Tomb of the Serpent Kings - Deluxe Print Edition
People keep asking for "beginner" dungeons. Everyone can name "classic" dungeons - Tomb of Horrors¸ Barrier Peaks¸ The Temple of Elemental Evil¸ etc. - but in order for those adventures to make sense¸ there needs to be some sort of introduction.
It's like all the adventures we have are Bach concertos. People keep writing amazing works of staggering genius¸ but someone needs to write a book on how to play the piano.
I had the same questions¸ and since I couldn't find anything satisfactory¸ I decided to write the kind of dungeon I would have loved to find. I wanted to write the best basic old-school dungeon for new players that I could¸ and I also wanted to show the design process. And since people keep refereng to it¸ I figured I'd put up a fancy print version.
Tomb of the Serpent Kings is designed to be easy to adapt to your system of choice to create an old-school dungeon-crawling tomb-robbing experience.
The PDF is free and licensed under Creative Commons NC-BY-SA. Hack it¸ share it¸ translate it (there are French¸ German and Spanish translations available on my blog).
If you want a fancy print version¸ buy the print-on-demand copy. It's sold at cost - I don't make a cent off it. If you'd like to support me¸ consider adding Magical Murder Mansion ¸ Kidnap the Archpriest or Epochrypha: a Book of Speculative Ages to your order.