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[MaximumZero]

Hold my breath and check the mist hallway for traps.

[RedWarrior0]

There's a nice False Tomb of Horrors in one of the Footprints issues on Dragonsfoot.org. It's been ages since I've actually looked at it, though. It's pretty much the regular Tomb of Horrors with some stuff switched around to throw people off.

Heh, heh, heh. Some good stuff is in there.

It's the AD&D version, of course it's better. There's fewer saves.

[Vorthon]

Malaken shall go through the recently-discovered secret door!

[USEC_OFFICER]

Hmmmm...
Secret door or mystery mist hallway?
Sometimes I wish I wasn't so logical. If I wasn't, I wouldn't know that important and valuable things are usually at least as well guarded as this hallway full of LSD mist.
I take a moment to suggest that some Mage cast dispel magic on that mist filled hallway, then I inhale deeply, hold my breath, and run into the misty hallway, searching for doors, traps, and treasure.

You inhale deeply and quickly dart into the mists.

[17 + 5] You find no traps or treasure. However, you do find a door on the south side of the hallway, about thirty feet after the stairs (The corridor extends for only ten feet after that, if you're wondering).

Ah well. I poke my spear through the mist a few times from outside the mist room proper, to see if anything unusual happens.

Nothing unusual happens to the spear, which is good news for Javier.

Follow and double check after Javier for traps.

You follow Javier and double check for traps.

You forgot to hold your breath, didn't you?

[FORTITUDE: 1] As you enter the mist-filled archway you are immediately seized with bowel-gripping horror. Gibbering to yourself in terror, you run screaming out of the mist, leaving a trail behind you.

Hold my breath and check the mist hallway for traps.

[17 + 5] The misty hallway contains no traps.

Malaken shall go through the recently-discovered secret door!

Someone has already looked through the secret door, so you decide to go down the corridor and see what's around the corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The hallway extends for forty feet before ending in a wooden door.

This makes me sad, I was expecting some minor chance of not dying horribly to some physical attacks.

Well pretty much all of the monsters in the tomb would have the strength to smush you flat even with stone-skin activated. If you're wondering, the monsters who can't smush you flat all have alternative attacks to brutally murder you.

It's the AD&D version, of course it's better. There's fewer saves.

It's not the lack of saves that makes it better. Any fool can put an insta-death poison in a hidden spiked pit. A true genius makes adventurers want to jump into the pit.

[greymountain_Sage]

Haha, I'm good at this.
Open the door, crossbow at the ready.

[Hanslanda]

I'm back! Hold my breath and join MZ on the other side of the mist hallway.

[Vorthon]

Malaken approaches the door, and checks for traps!

[RedWarrior0]

Haha, I'm good at this.

That's what the last fools who got killed thought.

I want to make an adventure module that is perfectly safe if you rush blindly ahead and don't know a thing about caution, and in all other cases is a deathtrap.

[MaximumZero]

Lead Hans through the door in the mist hallway.

[greymountain_Sage]

Haha, I'm good at this.

That's what the last fools who got killed thought.

Yeah, point taken. Well, at least I'm still in one piece for now.

I want to make an adventure module that is perfectly safe if you rush blindly ahead and don't know a thing about caution, and in all other cases is a deathtrap.

Hah, I've done things like that with my D&D group. I once put an obvious trap in the middle of a hallway, then put in a Phantasmal Killer trap inside that activates when the first trap is disarmed. We lose more rogues that way.

[RedWarrior0]

Better is an obvious trigger, linked to nothing (but they don't know that)

[USEC_OFFICER]

Haha, I'm good at this.
Open the door, crossbow at the ready.

You carefully open the door, your crossbow at the ready.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Thick webs choke a musty stairwell leading downward.

Seeing through the webs is impossible, and only the first few feet of the staircase are visible. The mists that plague the hallway haven't gotten into the stairway yet.

I'm back! Hold my breath and join MZ on the other side of the mist hallway.

Lead Hans through the door in the mist hallway.

Hans and Maximum join Javier and admire the web-covered stairway. Maybe Javier and Maximum should get a breath of fresh air soon? I'm not sure how long they can hold their breath...

Malaken approaches the door, and checks for traps!

[15] You find no traps.

[MaximumZero]

When it is safe to breathe, I would do so. I figured that would be implied.

Check the staircase for traps and giant spiders.

[Vorthon]

Malaken shall open the door and proceed cautiously!

[greymountain_Sage]

I'll make a quick run back to the safe portion of the hallway, catch my breath, then hold my breath again, run down, and cut through as much of the web as I can with my sword.
If anyone has a torch, I steal "roguishly borrow" it and burn the webs away instead.