Minotaur maze
To get past this level of the dungeon, one must confront the mighty minotaur.
This mini-adventure continues a series called Ancient Encounters, culled from ancient notebooks of campaigns past. The idea came after writing about re-using an old adventure, and I realized these great encounters deserve a little more attention. Hopefully others can be inspired by this series to make their own adventures, or to use elements of these admittedly “brief,” “vague,” and “improvisational encounters as building blocks for great games.
This dungeon level originally took place in a multi-dungeon tomb of a long forgotten king. Many of the ancient king’s advisors continued to serve him long after the entombment, and one such is the bailiff, transformed into a mighty minotaur, who guards the coin vaults of the king. The notable features of the dungeon are air fire and water traps. The water trap was a room whose doors locked when a counter-weight was achieve din the middle of the room. The room then filled with water in 3-6 rounds. Also a water weird was released into the room, intent on tripping and drowning anyone caught in the chamber.
The secret doors are difficult to detect can only be passed by waving a hand in front of them at the nine foot level, other wise they are are considered solid rock. They slide open and closed silently by magic when the hand wave is given. The minotaur uses the secret doors strategically in order to catch his prey off guard for and do drive by stampede and gore attacks.
The coin vaults are presided over by a ghostly accountant, unable to interact with the world except to count and stack coins, and who knows where every coin of the hoard is at all times, intent on keeping them together. The bailiff aids him in this endeavor. Treasure value 8,000 gold coins.
The minotaur’s lair is a veritable bachelor pad of evil delight, complete with demoness concubine. Could be a succubus, or maybe Type V…
