A forgotten temple dedicated to spiders and element.
This adventure is for a slow game day or a session you need a quick one shot without any build up or consequences for abandoning.
While the insides of the temple are hostile, the effect or threat to the outside world is benign, nothing needs to be resolved other than sating the players own curiosity. You can introduce the adventure a number of different ways: a hole opens in the road, there is a secret door in the mine or cavern the players are taking shelter in, there is a bricked up doorway in a tavern, inn or shop that has become a local legend, etc.
The first room is a large circular chamber. There are 4 doors to the left, 4 to the right and one on the north wall.
-A- The walls are studded with fist size iron spider decoratives.
-B- The north door is made of stone and has a 1 meter tall iron spider crest on it.
Each spider leg ends in a circular slot.
Note 1: Each slot takes one gem which can be found in the other 8 rooms. The door cannot be opened unless all 8 gems are inserted into the slots.
Note 2: The gems can be retrieved once the door is opened, but it should be noted if the price of the listed gem is too much for your players at this time, consider devaluing the gem through flaws and cracks.
-C- The other 8 doors are made of stone and can be opened with ease.
Past each door is one of the 8 rooms in no particular order.
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A stone room with blackened singed walls. It smells of ash and the air is hot. In the center of the room is a one meter long iron spider statue with a ruby inserted on its back.
-A- When a player enters the room, a blast wave of fire shoots out form the ruby hitting all players in the room for X D6 fire damage and automatically setting them ablaze.
Any player who is set on fire takes D6 fire damage every round until they spend one round putting out the flames.
-B- The spider is hot to the touch, dealing X D6 fire damage to any player who touched the surface.
-C- The ruby can be removed with ease.
Once the ruby is removed, the room cools and fire no longer blasts from the ruby.
A stone room with green acidic mold on the walls and ceiling. The mold secretes acid, it drips from the ceiling and makes the walls slick. The floor is a 3 meter deep basin with a pool of acid and summered within is a 1 meter long glassy spider statute with an emerald inserted on its back.
-A- The walls deal X D6 acid damage to the touch.
-B- The ceiling leaks acid and any player who enters the room must roll to avoid being dripped on or take X D6 acid damage and loses one mundane item as it dissolves.
-C- Any player who enters the pools takes X D6 acid damage a round.
-D- The emerald can be removed with ease.
Once the emerald is removed, the acid turns to water and the mold shrivels and dies.
A large stone room covered in ice. Snow falls from the ceiling with no source. There is X snow drifts throughout the chamber.
-A- Any player who enters the room automatically takes X D6 cold damage as the room is in a deep freeze.
Every round a player stays in the room, they must roll or become frozen solid as if they suffered a flesh to stone spell.
Note: While in this state, a player is not dead but can do nothing as if rendered unconscious. The effect will end once a player removes the sapphire from the spiderâs back.
-B- Under 1 of the snow drifts is a hidden 1 meter long ice sculpture of a spider with a sapphire inserted on its back.
-C- The sapphire can be removed with ease.
Once the sapphire is removed, the room starts to warm and the snow melts.
A room of stone. The walls and floors spark randomly and every surface hums to the touch. The air is charged, sending players hairs on end. In the center of the room is a one meter long iron statue of a spider with a citrine inserted into its back.
-A- Any player who enters the room is hit with a bolt of lightning, dealing X D6 lighting damage.
The lightning branches out and hits every other player for half damage regardless or range unless they are outside the temple.
Note: Any player hit by the main bolt must roll or become stunned as their body contracts from muscle spasms brought on by the electric charge.
-B- The spider statue is electrified and delivers a shock for X D6 lightning damage to any player who touches its surface.
-C- The citrine can be removed with ease.
Once the citrine is removed, the lightning stops and the room no longer hums with energy.
A room of brown stone. A netting of thick dead roots covers every surface. A meter long stone statue of a spider is in the center of the room with a piece of agate inserted into its back.
-A- Any player who enters feels a weight press down on them, absorbing their strength with each step.
The spider is X steps away.
Players must roll strength for each step with increasing difficulty as the weight bearing down on them becomes heavier and heavier.
Every failed roll, the players stop moving for a round and lose 1 point of strength, which can be regained after rest.
-B- The agate cannot be removed with ease and requires a strength roll to be removed.
Once the agate is removed, the effect of the room fades although, all lost strength remains.
A room of crystal blocks. The walls are studded with sharp crystalline spikes. A wind howls and blows throughout the chamber. A one meter crystalline spider statue is in the center of the room with a diamond that randomly appears and disappears throughout its surface.
-A- Any player who enters the room must roll dexterity to avoid being hit by gusts of wind.
Any player who fails is thrust against the spikes, their arms, hands and legs impaled, dealing X D6 damage plus losing 1 point of dexterity, which can be regained after rest.
-B- Any player attempting to grab the moving diamond must roll a dexterity to check to get a hold of it.
Once grabbed, the diamond can be removed with ease.
Once the diamond is removed, the wind fades although all lost dexterity remains.
A room of slick blue coral covered in sea weed. A pool of water is in the back of the chamber.
-A- Within in the pool is a coral tunnel caked with seaweed.
Any player who enters the pool immediately has all the air sucked from their lungs.
Players must roll constitution every round while under the water and are suffering D6 damage from drowning plus losing 1 point of constitution, which can be regained after rest.
-B- The seaweed wraps itself around the playersâ arms and legs, making it difficult to move.
Every round a player must roll a swimming check or become stopped for a round as the player becomes entangled in seaweed.
-C- At the end of the tunnel, X rounds of swimming away, is a 1 meter long blue coral statue of a spider with a pearl inserted into its back.
-D- The pearl can be removed with ease.
Once the pearl is removed, all the water drains within one round, but all lost constitution points still remain.
A chamber of stone shrouded in shadows. In the center of the room is a veil of thick shadows.
-A- Any player who enters the chamber starts to hear whispers and voices in their head, and must roll an intelligence check to suppress the voices.
Every failed roll results in the loss of one intelligence point, which can be regained after rest, and one step toward insanity.
Three steps towards insanity and the player goes insane and must roll intelligence every round to break free.
-B- Any player who moves into the veil of shadows, at first sees their worst nightmare and must roll an intelligence check.
Any player who fails loses D6 intelligence points and goes insane until a sufficient intelligence check can be made.
Any player who passes, sees a 1 meter long black and warped wooden statue of a spider with a piece of obsidian inserted into its back.
-C- The obsidian can be removed with ease.
Once the obsidian is removed, the whispers stop and player no longer have to roll for insanity and insane players automatically become sane, although all intelligence points lost remain.
Once all 8 gems have been inserted into their slot, the north door will open. It is a stone room covered in rainbow colored web of silk. Jars and clay pots are wrapped up in the web. In the center of the room is a rainbow colored crystalline spider.
-A- The spider is hostile and attacks as soon as the players enter.
The spider can have any stats, but always gets 8 attacks, each dealing 1 D6 damage plus one of the effects below:
D6 fire
D6 cold
D6 lightning
D6 acid
1 constitution loss
1 dexteriy loss
1strength loss
1intellence loss
All drained stats should be regained after rest unless you want to give the players a challenge.
-B- The web cannot be burned and affects the players as a slow spell while they are in the room.
Once the spider is defeated, the web breaks apart and fades.
-C- The clay pots contain ancient treasure long forgotten: old coins from another age, gems (there should always be gems), magic items reflecting old long forgotten cultures, etc.
Although this is a one off, the effects can have more lasting effects should you choose.
Maybe the gems can be combined to form an artifact weapon.
Maybe the gems each contains a piece of a deity or ancient evil and when combined bring the entity back to life which then helps or hinders the players throughout their campaign.
Maybe a group of tainted druids have heard about these gems and want to use them to turn the ecosystems of their areas into wild and harsh environments, destroying civilization.
Either way, have fun and hope to see you again.
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