06 April 2019

Cairn Hills Lairs - The 1st and 2nd Fluted Cairns

I've been noodling on more regional Greyhawk adventure locations, and the Cairn Hills continue to call to me---there's LOTS of room in them thar hills for various vicious and grand adventuring sites, as well as gold and explorational hijinks!

The Cairn Hills - map by Darlene
from the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio


I've dubbed these small dungeons Cairn Hills Lairs, and drew two new ones last night and this morning. Both are part of an inter-related system of cairn dungeons called "The Fluted Cairns"---so called because of their titular flutes are, in fact, the entrances into the cairns:  I imagine them as the end-points for large pipe-organ-like tubes that stick up out of the ground all over the hill that the cairn is sited on. You enter by climbing in and sliding down, arriving in one of the various fluted corridors drawn along the edges of each map:

The Fluted Cairn


The Fluted Cairn - by grodog


The Second Fluted Cairn



The Second Fluted Cairn - by grodog
 

More to come later in terms of the actual key information about the Fluted Cairns, as well as updated maps with intra-level stairs and other dungeon features.

Allan.