UNDER

THE DUNGEON

room 20
MOUNTAIN
THE

1st level
Black Idol


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 UNDER THE DUNGEON

room 20
MOUNTAIN THE

1st level
Black Idol

UNDER
Room Description Combat Tactics
RULE

RULE
THE

THE DUNGEON DUNGEON!

THE
DUNGEON! for the Referee [high] (EL 14)

MOUNTAIN THE The room contains little but the

statue, the slaughtered animals, and
a box of loot stashed in one corner.
The goblins fight with insane
ferocity, as they are mad from slowly
losing their soul energy. They defend
Black Idol The goblins have made this chamber the statue with their lives and do not
their lair, not realizing that the obsid- venture outside the room unless the
(Level 1, Room 20) party attacks them with ranged weap-
ian statue they venerate has enslaved
them. A tool of evil, the black idol ons.
Background
feeds on the goblins’ souls and will
and Lead-ins consume them over the next few days.
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Roleplaying Tactics
The party stumbles upon the loca- In the meantime, it both makes them [high]
tion of the black idol, an evil artifact deranged and grants them magical The goblins begin the encounter
capable of enslaving weak minds and defenses (see below). unfriendly, but PCs who don’t wish to
turning them to evil. Before reach- leave (or physically cannot) may try to
ing this room, the party should have When the PCs arrive, the goblin calm them down before a fight breaks
found a strange obsidian disk with leader addresses them in poor Com- out. Talking to the goblins requires
arcane symbols on it—the medallion mon, warning them to “Go ‘way.” The a DC 15 Diplomacy check, but the
of Aznagor, a magic item crucial to warriors heft their swords, and they speaker must rush the check as a full-
destroying the idol. make good on their threat unless the round action and suffers a -10 penalty.
party leaves or persuades them to talk. Failure causes the goblins to attack.
Room Environment Meanwhile, the black idol asserts its Success buys the party time, but the
influence on the PCs; any character goblins must be made friendly before
Lighting: None.
enslaved by it cannot leave, forcing the they allow the characters to approach
Terrain: The rotting carcasses in
party to deal with the goblins or the the statue (another DC 15 check, un-
the room give off a fetid odor. When
artifact. less the first check resulted in a 25 or
the room’s door opens, living crea-
higher).
tures within 30 ft. must succeed on
a Fortitude save or be sickened for 1 The idol affects its thralls’ minds,
but not drastically. If a fight breaks Characters claiming to be followers
minute. A creature adjusts to the smell
out, enslaved characters still fight on of the black idol or offering a sacrifice
after that time but can be sickened
their friends’ side. Spending time of animals or treasure receive a +2
again if it leaves the room and later
talking with the goblins, however, circumstance bonus on their check.
returns.
might persuade the thralls to join in Those who get close to the statue
the dance. Even if the goblins are dead, can use the medallion of Aznagor to
Room Description destroy it.
lingering in the room may inspire a
for the Players thrall to conduct similarly inane means
The door opens to reveal four gob- of worship. The only hope for those
lins dancing around a small obsidian enslaved is to destroy the idol (see
statue. Three of the warriors wear grim below).
expressions but seem to dance at the
direction of the fourth, an ecstatic and
wide-eyed goblin chanting odd phrases
and scraps of prayer. The remains of
countless butchered animals and rot-
ting carrion cover the floor, and a foul
stench fills the room. The statue has the
features of countless humanoid races
jammed together to form a revolting
creature.


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Black Idol
RULE RULE
THE
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Relevant Skill THE
DUNGEON!
Monsters and a warrior again, leading the cult’s hu-
Checks Villains Statblocks manoid bandits on pillaging raids to
[high] [high] fill the Dungeon with treasure.
Bardic Knowledge DC 25 or Goblin Thralls (4) CR 10
Knowledge (arcana) DC 30 to Male goblin fighter 10 One day, the cult was summoned
recall the story of Aznagor and the LE Small humanoid (goblinoid) to the Dungeon, where its crea-
creation of the black idol. Init +7; Senses darkvision 60 ft.; Listen tor needed a thousand sacrifices to
Listen DC 15 to hear the goblins +0, Spot +0 empower a blasphemous idol with
dancing from outside the room. Languages Common, Goblin soul energy. The cultists herded their
Listen DC 25 to hear a goblin monstrous followers deep into the
AC 27, touch 19, flat-footed 24; Dodge, catacombs. When Aznagor saw his
uttering the word “Aznagor” during its
Mobility men would be slaughtered (senseless-
frenzy.
hp 74 (10 HD) ly, in his view), he sought to disrupt
Search DC 25 to locate the gob-
SR 20 the sacrifice by flinging his magic spear
lins’ hidden box.
Fort +9, Ref +6, Will +4 at the idol. The spear impacted with a
Will save DC 20 to resist the
black idol. brilliant spark that scorched the runes
Spd 30 ft. from the spearhead into the obsidian
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Traps, Mechanical Melee +2 longsword +15/+9 (1d6+6/19- statue; then, seemingly in retaliation,
20)
Devices, Doors, and Ranged +1 mighty composite longbow
the struck area exploded outward,
Objects Statblocks sending a disk of obsidian spinning
+15/+9 (1d6+5/x3)
[high] into Aznagor’s skull. Thus, the half-
Base Atk +10; Grp +8
Stone Door: 4 in. thick, Hard- orc became the first sacrifice.
Atk Options Cleave, Power Attack
ness 8, hp 60, Break DC 28.
RULE
Abilities Str 14, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 10, Aznagor’s corpse was thrown into
Treasures and XP
THE

a dark pit, the obsidian disk still em-

DUNGEON!

Wis 12, Cha 6

The goblins are tougher than usual Feats Cleave, Dodge, Improved bedded in his skull. A scavenger later
because of the black idol, so award an Initiative, Mobility, Power Attack, found the disk and fashioned it into
additional 25% XP for defeating them. Quick Draw, Weapon Focus (long- a medallion. Imbued with a fragment
If the PCs resolve this encounter by bow), Weapon Focus (longsword), of the magic of the black idol, the
roleplaying, award them the same XP Weapon Specialization (longbow), medallion of Aznagor grants its wearer
they would receive for defeating the Weapon Specialization (longsword) a +1 deflection bonus to AC and spell
goblins in combat. Skills Hide +6, Jump +11, Intimidate resistance 13. The runes from the spear
[high] +4, Move Silently +6, Ride +12 face outward, an inscription that trans-
A small wooden box hidden in the Possessions +1 mithral shirt, +1 heavy lates as “Aznagor” to a character using
corner contains four pouches, each wooden shield, +2 longsword, +1 read magic.
with 3 violet garnets (worth 600 gp mighty composite longbow (+2 Str)
each) and 90 gp. with 20 arrows Moderate abjuration; CL 9th; Craft
Wondrous Item, shield of faith, spell
New Objects, Spells, resistance; Price 13,000 gp.
and Magical Items
Medallion of Aznagor: Long Black Idol: The creator of the
ago, Aznagor was a half-orc soldier Dungeon Under the Mountain carved
captured by cultists who worshipped this statue from a single block of ob-
the creator of the Dungeon Under sidian and imbued it with life energy
the Mountain. Though tortured and siphoned from the souls of a thou-
beaten, Aznagor refused to die like sand sacrifices. It resembles a brawny
so many of the cult’s prisoners, and humanoid with a horrid mishmash
his ferocity and mettle impressed the of grotesque features. A three-inch
cultists. They gave him one chance of disk of obsidian has cracked free of
survival: Join them. Aznagor became its chest, but otherwise the statue is
invulnerable to harm.

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1st level
Black Idol

The black idol was intended to the word “Aznagor.” The idol then Personal Notes
RULE
THE
DUNGEON!

enslave its creator’s enemies, turning crumbles, releasing its thralls forever.
them from tomb-robbers into dun- Write here your personal notes
geon guardians. Now that its purpose Strong enchantment and necro-
is forgotten, the idol has little use for mancy [evil]; CL 13th; Weight 75 lb.
its victims—it simply sucks their souls
into oblivion over the course of several Designer’s Notes
days. This encounter requires some
forethought, as the party must find
Living creatures approaching with- the medallion of Aznagor ahead of
in 30 feet of the idol must succeed on time. The PCs must also remember
a Will save (see above). Good-aligned the medallion in their possession; if
creatures gain a +4 bonus on this save, they have no idea how to destroy the
while evil-aligned creatures suffer a -4 black idol, let a PC who succeeds on
penalty. Those who fail are enslaved an Intelligence check (DC 15) make
by the idol and immediately suffer the connection between the statue and
1d6 points of Wisdom damage. These obsidian disk.
thralls make excellent guards, never
straying more than 30 feet from the
Author’s Bio
obsidian figure and gaining a deflec-
tion bonus to AC equal to half their Mario Barbati founded Øone
Hit Dice and spell resistance equal to Games in 2000 as the first d20 pdf
10 + Hit Dice. The loss of Wisdom company. He has written a number of
also renders them mildly insane and adventures and supplements, and col-
incoherent, a condition that worsens laborates with Dragon Magazine (Ital-
each day. Every 24 hours, an enslaved ian version). He splits his time between
creature attempts another Will save; Øone Games and D&D campaigns!
a successful save frees the creature,
while failure inflicts Wisdom damage Mike Ring designs and edits d20
again. A thrall dies when its Wisdom products and lately plays a lot of Mag-
reaches 0. ic. His web page lists his full credits
and contact information: http://home.
A remove curse spell or a success- comcast.net/~michaelring.
ful break enchantment spell allows an
enslaved creature to attempt another
Will save. A thrall failing this save
does not suffer additional Wisdom
damage because of it. Forcibly remov-
ing a thrall from the radius of the
statue’s influence, however, deals it
immediate Wisdom damage and af-
flicts it with insanity until returned to
the idol’s presence.

Destroying the black idol is pos-

sible only with the medallion of
Aznagor. Broken from the statue
before it was made invulnerable, the
obsidian disk is its one weakness. A
character must place the medallion in
the statue’s circular wound and speak

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