Lost Dwarven City of Dhald’holth
I created this dungeon to use in the caverns of the classic AD&D adventure Descent into the Depths of the Earth, so credit for the inspiration goes to E.G. Gygax.
My players had fallen into an underground river and been washed down to the Sunless Sea. From there they proceeded south to one of the undefined major encounter areas. There they found Dhald’holth, long lost to the dwarves who built it, and now occupied by dark elves, who use it as a fungus and lizard plantation worked by troglodyte slaves.
I expanded upon the area that I ad-libbed at that time to submit to the 2016 One Page Dungeon Contest.
True grognards may be gratified knowing that I placed this lost city in the hex-grid spaces around P2-36 on the Large Scale Map on the inside cover of that adventure.
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Background image by Juloml – Own work, GFDL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9647226
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