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Oh man, I was looking to see if ANYONE had made an adventure set in a temple of Moander. The answer is no, but this is the next best thing. They are for-sure worshipping The Rotting God in this place and now my players get to go into here.
Glad you found it helpful, enjoy!
My guy, this is epic! Keep up the good work!
Call for ideas. OK., I’ll try.
– Moander fits, but so does the Far Realm. Go with the latter.
– It clearly isn’t a utilitarian structure, so we’ll call it a temple as the reason for its layout.
– The structure around it is hard to envisage, so we’ll make it a hybrid that has partly been hewn into a hill.
HOOK: The players are hired to investigate the temple, because weird stories are being told about the area, and the location’s normal pattern of behavior and connections is disrupted. Normal enough.
TWIST? This place started as an EVIL temple, and that faith is the one hiring the PCs.
Maybe the PCs rumbled one of their lairs in an earlier session, and they took it as a statement of fitness. Maybe they’ve just heard about the PCs like everyone else. Either way, the evil cult of whomever wants you! They tell you that their divinations and such regarding the place are like nothing they’ve ever seen. Whatever happened here is a clearly threat to *everyone.* And they’ll make it worth your while.
Frankly, they see this as a Xanatos Gambit.
Heads, they get their temple back – and they’ll keep any bargain they make, because if the PCs can really do this, they’re obviously the wrong people to piss off. The bargain they negotiated beforehand is, of course, a test of the players’ wisdom and savvy. Ask wisely.
Success might even put the PCs on the evil faith hierarchy’s radar as possible troubleshooters. After all, evil faiths have beefs with each other that are at least as serious as any they have with the PCs. The PCs may discover that attracting the unfavorable notice of a powerful evil cult is a problem, but attracting its respect and interest is right behind it on the problems ladder.
Flip tails, and mission failure? Well, at least the cult’s potential enemies the PCs are dead. Time to express regret that the last band of heroic do-gooders failed, and recruit someone else to go ‘rescue’ them and rumble the eldritch lair…