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Credits Authors Cartography Bill Webb and Clark Peterson Conan Venus Contributors: Front & Back Cover Designer W.D.B. Kenower, Casey Christofferson Matt Milberger Developer Playtesters Ken Cliffe Jeremy Foglesong, Stephanie Christianson, Jon Bursch, Kristine Bryan, Rick Bulpin, Scott Harlen, Garrett Mercier, Editors Zeb Corey, Karl Johnson, C.J. Land, David Peterson, John Ed McKeough Ackerman, Mike Weber, Chip Schweiger, Joe Weimortz, Christopher Laurent, Conrad Claus, Timothy Laurent, Art Director Karl Harden, Nicolas Laurent, Dale Haines, John Murdoch, Richard Thomas Ian Thompson, Pearson Keyes, J.P. Johnston, Louis Rob- erts, Jennifer Chalfan, Mike Tierney, Dean Yasuda, Donna Layout and Typesetting Peterson and Krista Graham (soon to be Webb). Matt Milberger Special Thanks Interior Artist Stephan Wieck and everyone at White Wolf and Sword Brian LeBlanc and Sorcery Studios. Ryan Dancey at Wizards of the Front Cover Art Coast for pioneering the D20 license. And, most of all, Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson and Robert J. Kuntz for John Massé giving us “first edition feel” in the first place. Product Update Password for Rappan Athuk—The Dungeon of Graves: The Middle Levels: Deserach. This product requires the use of the Dungeons and Dragons® Player’s Handbook, published by Wizards of the Coast® ©2001 Bill Webb and Clark Peterson, Necromancer Games, Inc. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. Reproduction without the written permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden. Necromancer Games, Necromancer Games, Inc. and the Necromancer Games logo, Rappan Athuk and The Dungeon of Graves are trademarks of Necromancer Games, Inc. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places, items, art and text herein are copyrighted by Necromancer Games, Inc. “D20 System” and the D20 System logo are trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast and are used under the terms of the D20 Trademark License contained in the Legal Appendix. The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. Dungeons and Dragons® and Wizards of the Coast® are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast, and are used in accordance with the Open Game and D20 Trademark Licenses contained in the Legal Appendix. Creature Collection and Relics and Rituals are trademarks of Sword and Sorcery Studio. Sample™ This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural file elements are fiction and intended for entertainment purposes only. Reader discretion is advised. Necromancer Check out Necromancer Games online at Games http://www.necromancergames.com Third Edition Rules, And check out the Sword and Sorcery Studio online at First Edition Feel http://www.swordsorcery.com 1 PRINTED IN THE USA. IntroductionINTRODUCTION So, brave adventurer; you have returned! The horrors of the upper levels were insufficient to deter your continued explorations, eh? Well, though seemingly lost within the endless corri- Many hundreds of years ago, the forces of good allied to destroy dors of death, this volume, the second installment the main Temple of Orcus in the ancient city of Tsar. With their of the mother of all dungeons, will surely give you temple in ruins, the surviving high priests of this accursed pause. What will you find herein? Why, many demon-god fled the city with an army of enemies on their trail riddles and puzzles leading to vast treasure and — an army of heroic fighters, clerics and paladins led by Zelkor, certain death! These catacombs contain the riddle a powerful wizard. The exact fate of these evil priests was then of Akbeth and the legend of the titan, Ereg Tal. Both the entrance to the goblin city and the unknown, for not only did the remnants of the followers of temple of the mind flayers await discovery. Orcus disappear from all human reckoning, but so did the army This module (the second of the three-part of light that followed after them. Some said that in the eternal “R” series), like its predecessor, is nothing more scales the loss of so many good men was a fair price to pay to rid and nothing less than a good, old-fashioned, First the world of so much evil. Edition dungeon crawl updated for Third Edition play. Very difficult, it should strike fear into the The evil cult, however, had not been destroyed. The surviving hearts of the most stalwart adventurers. It offers priests and their followers instead settled on a hill near the an abundance of traps, tricks and monsters. While Forest of Hope, a sylvan woodland near the Coast Road. They it affords numerous opportunities for roleplaying, found a vast underground complex of caverns and mazes this module is dedicated to “roll playing,” though those who ignore the former style of play will be carving out a volcanic intrusion beneath the hill. There, the sorry (and likely dead) indeed. priests of Orcus found the perfect lair to continue their vile This module details eight additional levels of rituals. For many years they carried on in secret, hidden from this 26-level dungeon — including areas made the light and from the knowledge of men. famous by legend, such as a lost gold mine, the entrance to “Hell,” the “White Corridor,” the Many years later, their underground delving completed, the evil Mithril Gates of Akbeth and the secret location priests erected a hideous mausoleum and a sunken graveyard of the “mushroom of youth.” It also contains the atop the hill. It is believed that these graves are in fact the final first of three evil temples dedicated to Necroman- resting place of the pursuing army of heroes that have been cer Game’s favorite demon prince, Orcus. destroyed to the last man. Soon after the mausoleum was erected, Care has been taken to minimize text dupli- the peaceful creatures of the wood began to vanish. Though cation from Module R1, so that DMs get the most for their money. In a few instances, key pieces of many rangers and druids investigated these happenings, the information from the previous module were re- cause of the creatures’ disappearance was not immediately tained in the unlikely event that this book is used determined. Some years later, a powerful group of adventurers, as a standalone module. led by Bofred, a high priest of Heironeous, investigated the evil We hope that you find this module as fun and happenings and found the sunken graveyard leading to a exciting as those hundreds of players whose char- labyrinthine underground complex. Bofred and his companions acters ventured into (and not as often out of) the found great hordes of evil creatures in the caverns beneath the endless caverns and mazes of Rappan Athuk— The Dungeon of Graves. graveyard. Though some of his companions returned from their expedition telling tales of fantastic treasure and ferocious monsters, Bofred himself was never seen again — presumed lost The Legend of Rappan Athuk in the catacombs beneath the cursed mausoleum. The Legend of Rappan Athuk is well known, having been sung by bards, related by adventurers For the last one hundred years, ranks of adventurers swarmed secure in the warmth and safety of an inn’s hearth to the newfound dungeon. Many fell prey to bandits and and documented by sages and loremasters in an- monsters in the surrounding wilderness. Of those adventurers cient scrolls. Read the legend to your players. who survived to reach the mausoleum and the sunken graveyard, rumors suggest that most were slain by guardians of Additional Rumors green stone before they even entered the dungeon or that they Sampleabout Rappan Athuk perished on the very first level. Thosefile rare few who return from deeper treks speak of horrible undead and of creatures that In addition to the Legend of Rappan Athuk above, any character has a chance of knowing up to cannot be slain. All who have explored Rappan Athuk offer two additional rumors about the complex from this one universal piece of advice: “Don’t go down the well.” common legends. Each character can make two 2 Rappan Athuk—The Dungeon of Graves: The MIDDLE Levels Intelligence checks (DC 13). Each success earns the char- acter a rumor. Wizards, clerics and bards (but not sorcerers) can make another Intelligence check (DC 20) modified by The Levels of Rappan Athuk: the higher of their Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma Ground Level: The Sunken Graveyard and the bonuses; a success earns the character an additional rumor. Mausoleum Use the following rumors in addition to the rumors provided Level 1: The Lair of the “Dung Monster” in module R1, Rappan Athuk — The Upper Levels. For Level 2: Marthek’s Place and Ambro’s Base those not in possession of that previous module, a table of Level 3: “Beware of Purple Worms!” rumors about Rappan Athuk can be found on the Necro- Level 3A: “The Well”—Zelkor’s Lair mancer Games’ web site (www.necromancergames.com). Level 4: The Upper Temple of Orcus 29. A new form of troll, a “swimmer,” was seen to aid goblin miners in a deep cavern complex. (True; this Level 4A: The Basilisk Caverns sighting confirms the existence of river trolls [Level 8].) Level 5: Banth’s Lair and the Wight Catacombs 30. The tomb of a fallen paladin — corrupted by the Level 6: The Maze witch, Deserach — was hidden near the goblin city. (True. Level 6A: Caves and Caverns — The Lair of the DMs should make the tomb on Level 9A very hard to find, as Spider Queen it is one of the most challenging encounters in the dungeon.) Level 7: The Gates of Hell 31. Prayers to Hecate can sometimes be used to defeat Level 7A: The Hall of Kazleth, the Phase Minotaur guardians sacred to her.

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