My Version of the Tomb of Horrors - D&D 5e 

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I’ve used Acererak as a npc before and just played him as a bored troll who just makes dungeons for fun because being immortal gets boring. I even twisted it so that he is glad that heroes succeed and rewards them and gives them directions to another one of his dungeons for if they feel as bored as he does and poofs them out of the dungeon with the treasure and seals it shut.

Tomb of Mild Inconvenience.

"He died 200 years ago from dehydration" Didn't think too far ahead, didja, Acererak?

Gygax: Tomb of Horrors Jacob: Tomb of Spookiness

I would of just give accerack an intercom and have him harass the players from a room where he's watching them, they eventually break down the door and fight him

Additional idea: If Bikbok and Gary are allowed to elaborate on their ideal dungeon, they describe the original Tomb of Horrors.

I've just met Big Bonk but already I love him

During the little emotional bit at the end, saying goodbye to Acererak, the auto-generated captions label him as Ass Eric. I’m stealing that name.

Actually this feels like a fun low level dungeon now. Tomb of Practical Jokes. On the upside, I'm actually down with using this as an introductory dungeon. Some puzzles, some combat encounters, a little bit exploration though it's pretty linear.

Kinda wanna run this for my players now. I dig the changes and really like the puzzles. I do kinda wish there were a few more actual threats in there too, just to go with the idea of "This is still a lich's dungeon and is still going to try to kill you" even if it's "kill you at a later point." Things that players could deal with, however, not insta-death traps.

Lore wise the original Tomb of Horrors is Ascerac's soul and treasure collector. Litchs need to harvest a certain number of souls a year to remain at full power. Treasurer of course is also useful for a lich in order to fund his plans. History wise this dungeon was never meant to be run for regular play. Back in the eighties at conventions you would actually have Dungeons & Dragons competitions for prizes. Tomb of Horrors was a module written specifically for these competitions. Players would line up with a character and play through until they die. At the end of the day the player whose character survive the longest would win the prize whatever it was.

This was really cool but I have an issue with it. I think that the weird demon mouth portal things should remain somewhere in the dungeon because they were a pretty big part in the original Tomb of Horrors. I wouldn't put the portals in the same space as they were in the original because the previous placement was very dumb. Maybe add an additional puzzle with it somewhere. I just think that they should remain in the dungeon at least somewhere.

Suggestion: keep *one* of the things that rob one character of equipment; add a room (a garrison or something) the afflicted character can go back to and pick up something not to be defenseless; and very soon after the party encounters a creepy monster wearing the lost equipment, something disturbing, like decaying or deformed or a distorted echo of the character. And when it is defeated something else extra creepy happens :D

Tomb of horrors is now the tomb of pranks

this honestly looks like a fun night around the table

Imma say something controversial..... Storm King’s Thunder isn’t as bad as people say it is since lockdown we’ve been playing through and it’s really fun. But that’s just me

I just started running Tomb of Annihilation as a summer game for some friends last week. I'm definitely putting this revised dungeon somewhere in Chult as a little Easter egg and see how many of them recognize it!

Biggest and best change: the poem is actually useful I'm very tempted to throw this at my party, since it actually seems fun to play. The changes turned the worst dungeon ever into a great session you can add to a campaign by just changing the origin and treasure if you want. Thanks for all the ideas, Jacob

The tomb of horrors is the unfair mario of D&D.

Imagine Acererak taking form again and one of the players just breaks the key in half.

"He died 200 years ago from dehydration" was the funniest part of the video. Something about your delivery I guess.

I first played ToH back in the dark ages when the cover was still printed in monochrome. I totally agree with you that the original version could benefit from some tweaking. The clues are so vague as to be nonsensical, the players are expected to spontaneously do some extremely counterintuitive things in order to proceed, there are far too many instakills with no chance of avoidance or mitigation, etc. That said, I think you have overcorrected with this version. Your disdain for the original version has seemingly led you to create a parody of Tomb of Horrors rather than a revision for playability. I do like some of the ideas, and will probably steal them if I ever run ToH again, but I think there’s still a better middle ground to be discovered between OG Tomb of Horrors and Tomb of Punch and Pie.

Honestly I love the do nothing trap puzzle thing. I first heard the base concept in Unforgotten Realms (spikes and a button. The spikes lower. If you press the button they reset if you wait for the spikes to reach you they go back up and a hidden door opens) and I honestly love it because the players always forget about it for like 5 minutes and then suddenly one will remember and be like "Ohhh you" *sitcom intro music* and we all get a good laugh.

I can appreciate the work you put into this revision of ToH to adapt it to your players preferences and I'll definitely salute you for that. Having said that, it's obvious Tomb of Horrors is not to you and your group's tastes. It caters to a specific style of play, and some groups just aren't going to like it. This doesn't feel like the Tomb of Horrors at all. The Tomb has such a storied place in D&D history for a reason, and diluting it to this extreme is robbing it of what makes it special. The group's I've run through it look back on it fondly because it forces you to think outside the box, pay very close attention to your environment, and be methodical. Remember: Rob Kuntz (one of Gygax's original players) beat the Tomb solo, with Gygax himself DM'ing. It can be done, and it can be a fantastic experience, but I get the impression it's just not for you and your players-which is totally cool. Cheers!

You should run this with the group that played the first version of the dungeon Maybe at level 1😂

I liked it except for 2 details. 1) The poem could be a little more difficult to think and reason with slightly more vocabulary and maybe some interesting metaphores there. And 2) Maybe i would say 2d6 or 2d8 for the spikes on the ceiling.

The name of Jacob’s version should be: Tomb of horrors 2: Electric Boogaloo

definitely think this swung a bit too far in the other direction from tomb of horrors. the point of the tomb is that it's deadly and dangerous and you have to think on your feet and use your skills in strange ways. this dungeon feels like it's just a happy fun romp through acererak's fun tomb boogaloo. you take out a lot of iconic aspects of the tomb, like the green demon mouth door things.

Hey Jacob! Would love to see your take on how to make good dungeons, but only if you like to make it! Love your videos as always! Also thanks a lot for your version, it's dope!

Sad that the puzzle with the enemy you just have to ignore is gone. That was my favorite from the original.

Tasty idea, thanks! i mean, the tomb of horrors is a piece of history for this game for a reason. it suited a different playstyle. in 5e i find, that the game focuses more on the roleplay aspect rather than the wargame mentality.

Ι like how your version of the poem isn't only more useful but also sounds more like a poem as well

IMO, the tomb of Horrors is supposed to be a trap for the souls of high level adventurers. Nothing you listed sounded particularly dangerous to high level adventurers, who would be able to snooze through the whole thing. I don't think the fix is to make the dungeon safe and goofy, its to make it less arbitrary. the improved riddle helps, but if the dungeon isn't scary then you don't need the riddle anyway. If I were going to going to make my own tomb of horrors, I would make it *seem* like a reasonably standard, but high difficulty dungeon. This way it scares off low level or inexperienced adventuring teams, and entices powerful adventurers. The trick would be to set it up so that the overconfidence of the adventurers is their downfall. Make each puzzle have an easy solution that costs HP/resources, and a hard solution that is relatively inexpensive. Next, make it seem obvious that short rests will be available through the dungeon. With this combination, an overconfident team will throw themselves at the easy solutions, the barbiarian laughingly taking 100 fire damage because "I have resistance to fire, so its only 50"(with a secret panel allowing the fire to be turned off completely unnoticed). Optimally, they will be hurting a bit when they reach the area that they believe they can rest at, and that's where the horrors begin. The short rest doesn't work. They are either disturbed, or the area is cursed - preventing resting, or making it drain the players rather than rejuvenate them. So now they have to continue the dungeon. They have been throwing away their resources for laughs, and now they have little to spend. The long rest classes will have been a bit more sparing, so the next rooms should have traps designed to make them waste slots. Magic that can be dispelled, steep falls that can be flown over. Make using spells by far the easier option, and the spellcasters wont be able to resist showing off. Eventually the players will notice their resources have gone low, and will start to save more carefully. At this point start hitting the players with curses and poisons. They will have to either burn resources or accept being weakened even further. And *then* you have them go against Acererak. Cursed and without spell slots, they think back to those traps they gleefully ran through with regret. If only the barbarian had that 50 hp they lost. If only we had just climbed the wall instead of flying. If they were only humble at the beginning it would have been a relatively easy fight. --- That's how I would make a tomb of Horrors.

I started running it with my players last session and it was a bad time, I am LITERALLY ABOUT TO RUN IT AND YOU PUT UP THIS VIDEO. FREAKING SAVED ME THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

Oh man you really fixed this up, I wanna run this now. The way you approached the poem was clever af

after watching both videos, im pretty sure i actually really like the original dungeon and think it should stay the way it was. the whole point was to make an almost impossible dungeon, and it achieves that as annoying as that might be to some people. players are not supposed to survive it, but that fact makes it all the more rewarding and incredible if they do survive it on their first time through. it's not like there is some shortage of dungeons that wont kill your players. the fact that the dungeon is designed to be ridiculously hard is what makes it unique and interesting.

You have inspired me to create my own version of this dungeon. I do have plans to make Acererak a more complex and perhaps even tragic character.

I love how the new poem gives me old radio/bioshock vibes.

How about this for Tomb of Horrors: The tomb is exactly the same, but the players have been charged with entering it by a demigod or an angel or something. The being has the power to resurrect the whole party (they reappear outside the tomb), but will only do it X number of times before giving up on these foolish adventurers. The tomb is as deadly as before, but death becomes an inconvenience/a ticking clock, rather than a “game’s over, you lose, ha ha” moment.

This is kind of just a completely different dungeons that sort of maybe looks like they might be related to the tomb of horrors, as opposed to another version of it.

I think gygax’s idea was to make a lot of traps that were instant fails so that way high level characters can’t just use their high mods to breeze through. I like that concept that this dungeon could be just as hard for high level characters as low level ones, that it really is testing the players, not their characters. Having said that it’s very niche, kinda douchey, and it’s difficult to make a truly hard dungeon. You have to make a bunch of riddles, and eventually it boils down to being annoying, misleading, and repetitive

Old-tymie gamer here. You did a fantastic job of making the Tomb of Horrors into something besides what it originally was: An un-fun, lethal ultramarathon designed only to frustrate players and generate smirks from the far side of the DM screen. Well done! When taken together with your pitch-perfect debunking of the Tomb as it’s originally written, viewers get a comprehensive, full-spectrum education on the Tomb’s history, nature, flaws, and remedies. Seriously, this is some impressive stuff. The one and only thing these videos are lacking is an examination of Acererak himself. It’s not your fault, because you’re working mainly off the 5th ed. ToH, and while it captures the flavor of the original Tomb almost perfectly, it’s kind of crippled by the almost laughable 5th ed. version of the Demilich, which has a couple of neat attacks, but can literally be defeated by a sturdy bucket and a 20 lb. rock. The AD&D version of the Demilich first appeared at the end of the original Tomb, and it was TERRIFYING. In a game where save-or-die effects were everywhere, Acererak the Demilich had multiple attacks that were WORSE than auto-lethal (like trapping your soul in one of the Demilich’s tooth-gems, killing your body and preventing resurrection unless you actually defeated the thing), and offered you NO CHANCE TO SAVE. It would literally manifest first as a ghost, zapping you with no-save aging effects, then moving on to the no-save soul trap+body destruction mentioned above, always targeting your strongest remaining party member first. There were only 3 Mage spells and 3 Cleric spells that could affect the thing at all, and weapon-wise, only vorpal swords, swords of sharpness and holy avengers could inflict damage. Worst of all, even if you managed to somehow kill the Demilich, there was a 50/50 chance that any PC soul that was trapped in it would be devoured during the fight, making the no Raise/Resurrect/Reincarnate thing permanent. Yeah, the Tomb was a bitch, but Acererak was the most vehement FU to player characters D&D has ever seen.

DM : "You teleport back to the start of the dungeon!" Player: "Alright, I do the exact same things to get back to the spot I was at." DM: "so you eventually get back to the party after a 5 minute walk" Oh no, how annoying! Three lines of dialogue!

I still laugh, that a section of the dungeon is designed to gaslight players into thinking they already beat it, like wtf Gygax?

Hot take: Jacob's dungeon is too easy. But to be fair tomb of horror is rpg dark souls. Where it's all about dying and retrying over and over. 5e verus of tomb of horror is tomb of annihilation. Where it stupid hard but its save or die

From Tomb of Horrors to Tomb of Startling.

I don't care for this version but, I always appreciate the effort Jacob puts into his videos. Why must everyone judge it through the lens of the 5e carebear approach? I don't mean that to be insulting either. 5e was designed to be more like a Supers game. The Tomb was designed for 0e D&D. Survival was everything and the game was approached differently. The point was to challenge cocky veteran players. If your character was high level it was an achievement. This is why character death could be so devastating. Why did they republish it then? Money. It is legendary and people will pay for that. Also, let's remember that they would bring an entire entourage with them to a dungeon, as in the characters had minions and servants. Some of those would end up as trap fodder. Adventurers weren't necessarily heroes.

Azerath: The real treasure was friendship! Fine *pulls out tiny wallet counts the people in the party* here's *number of party members* gold... adventures these days always after money *grumbles and climbs back into casket*

I’d personally make it a Groundhog Day scenario. They’re given a fair warning that once they enter they can not leave. Each “death” lowers their sanity until they are mindless/soulless. The resist only happens until all players have died.

I think this dungeon has too many Silly Quirky NPCs. Yeah they're great fun, but you honestly spent more time talking about Bikbonk and Gary than you did any other room in the dungeon. The fact that you suggest they should immediately join the party also seems really stressful on some GM's heads to improvise not just one cute and quirky buddy, but two who are constantly interacting. I love the idea of a lich who's so bored with immortality that he's taken to building puzzle dungeons to run adventurers through (essentially making him The Eternal GM), but I wouldn't make it Acerak. I'd make my own personal lich character to harass the party and be his own antagonist so I could design future dungeons under his mad designs. And, yes, against my better judgement, I'm pretty certain I'd give him the Skeletor voice, because that voice just will not leave me.

Wasn't this dungeon meant to be run with several npc's so that they get fed to the traps and the pc's manage to possibly avoid most of the instant death parts? Like 3 or 4 npc's per pc seems like it might have been enough, and keeps the horror intact...and don't forget a couple dozen 10 foot poles.

Because my DND group friend watches your channel, we'll never be able to use this :(

Wow, I love what you did to the place! you turned this misery-inducing dungeon into a annoying fun-time! I know that you don't want us to, but now I wanna run this dungeon for my group

The best "solution" I think to the Undead King fight would be if you need to kill him with the Silver End of the rod, since he's wearing the crown already.

I think I'd keep the idea of "you teleport and loose all items" with a twist, that whatever items you lose are replaced by a random item of some kind. Plate armor? You get a nightgown instead. Sword? It's replaced with a key to some locked doors in the dungeon. Purse with a bunch of coins? You get a devouring bag instead.

I love this rewrite. Thanks for putting so much energy into a weird idea. A true DM. I have a weird suggestion to add on. You say each clue is consistently bad advice. But the clue: "Let time reach zero to find your end." is not consistent. So what if for this result, letting time reach 1 second and then the door opens, a dysfunticonal trap is sprung on the party. A trap like an iron juggernaut steamroller construct bursts out of a false wall aaaaand... Gets lodged in place, unable to carry out its design. This would pay homage to the original adventure like an easter egg while unifying your poem's clues nicely in agreement with old Asscrack's motives. ✌🏼

I like some of your ideas, but this just seems like a fun sunday night dungeon, not the tomb of horrors. I mean, i don't think the death traps were super fun, but removing them entirely just takes away from the adventure.

The Tomb of Super Easy Barely An Inconvenience :D

That timer countdown puzzle brings me back to Unforgotten Realms, the far defunct animated series about a D&D-esque game played by two people (one of which was the DM). During the foray into the Tower of Ultimate Wizardry, they found a room with a button. The doors disappeared. After debating over pressing the button, the ceiling starts coming down. IN a panic, they hit the button and the ceiling recedes. After a few seconds, it starts coming down again. Cue a montage of them constantly hitting the button to make the ceiling reset as they investigate, until they give up and just let the ceiling crush them to death. When the ceiling was about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way down, it receded and the doorway to the next room opened. It was the funniest puzzle I have ever seen in my life.

I have only just stumbled on your channel a few days ago and have been binging. This video is the one that finally got me to become a patron (or it will, in a minute or two, I'm typing now). This is great. I would say that, it occurs to me, the point of this Tomb is that Acererak has decided to leave this realm and explore more esoteric questions of magic and reality, BUT he still needs a reasonably steady stream of living souls and magic to feed off of as sustenance for his undead existence (and who knows what interesting magic adventurers may bring him). THAT may be why he created an annoying dungeon that kills most, steals items from some and even randomly lets a few get away by teleporting them to the start of the dungeon (and not, say, into a pool of lava). The random survivors who get away are there to keep the legend alive, as advertising so that adventurers keep trying. I'd also say that when the players are teleported to the start of the Tomb from the first "false" treasure room and fake Acererak (who should be sitting on piled of illusionary treasure), they should lose "an" item (or two), at the DM's discretion when teleported. That's Acererak's fee for entry, and he hopes that some of you will take the "L" and tell people about the experience or plan a return mission where you will ado his advertising and still die next time. Perhaps the false Acererak even threatens that, if they return, they will be teleported into a volcano next time. Then the "teleport trap" feels like a threat and my players like to plan. The planning is pointless in this case, but they will have fun doing it nonetheless, and there will be tension for a few minutes if someone does fall in on the second trip through. Edit: You are patronized. For whatever reason Patreon on showed me the $1, $5 and $10 tiers when I logged in, but saw the others after I signed up.

WOTC: You can't improve perfection. XP: Makes Tomb of Horrors less infuriating. WOTC: You ruined it, how are DMs supposed to giggle in evil delight as the PCs fail repeatedly!?

Players: *enter the tomb of horrors* Acererak: "Hold on to your buttocks gents, things are about to get spooky!"

A great followup on your first one. I am sure many others have done some variation(s) on this but very cool hearing what you did!

What I appreciate that Jacob did is that the dungeon now has actual monsters populating the place, where the OG was just trap after trap with no creatures between them, the exceptions being the skeleton and snakes that come out of the chests, the gargoyle and fake Acerarak.

While I absolutely appreciate how much of your style was put into this, I don’t think this is the Tomb of Horrors. However, it is most definitely the Tomb of Big Bonk. Thank you for your art, kind sir.

Baby's first Tomb if Horrors. Sounds neat.

Hey Jacob, I ran this dungeon (converted to Mutants and Masterminds) for my players and they had a lot of fun. Some of them had already played the real Tomb of Horrors with me and didn't enjoy it but this time around the puzzles were challenging without being literally clueless and the enemies were tough enough for them to scrape by. Thanks for the edits!

Really well put, I'm definitely gonna run this at some point, thanks for doing the hard work

Not gonna lie, i think those changes remove the atmosphere of the dungeon. I understand that is a bit too deadly, but experimenting back in the days was the job of the 10 feet pole. If there's something suspicious, you would get the pole and touch everything with it. The demon mouth with the orb of annihilation inside is a perfect example. I think that an NPC that tries that in front of the players could give them this hint (and proceed to die or to gtfo the dungeon).

I think the point's been missed here... you've turned it into a normal, everyday D&D dungeon. It's still cool to have an 'easy' version though if you want to include it in a campaign and not risk TPK.

I really like what you've done here. It inspires me to remake some of my old maps too. Thanks!

I really like all your changes :D great job! and thanks for sharing

On the one had I respect ToH as a DM way to show a middle finger to That Guy (since Gaygax made it because he had TWO of those on his table). On the OTHER HAND I seriously consider adding this to the Amber Temple in Curse of Strahd, especially since its lich is....fucking chill.

7:14 WHAT IF THEY JUST LEAVE AND NEVER GO BACK INTO THE TOMB???

I like your take on it. Thanks for making this available!

This is a great video. Thanks for this modification to this adventure, to actually make it fun to play. Kudos!

As much as i love the sorta "real" 5E update to the dungeon I can't help but notice a sorta big misunderstanding of the dungeons intention with these last two videos. AD&D was almost entirely designed with the intention and experience of people who were playing death gaunthlets. It wasn't about narrative and grand setpieces. It was being able to say you died just a little further than your friends did. This was the kinda dungeon you'd play ina tournament and BRAG about getting as far as the steamroller room. It was an entirely different game

Yo I would love to see more dungeon walk-throughs and design talk like this

I like it. You seemed to do a pretty good job of pulling it into the modern rpg philosophy while keeping aspects of the original concept.

Congrats, you've turned a scored tournament module into a linear railroad.

Bick bonk is life and I love him from here on out

like, i have been thinking of donating to the patreon. but afther seeing what u did to this dungeon and quick readin it. i think its time to give the boys some gold for this amazing job

I've done a few puzzles with unkillable monsters. Usually there's a turn counter till they reanimate. One with a golem, and another with skeletons. The PCs have to place the bones in the indentation of a chair that's ready, bottoms up backwards. They start right to left right leg, left leg etc and it unlocks the door and kills the skeles

I love bik bonk, and Gary’s great too

Actually you know, this would be an amazing introduction for new players to the game, lots of critical puzzles to get the players to think creatively with nearly every character level.

Thank you a lot for this video, I plan on running this dungeon for my players now, it looks really fun!😁

I really like this type of video. Hope u make more of breaking down official dungeons

This dungeon wouldn't kill a level 1 party, let alone a group of experienced adventurers. Every trap deals little to no damage and/or offers no real challenge to the player. The layout is a linear hallway with little to no exploration or experimentation required to win. There's somehow even less combat in ToH than there was in the Yawning Portal version (which is a feat considering it was already a puzzle focused dungeon) and to be honest, I could see a party getting through this dungeon in an hour with 0 casualties. Also, the poem basically boils down to you subverting expectations, but in the most obvious way that even a child could see through after the first time they encounter it. This dungeon would be annoying sure, but only in the sense that it requires so little thought to progress through that it makes the party want to play the actual ToH just so they can say that they had an actual challenge, rather than the GM handling them with the kid gloves where success is less a matter of if, but when.

Your DnD is so much different than what I grew up with

Thank you so much for caring about something enough to make this

You dont know how much I laughed at the guy that died from dehydration .. cruel but.. the story was told so flat that made me giggle hard XD

Holy shit I could see the convensation between the zombie and the party being absolutely hillarious P: "So..em..Mr..friendly zombie?..ehh..how did you die?" Z:"Ahh well I was locked inside this room without water or food so after around 3 days ya know..dead.." P:"Wait..what?! He locked you inside for you to die of dehydration?! that monster!" Z: "W..well..yes and no...I mean he did lock me inside but..he didn't really know I would die from lack of water or food" P:"..Huh?..Are you telling me he wasn't smart enough to NOT know that humans need water and food to survive?" Z: "Oh no no! everyone knows that! Obviously..he..just wasnt wise enough to notice my honestly fucking amazing zombie costume!" P: "...you..were dressed as a zombie?" Z: "Yep! best work I ever did! Flawless disguise if I had to say so myself!" P: "And you did that..because?" Z: "To get close to him! Who would expect a friendly zombie to suddenly attack you?!" P: "....e..everyone..fucking everyone would! No wonder he locked you away! He was probably fearing you would suddenly go feral and attack him in his sleep!" Z: "...Ohh...huh...I should have gone for skeleton instead I recon!"

So, in stead of Tomb of Horrors, it sounds like Tomb of Annoyance.

Thanks for the update. Bounced on my boy’s d4 to this for hours.

Two notes that might make the dungeon more fun and give a special magic item. The goblin skeleton is a bard of appropriate level to the party and casts spells by telling riddles such as "The more there is the less you see, what is it" and he casts darkness. Also what if you gave rewards centered around the rod and crown. When the rod end is placed into the crown when on a creature it gives a different effect. When the silver end is put in on a living creature it becomes an undead version of that creature and vice-versa when the gold end is put into the crown when on undead. If you put the silver end in when it is on an undead creature it is turned to ash and if the gold end is put onto a living creature the has the death ward spell put on them which recharges at dawn. The rod can be attuned to and functions with both the abilities of a staff of withering and a staff of healing. Once per seven days you can spend any number of charges (7 maximum) to cast a necromancy spell that deals necrotic damage or revives equal in level to the charges spent (you can also upcast spells like inflict wounds at 7th level using 7 charges), The Rod of Balance. They might also realize that the crown can be used to help in the fight but upon placing the crown on Acererak he immediately forms and tries to avoid the person with the rod while fighting and is frightened of the person holding the rod encouraging the team to work together to get Acererak to hold still while they place the silver end in the crown. If they place the gold end in for any reason the rod and crown are destroyed and Acererak becomes a full lich making the fight much harder.

I just posted a comment on the other video about the different mindset of players between then and now. Having watched this I feel validated. "1 fall damage - to be annoying". "2d4 damage for hitting the spikes, it can be less if you want". It sounds like a kids indoor play space. Not so much the "Tomb of Horrors" but "Mommy Poppins Padded Play Area". It even comes complete with two lovable undead companions.

Tomb of horror was from a time where it was players vs dm. This dugeon was suppose to get a players not characters you bring 100 characters in so the players can solve the puzzles. The characters were expendable. Dnd has changed alot I think critical role was a big part so was the change to a story focus. This dugeon doesn't work in the current mindset of the game. It was great dugeon for the time period it was made and if you go in knowing this is about the players not the characters. You get no attachments and view characters as stat proxies it really works. But not for all

That rhyme is AMAZING!

I just had an idea on how to include Tomb of Horrors into my campaign. An island of madness, where every time you die the day resets like Groundhog Day. They need to get something from it before leaving the island.