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MORDENKAINEN’S MAGNIFICENT MANSION BY CHRISTOPHER WILLETT Sample file TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Layout ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3 Customization ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Betrayal at Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion ................................................................................................................ 8 Appendix A ............................................................................................................................................................................ 11 ART CREDITS Monumental Stairway of the Palais Garnier Opera in Paris BY ISOGOOD CARTOGRAPHY BY CHRISTOPHER WILLETT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, D&D, WIZARDS OF THE COAST, FORGOTTEN REALMS, THE DRAGON AMPERSAND, PLAYER’S HANDBOOK, MONSTER MANUAL, DUNGEON MASTER’S GUIDE, D&D ADVENTURERS LEAGUE, ALL OTHER WIZARDS OF THE COAST PRODUCT NAMES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE LOGOS ARE TRADEMARKS OF WIZARDS OF THE COAST IN THE USA AND OTHER COUNTRIES. ALL CHARACTERS AND THEIR DISTINCTIVE LIKENESSES ARE PROPERTY OF WIZARDS OF THE COAST. THIS MATERIAL IS PROTECTED UNDER THE COPYRIGHT LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ANY REPRODUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE MATERIAL OR ARTWORK CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION OF WIZARDS OF THE COAST. COPYRIGHT 2016 WIZARDS OF THE COAST LLC, PO BOX 707, RENTON, WA 98057-0707, USA. MANUFACTURED BY HASBRO SA, RUE EMILE-BOÉCHAT 31, 2800 DELÉMONT, CH. REPRESENTED BY HASBRO EUROPE, 4 THE SQUARE, STOCKLEY PARK, UXBRIDGE, MIDDLESEX, UB11 1ET, UK. Sample file ALL OTHER ORIGINAL MATERIAL IN THIS WORK IS COPYRIGHT 2017 BY CHRISTOPHER WILLETT AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE COMMUNITY CONTENT AGREEMENT FOR DUNGEON MASTERS GUILD. NOT FOR RESALE. PERMISSION GRANTED TO PRINT OR PHOTOCOPY THIS COMPLETE DOCUMENT FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. 1 Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion FOREWORD The Character Mordenkainen was originally the character played by Gary Gygax. In 1973, Gygax had asked his friend Rob Kunz to become Dungeon Master so that he could experience the game as a player. Mordenkainen was a portmanteau of the names Mordecai and Lemminkainen. From 1973 until 1985 Gygax developed the character, describing him as level “twenty-something.” However, Mordenkainen’s original stats were kept a secret. After losing creative control of Mordenkainen in 1985, the wizard has been given stats in other publications like The Rogues Gallery (1980), Mordenkainen’s Fantastic Adventure (1984), The City of Greyhawk (1989), and Epic Level Handbook (2002). Gygax has gone on record saying that these are not official. What makes Mordenkainen most important to the Dungeons and Dragons mythos is the fact that there are several spells carrying his name like Mordenkainen’s magnificent mansion, Mordenkainen’s faithful hound, Mordenkainen’s sword, Mordenkainen’s private sanctum, and Mordenkainen’s disjunction Mordenkainen’s magnificent mansion is a 7th-level spell. The original architect of this mansion was Mordenkainen himself. He constructed the dimensional space and stocked it with one hundred unseen servants. When a wizard casts the spell, they are not creating their own mansion out of thin air, instead they are accessing Mordenkainen’s own design. When the mansion is formed, unless specified by the caster, the fine details like filigree, tapestries, marble mosaics, and baseboards revert to the original designs Mordenkainen set down. This book provides players and Dungeon Masters with several options. First, there is a sample mansion that has already been constructed. If your players do not wish to take the time to design their own layout you have this mansion ready to go. Next, if the players wish to use this dimensional mansion more and more frequently as a mobile home base they will want to customize it. This book gives options for doing that as well. Finally, after the players have begun to depend too heavily on Mordenkainen’s hospitality, there is a short adventure in which the mansion and its servants turn on the players. This book is for you if you want this spell to be more than just a way for players to avoid having to camp out in the dungeon. Sample file 2 Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion LAYOUT furnished with plenty of comfy chairs. Every detail SAMPLE LAYOUT has been seen to by Mordenkainen, especially since This portion of Mordenkainen’s Magnificent architecture was one of his many passions. Mansion provides you with the resources needed to Everything is richly decorated and somehow use a mansion on the fly with little or no connected to his many adventures. Anything the preparation. However, the caster of the spell can players interact with is made of the finest change the layout and design of the mansion upon craftsmanship and in the rococo style. Room Height. casting the spell. Since space is meaningless in the transdimensional plane that the mansion resides on, ARCHITECTURE these rooms are often very tall. The walls are covered with all manner of decorations (animal The floors of the mansion are made from a heads, monster heads, tapestries, paintings, etc.) gorgeous white marble with gold accents. The tiles Windows. Most of the rooms have huge picture are laid out into intricate geometric designs. The windows that open to stunning views of the garden place is bright and warm with lanterns and candles and crisp snowcapped mountains. The mansion sets lit by magicalSample flames running across every wall. itself to match the time as whenfile Mordenkainen’s Almost every room has a fireplace that spreads can magnificent mansion is cast. Thus, if the spell is cast at take the chill out of tired bones. Every room is night, it is night time at the mansion. If the spell is 3 Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion .