Just Another Stupid Dungeon
1. Entrance
Set into a hillside is
a well-weathered yet
still sturdy dungeon-style
door. A key is sticking out of the lock,
with a keyring dangling from it that holds
seven more keys.
A few small dead birds, tits if they inhabit
the area, litter the ground before the
door.
If approached during the day, about a
dozen children, ages eight to ten, will
be near the door, daring each other to
touch it and/or the keys. None will do
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so. If asked about it, or if any of the
player characters approach the door, the
children will tell them that anybody who
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touches the door or keys will instantly die.
If the player characters are approaching
the dungeon entrance at night, then
tell them that during the previous day
in the nearby village, they heard adults
complaining about the kids going to “the
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door” and how they wish they could stop
them, considering anyone who touches
2. Entry Hall
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This hallway is littered with countless
bones of all sorts, humans, livestock,
small woodland creatures, everything,
just a few inside the entrance but stacked
knee-high throughout most of the hall.
Rat holes are at the base of the walls, and
a great many of the filthy beasts crawl
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the door or the keys will instantly die.
In fact, this is probably the best way to
introduce the existence of this place to
the characters: “There’s this door in a hill
in the woods where anyone who touches
it dies. Damn kids go out there and play
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near it. Seems some wizard used to live
there, a bunch of folks in our parents’ day
went there to get rid of it, all torches and
pitchforks-like. Went in, never came out.
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But neither did the wizard, and all the
witchy-doo in the area stopped. We stay
away from it now, but those damn kids,
tell ’em it’s dangerous, that’s where they
want to go play when you look away for
two seconds.”
The door is not locked. The key in the lock
is not that lock’s key; it’s just been put
in there and won’t turn but can be easily
removed.
Children: Armor 12, Move 90’, 0 Hit
Dice, 1hp, no attacks, Morale 4.
Villagers: Armor 12, Move 120’, 0 Hit
Dice, 3hp, miscellaneous weapon
attack for 1d6 damage, Morale 7.
through the bones
but will scatter as
anyone approaches.
If any of the bones are closely examined,
it will be discovered that they are painted
plaster; excellent facsimiles of bones, but
facsimiles nonetheless.
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3. The Green Door

From the north side of the door, it is
painted bright green, with a keyhole in
the center of the door.
From the south
If anything other than the proper key is
side of the door, this
inserted into the keyhole, the mechanism
seems like a steel door
inside will crush whatever has been

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with rubber seals on all sides, creating an
inserted; hopefully, only a wrong key’s
airtight seal. The door is easily pushed
bit, but anyone stupid enough to stick a
open.
body part in there loses it (and takes 1hp

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damage).
The door is not locked.

4. The Grand Hall

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1d8 to see in which direction it falls.
The nature of the floor can only be
The grand hall has
discovered by applying pressure on one
a vaulted ceiling 50’
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of the tiles; simply stepping into the room
high, with a few tree roots
will cause a great big ripple, giving the
poking through from the surface above.
lectern a 50% chance to tip over and the
The floor seems to be a normal tiled statue’s liquid a 50% chance to spill.
stone floor, but hidden underneath is
If walking faster than 5’/round, a Stealth
something completely abnormal: the tiles
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roll must be made to walk anywhere in

are placed on a gelatinous mass, similar
the room without risking the lectern
to but a bit thicker than a waterbed or
falling or the liquid spilling; on a failed
bouncy castle. Stepping on a tile (or
roll, there is an equal chance in 6 for each
directly on the mass) will result in the
point the Stealth roll failed that either
entire surface of the room rippling,
will fall. For example, if a character has
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threatening to topple both the lectern

a 1 in 6 Stealth and they roll a 3, they’ve
with the book (see #5) and the liquid
failed by 2, so there’s a 2 in 6 chance that
the statue carries aloft (see #6). One
the lectern falls or the statue spills its load
would have to be intentionally stomping
(check individually).
vigorously or carelessly running across