Gregorius21778: 20 Encounters in the Ruins of the Elder Beings (V-SCBS)
Attention please: this is not the work of native speaker. As with all of my Pay-What-You-Want titles¸ the preview will show you the whole of the product. Have a look for yourself if my English meets your standard. Thank you! After I finished H.P. Lovecraft´s story "At the Mountains of Madness"¸ the GM in me dreamed about an adventure that would take place in some (other) subterranean ruins of the Elder Beings. Another city or outpost¸ perhaps smaller¸ or just the caverns that would lead to its entrance. As I was not able to create a full-blown adventure out of my ideas¸ I rather created a set of 20 structured encounters. The difference to (completely) random encounters is that some of them are preliminary encounters that will trigger certain other as a follow-up (or will be triggered instead of their follow-ups). A simple frame was given for the encounters¸ as well as stats for six creatures and two strange items. This is the second incarnation of this product¸ the first had been written for Lamentations of the Flame Princess (tm)¸ this one was written to be compatible with Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells ™. While I tried to include everything for an Overlord to turn this assortment of encounter ideas¸ non of this is likely to make sense to somebody that is not familiar with H.P. Lovecraft´s "At the Mountains of Madness" or the Elder Beings and the Mi-Go. Thereby¸ I only suggest this work of mine to fellow friends of the Mythos. I assure everyone¸ that it is enough when the Overlord knows the aforementioned works: this will be enough to deliver an interesting slice of cosmic fantasy to the players¸ even without the fundamental dread of the unknown that was a feature in most of Lovecraft´s works. Enjoy! Disclaimer: While the ideas I share with you here are inspired by and rooted in the works of H.P. Lovecraft¸ I took my own "artistic freedom" to change things here and there¸ and to fill up "gaps" with my own ideas. These are all tailored towards creating a nice¸ enjoyable dungeon-experience with a "lovecraftian touch" rather than strictly adhering to provided source material. Keep an open mind while reading this¸ otherwise you might fall into a fit of nerd-rage.