Adventurers battle demons on a cooled lava floor beneath a looming giant

Skeletal warriors in a winding chamber of organic living walls

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A dark stairway rising from a fiery pit inside rocky cavern walls

Overview of the lava cavern floor above a sea of molten lava

Encounter Board #022 - Lava Caverns

Virtual Tabletop Journey presents a ready-to-play DOOMGEON floor! This map was made possible by VTTJ Patrons.

This floor is designed as an exploration dungeon for a CR 3 party. The primary tileset/theme is lava cavern. It contains a fiery stairway up, a living walls themed door and a golden plant themed door.

Feel free to use it with whatever system you like! If you want to remove the tokens, select them all with the lasso and delete them.

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Floor Resources

A full 5e encounter page is available at DnDBeyond (a token on the board also contains the link).
This encounter chart contains new homebrew creatures and mini-bosses, converted from Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup!
- Creatures: Death Yak, Boulder Beetle
- Mini-Bosses: Sigmund, Natasha (they are not meant to be fair)
An environment block for quickly switching to the default settings.
Hide volumes pre-configured.
Tokens placed (feel free to move them) at max HP.

Recommendations

Set the Fog to Glowing Heat and raise it to cover the area under the board.

Credits

Rooms are edits of MasterCVM's modular cavern set.
The depths entrance is from Brotherhanan's Living Dungeon modular set.

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Original Publication

Originally published on TalesTavern as Encounter Board #22 - Lava Caverns and collected on Patreon on January 6, 2024 in Encounter Boards #19 - 25 - Dungeon Crawl Collection Part 1.