Hall of the Lost Souls – ready to play puzzle / riddle / maze Board
Author: karaenigma
Status: Complete
TaleSpire Version: EA - Chimera
Created On: March 23rd, 2022
Last Updated: March 23rd, 2022
Terrain: Underground
Type: Maze / Labyrinth
*Follow the arrow – the hall is not in the middle… sorry*
Two simple but dangerous puzzles for the players:
Goal: The team have to get trought the Hall of the Lost Souls and open the door to the portal.
Solution: Between the rows, there are the Guardians, motionless but facing different directions. If anyone steps into a field of a Guardian’s vision (distance dosen’t matter), they suffered a huge damage, so they have to find a safe path. There are some clue for that: dead bodies in the Guardian’s line of sight and a levitating book for any reason. Harder way: the guardians turn in the direction of any sound or just simply moving between the columns.
After they manage it, they will find a huge door, an altar with a place for a hand and two statues on the sides. In front of the right statue, there is a kinght turned into stone, and his hand on the sculpture. They have to figure it out, that they have to activate the middle altar with a stone hand… One of the team members have to sacrifice his hand, turning it into stone, but the others must help him, because once you touched the magical statue, you can’t let it go by yourself. Something like this… maybe they will get a riddle about the stone hand altar at the beginning, maybe they find something on the door.
Goal: The team have to get trought the Hall of the Lost Souls and open the door to the portal.
Solution: Between the rows, there are the Guardians, motionless but facing different directions. If anyone steps into a field of a Guardian’s vision (distance dosen’t matter), they suffered a huge damage, so they have to find a safe path. There are some clue for that: dead bodies in the Guardian’s line of sight and a levitating book for any reason. Harder way: the guardians turn in the direction of any sound or just simply moving between the columns.
After they manage it, they will find a huge door, an altar with a place for a hand and two statues on the sides. In front of the right statue, there is a kinght turned into stone, and his hand on the sculpture. They have to figure it out, that they have to activate the middle altar with a stone hand… One of the team members have to sacrifice his hand, turning it into stone, but the others must help him, because once you touched the magical statue, you can’t let it go by yourself. Something like this… maybe they will get a riddle about the stone hand altar at the beginning, maybe they find something on the door.
Thanx for the amazing slabs!
Pillars of moria: https://talestavern.com/slab/moria-pillars/
Portal from dungeon props 5: https://talestavern.com/slab/some-portal-ideas/
Puzzle from Wally DM’s Journal of Puzzle Encounters
Puzzle from Wally DM’s Journal of Puzzle Encounters
Thank you for this wonderful creation! I cannot wait for more of your content.
i am using with map with some re-flavoring, i am calling it the hall of power.
Below is the text wrote to be found if the party doesn’t solve the hand thing in a timely fashion.
“All of those who enter my hall of power will receive wondrous gifts. Vanquishing foes with ease but I require a hand for my assistance.”
Also if you don’t want to make a party member sacrifice a hand, I gave my party a scroll of animate dead a couple of sessions ago and if they think of it i will allow it to be used to animate a corpse which may sacrifice its hand. The trick to this will how does the party get it through the maze of Guardians.
Hope this give others some ideas.
Thanks karaenigma, this is a great map.
I’m using this map in an upcoming session of mine! Made some slight modifications, but it’s a great base.
Here’s the riddle I have prepared for the start:
“Amidst these pillars, sentinels guard,
Hands outstretched and gaze unbarred.
Through the stone, a path to find,
But heed this warning, keep this in mind:
Beyond the door lies endless night,
Where fear, despair devour light.
No treasure waits, no victory grand,
Only loss and pain at hand.
So tread with care and thought unfeigned,
Beyond this place the damned are chained.
Through or through: a demanded debt.
A sacrifice that must be kept.”