Delian Tomb

The Delian Tomb is a low-level dungeon designed by Matt Colville using Dungeonographer in the first episode of his Running the Game series on Youtube. The dungeon is meant to serve as a simple ready-made adventure for a new dungeon master to run for new players on short notice, containing 5 encounters and enough material for an evening's session. Matt also uses the dungeon to illustrate the thought process behind designing a dungeon and how to connect different types of encounters together into a full adventure. The Delian Tomb is a tomb to a long-forgotten order of knights that has now been taken over by goblins. It consists of three rooms, one of which is hidden behind a secret door. The dungeon consists of six encounters: two fights with goblins, a fight with the goblin leader, a riddle, a scythe trap, and an optional battle with undead knights. The goblins living within the tomb send out patrols every 4 hours to scout the surrounding landscape and guard the tomb's entrance, which may result in adventurers interacting with or battling the goblins outside. Once the goblins at the door are dealt with, players descend a staircase and enter the first room, a large square antechamber. The walls are decorated with large carvings, one that shows the knights fighting chaos and the other inscribed with their sacred oath. The center of the room contains a brass brazier where people wishing to decorate the knights' sarcophagi would leave offerings. The main group of goblins live here and will fight any adventurers who enter. A hallway leads out of the opposite side of the chamber and makes a left turn, leading to another room. This hallway is protected by a pressure plate trap connected to a scything blade that swings from the ceiling. Creatures that are too light do not trigger the trap, so goblins and halflings can move over the plate safely, but larger humanoids cannot. The next room contains a large statue of a knight (the head of the Delian order) sitting atop a large