Shrine of the Emperor of Bones - New 1st Level Adventure for Fifth Edition
Added 2020-08-05 22:48:14 +0000 UTCShrine of the Emperor of Bones is a Fifth Edition adventure for four to five characters of 1st to 2nd-level, and is optimized for a party of five characters with an average party level (APL) of 1. This adventure is setting agnostic, meaning that you can easily place the adventure into any campaign setting or environment of your choice. Ideally, the shrine is hidden in a tropical environment such as a jungle or even under a town or city where water would easily flood its chambers.
Background
Once a noble's son with a promising future in arcane magic, the self-proclaimed emperor of bones destroyed himself and his followers during a necromantic ritual gone awry. Resurrected and driven by a compulsion to complete the ritual, the emperor continues his dark practices at the shrine that bears his name.
Get the Roll20 Version
No time to set up the campaign on Roll20 yourself? No worries, fam! We've got you covered. Check out our Roll20 conversion with the link below.
https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/7654/shrine-of-the-emperor-of-bones
Get the Maps
You can get the maps for FREE on Dyson Logos' blog:
https://dysonlogos.blog/2019/12/12/bones/
Comments
I wish there was a Fantasy grounds unity version
2021-03-24 20:07:06 +0000 UTCI was looking at a four-character party that would be going through this adventure so that would be my mistake. Though after reading your response here and I saw you talking about this adventure during the 2-hour encounter class, all be it brief, I feel like I need to try running the adventure as is and look to see if I'm just underestimating the players. Or finding someone else to be the fifth player. I cannot imagine I'm the first to make some asinine comment regarding one of your adventures nor be the last but I do appreciate your feedback and taking the time to respond.
Brad Thomson
2021-03-08 21:59:18 +0000 UTCJust to make sure, you are accounting fo the fact that it's written for five characters, right?
DM Dave
2021-03-06 18:39:12 +0000 UTCNah, they're both fine. They're certainly tough, but not impossible. I played through the adventure a few times and watched some others play. Feel free to adjust 'em, though. It's your adventure. :D
DM Dave
2021-03-06 18:38:16 +0000 UTCOk, so I spent some more time going over the Zombie Owlbear and Emperor Bones encounters and I come to the conclusion these are way out of line for a first-level party to handle. This adventure is a great, quick, little dungeon crawl for a beginner party and I would really enjoy running it but those two encounters really need to be reworked to be a reasonable challenge. I'm going to try and make some adjustments and see what comes from it but maybe it's worth taking another look at those encounters again.
Brad Thomson
2021-03-02 21:38:41 +0000 UTCMaybe I'm missing something here but in Room 1, Entrance I'm trying to see how four first-level characters can take on the CR 3 Zombie Owlbear and not get TPK when the creature is doing an average of 24 points per round.
Brad Thomson
2021-03-02 14:55:11 +0000 UTCMight just be me, but this map doesn't align very well in Roll20.net ?? Am i doing something wrong?
2020-09-14 14:59:40 +0000 UTCI believe they were and ran it as such. Fun dungeon, I combined this and vines into one opening adventure and it worked out pretty nicely
2020-08-20 21:18:15 +0000 UTCIt appears that way to me as well! Overall though, loving the dungeon.
2020-08-15 06:36:56 +0000 UTCAm I right in thinking that rooms 4 and 3 have been mixed up?
Cyrus Godivala
2020-08-13 18:47:08 +0000 UTChttps://www.patreon.com/file?h=40141547&i=6111528
DM Dave
2020-08-06 19:04:05 +0000 UTCMaybe I’m just not seeing it but I’m only seeing the link to the maps
2020-08-06 19:03:20 +0000 UTCHey Antonio. It's right above the comments. :D
DM Dave
2020-08-06 18:58:55 +0000 UTCJust joined is there a pdf for this?
2020-08-06 18:17:17 +0000 UTCAwesome!
DM Dave
2020-08-06 01:34:29 +0000 UTCI really like that you incorporated the monsters into the Appendix. That makes for easy reference. Also like that this is a 1st Level adventure (I have been working up my own 1st Level adventure via GMBinder - just polishing it up at this point - a good way for me to get comfy with the 5E rules and such).
Martin Maenza
2020-08-05 23:38:02 +0000 UTCWhoopsie. I'll add the link to Dyson's page.
DM Dave
2020-08-05 23:36:15 +0000 UTCDo you have the player version of the map available as well?
Blair McMillan
2020-08-05 23:34:52 +0000 UTC
