Battle for Vorn Battlemap
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Sample Encounter
This area is home to a deactivated shield guardian that local tribes of goblins, grungs, and vegepygmies worship as a god. The tribes consider this a neutral zone and typically don’t fight one another in this area. It just so happens that at the moment the party arrives, so do members of all the tribes, coming to make offerings to their god. Roll 4d4 for each tribe, goblin, grung, and vegepygmies, to see how many of their tribesman arrive when the party does. The tribes may not take kindly to others at their god or may ask a tribute be offered to their god. The tribes enter from areas 1, 4 and 6. The tribes that enter from areas 4 and 6 utilize the terrain for the most tactical advantage firing their ranged attacks down at those on the lower levels. It's up to the DM and the party to decide if a fight occurs or if the party can pacify the tribes with offerings and negotiations.
Entrences
A clearing through the trees suggests that the area is well traversed by many creatures that make their way through here. The muddy pathway branches off in a fork in two different directions. Overlooking the path is a 30 foot vine covered cliff. On the ground, standing next to some rocks and ferns is an 8-foot-tall statue, humanoid in shape with bronze fists, iron joints, an adamantine breastplate, and an iron helm with slits for eyes. The rest of the statue is made of sculpted wood reinforced with bands and rivets of adamantine. Scattered around its feet are offerings of food, feathers, colored stones, and skulls.
2. Puddle of Death
A small puddle of water overgrowing with plan life rest below a large palm tree and heavy boulder.
Puddle: The puddle of death is harmless, unless of course you fall out of the palm tree, knock yourself unconscious on the large boulder beside it and land face first and drown in it.
Tree: A creature that takes the time to investigate the tree, DC 12
Investigation check or has a passive Perception score of 14 or higher can see humanoid claw marks that slide down he bark of the tree from the top until about midway down where they suddenly stop. Some poor fool must have fallen while climbing the tree.
Footprints: A creature who searches the area and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check finds footprints in the dirt—evidence of nomadic tribes of goblins, grungs, and vegepygmies. Some of the footprints seem to go to vines hanging from the cliff where they then disappear.
3. Vorn
The statue is a deactivated Shield Guardian named “Vorn”
See the description in Tomb of Annihilation.
4. Mid-Cliff
The mid-tier of this cliff is 30 feet from the ground and is accessible by climbing the vines that hang over the edge of it or by using a climber’s kit. To climb, a creature must succeed on a DC 13 athletics check every round until they reach the top taking 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet they fell. Once here, the cliff branches off in two directions leading to different local tribes in the area.
Swinging Vines. A pair of vines crosses a 30 foot gap between area 4. Creatures can climb the vines with little effort by succeeding on a DC 10 Athletics check. A creature that fails the check falls 30 feet below taking 3d6 bludgeoning damage and landing prone.
Natural Defenses. The area is littered with small boulders and logs that a hostile tribe will use to assault anyone attempting to climb the vines from area 1 to area 4. Creatures in the path of a rolling log must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving throw taking 2d6 bludgeoning damage on a failed save and falling prone, or half as much damage on a successful save and not landing prone.
5. Rope Bridge
The local tribes built a rope bridge so they could view their god, Vorn. The bridge was built by goblins, grungs, and vegepygmies and is not that reliable for most others. The bridge is 85 feet across and accesses area 6, the 3rd tier of the cliff.
Crossing the Bridge. The bridge is safe so long as a creature doesn’t dash across it. If a creature other than a goblin, grung, or vegepygmie uses the dash action while on the bridge, pieces wooden plank brake off and the creature must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, falling 30 feet down to area 1 and taking 3d6 bludgeoning damage and landing prone on failed throw.
6. High Cliff
This cliff overlooks all the others in the area. A slim path around the mountain leads to the villages of local tribes. This cliff stands 20 feet above area 4 and 50 feet above area 1.
