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"Visions have I had, by the will of the deity Barbituous, of a white-headed beast sucking the marrow from a god’s skeleton. When I think of the elf temple, I feel the same chill I felt in my vision. The beast is down there. I know it."

This module details a nine room dungeon beneath a massive tree, along with relevant random encounter and rumor tables. It is presented in a usable format with terse and evocative language.

The tree above the dungeon has gemstone leaves, presenting an opportunity for substantial loot up front (I recommend combining it with your favorite random forest encounter procedure/table to add some risk to the reward). Below, a sickly dryad asks for help exterminating termites that infest the dungeon; a secret treasury contains a blade that grants control over any fiend it strikes (for a terrible price) and a cloak that allows the wearer to travel to higher planes of existence; abstract giant termites devour structure itself; and a novel monster sucks religiosity out of holy ikons and belches belief-shattering deific suffering. There are opportunities to eat glowing fruit and see what random effect takes place, learn the Rite of Moonlight Immortality from the statue of a goddess, and play with ambulatory lobster-shaped fungus. Includes a table to randomly determine a human bone!

The module includes a system-neutral character generator that makes characters well suited for any fantasy adventure (and especially this adventure).

Buy Undertree Temple of the Elf Gods in print: https://bit.ly/Undertree_On_EF


And here's an actual play video of me running it for friends, with DM commentary: https://bit.ly/UndertreeActualPlay

StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorHappy Chthonian
GenreAdventure, Role Playing
Tagsfkr, OSR

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Click download now to get access to the following files:

Undertree_1.3_spreads.pdf 3 MB
Undertree_1.3.pdf 6 MB
Undertree_1.3_booklet_print_short_side_flip.pdf 3 MB
Undertree_1.3_printer_friendly_booklet_print_short_side_flip.pdf 1 MB
All_Dice_Character_Generator_Undertree.pdf 202 kB
All_Dice_Character_Generator_Undertree_Booklet_Print_Short_Side_Flip.pdf 348 kB
OLD_Undertree_1.0 457 kB

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Love this thing. Aaron King (the last commenter) ended up bringing it in for a "cool things we liked from 2023" podcast episode (the transcript at this link has our collective thoughts; just ctrl-f "undertree"; whoever's reading this doesn't have to listen to the whole show): https://diceexploder.substack.com/p/2023-year-end-bonanza

I'm so glad you featured it - thank you!

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I got a physical copy at All Systems Go in Minneapolis, and I really dig it. A fun mix of OSR, weird fantasy, and more contemporary vibes. The Theoglut art is fantastic.

Thank you for your kind reflections - especially your praise for Theo!

Hey, thanks for the layout shout out ! Great dungeon. 

You're very welcome! Anyone who likes this should definitely check out your stuff, it was an inspiration in form and content :)