Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 45: The Doom of Sarnath, Part 3
Having defeated the undead guardians of the shadow-shrouded levitating island, the PCs are ready to continue their exploration of the subterranean city in “The Doom of Sarnath, Part 3″! Please listen now or subscribe via iTunes. This episode features the following segments:
- The Staging Area: I briefly recap “The Doom of Sarnath, Part 2,” with a special emphasis on the content of the campaign’s version of the Necronomicon, which the PCs discovered hidden in the microcosm cavern.
- The Weather Report: The PCs set out to make their way back to Mr. Leng’s library, but find that now the stairs lead elsewhere—to a large arena-like room where the PCs are ambushed by a hive of kruthiks (the “rats in the walls” that Lithian has been hearing continually in the underground city).
The Prop Shop: I mention the Dungeon Tiles sets used to create the Hall of Voices layout (see more details in the extended show notes) and briefly describe the Dungeon Tiles products on deck for 2010, identify the kruthik miniatures used for the battle that begins in this segment, acknowledge the debt that this adventure arc owes to H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Rats in the Walls” (which you can read in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stores, ed. S.T. Joshi) and review The Plane Below, chapter 3, which focuses on locales in the Elemental Chaos.
Here’s the countdown to convergence between the podcast publication schedule and the actual games played:
- The Doom of Sarnath (3 more episodes)
- City of the Pirate Kings (5 episodes)
- Clash of the Pirate Kings (6 episodes)
- Escape from the Pirate Kings (4–5 episodes)
- The Sands of Time (4–5 episodes)
- Desert of Desolation (4-6 episodes)
- As-yet-untitled session to be recorded January 16, 2010
Please enjoy “The Doom of Sarnath, Part 3,” and please plan to join us for the continuation in “The Doom of Sarnath, Part 4″!Here’s the layout of the Hall of Voices in Sarnath:
This layout used Dungeon Tiles from several different sets. The key decorative pieces came from the following sets:
- DT3 Hidden Crypts: the privies and the statues on octagon quarters
- DT6 Dire Tombs: the yellowish tiles with the stairs and fire pits
- DT7 Fane of the Forgotten Gods: the large stone chairs
And if you haven’t seen the kruthik miniatures from the D&D Miniatures line, this is what they look like:
 Kruthik Hatchling (Deathknell) |
 Kruthik Adult (Demonweb) |
 Kruthik Hive Lord (Demonweb) |
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