Amber Temple - Revision history

ZFMnii6Vb9xna LM -ge at 16:12, 11 July 2018

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ZFMnii6Vb9xna LM -ge at 21:38, 10 July 2018

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ZFMnii6Vb9xna LM -ge: /* Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth */

2018-07-07T18:28:23Z

‎Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth

ZFMnii6Vb9xna LM -ge at 16:31, 7 July 2018

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 Haha, wait, it’s a programmed illusion. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
-In fact, the only things that are real in this room are the table and a green copper ewer sitting atop it. Not even the chairs and torches on the walls are real. As soon as somebody picks up the ewer, all the illusions immediately fade – plunging the room into darkness, mind you – and SEVEN SPECTERS APPEAR to attack he-who-holds-the-ewer. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
+In fact, the only things that are real in this room are the table and a green copper ewer sitting atop it. Not even the chairs and torches on the walls are real. As soon as somebody picks up the ewer, all the illusions immediately fade – plunging the room into darkness, mind you – and SEVEN [[Specter|SPECTERS]] APPEAR to attack he-who-holds-the-ewer. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
 JESUS. …Remember, these things drain maximum hit points. Until you’re dead. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
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 Once the door opens, hundreds of skulls come pouring out of it. The entire 30x20x20 room is packed full with them. The book says it takes one character 5 minutes to wade a path through them to the other side (another secret door, remember – so, at first glance, it’s just a dead-end room full of skulls). Further, there’s an iron chest stuck upside-down to the ceiling of this room with sovereign glue. The chest is sealed with an arcane lock. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
-Should the characters desire to open it, and are able to get it open… well, then, the floor just disintegrates and whichever poor schmuck is standing in the room plummets 30 feet to the room below (again, 3d10 fall damage) – a room in which four poltergeists wait to fight whoever disturbs them. Again, the poltergeists use the specter stat block! Jeez! Oh, AND the iron chest turns out to be empty. HA. HA. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
+Should the characters desire to open it, and are able to get it open… well, then, the floor just disintegrates and whichever poor schmuck is standing in the room plummets 30 feet to the room below (again, 3d10 fall damage) – a room in which four poltergeists wait to fight whoever disturbs them. Again, the poltergeists use the [[Specter]] stat block! Jeez! Oh, AND the iron chest turns out to be empty. HA. HA. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
 But let’s say none of that happens, and they find the secret door to area X27. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
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 Above is the northern half of the lower level of the Amber Temple. You can see X39, where the four poltergeists wait for people to fall through the floor of the trapped X26, as well as area X40, which serves as a treasure room and is guarded by another amber golem – and this one is at full hit points. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
-X36 is the western hallway – thankfully unguarded. The room X38 is haunted by another poltergeist (specter). X35 on the eastern side of the lower level, however, contains a deactivated shield guardian. If a player-character has already found the amulet that goes with it, they can control this beast! So that’s pretty cool. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
+X36 is the western hallway – thankfully unguarded. The room X38 is haunted by another poltergeist ([[Specter]]). X35 on the eastern side of the lower level, however, contains a deactivated shield guardian. If a player-character has already found the amulet that goes with it, they can control this beast! So that’s pretty cool. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])
 X5a on the main floor is where the statue of the faceless god stands. Its head is hollow, and full of a spell of magical darkness. This is where the Arcanaloth lairs. From within the darkness, it casts its spells at creatures who cross into its line of Truesight. It’s a nasty fellow. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])

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	Instead of the ones in the book, I made my own special event. I had the Bonegrinder Hags meet the exhausted party when they got out of the Temple. I wanted to get the party back to Ravenloft to finish the campaign quickly, and wanted to skip the boring part of journeying back across Barovia to Ravenloft. I had the Hags offer a "Bargain" (Hags love bargains). They would allow the adventurers to rest, and then teleport them back to Ravenloft. In return they would play a game of "Truth or Dare". Each PC got to choose Truth or Dare. Truth meant that the DM could force their character to tell the truth about something (This was dangerous, since the party killed Lady Wachter unbeknownst to their ally, Nikolai Wachter) at any point in the future. Dare meant that the DM could change one word that the PC spoke at some time in the future. The campaign ended soon after this Bargain, so I only got to use this one time, but boy it was a doozy. ([https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDBehindTheScreen/comments/6l5rb4/what_i_have_learned_from_running_curse_of_strahd/])		Instead of the ones in the book, I made my own special event. I had the Bonegrinder Hags meet the exhausted party when they got out of the Temple. I wanted to get the party back to Ravenloft to finish the campaign quickly, and wanted to skip the boring part of journeying back across Barovia to Ravenloft. I had the Hags offer a "Bargain" (Hags love bargains). They would allow the adventurers to rest, and then teleport them back to Ravenloft. In return they would play a game of "Truth or Dare". Each PC got to choose Truth or Dare. Truth meant that the DM could force their character to tell the truth about something (This was dangerous, since the party killed Lady Wachter unbeknownst to their ally, Nikolai Wachter) at any point in the future. Dare meant that the DM could change one word that the PC spoke at some time in the future. The campaign ended soon after this Bargain, so I only got to use this one time, but boy it was a doozy. ([https://www.reddit.com/r/DnDBehindTheScreen/comments/6l5rb4/what_i_have_learned_from_running_curse_of_strahd/])
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		+	== Minimum PC Level ==
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		+	(Level 9) The Amber Temple: Page 181 ([http://thecampaign20xx.blogspot.com/2016/03/dungeons-dragons-guide-to-curse-of.html])
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	== Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth ==		== Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth ==
	The first thing that you have to decide upon whether or not you want to focus on is the weather. The book details the “Extreme Cold” of the location as being -10 degrees Fahrenheit. It states that if characters don’t have heat sources, warm gear, or magic to protect them then they are subject to the effects of extreme cold as detailed in the “Weather” section of the “Adventure Environments” chapter of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])		The first thing that you have to decide upon whether or not you want to focus on is the weather. The book details the “Extreme Cold” of the location as being -10 degrees Fahrenheit. It states that if characters don’t have heat sources, warm gear, or magic to protect them then they are subject to the effects of extreme cold as detailed in the “Weather” section of the “Adventure Environments” chapter of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. ([https://wellmetrpg.com/2018/02/28/the-amber-temple/ Source])

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−	~~Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/CurseofStrahd/comments/811yrk/i_made_a_guide_to_the_amber_temple_on_my_blog/~~

	== Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth ==		== Phase 1: The Cold and the Arcanaloth ==