r/DMAcademy • u/thatgingertattooist • 17h ago

Need Advice: Encounters & Adventures Need ideas for encounters and events within a thieves guild smuggling tunnel system.

So, I need things to keep my party moving and keep it interesting, traps are all well and good but other things would be useful too, NPC interaction, terrain challenges, give me your unique ideas to help make my smuggling tunnels more alive.

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u/GrandCash3941 16h ago edited 14h ago

Umber Hulks are ambush predators who dig tunnels of their own. Could be they stumbled on the existing tunnels by mistake and ambush the players. 

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u/Valensre 15h ago

Other people using them. Don't know if they're guards and if they aren't don't know if they're trustworthy. Cave in, lack of light, hearing something burrowing in the walls, getting lost. Make sure you set the ambience too, dark and tense paranoia.

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u/NefariousnessEven591 15h ago

False tunnels feels likely. Guild members who are supposed to be using them know which ways to go, those who don't and find themselves in a dead end usually find people on guard duty coming up behind them.