The Tomb of Horrors

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Game Description

— I'm a Lawful Evil GM. I play my monsters true to their character. Some are dumb. Many aren't.
— Think about your actions before you take them. Everything has consequences (some are good, some bad).
— Don't walk into a city armed for a dungeon crawl. The locals won't take kindly.
— Things such as Identification/Travel Papers, Food, and other Mundane things are important to me.
— Every different locale has different customs and laws. It's a good idea to ask about them.
— Most cities/villages/towns are warded magically. Don't assume you can teleport into them, or other things.
— My commoners are optimized. Assume everything/one is.
— I'm fond of Rich Burlew's (Giant in the Playground)

Diplomacy Rules.
— The most successful adventurers are fairly optimized. Note: If you break things, I break YOU.
— Don't try and sneak things past me. Be up front about it.
— If you see something you like in a homebrewed source, ask me if something similar exists in regular material. It might!
— Most NPCs have 6 class levels or less and are NPC classes, I'll use 'class names' for non-PC-Class characters frequently.
Character Creation:
— Sources: All Official WotC 3.5/3.0 Updated Books/Web. No 3rd Party/Homebrew. No Dragon/Dungeon Magazine.
— Setting: Grand Unified D&D Universe. (Any setting in the listed material is fine.) I use the "Great Wheel".
— 36,000 XP to spend however you want. (Level 9), 40 Point Buy, Max HP + CON each level.
— 2 Flaws, 2 Traits (NO HOMEBREW)
— Standard WBL (36,000 GP)
— Affiliations/Organizations/Magic Locations/and other weird stuff - Just ask me.
— Printed Adaptations in approved sources: Ask me about them and I will work out details with you in private.
— Leveling up doesn't just happen. You must train for 1d4 days/level (what this training consists of varies by class)
— You can PM me with a well written and thought out case for why something is actually mechanically broken and we can talk.
— Rebuilding & Retraining from PHB2 is allowed, and handled as per the book.
— NO EXCEPTIONS

Alignment - Score must be on your sheet
— Law/Chaos = Obesience: Table [Lawful] 20 » Lawful 15 » Neutral 10 » Chaotic 5 » [Chaotic] 0
— Evil = Corruption: Table {Levels of Corruption ▼}
— Good: Table [Exalted] 0 » [Good] 1 » Good 2 » Neutral 3 » Evil 15 » [Evil] 20 » [Vile]/UA Taint 25
— These tables are not exhaustive, just guidelines.

Leadership
— Cohort(s) get PC Class(es) & Elite Array. Followers get Nonelite Array & NPC Classes (No Multiclassing).
— HP = Half HD, track fractions
— NPC WBL (You may grant them items from your Main Character's WBL) Followers have NPC÷10 WBL
— No "Special Power" unless obtained IC or specifically stated by a class feature/etc.
— Cohorts may have NOT Leadership/Spawn/Etc. No one can have a subordinate a higher level than themselves by any means.
— No Statblock? Doesn't exist. Not in the Statblock? Doesn't exist.

Rebuking/Commanding/Animating Anything
— If you want to start with anything under your command, you'd better have paid for it with WBL.
— Want to start with an army of undead? You better have paid for them or took Undead Leadership.

Planar Binding and Etc.
— Remember that you're forcibly calling a sentient life-form from another plane and it's controlled by your DM.
— It/they have powerful friends.
— Multiple Planar Binding-type effects don't stack with themselves. (I.E. Greater + Lesser Stack, but not 2 Greaters/Lessers.)

Other Minions
— Abilities are 10s/11s as in printed statblocks and only WBL in their statblock.
— Mercenaries/Hirelings: Try the DMG and the AEG for pricing. If they're not listed as having gear, they don't have it.
— Animals/pets: Either find an exact price in an approved source (try the AEG or Warbeast from MMII), or you can't have it
— Pricing for Slaves/Corpses/Etc
— Slaves/Etc have 0 WBL, and are most likely hostile towards you.
— 15,000+ GP cannot be purchased

Special Rules
— Magic is heavily controlled by Mage's Guilds and local governments. Expect strict laws on usage in cities and towns.
— Spells have names, and learned people know them. The "language of magic", when I use it, will be ʇdıɹɔsdıןɟ.
— Anything resembling Wish may not be used in any way to create/augment/etc anything worth more than 15,000 GP.
— Wish items and other Instantaneously created items are worthless.
— Most magic items under 15,000 GP are worthless to sell back (¼ Price). They're just too easy to get.
— Most items over 15,000 GP will be bartered for with other items. Meaning you cannot go to the store and buy them normally.
— Custom Magic Items: No new effects. You may breakdown complex items and combine existing items, but no new mechanics.
— There are no "Greater Effects" for Wish/Miracle/etc.
— The Candle of Invocation does not exist.
— I will allow the Hexblade fix that was made by one of the developers if you can find it and show it to me.
— Truename DCs go up by 1 per level instead of 2, and the DC to effect a creature is CR+15 (or ECL for PC/Cohorts)
— No shenanigans to get infinite anything.
— Massive Damage: CON Threshold, DC 15 +1 per 5 Damage over CON, round down. Fail = Fatigue > Exhaustion > Set to -1d10 HP
— UA Weapon Groups
— Most Variations/Adaptations exist.
— Healing = Necromancy
— Contacts +1 per point of Charisma
— Reputation
— 100% Psionic/Magic Transparency. Skills are separate though.
— SRD/UA Action Points
— I use the Savage Species Type-Tree
— Large Battles use a hodgepodge of Heroes of Battle & Miniatures Handbook
— Simulacrum & Ice Assassin have the material component as a Target of the spell instead.
— Skills can be enhanced by 1 SPELL/POWER/SLA at a time. Multiple items are fine, just only one spell/etc.
— Astral Projection doesn't give you free charges of anything.
— Evasion does not interact with Starmantle or anything like it.
— A Disjoined item is valued at it's material components cost and may be used as the material components to re-create it.
— Physical Calendar


All continents are to-scale on an Earth sized world.
Thank you to TheOasysMaster for fixing these maps for me.
Original Cartographer

The Tomb of Horrors is one of the most iconic and deadly D&D modules ever made. Gary Gygax created it because people said his other modules weren't hard enough. This is the official 3.5 update of that module. This is a puzzle-heavy dungeon crawl with minimal plot. Should the party survive, there are plans for what lies beyond.