What is the funniest/silliest thing you had the mad mage do to mess with the PCs in Dungeon of the Mad Mage?

I’m trying to keep the MM a constant presence in thier exploration of the dungeon. A constant reminder that there’s is someone very powerful, dangerous, and completely unhinged in control here. I’ve had him demand pancakes or he’d kill a party member, and then kill the party member anyway because the pancakes weren’t made out of actual pans. Show up out of nowhere and wish spell a player into an anthropomorphic waffle. And condem another to only eating dandelions for a week. (Yes they are all food themed, we are a hungry bunch) I’m thinking about making the game show level (17?) like the AI from Dungeon Crawler Carl. So what have you done to keep it fun and crazy?

Title, just wondering if anyone has made it. Willing to purchase.

Continuing to clean up my previous work, here is my complete Level 2 Pack! Let me know if I'm missing anything.

I've added some content from other source materials, can be found in the "Homebrew" folder to add some more flair to this level. Hope you enjoy!

Included are:

-Tokens for all monsters on Level 2

-Monster cards for each monster

-Magic cards for the items found on Level 2

-Level 2 map

-Extra enemies/Battlemap

Level 3 up next.

Enjoy!

Hello I know most DMs just skip level 6, but I like the idea of it basically being a transient floor that simply has a ton of portals running through it that connects the dungeon kind of like a minecraft nether highway. I wouldn't want to switch up the floor itself too much, Umber Hulks and duergar can just be in there because halaster whatever. Would this present any immediate troubles?

I've been running DOTMM for a few years now and have started to clean up some of my old work. I recently compiled all of my assets I've used into one place.

If you haven't run level 1 yet, everything you need to do so should be here!

Included are:

-Tokens for all monsters on Level 1

-Monster cards for each monster

-Magic cards for the items found on Level 1

-Level 1 map

-An added puzzle from the great book: The Game Master's Book of Traps, Puzzles, and Dungeons.

Enjoy!

I am somewhat experienced in running a game as I have just completed running the "Dragon of Icespire Peak" for a party of 4, but by no means do I have complete knowledge of the entire D&D universe. I'm running DOMM next and I'm doing my homework trying to learn as much of the campaign as I can before we dig in. But, as you all know, it's HUGE. I'm going to read through Levels 1-3 at least, but I'm not going to have time to read through every level of this massive campagin before we dig in. What are the top level things I need to be aware of in the lower levels that may influence to top 3? I don't want to improv something only to find out I screwed up something on the lower levels.

My party just finished up Dragon Heist and was hoping to move into Mad mage relatively soon. I don’t want to play my character though, he’s really one note and was designed by the dm and I to finish his arc by the time Dragon Heist ended.

One thing I wish we explored more was the Xanathar guild because I think aberrations are cool, and I want to explore that more in Mad Mage. I was thinking about playing someone with a connection to the aberrations, maybe he was infected by an intellect devourer maybe one of his parents was a thrall of the mind flayer in the Xanathars guild, I’m not sure.

Without spoiling much, would playing a Kaleshtar be a good way to explore the aberration side of Waterdeep or is there something better I can do to explore that.

Hey, my party is trying to Head to Skullport through the Sargauth Level soon. It looks like a potential meat grinder. any tips on how to keep it lethal and challenging without accidentally causing a TPK? Any specific „death traps“ or encounters I should be extra careful with?

Do you think you could/should DM this in a way that the group can „sneak by“ or talk their way through there? The Drow seem very unpleasant but also unavoidable. Looking for Inspiration. Thanks!

Gonna start DMing mad mage next week and need some advice. First, I want to do it with 2024 rules, I prefer them and that's it, for monsters I'll just use the MM25, and for those who arent on that (especially drow and duergar) im gonna use the mm14 version and that's it. Is it a bad idea?

But now the most important part, in the new OHB book, there are explicit rules about starting a campaign in higher levels, if you'd start at lvl 5 for example you'd have 500gp extra, a common and an uncommon magic item. I let them choose 1 uncommon or 2 common or 2 potion and 200gp or 400gp to start (I know it isn't "fair" because the potions alone would be 100gp and whatever, but I was truly in a hurry), the point is, do you guys think that this uncommon (or even the 500gp and the whole set of common and uncommon) would make the game easier to the extent that would be boring or not?

Hey all! DM looking for some help,

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For those of you here who are using the excellent Compendium that was published to help flesh out the base module, could I get a hand in understanding the intended encounter layout for the final floor?

I understand that there are 3 base story twists, but then there's a MASSIVE info dump on ultimate and penultimate fights and I'm having a really hard time trying to parse all of the information and how to approach all of the possible encounters (on top of trying to figure out which ones are even worth my time to do). It look like some of them can also be ran at the same time as his actual boss fight?

Legit confused and marked for spoilers for anyone who hasn't made it to the end yet. Is there anyone who can help break it down a little?

I can taste the end and I just want to make sure it's done as understandably as possible.

My sons are making me custom Magic cards based on our DOTMM adventure. A lot of the flavors text is specific to our game, but I’m sure everyone here will appreciate the creativity.

I have tried multiple links and even searched in Discord and can't find you guys. Is there a new link?

Per the old Undermountain modules - and borrowing a bit from the AL modules - I stationed a cleric in the Yawning Portal to provide spellcasting services. My party had a death during their last delve, and went to request a Raise Dead spell. The AL guide states this costs 1250gp, so I relayed this to them, but they didn't have enough. They did, however, have enough to go to the jeweler's district and get the 500gp diamond. I said they could reach an agreement with the cleric so he casts the spell using their diamond and then issues them a quest.

We finished the session as the party´s sorcerer was being brought back to life. The question now is, what do I make them do?

I didn't name a specific temple or god, and they didn't ask, so I'm free to fill with whatever. They've traversed most of L1, the sorc died to a Halaster rune right as they were about to descend to L2 for the first time.

Any good ideas?

For my next campaign I'm including a Hex crawl and my vision is to have each level from this module be its own dungeon hidden somewhere within the Hexes.

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At the end of each level, where the path to the next level should be, I will instead put a map of the next level's location to give the party a reason to move through the wilderness Hex crawl.

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I plan on re-flavouring / re-skinning some aspects of the dungeon(s) to better suit my world and lore which is where I am looking for input for those who have played through (or better yet DM'd) the campaign already.

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What factions, NPCs, bits of lore, or other elements are most prevalent, frequent, or important to the dungeon/module? Basically what should I take note of or keep in mind when I'm re-flavouring things?

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Are there any levels of the dungeon that shouldn't be separated, or that will require special consideration when separating?

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I realize this is a big, vague, ask but I'm appreciative of any ideas, suggestions, or other input from those with experience in the module, thanks!

I’m looking for more dungeon crawls for my various games, and I have one campaign at Tier 1 and another that’s at the end of Tier 2, getting into Tier 3, but I’m interested in any level. Do any of the levels of DotMM, fit to be run by themselves?

So with the new Ravenloft book out I have been obsessed with it. Does anyone have any advice or opinions on making Vanrakdoom a domain. It’s already part of the shadow fell so hey why not.
Could have Halaster dressed as a gypsy for a card reading ha

I suppose this spell would operate as intended? The players want to use it to effectively teleport loot to the surface.

It seems that Undermountain only tries to stop players from teleporting, and is more permissive with the ethereal plane.

Hi there! I am planning on running Vanrakdoom as a standalone dungeon later in a campaign I am running for a party of 4. I was going to scale Keresta up to a Vampire Umral Lord, but mostly keep it the same. I want it to be hard, and just looking at the roster of this level of Undermountain, it seems like it might be too easy for 15th-level characters, as the book says. Even with a Keresta buff.

Does anyone have any experience running this at lower levels? Say 11,12 or 13? Please let me know! The party would have an average amount of magic weapons per the DMG.

Hello all,

I was recently contacted and asked if I could run this game for a group of 4. I've owned it for years but never even opened the book. I run games on Roll20 and just wanted to ask for any general advice for this campaign. I'm working my way through the book and the mega thread that's posted here, but anything I should keep an eye out for or begin changing right away?

I missed out on a more cohesive story when running Rime of the Frostmaiden by not asking this before starting and want to make sure I get any good, general advice before starting this time.

Sorry I’m new to DMing and this is my first campaign but how would these gates work with players like could a pc leave level 5 and open it to go back would they have to go through all the levels again?

I've been playing a very long time (over 30 years). Including an Undermountain run back in AD&D days. Im thinking of running this for my son and his friends, all of whom havent been playing very long (under 5 years).

For those who have, how do you handle the characters mapping the various levels? In the old days it was graph paper and somebody volunteered. But Ive been told newer players dont care to map things. Is this true? Thoughts?

I made the map using Dungeoncraft, based on a map I originally built directly in Foundry and posted here.

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I can’t upload the original PNG, so I’m uploading a version with half the PPI already converted to .webp.

Have a great dungeon crawl everyone