d20 Greywood Publishing Deathtrap Dungeon.pdf

Deathtrap Dungeon

Based on the Fighting Fantasy™ book by

Ian Livingstone

Credits

Author: Jamie Wallis

Editor: Sean Borthwick

Producer: Mike Dymond

Art Director: Martin McKenna

Cover Illustration: Mel Grant (represented by Artist Partners)

Internal Illustrations: Iain McCaig and Tony Hough

Additional Illustrations: Martin McKenna and Janine Johnston

Graphic Design: Martin McKenna

Cartography: Martin McKenna and Jamie Wallis

Typography: Jamie Wallis

Project Manager: Geoff Oades

Finance Planning: Nigel Dixon

Lead Playtester: Tim Birkbeck

Playtesters: Kirk Rockely, Chris Gooch, Karen McDonald, Mike Wilson, Conrad Blake,

Martin Bradley

FF Consultant: David Holt

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Luck and Magic

Luck and Turn / Rebuke Undead

Adventure Summary

Stand alone Luck Checks

Preparation

Opposed Luck Checks

Quick Play

Optional Luck rule

Campaign Integration

Restoring Luck

How to use this Book

Normal regeneration of ability points

Using Maps & Miniatures

Magical means - spells and potions

Discretionary Awards by the DM.

Luck

Scenario Awards

New Ability Score

Monsters and Luck

Standard Point Buy Method

Using Luck

Deathtrap Dungeon

Luck Difficulty Class

For the DM

Minimum Luck Score

For the Characters

Saving Throws & Luck

The Dungeon

Skills & Luck

Opposed Skill Checks & Luck

Checks Without Rolls & Luck

Appendix 1 - New Monsters

Combat & Luck

Appendix 2 - New Magic

Using Luck to hit an opponent

Appendix 3 - Campaign Play

Using Luck to increase the damage dealt

Appendix 4 - Characters

Using Luck to reduce the damage taken

legal notice

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Fang, River Kok, Anvil, Gilford, Dekion Strom, Ellion G'aarak, Rhana Quinn, Sarian Jax, Trialmaster, Baron Sukumvit, Horath, Lian, Throm,

Torgrim, Igbut, Chien-tai, Blood Beast, Mirror demon, Pit Fiend, Rock Grub, Syranix Fungus, Titan Cavetroll, Titan Hilltroll, Titan Troglodytes,

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Introduction

Deathtrap Dungeon was the sixth book of the Fighting

Fantasy™ series and was originally released in 1984.

This revolutionary new idea, part book part game,

gave the reader a unique experience - a fantasy adven-

ture where you are the hero.

The Fighting Fantasy™ series has 59 titles to date

and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and

has been translated into over 20 languages. The

Warlock of Firetop Mountain alone sold over 2 million

copies. Now the Fighting Fantasy™ books are being

re-released allowing a new generation of players to

explore the Citadel of Chaos, confront the Warlock of

Firetop Mountain or get lost in the Forest of Doom.

This book is a conversion of Deathtrap Dungeon into

a d20 role-playing game scenario. The original book

was a solo experience; this scenario has been written

to allow players to challenge the Dungeon on their

own or as part of a group of adventurers. The inclu-

sion of the new Luck rules give the single player a

good chance of success without making groups of

players too powerful.

The Fighting Fantasy™ books could be picked up

and played with a minimum of preparation, this sce-

nario has been written to reflect this including pre-

generated characters, full colour maps and other play

aids to get you started quickly. For more information

about Roleplay games, Fighting Fantasy™ and

Deathtrap Dungeon visit the Myriador website:

www.myriador.com

Adventure Summary

Every year, on the first day of May, Baron Sukumvit

orders the doors of his Deathtrap Dungeon to be

opened. Over the years hundreds of intrepid adven-

turers have entered the dungeon pitting their skill and

wits against the fearsome monsters and deadly traps

within, none have ever been seen again. This year

another group of brave heroes are again vying to be

the first to succeed and claim the 25,000gp prize - will

you be the one who triumphs where so many others

have failed? Will you emerge to be hailed as the victor

in the Trial of Champions?

Preparation

In addition to the books required (as stated on the

cover of this product), which are referred to as the

DMG, PHB and MM, a set of polyhedral dice (D4, D6,

D8, D10, D12 and D20) is also needed to play. Pull out

Character sheets of the four pre-generated characters

can be found in Appendix 4 - Characters

Full colour maps and pre-generated character sheets

can be downloaded free from www.myriador.com

Quick Play

One of the great attractions of the Fighting Fantasy™

series of books is that it is very easy to pick up a book

and start playing, everything you need is provided in

the books, you just need to grab a pencil to get straight

into the action. We have tried to write this scenario in

the same way, providing you with everything we can

so that you can get on and play the game without hav-

ing to spend ages preparing. Simply hand out the pre-

generated characters, get your dice ready and start

playing.

Detailed dungeon floor plan maps, pre-generated

character sheets with rules summaries and character

and monster tokens are available free to owners of this

book

and

can

downloaded

from

www.myriador.com

Notes are included in the back of this book to help

you integrate this scenario into an ongoing campaign,

or visit our website: www.myriador.com where more

information can be found about Titan, the Fighting

Fantasy™ world.

Campaign Integration

This scenario is designed to be played as a stand-alone

adventure using one of the pre-generated 8th level

characters provided or a mini-party of newly created

6th level characters. However, guidelines and advice

are included in the appendices to help you integrate

this scenario into an on-going campaign and sugges-

tions are included about adjusting difficulty levels

(see Appendix 3 - Campaign Play ).

How to use this Book

The first pages of this scenario contain background

information for the DM. Later pages contain the rules

for the new (optional) Luck ability, these rules should

be studied by the DM and the players. Towards the

rear of the book you will find summaries of new mon-

sters, spells and magic items as well as advice about

integrating this adventure into your campaigns.

The bulk of the book contains the scenario informa-

tion divided by location. Each location entry in the

scenario is shown on the main map provided, a full

colour 1" = 5 feet map of each location can be obtained

free from: www.myriador.com. A description of each

location is provided for the DM detailing its contents

and any monsters present. The shaded text boxes con-

tain information that the DM can either read out or

paraphrase to the players. Other information should

be kept secret from the players until they discover it.

Descriptions of how each monster is likely to react are

included in the room descriptions. The DM controls

all the creatures within Firetop Mountain except the

player characters and is free to change their behaviour

as he / she sees fit.

The DM is advised to read through the scenario at

least once before you play.

Using Maps & Miniatures

Using maps and miniature figures adds a whole new

dimension to playing this game, they help the DM to

'set the scene' and players to see where characters are

monsters, what the dungeon looks like and make

combat more exciting and realistic.

Full colour maps, pre-generated character sheets and

character and monster tokens are all available free to

owners of this book from: www.myriador.com (make

sure you have your copy of this book available when

downloading these free extras).

Luck

Luck was a major factor in the Fighting Fantasy™

series of books. The d20 system includes a range of

skills that are used where Luck was in the original

books. However, we wanted to keep the overall tone &

feel of the Fighting Fantasy™ books so we have

included Luck as a new Ability score.

This scenario is aimed at small parties of players

(mini-groups). The inclusion of Luck gives them an

edge that makes up for their lack of numbers. Players

should be encouraged to use Luck as often as possible

. it may make the difference between success and fail-

ure!

To reflect this, it is easier for characters to recover

Luck than it is for other Ability scores, methods of

restoring Luck are given under the heading: Restoring

Luck.

New Ability Score

Luck is determined in the same way as other Ability

scores. There are several options available (see DMG

Chapter 2, Ability Scores Generation). The maximum

possible starting Luck score is 18 regardless of race.

A character's starting Luck score can only be

increased by magical means or by spending attribute

points gained as the character becomes more experi-

enced.

Luck will be treated as an Ability score in every

respect i.e. lost Ability scores are regained at the rate

of one per day (see DMG Chapter 3, Running the

Game, Ability Score Loss).

Standard Point Buy Method

Because there are now 7 Ability scores instead of the

normal 6, the amount of starting points is increased to

30 rather than 25 (See DMG Chapter 2, Ability Scores

Generation, Standard Point Buy)

Using Luck

A character may use Luck to change or influence

events, reducing the damage taken from an enemies

attack for instance, or increasing their chance of pick-

ing a lock. Luck can be used to modify a characters

skill checks, saving throws, attack rolls, and melee /

ranged damage dealt. You can also use your Luck to

reduce the damage you take from an enemies attack.

Luck checks must be resolved BEFORE the action

that they are affecting is undertaken (exception:

reducing damage taken in melee / ranged). The result

of the Luck check is applied as a modifier to the

action. You may only check Luck once per action

undertaken and the result only affects that action.

A characters Luck score is temporarily reduced by 1

every time Luck is checked.

Luck cannot be used to give a character feats or spe-

cial abilities that she would not normally have. i.e. a

fighter cannot use Luck to allow her to turn / rebuke

undead.

Luck Difficulty Class

Luck is checked against a Difficulty Class (DC). (See

PHB Chapter 4, Skills, Using Skills, Difficulty Class)

The base DC for Luck is 10.

Ability Luck check = D20 + Ability Modifier (Luck)

against DC10

A total roll of 10 will give you a +1 bonus. For every

2 points over 10 that you roll you gain +1 to the out-

come that Luck was used to affect (i.e. 10 = +1; 12 = +2;

18 = +5 etc…).

If the Character fails her Luck check by up to 5, there

is no penalty. However, if the character fails by 6 or

more, she will suffer a -2 penalty to the outcome that

Luck was used to affect.

Example: Ellion G'aarak decides to test her Luck to

help her fight 2 Orcs by giving a modifier to hit them.

She rolls a D20 and adds her Luck ability modifier get-

ting a total of 13, success! Ellion now adds +2 to her

next attack roll against the Orcs and her Luck is tem-

porarily reduced by 1.

Later in the same fight Ellion decides to test her Luck

to add to her attack roll again, this time she rolls a total

of 4. Ellion has failed to make the required DC10 by 6.

Ellion now suffers a -2 penalty to her attack roll and

her Luck is temporarily reduced by 1. If she had rolled

a total of 7, she would still have failed in her Luck

check but not suffered a penalty. However, her Luck

would still have been temporarily reduced by 1.

Minimum Luck Score

When a character's Luck score reaches 0 they can no

longer choose to test their Luck. Luck cannot be low-

ered further than 0, and cannot be used again until it

is raised to at least 1.

Saving Throws & Luck

Luck can be used to modify the result of saving throw

using the same method as described above (under the

heading: Luck Difficulty Class). The character makes a

Luck check and than applies the result as a modifier to

their saving throw.

Skills & Luck

Luck can be used to modify the result of skill checks

using the same method as described above (under the

heading: Luck Difficulty Class). The character makes a

Luck check and then applies the result as a modifier to

their skill check.

e.g. Rhana Quinn has fallen off a rickety bridge into

a fast flowing river. The DM determines that a skill

(Swim) check (DC15) is required for Rhana to safely

swim to the nearby riverbank. Rhana is not a good

swimmer having only a skill of 1, which is reduced by

-7 because of her equipment (-1 per 5lbs carried). This

means that the best she can hope to do is 20 + 1 - 7 = 14

meaning she can't succeed! She decides to use her

Luck to help her reach the riverbank safely. Rhana

rolls a D20 getting 15 and adds her Luck ability mod-

ifier (+2 from an Ability score of 14) for a total of 17.

She has succeeded by 7 so she may add +4 to her Swim

check. She now makes her Swim skill check D20 + 1

(Swim skill) -7 (equipment carried) +4 (Luck). She rolls

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