WILDERNESS, WEATHER, & ENVIRONMENT

Contents

• Dungeon Terrain
• Cave-Ins And Collapses (Cr 8) - Cave-ins and collapsing tunnels are extremely dangerous.
• Corridors - All dungeons have rooms, and most have corridors. While most corridors...
• Doors - Doors in dungeons are much more than mere entrances and exits.
• Floors - As with walls, dungeon floors come in many types.
• Miscellaneous Features
• Rooms - Rooms in dungeons vary in shape and size. Although many are simple in construction...
• Slimes, Molds, And Fungi - In a dungeon's damp, dark recesses, molds and fungi thrive.
• Special Floors
• Special Walls
• Walls - Sometimes, masonry walls-stones piled on top of each other (usually but...
• Walls, Doors, And Detect Spells - Stone walls, iron walls, and iron doors are usually thick enough to block most detect spells, such as detect thoughts.
• The Environment - Environmental hazards specific to one kind of terrain (such as an avalanche,...
• Acid Effects - Corrosive acids deals 1d6 points of damage per round of exposure except...
• Cold Dangers - Cold and exposure deal nonlethal damage to the victim.
• Darkness - Darkvision allows many characters and monsters to see perfectly well without...
• Falling
• Falling Objects - Just as characters take damage when they fall more than 10 feet, so too...
• Heat Dangers - Heat deals nonlethal damage that cannot be recovered until the character...
• Smoke Effects - A character who breathes heavy smoke must make a Fortitude save each round...
• Starvation And Thirst - Characters might find themselves without food or water and with no means to obtain them.
• Suffocation - A character who has no air to breathe can hold her breath for 2 rounds per point of Constitution.
• Water Dangers - Any character can wade in relatively calm water that isn't over his head, no check required.
• Types Of Dungeons - The four basic dungeon types are defined by their current status.
• Natural Cavern Complex - Underground caves provide homes for all sorts of subterranean monsters.
• Occupied Structure - This type of dungeon is still in use. Creatures (usually intelligent) live...
• Ruined Structure - Once occupied, this place is now abandoned (completely or in part) by its...
• Safe Storage - When people want to protect something, they might bury it underground.
• Wilderness
• Aquatic Terrain - Aquatic terrain is the least hospitable to most PCs, because they can't breathe there.
• Desert Terrain - Desert terrain exists in warm, temperate, and cold climates, but all deserts share one common trait: little rain.
• Forest Terrain - Forest terrain can be divided into three categories: sparse, medium, and dense.
• Getting Lost - There are many ways to get lost in the wilderness. Following an obvious...
• Hills Terrain - A hill can exist in most other types of terrain, but hills can also dominate the landscape.
• Marsh Terrain - Two categories of marsh exist: relatively dry moors and watery swamps.
• Mountain Terrain - The three mountain terrain categories are alpine meadows, rugged mountains, and forbidding mountains.
• Plains Terrain - Plains come in three categories: farms, grasslands, and battlefields.
• Urban Adventures - At first glance, a city is much like a dungeon, made up of walls, doors, rooms, and corridors.
• Weather - Sometimes weather can play an important role in an adventure.