Introductory post about the city of the dead

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+title: "The City Of The Dead Part 1: Introduction"
+date: 2023-04-16T12:59:36+02:00
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+Recently i have been working on a megadungeon: *The City Of The Dead*, as part of the Dungeon 23 challenge (to which i'm a very late arrival).
+If you don't know what that is, Ben Milton of Questing Beast did a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OR37nOMv1g) about it.
+The basic idea is: You create one dungeon room per day, for the entire year.
+Each month is a new level. 
+So 356 rooms in 12 levels.
+
+My B/X system of choice is [Old School Essentials](https://necroticgnome.com), but apart from referencing pages for monster descriptions, this should be compatible with any B/X-adjacent system.
+
+This post contains the introduction and a few notes, later posts will contain the actual dungeon levels.
+
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+
+## Introduction
+
+During the days of the first emperor *Aulus Octavius*, a large battle was fought near the Qurinial Hills.
+Countless Soldiers on both sides were slain, but after days of bloody struggle, which only ended after *Archmage Arnouphis of Achea* unleashed powerful and forbidden magic, the empire emerged victorious.
+
+Afterwards, the emperor commanded the construction of a vast underground burial site.
+Thousands of fallen soldiers were buried in it.
+Over the years, the construction was expanded, as nearby towns and villages began using the site for their own dead.
+Rumor has it, that even the emperors used the labyrinthian passages of the civitas mortuorum to hide some of their most powerful artifacts.
+
+After the fall of the empire, some seven hundred years ago, the structure was gradually forgotten by the human inhabitants of the area, as no one maintained it anymore.
+So, it gradually fell to disrepair. 
+However, it was not completely abandoned.
+A cult of the goddess of undeath, led by the charismatic necromancer *Sharkina*, made the complex their home.
+There they hoped to raise a powerful knight, entombed after that first battle.
+They were successful. The death knight *Lord Callias* rose from his tomb and with him many of his former comrades.
+Many lives were lost, before a group of heroes managed to lure Callias into an ambush and slay him once more.
+They brought him back to his tomb and used powerful magic to seal him away.
+
+The locals avoid the tomb for fear of the undead that haunt it, but other creatures – such as orcs and goblins – have fewer reservations about making it their home.
+And it is said that Sharkina still dwells deep within the tomb, looking for a way to resurrect Lord Calias once more.
+
+## Formatting
+
+The rooms are described with bullet points.
+Things that are obvious to anyone entering the room are in the first intendation level.
+Anything that can only be noticed after more thorough investigation is included in the second indentation level.
+
+## Rules For Doors
+
+Unless otherwise stated in their descriptions, the following rules apply to all doors:
+
+* Doors have a 2-in-6 chance of being stuck.
+* All doors are wooden with metal hinges, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
+* Forcing open a stone door is done with a penalty of -1 to the roll unless proper tools are used.
+* Lifting a portcullis requies a combined strength modifier of +3 (or a value of 18).
+
+## Treasure Values
+
+I assume a silver standard for this dungeon, where 1gp equals 10sp and 1sp equals 5cp.
+Instead of the standard 1xp for 1gp, i use 1xp for 1sp.
+Electrum pieces are used as halved gold pices worth 5sp.
+If you want to use the standard treasure values, multiply all treasure by 10 (copper pieces by 5).
+