Lazy DM D&D Game Prep: Tomb of Annihilation (10 June 2018)
17Mike goes over the eight steps of Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master while preparing for his D&D Tomb of Annihilation game. Sorry for the audio cut-outs in the beginning. It got fixed after a few minutes. This show covers our adventures in the dwarven mines of Hrakhamar.
Game Notes:
## Who made the awesome overlay??
https://twitter.com/EricVulgaris
## What text editor am I using?
Sublime!!
## Who are the characters?
Smoke - Tabaxi Ranger / Rogue
X Gabriel / Tharmond - Asimar Celestial Warlock / bard. Died and has a different soul.
Punchy - Kenku Samurai who wants to fly
Warryn - Gnome druid who wants to be a big beast
Ogechi - Shadow magic human sorcerer / warlock tied to the Eshowdow
Huitzillin - Paladin of Ubtao
## What is the strong start?
Attack by avatar of Imix. Fire elemental "your whole world will burn".
## What scenes might take place?
Exploration of Hrakhamar and the journey to Wyrmheart mines.
## What secrets and clues might the characters uncover?
Tinder wants to become the next avatar of fire and Ember hopes to make him so.
The heart of fire can embue an item with magical fire from the elemental planes.
The kobolds of Wyrmheart used to be self-sufficent but now are enslaved to the Salamanders.
The kobolds are resentful of the Salamanders.
Ember secretly knows that the use of the Heart of Fire on Tinder will destroy the dragon but create something more powerful.
The Yuan-ti are trying to recover a Black Opal Crown said to open the doors to Dendar's lair and release it upon the world.
The dwarves forged the crown for a Netherese wizard who paid them well for it. It was a circlet of a scaled serpent eating its own tail. The eyes of the serpent are black opals.
The souls of the dead miners have been captured by the Soul Monger.
The dwarves here engineered parts of the Soul Monger for Acererak.
Acererak abducted dwarf miners and transformed them into wights to exploit their expertise at underground construction.
Diagrams of traps in the Tomb of the Nine Gods lay around the mine. The plans of a huge propeller, a complicated rotating tunnel, and a revolving room with huge gears.
## What fantastic locations might they explore?
Hrakhamar and Wyrmforge
## What NPCs might they meet?
Two albino dwarves who came with the party to Hrakhamar.
The ghost of Eris Firebeard, who pulled the Heart of Fire free and opened a rift to the Elemental Plane of Fire deep in Wyrmheart Mine.
Tonron Battlefrenzy, dwarf ghost.
Ember, a salamander warlock of Imix
## What monsters might they face?
Kobolds, Salamanders, Firenewts, Elementals, Young Red Dragon, Warlock of Imix
## What magic items might they acquire?
The Fireheart
What do they have? What kind of magic items would they like?