BurbLulls: I was thinking about which important Tolkien places haven't been uniquely mapped, and I came up with this. Of course, it would be on Lvl 50 of Moria, and Durin's Bane would be in it obviously as a guardian. It's only a prototype, and I put it here as I simply haven't got the motivation to put it in a module myself.

Also, the 'prize' is the robe of Incanus, which I beleive is a Theme artifact. Also, I beleive I altered the file for recognizing features on the *.map files to accomodate the chasm. I'll have to look into it.

# Special level "Bridge Of Khazad-Dum" in Moria
#
# Made by Burb Lulls

%:special.txt

### Guaranteed monsters
# Uruk on normal floor
F:e:1:0:313

# Elite Uruk on normal floor
F:c:1:0:866

# Ogrillon on normal floor
F:d:1:0:285

# Stone Troll on normal floor
F:b:1:0:401

# Eldrak on normal floor
F:a:1:0:620

# Durin's Bane on normal floor
F:B:1:0:872

### Guaranteed items
# Incanus on normal floor
F:1:1:0:0:0:0:130

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Chatter

FuriousOne: It's brilliant and it's going into Theme. :) Btw, the Robe of Incanus isn't a Theme artifact, it's a normal ToME artifact. And I probably won't add it as a guaranteed artifact on this level, because Durin's Bane always drops something interesting, even if it's Calris.

BurbLulls: Yeah, I read the whole Calris-Bane thing on the forums. I just chose Incanus because it's Gandalf's, and he did the whole pratfall thing here. It could also be Glamdring or that staff of Mithandrir, but Glamdring is already in the Troll Quest anyway.

FuriousOne: I know what you mean about Gandalf's stuff, but Gandalf was also supposed to have killed Durin's Bane - in ToME, both are alive and well. My other reasoning is that Theme already has so many guaranteed dungeon-guardian drops, I don't want to add another one.

MassimilianoMarangio: I like the map... I would like to add Gandalf in the big room and watch the battle :-)

FearofFours: Oooh I've been thinking about doing something like this. Not quite what I had in mind, ( I was thinking a longer narrower bridge, some levelled archer orcs (actually elite uruks fulfill that criteria IIRC) and I was thinking of a new terrain type which you couldn't fly over because of a down draft, therefore requiring you to walk across the bridge. I've also thought about making the first visit to khazad-dum(the town) a special level like this, with shops only opening after Durin's Bane and enemies have been defeated.

MayLith: Nice map. I too envisioned a longer, narrower bridge... Is there a way to turn off flying on a level? Or would that have to be a terrain type?

MassimilianoMarangio: You can use a new terrain type similar to the chasm / dark pit that is not passable by flying or levitation.

NeilStevens: I suggest that whoever puts this into a game adds some scripts to randomize it. Replace the all-fixed monsters with some randomly generated and placed ones, add some random traps, and maybe randomize some treasure.

IdeaArchive/The Bridge of Khazad-Dum Map (last edited 2004-10-16 22:49:35 by NeilStevens)