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THE F ORGE OF F URY

Richard Baker

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Editor: Miranda Horner

Creative Director: Ed Stark

Cover Illustration: Todd Lockwood

Interior Illustrations: Dennis Cramer

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Graphic Design: Sherry Floyd, Scan Glenn

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Project Manager: Josh Fischer

Production Manager: Chas DeLong

Playtesters: Monte Cook, Brace R. Cordell, Miranda Horner, Gwendolyn Kestrel, Scott Magner,

Dave Mendez, Eric Mona, Jon Pickens, John D. Rateliff, Ed Stark, Jonathan Tweet, Anthony Valterra,

Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, and James Wyatt

Based on the original D UNGEONS & D RAGONS ® rules created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson,

and the new D UNGEONS & D RAGONS game designed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams,

Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison.

Table of Contents

lntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Adventure Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Adventure Synopsis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Sidebar: The Town of Blasingdell . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Character Hooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Forge of Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

The Stone Tooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Sidebar: The Wilderness and Camping . . . . . . . . 4

Entering Khundrukar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sidebar: Dungeon Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Sidebar: Summary of Defenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Sidebar: Prisoners and

Player Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Sidebar: Vision in the

Glitterhame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Sidebar: Troglodyte Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13

Sidebar: Watch Those Claws! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Sidebar: Mold and You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Sidebar: Ropers and Low-Level

Player Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Sidebar: Negotiating Passage? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Sidebar: Illusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Sidebar: Idalla’s Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Ending the Character Hooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Where to Next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Appendix: Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

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INTRODUCTION

I NTRODUCTION

Each encounter is rated with an encounter level to

help you figure out how powerful the encounter should

be for your party of adventurers, and to determine expe-

rience point rewards.

Two centuries past, the dwarven smith Durgeddin the

Black carved a secret stronghold from the caverns rid-

dling a hill known as the Stone Tooth. Laboring cease-

lessly in their halls under the mountain,

Durgeddin’s clan forged enchanted weapons

for use in their vendetta against the orcs that

had driven them out of their old homes.

Durgeddin and his followers are long dead,

but the dwarf-hold is not empty. Deadly

peril waits in the caverns beneath the Stone

Tooth, as well as Durgeddin’s hidden armory

of matchless weaponry.

The Forge of Fury is a D UNGEONS & D RAGONS ®

adventure suitable for four 3rd-level player

characters. Player characters who survive the

entire adventure advance to 5th level with

good play. Lower level characters can handle

the early portions of the adventure with luck

and caution, while you can make the adven-

ture suitable for higher level characters with

some minor modifications.

The Town of

Blasingdell

While the Stone Tooth is a

remote and lonely place, there

is a human town not too far

away. Blasingdell lies about 30

miles south of the Stone Tooth,

a journey of three days on foot

or two days on horseback due

to the surrounding rugged ter-

rain and dense forests. While

it isn’t close enough for the

player characters to use it as

a base camp for their explora-

tion of the Glitterhame, it’s

still useful as a place to pur-

chase equipment, stock up on

supplies, and rest in between

excursions into the caverns.

Blasingdell (large town):

Conventional; AL NC; 5,000

gp limit; Assets 505,000 gp;

Popula tion 2,021; Integrated

(human 37, halfling 20, elf 18,

dwarf 10, gnome 7, half-elf 5,

half-orc 3).

Authority Figure: Sir Miles

Berrick, male human Ari6.

Important Characters: Khelde-

gan Tolm, male dwarf Exp7

(proprietor of Tolm’s Superior

Outfitting and Dry Goods);

Constable Dara Whitewood,

female human War6; Sister

Alonsa, female human Clr5;

Sergeant Grendar Kuln, male

half-orc (watch-captain) Ftr4;

Sarel Bankdown, female half-

elf Exp2 (proprietor of The Grif-

fon’s Nest inn and tavern).

Others: Town guards, War3

(2); Militia, War1 (101); Clr2

(2); Ftr2 (2); Exp3 (2); Exp1

(56); Ari3 (2); Aril (10); Com1

(1,838).

ADVENTURE BACKGROUND

Two centuries ago, the great dwarven smith Durgeddin

the Black was driven from his home by a horde of fierce

orcs and trolls. They plundered his ancestral halls and

slew all they could catch. Fleeing his enemies, Durgeddin

led the destitute remnants of his clan in search of a new

home. After years of wandering, the dwarves discovered

a great cavern system beneath the Stone Tooth, which

is a rugged, forested hill crowned by a bare rocky crag.

There Durgeddin and his followers founded the secret

stronghold of Khundrukar—the Glitterhame.

About one hundred years ago, one of Durgeddin’s clans-

men was captured by orcs during a raid, and a powerful

orc tribe learned the secret of their enemy’s stronghold.

The orcish chieftains raised a great army and marched on

Khundrukar. In a hard-fought siege lasting months, the

orcs tunneled around the dwarven defenses and stormed

the place, putting all within to the sword. The monsters

abandoned the scene, carrying off wagonloads of booty.

In the years since the great battle, various goblin or

orc bands have occupied the Glitterhame and used the

dwarf-hold as a base for their raids. At other times, the

caverns have lain empty except for the mindless and

bloodthirsty monsters that haunt such places. Today

legends of Durgeddin’s Vengeance, the Smith’s War,

and the extraordinary blades he forged in anger still

surface from time to time in the lands near the Stone

Tooth.

PREPARATION

You should have a copy of the Player’s Handbook ,

the D UNGEON M ASTER ’ S Guide , and the Monster

Manual to play this adventure. Before you

run this adventure for your players, you

should read through it once to get an idea

of what’s supposed to happen. If you plan to

play as a player character in this adventure,

you shouldn’t read it now—play the adven-

ture first with someone else as the Dungeon

Master, and when you’re done with that

game, you can get ready to run your own.

You should read or paraphrase text that

appears in shaded boxes to

the players. This information

summarizes the scene as the

characters first encounter it,

providing the players with

the information their charac-

ters gain simply from enter-

ing the room. In many cases,

the characters may discover

hidden treasure or lurking

monsters by exploring the

area at greater length. Boxes

outside the running text

contain special information

for you, the Dungeon Master.

Areas with monster encounters

include a set of “spot” statistics, just

enough information for you to run a

combat with these creatures without

referring to another source. Extended

monster statistics are provided in the

appendix in alphabetical order.

ADVENTURE SYNOPSIS

The Forge of Fury is a dungeon crawl, or site-based adven-

ture, describing the ruined stronghold of Khundrukar.

The characters come to the Stone Tooth in search of a

INTRODUCTION

hidden cache of Durgeddin’s superior blades. They find

the old stronghold inhabited by a number of dangerous

monsters. The complex consists of five different levels:

The Mountain Door: The entrance to the Glitterhame,

the Mountain Door is the uppermost level of the cavern

complex. It is inhabited by a tribe of fierce orcs, led by a

brutal ogre-king known as the Great Ulfe.

The Glitterhame: The largest level of Khundrukar, the

Glitterhame is a broad expanse of beautiful natural cav-

erns. Troglodytes and cave-dwelling monsters infest

this region. From here, the characters can ascend to the

Foundry or climb down into the Sinkhole.

The Sinkhole: Streams in the Glitterhame descend to

an underground river, which includes a corner of the

caverns forgotten by the denizens above.

The Foundry: Beyond the Glitterhame lie the dwarven

halls of Khundrukar itself, a complex of chambers and

passageways carved by Durgeddin’s folk. A small band of

duergar (gray dwarf) warriors currently hold Durgeddin’s

hall, working to uncover the secret of the smith’s

ancient forge. A great crevasse leads to the Black lake.

The Black Lake: The most dangerous denizen of the cav-

erns under the Stone Tooth lairs in the cold, still waters

of the Black Lake. Nightscale, a black dragon, discovered

a passage into the lake through an underwater siphon

connect ing to a bog on the far side of the hill. The young

dragon has claimed the ancient wealth of Khundrukar as

the beginning of her own hoard, and she defends her lair to

the death.

characters learn that fierce orc raiders have been pil-

laging isolated farmsteads and camps in the hills north

of the town. One orc warrior, left for dead by his com-

rades, was placed under the influence of a charm spell

by the town’s mage. He then divulged the location of

the monsters’ lair, a lonely hill called the Stone Tooth.

The characters are offered a bounty of 25 gold pieces per

orc they slay or capture, plus the eternal gratitude of the

townsfolk for quelling the threat.

T HE FORGE

The legend of the smith Durgeddin the Black is well

known in this region. In each of the small, scattered

towns you’ve passed through, you’ve heard stories

of wondrous treasure hidden in long-lost dwarven

vaults and a pitiless war of vengeance between dwarf

and orc a hundred years past.

Durgeddin was a master smith who forged blades

of surpassing quality and power. Centuries ago,

Durgeddin’s home was sacked by orcs. Durgeddin

led the remnants of his clan to a new stronghold in

the mountains north of the town of Blasingdell and

established a small, secret stronghold somewhere in

the trackless wilderness.

From his hidden redoubt, he waged a decades-long

vendetta against all orc-kind, until one day his ene-

mies discovered his fortress and attacked it. Durged-

din and his followers perished, and much wealth was

carried away by the conquering hordes. But it’s said

that the deepest and best-hidden vaults and armories

escaped the looting, and that some of Durgeddin’s

extraordinary blades still wait in the darkness for a

hand bold enough to claim one.

You’ve come to Blasingdell, a small mining town

on the northern frontier, to see if there’s anything

to these stories. Your map shows that the old dwarf-

hold lies about three days’ march to the north of the

town. Dark, deeply forested hills rise beyond the

town’s outskirts.

CHARACTER HOOKS

You can place the Stone Tooth and its caverns anywhere

you like in your campaign world. The Forge of Fury works

particularly well if you pick a remote range of rugged

hills or highlands several days from the nearest town.

Your next task is to figure out why your players will

want their characters to brave this adventure. How did

the party learn about Khundrukar, and how did they

discover its location? Pick one of the following options

that best suits your game, or make up an explanation of

your own. (If you don’t know which one to use, go with

The Map—it’s easy).

The Map: The party has acquired a map showing the

location of a secret dwarven stronghold named Khun-

drukar. Perhaps the characters discovered the map dur-

ing a previous adventure, or maybe a character with a stu-

dious bent such as a wizard or a priest discovered the map

in a forgotten corner of his or her favorite library before

this adventure starts. It doesn’t really matter how the

characters got their hands on it—they can use the map

to reach the Stone Tooth and begin their explorations.

A Broken Blade: Baron Althon, a local nobleman,

hires the party to search for the legendary cache of

weapons forged by Durgeddin the smith. He shows

the characters a broken blade bearing the smith’s mark,

and tells them that it was discovered near a rocky hill

called the Stone Tooth. Baron Althon provides the party

with directions to the Stone Tooth and offers a reward

of 500 gold pieces above market value for each blade of

Durgeddin’s the party recovers for him.

Captured Raider: In the town of Blasingdell, the

This is a good time to ask the players if their characters

would like to make any special preparations before

beginning the adventure. Buying equipment and sup-

plies for an expedition into the wilderness might be a

good idea.

When the players are ready, move on to The Stone

Tooth. The trek to the peak passes without event.

OF FURY

When you’re ready to begin play, read or paraphrase the

following information to the players. This is what their

characters have heard about Durgeddin and his lost

stronghold before setting out in search of the dwarf’s

lost stronghold. This text assumes that you’ve decided

to use The Map as your hook for getting the characters

to the adventure; if that’s not the case, you might need

to change the text to fit.

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