Slaughtergrid
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SlaughterGrid CREATOR TABLE OF CONTENTS Rafael Chandler Backstory................................................................4 PLAYTESTERS State of Affairs.........................................................4 Kerra Bolton Running SlaughterGrid.............................................5 Gary Bowerbank Light and Sound.......................................................5 Scott Dorward Treasure..................................................................5 Kate Hill Death and Resurrection.............................................6 Matt King Giant Flatworm Eggs................................................6 Jürgen Mayer Thieving Abilities and Detection.................................6 Tricking Monsters.....................................................7 EDITORS Lifting Heavy Objects................................................7 Trent Isaacson Gold-Whore Encounters...........................................7 Jack Shear Weaponized Amorphids...........................................7 Hexcrawl.................................................................9 COVER ARTIST Dungeon...............................................................13 Pavel Popov Level 1..................................................................13 Level 2..................................................................19 INTERIOR ARTISTS Level 3..................................................................27 Sandy Jacobs-Tolle Resurrection Results................................................31 Pavel Popov NPCs and Pregens.................................................35 Magic Items...........................................................35 MAPS & DIAGRAMS Monsters...............................................................36 Rafael Chandler ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ART CREDITS Thanks to Trent and Jack for the excellent Sample file editing work -- I am truly grateful! You Were Warned, cover: Pavel Popov Sandy and Pavel did a tremendous job SlaughterGrids Deployed, page 1: Sandy Jacobs-Tolle bringing all this ugliness to life. Hexcrawl, page 8: Rafael Chandler Thanks to all my playtesters Level 1, Uterus, page 12: Rafael Chandler for diving face-first into the meat grinder. This Will Not End Well, page 15: Pavel Popov Much gratitude to Keith J. Davies and Erik Tenkar Level 2, Bowels, page 18: Rafael Chandler for their enthusiasm for this EG&G line of books. Involuntary Laparotomy, page 23: Sandy Jacobs-Tolle Much gratitude to Stuart Marshall for OSRIC. Kaiva Grey-Nail, page 24: Sandy Jacobs-Tolle And thank you! I hope you dig this adventure. Level 3, Belly, page 26: Rafael Chandler Progenitor, page 29: Sandy Jacobs-Tolle “Never become despondent; fight until the very end.” Discovering the Ovum, page 34: Pavel Popov - E. Gary Gygax All non-OSRIC/non-OGL text in this book is open content. Use it however you please. 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SLAUGHTERGRID: PLAYLIST Here are the songs I listened to when working on this Helmet - Overrated module: Helmet - Sinatra Insomnium - In the Groves of Death Agalloch - Blood Birds Insomnium - Lay the Ghost to Rest Agalloch - Limbs Insomnium - Weighted Down With Sorrow Amebix - VisitationAmon Amarth - Arson Lord Belial - Antichrist Reborn Amon Amarth - Doom Over Dead Man Lord Belial - Black Wings of Death Amon Amarth - The Last Stand of Frej Melechesh - Emissaries and the Mysterium Magnum Amorphis - Warrior's Trial Melechesh - Mystics of the Pillar Arch Enemy - Savage Messiah Meshuggah - Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Arch Enemy - Under Black Flags We March Motion Autopsy - Torn from the Womb Meshuggah - Lethargica Behemoth - Alas, Lord is Upon Me Meshuggah - Obzen Behemoth - Lucifer Ministry - Crumbs Behexen - Rituale Satanum Ministry - Khyber Pass Bolt Thrower - Mercenary Ministry - The Last Sucker Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal Napalm Death - Plague Rages Cancer - Tribal Bloodshed, Part 2: Under the Flag Nile - Sarcophagus Coalesce - Blend as Well Novembers Doom - Collapse of the Fallen Throe Coalesce - Counting Murders And Drinking Beer (The Novembers Doom - They Were Left to Die $46,000 Escape) Pig Destroyer - Pixie Coalesce - The Comedian in Question Portal - Curtain Crowbar - December's Spawn Scar Symmetry - Artificial Sun Projection Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom Scarve - The Perfect Disaster Cult of Luna - Owlwood Sepultura - Ostia Dark Fortress - As The World Keels Over Sepultura - Spectrum Dark Fortress - Shardfigures Setherial - Relinquishment From the Unlighted Chambers Dark Tranquillity - Inside the Particle Storm Shai Hulud - Cold Lord Quietus Dark Tranquillity - Iridium Shape of Despair - Angels of Distress Dark Tranquillity - Out of Gravity Shape of Despair - Quiet These Paintings Are Daylight Dies - A Dream Resigned Sample fileSix Feet Under - Seed of Filth Deicide - Hang in Agony Until You're Dead Six Feet Under - Ten Deadly Plagues Enslaved - Ascension Skrew - Crawl Enslaved - Center Skrew - Dark Ride Enslaved - Tides of Chaos Skrew - Porcelain Evile - Genocide Skrew - Swallow Exodus - As it Was Slayer - Blood Red Exodus - Hammer and Life Slayer - Divine Intervention Exodus - Nanking Slayer - Expendable Youth Exodus - Shudder to Think Slayer - In the Name of God Fear Factory - Body Hammer Slayer - Mandatory Suicide Fear Factory - Moment of Impact Slayer - Seven Faces Fen - As Buried Spirits Stir Slayer - Spill the Blood Fen - Bereft Soulfly - Inner Spirit Goatwhore - Of Ashen Slumber Stompbox - saltpeterexitwound Goatwhore - To Mourn and Forever Wander Through Strapping Young Lad - Imperial Forgotten Doorways Strapping Young Lad - Landscape Godflesh - Circle of Shit Sylosis - From the Edge of the Earth Godflesh - Hunter Synthetic Breed - Cybernetics Godflesh - Merciless Unsane - Get Off My Back Godflesh - Witch Hunt Unsane - Out Gojira - Of Blood and Salt Unsane - Stop Gojira - Vacuity 3 BACKSTORY TABLE 3: GEOGRAPHY 1. Lake Hvergelmir Fill this in, using the tables below: 2. Ravenpeak Mountain 3. Cloakmire Marsh The SlaughterGrids were built by genocidal halflings, 4. Khulgra Falls aeons ago. Mammoth automatons of stone, maintained 5. Gandvik River by small crews, they were sent to fight against (TABLE 1), 6. Mount Corbenic and they were later responsible for the destruction of (TABLE 2). TABLE 4: LEADERS 1. Lady Delphinia, Bladeborn Warden One of the massive constructs strayed from the others 2. Izmirlian the Red, plains-ranger and stumbled, lost and directionless, through foreign 3. Karolina the Misericorde, Elven Assassin lands. Across planes and realms, it left a trail of 4. Vashti of Jamsheed, Tularian Wyvern-Rider unspeakable destruction. Finally, it reached (name of 5. Amenophis the Second, Light of the Sky your world/realm). Armies were deployed against it. 6. Brother Haemon the Dirge-Singer It killed thousands at the battle of (insert name of promi- TABLE 5: ADVENTURERS nent geographical location in your world, or roll on 1. Four scarred veterans seeking their fortune TABLE 3). Led by (TABLE 4), a group of adventurers 2. Five louts too intoxicated to feel fear entered the SlaughterGrid and made their way to her 3. A half-dozen youths armed with wooden swords brain, which they destroyed by means of powerful mag- 4. Six brave heroes in search of destiny ics. The SlaughterGrid collapsed near (name of location 5. A group of desperate thieves and graverobbers in your world, or roll on TABLE 2 again), and eventual- 6. A band of adventurers lusting for treasure ly, was covered over by grass and vines. Its pelvic mound now resembles a dirt-covered hill, and the bulk of the SlaughterGrid is actually under the earth. STATE OF AFFAIRS Yesterday, its orifice opened, and (TABLE 5) entered. They were not heard from again. Experience Points Adventure awaits... Ignoring encounters during the hexcrawl, and setting aside any random encounters, there are approximately 13,000 XP worth of monsters in this dungeon (assuming TABLE 1: ARMIES that the characters find and kill/defeat/outwit them all). 1. the shimmering legions of the Dragon Elves Sample file 2. a filth-caked coalition of trolls, ogres, and goblinoids Random Encounters 3. the demon hordes of Mictlan and their infernal lords The default likelihood of encountering a monster in an 4. a ticking bronze army of gnome-wrought automatons empty room is 1 in 6, but that number increases by 1 5. the undead phalanx of Lich Queen Marizela Bone- with each new room that the players enter without an Wright encounter of some kind (2 in 6, then 3 in 6, etc., then 6. ten thousand stalwart dwarves marching in silent for- resetting to 1 in 6 after an encounter has transpired). mation Level 1 TABLE 2: LOCATIONS Here, small creatures feed on guano, and are in turn 1. Mecha Zel, subterranean clockwork kingdom of the eaten by ambulatory mushrooms and various carnivo- gnomes rous animals. Mivik, a cave goblin, has escaped the car- 2. Miravell, a glorious city of pearl-encrusted spires and nage on Level 2, and has made his way up here. The opal dragons ovum can be found on the western end of this level, and 3. the Temple of Murder, where the Guild of Reapers ladders to the north will lead down to Level 2. kept the First Sickle 4. Greyflesh Keep, a citadel of necromancers and forni- Level 1 Random Encounters cators 1. Cadaver Carver 5. Jurndar Hall, where the North-Women raised vora- 2. Impaler cious Frostwyrms 3. Dropper 6. Rokesta Tower, focal point of the halfling campaign 4. Grey Recluse against humankind 5. Clutcher 6. Ascomyte