Having just finished running my Holmes/OD&D group through the original "Lost Caverns of Tsojconth" I felt compelled to make this classic more accessible. Click on the link for a 16-page version of the Lost Caverns in the style of B1 "In Search of the Unknown"
This would serve as a great adventure for 6-8 PCs of levels 3-7. All you need is a copy of your D&D rulebook edited by Holmes, as I have included sections describing new monsters and treasures (including the rules for intelligent swords from Greyhawk).
I borrowed text from the AD&D version to flesh out some of the room descriptions. I also felt the need to come up with some wandering monster tables, but feel free to modify to suit your individual campaign. Enjoy!
https://sites.google.com/site/holmesgrimoire/TsojconthforHolmes.pdf
Wow! Great work.
ReplyDeleteThanks - it was fun coming up with the rumor table. I snuck in some references to the AD&D version as "false" rumors. I think the Lost Caverns would fit perfectly into the Cave of the Unknown for an "all Gygax" B2 campaign.
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Love the new creatures with Holmes-style stat blocks. That said, this one'd definitely be a party killer if you top out your Holmes campaign at 3rd level..
ReplyDeletePerhaps, but with enough party savvy and a few choice magic items a DM has control over which monsters to stock and where. I've run "Chapel of Silence" by Mollie Plants for a 3rd level party, which has trolls, a cockatrice, and a vampire as the boss encounter and they did surprisingly well. I also ran "Isle of Dread" for a 3rd level party, and it has dinosaurs!
ReplyDeleteAnyway "Lost Caverns" should probably retain it's reputation as a party-killer dungeon...