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.