Hyborian Hack

The evil wizard Gurgal Sang of Shadizar has tricked you into meeting him and, as punishment for some real or imagined slight against his god Set, has thrown you - or at least the essence of your being - into a massive, perhaps infinite, dungeon called the Maze. The Maze occupies a space between worlds, and consists of small isolated demi-planes connected by magical portals. You may try and hide in the dungeon, languishing until your life runs its natural course, die in a blaze of glory fighting all the other trapped individuals and monsters within the Maze or dare to hope for escape. This random dungeon set in the Hyborian world of Conan is inspired by previous pen-and-paper and computer offerings over the decades. Fellow \"greymanes\" among you may recall the random dungeon generator at the back of the 1st Edition Dungeon Master\'s Guide in those dark days before computers where that was the only way to play solo. Since then, the random format has lent itself to computer RPGs, especially in bygone days when data storage was at a premium and the key was clever programming. The present offering sacrifices the randomness of the \"corridor maze\" for a fixed number of classic outdoor and indoor settings, but everything inside the areas, including the entries and exits, is randomly generated. The module caters for any party, from a single 1st level PC to a party of 30th level PCs. It is ideal for those wishing to try out the custom subraces, classes, items and PnP-style extras of the Conan setting, to ready their characters for the Campaigns, or just to hack and slash their way through hordes of enemies without any story getting in the way. Compatible with Kaedrin\'s Expansion. You may come across just about anything in the NWN2 bestiary, and many more creatures besides, as well as environmental hazards, random secret doors, random traps, random custom Hyborian treasures, pit traps, cages, Hyborian deity-specific shrines, magical fonts, teleport traps, portable exploding barrels, green slime, brown mould, shriekers, ear seekers and other inspirations from the 1st edition random dungeon system. Note for Modders: If you are one of those talented individuals who likes to make area prefabs but not necessarily whole adventures, know that the way I scipted Hyborian Hack it takes me about 1 minute to attach an area as an additional demi-plane complete with usual encounters. If interested in contributing please let me know. You will of course get acknowledged as the creator of that area. Note for all: Remove any PCs created in this module from your local vault before playing a non-Hyborian module.