats and Prestige Classes

Chapter Five:New Magic Items

Chapter Six: New Monsters

Chapter Seven: New Spells

121

Chapter Eight: The Ghosting of the Lady Quay

129

Chapter Nine: The Isle of Bonjo Tombo

142

Chapter Ten: Where the Ocean Meets the Sky

160

Appendix One: Monsters and NPC

182

Appendix Two: Random Shipboard Events and Monster Encounters 193

Introduction

GLADES OF DEATH

No place offers more adventure than the ocean.

No dungeon is as deep, no jungle as full of exotic

and dangerous life. Most folk spend their lives on

dry ground, unaware that entire civilizations thrive

beneath the waves, sometimes far more ancient

and steeped in mystery than any on the world’s

upper surface. Though player characters (PCs)

have long grown familiar with the air-breathing

world above, seldom do they venture into the

depths, and when they do, they discover wonders

they never dreamed existed. The ocean environ-

ment is radically different from the surface world,

in at least three very important ways: an insuffi-

ciency or complete absence of sunlight, the

ever-increasing ambient pressure, and the fact that

water rather than air is the omnipresent medium

for respiration, movement, and all other activi-

ties. Because of these and other factors, the ocean

offers a venue for adventure that is at once alien

and appealing. Strange things exist down there, as

perilous as they are compelling.

But the water’s surface is also a world unto itself. Great

ships vie for control of the trading lanes. Dangerous reefs

protect lost islands full of treasures yet unearthed. Dead

Man’s Chest lays bare the ocean, the ships that sail it,

and the creatures that inhabit it. Within these pages

you’ll not only find dozens of new monsters, spell, feats,

and wondrous items, but also information from the

science of oceanography. Also included are three full

adventures to test the PCs against the rigors of the

trackless sea.

Note that this is not a book in which you will

find complex rules for sea combat, or rules govern-

ing constructing and operating a sailing ship. There

are other sources available to the D20 gamer that

cover those aspects of the genre, such as Seas of

Blood by Mongoose Publishing and The Seafarer’s

Handbook by Fantasy Flight Games . The weather,

navigation, and ship rules herein contained are

instead meant as an extension of the DMG to help

flesh out ocean travel and adventure. The rules in

Dead Man’s Chest can be added to those other

D20 sources to further enhance them as well.

You, the DM, should have at your disposal the core

rulebooks, including the PHB , DMG , and the MM .

A few of the creatures presented in the included

adventures are described fully in the Tome of Hor-

rors , by Necromancer Games .

To start things off right, here’s an original sea

shanty. A song like this might have been sung aboard

a pirate ship of a bygone age, such as Robert Louis

Stevenson’s immortal Hispaniola .

Shanty o’ the Sea

A pull o’ the rum and a pull o’ the row;

Away o’er the bitter waves I go.

I lost my love and my life on the sea . . .

She stole my treasure from me.

Damn, damn, damn the sea!

She stole my treasure from me.

Sweet William, my boy, played on the

strand

With the gulls and the shells and the

salt-white sand.

The rum’ll for aye my comfort be . . .

She stole sweet William from me.

Damn, damn, damn the sea!

She stole sweet William from me.

I called my wife from the lonely shore,

And she sailed to me but wept the more.

Seein’ her babe on the thievin’ swell,

she reached to him and, Oh!, she fell!

I’ll always curse and blame the sea

For stealin’ my Frances from me!

Damn, damn, damn the sea!

For stealin’ my Frances from me.

A pull o’ the rum and a pull o’ the row;

My gold and my bright brigantine’s gone

below.

My mates are asleep in the cold blue

sea . . .

She stole my treasure from me.

Damn, damn, damn the sea!

She stole my treasure from me.

Chapter One:

An Oceanography

Primer

ting its crest up to hundreds of miles in either direc-

tion. The fracture zones appearing between two offset

segments of the ridge are recognized as transform

faults, and the fracture zones outside of these seg-

ments are simply remnants of the plate’s movement

over millions of years. The segmented ridge is gener-

ally widest and highest in the middle of the offset, and

slimmest and shortest near the ends, and is believed

to occur due to an interaction between fracturing of

the seafloor and magma accumulation.

Another feature of interest to be found on the mid-

ocean ridge are hot springs, or hydrothermal vents.

Hydrothermal vent fields are areas of underwater geysers

that form in places along the mid-ocean ridge axis.

When seawater creeps into deep cracks and fissures

found in the flanks of the ridge, it reacts with the hot

volcanic rock, chemically altering and heating it up to

temperatures reaching 700 degrees Fahrenheit. This

superheated fluid rises, dissolving metals found within

the rocks on its way back up to the surface. Continuous

streams of thick black or white immensely hot fluid

projects straight up through vents in the surface, show-

ering the surroundings with precipitated minerals.

The fluids in vents known as black smokers precipi-

tate so quickly as they cool in the seawater that the

metal sulphides form solid, smokestack structures,

typically a couple of stories high (the largest ever

discovered is 160 feet tall). In regions where the

altered seawater is substantially cooled before reach-

ing the surface, the ejected fluid is usually spread out

among numerous vents in the area and takes on a

diffused, clear glow. These diffuse vents are often

found among larger more focused black smokers.

Life on the ocean floor is known for its scarcity, but

hydrothermal vent fields are packed with an abun-

dance and variety of life in one of the most volatile

and unlikely of places. Organisms such as tubeworms,

mussels, clams, and crustaceans gather or attach them-

selves near vents in incredibly dense clumps. However,

it is the sulphur-eating bacteria found around and

inside those creatures that grants them nourishment.

The sulphide-oxidizing bacteria convert the vent

chemicals into energy for the organisms through a

process called chemosynthesis. This localized ecosys-

tem is one of few known to exist independent of

sunlight and photosynthesis.

CHAPTER ONE: AN OCEANOGRAPHY PRIMER

The ocean contains a variety of natural occurrences

that can enliven any campaign. A DM shouldn’t be

dependent solely on monstrous encounters to make a

PC’s life eventful on the high seas. This chapter reveals

the scientific low-down on many oceananic features,

enabling you, the DM, to present your players with a

more realistic gaming environment.

Each entry also explains how best to use that

particular feature in your own game.

Mid-Ocean Ridge

The mid-ocean ridge is the region along the ocean

floor where new seafloor is created. This typically takes

place near the center of an ocean basin, though it exists

in any location where two ocean plates spread apart from

one another. Mid-ocean ridges are featured throughout

the world, stretching over 65,000 kilometers in length.

Their pattern winds across the globe in a fashion that is

often likened to the seams of a baseball. They appear as

mountainous formations or merely as mild swells upon

the seafloor up to 4,000 km wide. Their crest is marked

with a V-shaped depression running throughout its range,

up to a couple kilometers deep and 20 to 35 kilometers

wide. This rift valley is actually a volcanic fissure from

which the new seafloor extends from below gradually

over time.

The origin of the seafloor naturally begins beneath

the surface. Within the rift where the two tectonic

plates diverge, the reduction of pressure affecting the

mantle allows the rock of the asthenosphere to rise

and melt. The upwelling leads to the formation of

magma chambers just beneath the mid-ocean ridge,

acting as focal reservoirs of the material needed to

produce new ocean crust. Molten rock from the depths

of the magma chamber gradually hardens, producing

several miles of coarse rock. Vertical sheets of magma

from within the chamber rise up through fissures in

the overlying crust, creating dikes. Portions of this

uprising magma will break through to the surface,

oozing along the seafloor exterior. The outer layer of

the surface lava solidifies immediately in the near-

freezing seawater, forming a pillowed layer of volcanic

basalt—the surface of the new seafloor.

The mid-ocean ridge axis is marked with deep,

jagged indentations known as fracture zones. These

appear in frequent intervals across the ridge, offset-

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