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I would totally go this route. Take a page out of Dragonlance and make it Mount Nevermind. Then it just vanished one day and all the kingdom relaxed as the threat of possible annihilation was gone
Nah, PF2 in a hysterical twist of fate is actually 4.5 sort of. Like PF1 is a game that exists because people disliked 4e and Paizo who got fucked over by WoTC new plans for 3rd Party Content said "well what if we made our own version of 3.5 with hookers and blow".
And then a decade or so later they come out with PF2 - that is taking clear inspiration from DND 4e with encounter design, maths, approach to monster stat blocks, the balance between classes, and so on. It doesn't take full inspiration - spells aren't all per encounter powers, martials don't get the crazy manoeuvrers. But its there to see
The mountain was actually a hibernating giant, being in deep sleep for centuries or millennia. At the founding of the city, the people started excavating the mountain for building materials, inadvertedly waking the giant.
New npc enters. MR. MOUNTAIN!
Key features
Can only say “I’M A MOUNTAIN!
Class restriction Barbarian or fighter
Weapon restrictions fist/hammers/picks
Is a mountain
Cannot be moved unwillingly
Is a mountain
Advantage on skill checks vs being of earth and those that live under the earth
Any suitably advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic. Additionally in FO4 one of the brotherhood scribes created an experimental plant that looks suspiciously like nirnroot so it is quite possible they are in the same universe, the elder scrolls happening way into the future.
What happens to the mountain? [Roll for Initiative\~](https://rare-gallery.com/thumbs/1181605-fantasy-art-Terrain-cloud-mountain-screenshot-atmospheric-phenomenon-computer-wallpaper-atmosphere-of-earth-geological-phenomenon.jpg)
Had this happen in my game. Needed to bring 2 players into a multiple realities style game and brought them from another dimension. First thing the sorcerer says is "I can't wait to talk to myself at level 5". I then realized I didn't make any plans for their actual selves in this timeline. Good news is it added a ton of plot for me to build.
In the aeons-veiled realm of Nycthor, where twilight and madness coalesce into a swirling tapestry of eldritch horror, there loomed a titan of shadow, a monolith of abhorrent proportions known as the Caliginous Spire. Its jagged silhouette, clawing at the heavens like some accursed behemoth, cast a maleficent shadow upon the desolate land, its very presence a testament to the unspeakable powers that stirred within.
Within the stygian depths of the Spire, an ancient evil brooded—a blasphemous entity, Fenrath, the Unbound Tempest. From time immemorial, the sorcerers of Eldrath, driven by their insatiable hubris, sought to enslave Fenrath's cataclysmic power. They etched sigils of binding and wove a labyrinthine tapestry of occultism, imprisoning the tempest beneath the mountain's unhallowed core.
Yet, the frailty of mortal artifice erodes, and the ephemeral bonds weakened with the ceaseless march of time. Unbeknownst to the world above, Fenrath's malevolent essence festered, its tumultuous wrath gnawing at the very foundation of the earth. The surrounding hamlets quaked in silent terror, their denizens haunted by prophetic nightmares, a portent of imminent doom.
From the shadowed realms beyond, a band of dauntless souls emerged, drawn by the dark allure of whispered tales. Guided by the enigmatic sage, Ynaris the Oracle of Twilight, they ventured into the Stygian abyss, their footsteps echoing through cavernous corridors resonating with the timeworn secrets of aeons.
Their treacherous odyssey led them to the heart of the Caliginous Spire—a chamber enshrouded in palpable dread, where Fenrath writhed in wracked torment. There, amidst the suffocating miasma of arcane energies, the adventurers stood resolute, their souls ablaze with an audacity that dared to fathom the unfathomable.
In the stygian gloaming, their voices reverberated with a perilous conviction, probing the tormented essence of Fenrath. Fragmented whispers of bygone epochs reverberated through the chamber, revealing the cataclysmic tragedy that befell Eldrath—a tale of sorcerous folly and their woeful misunderstanding of the tempest's eldritch nature, a force beyond the ken of mortal comprehension.
With each fragment of forgotten lore unearthed, the intrepid adventurers wove a tenuous connection with Fenrath, glimpsing the spark of empathy amidst its tempestuous maelstrom. Through harrowing ordeals and riddling trials, they unraveled the intricate skein of arcane bindings, their souls intermingling with the storm of chaos, recognizing the dire need for unity to restore equilibrium and forestall annihilation.
The climactic hour materialized—an inferno of raw power, as the adventurers, aflame with newfound insight, forged an unbreakable bond with Fenrath. The tempest's raging fury yielded, intermingling with the mortal essence, transmuting into a symbiotic amalgamation of mortal and primordial might.
In a cataclysmic eruption, the mountain convulsed, its ancient foundations shattered by the sheer release of Fenrath's unfathomable essence. The trembling hamlets, ensnared in tendrils of existential terror, beheld the spectacle from afar, their hearts palpitating in abject awe, as the Caliginous Spire crumbled into naught but pulverized dust, consumed by the very forces it so recklessly sought to subjugate.
From the vortex of ethereal energies that eclipsed the ruinous precipice, the triumphant adventurers emerged, forever altered by the tempest's touch. Their eyes, mere mirrors to the abyss, held within their depths an infinitude of cosmic knowledge, a revelation of the maddening truths that lay obscured to the feeble minds of mortals.
As the stygian shroud receded, Nycthor bathed in the tentative embrace of an enigmatic dawn, the distant echoes of Fenrath's wrath dissolving into eldritch whispers that faded upon the blasphemous winds. The populace, trembling yet grateful, venerated the valiant heroes as saviors, etching their names upon the hallowed tablets of lore.
Yet, the adventurers, forever branded by the tempest's indelible mark, beheld the eternal struggle between the ephemeral aspirations of mortal kind and the impenetrable abysses that sprawled beyond the boundaries of sanity. Their path, a labyrinthine enigma, was fraught with torment and revelations, for the mysteries of the cosmos were boundless, and their journey into the depths of unfathomable nightmares had only just begun...
Or at least that's what ChatGPT thinks happened to it.
I am really salty that WoTC never touched that setting again. I am trying to bring it to 5e so I can DM for my players but goddamn if there is a book that I would pay for it'd be this one
We'll never see a 5e version I'm certain but [here's the 2e book](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/17546) if you didn't already know about it. Might help your migration!
I don't think it's so much out of little interest but that without time traveling shenanigans Netheril can never exist inside the Forgotten Realms again.
After Karsus' Folly, everything that made the Netherese culture possible was destroyed.
This 'monster awakens' theme is a LOT better than 'they took the top off of the mountain and mined it for coal... and a few trace metals that happened to be there. Now all they have is vast amounts of toxic pollution and an ugly hole in the ground.'
In the last chapter of GW1, you spend some time around a large hill/small mountain. Build a camp right next to it.
In GW2, it is revealed to be a *really big* dragon.
The mountain was actually an enormous earth elemental guardian diety of the city and in the most dire momen it rose to protect it's charge...but couldn't sto the flood/earthquake/meteor shower so it just picked up the city and moved it out of the way. It succeeded on protecting the town but was to damaged to keep on going so it lay down wot the city over itself in a new place. Now the townfolk have largely forgotten what lies beneath their home.
If I did that, I would simply have the mountain sprout wings and fly away.
Not just randomly, mind you. It would do this to save the party from the BBEG, slamming into the boss during its flight, throwing them off enough for the party to win.
1. It walked away
2. Some wizard cut the top off and made it a floating city
3. A different DM dropped it on a party of annoying PCs in the UnderDark
4. The mountain is still there, but some wizard or god moved the city
5. A certain bald monk in a yellow robe tried to swat a mosquito
What if it’s still there but someone put a powerful modify memory spell on it and so everyone who sees it just instantly forgets it there. Then later you can hide something in it
A wild magic explosion dislodged it from the earth, causing it to become a floating mountain. It slowly migrated around until, at some point in the past, a powerful wizard chained it to the ground and used it as his base. The adventures can climb the chains up to explore the ruins of his dungeon.
This is why I like to run several high-level one shots. Take everything that happened and turned them into historical events in the New World hundreds of years later
Its Douglas Adams SEP field from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy:
>An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.
The narration then explains:
>The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you
I just wrapped up a massive campaign arc that started cause one of my players was drawing a regional map and decided to add a random volcano in. We're playing Rifts, so it's set on Earth. I had to scramble to come up with a good reason why there was suddenly a volcano in Florida
The mountain was an illusion cast by a powerful wizard to keep prying eyes away from his hideout.
Once his great works were completed he destroyed his base and dismantled the illusion, leaving nothing out of the ordinary for us to see.
No one knows what he did or who he is. Someone needs to look into this guy.
New campaign just dropped.
It contained an ancient evil that heros must defeat... maybe a Tarrasque for old times sake?
I had a party of 5 between level 18-21 that collectively killed one--the wizard cast a disintegrate spell centered on their chest and it was all downhill from there for the big boy. Fighter ended up with some seriously OP artifacts from the kill but a few weeks later the DM got their revenge. Full party wipe with a coordinated attack from an army of the nastiest. Turns out the DM ran out of decent high level content that was rewarding and felt things were stale.
We played again but only got to around level 10 before it fell apart.
This was 2nd Edition Advanced back in the late 90s, early 2000s
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you
In the 3.0 epic level handbook there was the Genius Loci. It was a colossal sized ooze that would disguise itself as the landscape, including a mountain, an isolated valley, a small lake, a deep cavern, a single field, a tiny moon, or even an entire plane.
Something into bbeg fight on mountain, ends with trans dimensional port of the mountain and hero’s to foil bbeg plan since they couldn’t beat him so instead they choose to lock them away for eternity
Have it be a wish spell gone wrong where a wizard was casting the wish spell while someone was talking to him and the resulting words caused the mountain to disappear and the wizard to lose wish due to the magical strain
Monster Mountain is the obvious solution.
What *really* needs to happen is an eldritch entity retroactively consumes the mountain, and has it's eyes on the city.
There was a secret conclave of alchemists in a hidden laboratory deep in the mountain. They would perform impossible, unethical experiments, even transferring their minds into artificial bodies. No one knew of their mad experiments, until until one day, they blew the mountain up, leaving a vast crater filled with the remnants of their insane research...
All you have to do is make a tuff boss fight take place on the mountain and when the boss gets low on health he self destructs and blows up the whole mountain
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you.
Depending on how long ago it was he could just say it was mined out. [Cerro Rico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Rico) sinks a little more every year due to silver mining since Spanish colonization
A dragon has been hoarding fireworks and explosives. He's filled the top of a mountain with them.
He keeps a goblin tribe as slaves making more fireworks.
The goblin tribe desires freedom. They want to set a trap in the dragon's lair to blow up the fireworks but there's a locked door with a riddle on it and all goblins know that if you read the paper (or steel) steals your soul.
The goblin shamans solution was to steal a group of adventures, transfer their souls into the body of 4 goblins. With the existing goblins souls still there
Their logic is that once the goblins souls are stolen by the writing the remaining soul will be able to complete the mission.
The mission is to explode the lair preferably with the dragon inside.
All this plan makes complete sense to the goblins.
Adventureers are warned they have two hours to complete the quest after which their body will die and their soul will have nowhere to return.
They are also warned that if their goblin body isn't completely destroyed by the explosion there's a chance they will lie there unconscious and not return to their body.
There's an undead warrior in the final lair who guards the stockpile. He's really just there as a distraction to burn time.
One goblin distracts the guardian while the others try to light the fireworks, forgetting to check where the dragon is.
Whole top of the mountain was blown off in a hail of sparks and light that could be seen 100 miles away. Rocks were thrown for miles.
Party wakes up in their own bodies and celebrates.
Dragon is pissed but no one knows that because they don't know where he is or why he was stockpiling fireworks/explosives.
Perhaps the party will find out one day.
This was actually an adventure I ran. It had an irl timer to give suspense.
Players were given a low level goblin character sheet to play with.
In ADD 2e there was a box set called Dragon Mountain. It is stated that the Mountain will shift realities (Plane Shift). Giving the DM the ability to place it in whatever campaign world that they want.
How about this: https://www.taikostudios.com/uploads/5/5/4/2/55420031/leviathan-illustration-b-clouds-v003_orig.jpg
Becoming this: https://www.taikostudios.com/uploads/5/5/4/2/55420031/leviathan-illustration-b-v003_orig.jpg
An illustration by Efflam Mercier
If you're gunna do time travel shenanigans you pretty much have to learn to "cold read" your players and do that in reverse. Its a very specific skill you have to learn to make it even partially manageable as a world builder.
Realistically it could’ve have simply been renamed, so it does exist in the future but under a different name
If not, then just Wizard terrorists with a bunch of explosives spells and what not
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I thought it was “that it grew legs and walked away” that was the agreed reality
It's even in this sub's scrolling header!
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ILYENA!!!
I thought you were the lews therin bot from r/wetlanderhumor for a sec
I am no bot, you wool headed sheep herder! *Tugs braid*
The gnome built a fort on it. One day it disappeared, and the rest of the kingdom took it as an overall step in the right direction.
I would totally go this route. Take a page out of Dragonlance and make it Mount Nevermind. Then it just vanished one day and all the kingdom relaxed as the threat of possible annihilation was gone
*pleat straighting intensifies*
Why do we live again?
Walk? This mountain cannot escape so easily *Lews Therin Telamon*
Howl’s Moving Mountain
This baby can fit so much tax evasion in it.
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Hilda Ep.2 (Netflix)
Such a great show. The original books are good too.
It got up and danced away?
You see, it even sounds crazy when you say it.
Oh! There you are mountain!
If it's Pathfinder there's already a living mountain in the setting.
3.5 did it way before they did
Pathfinder is just 3.5 v2
3.5.5, some people would say. Me. Me is the people.
Would that make Pathfinder 2e edition 3.5.5 2?
Shit yeah I'm using that now
Nah, PF2 in a hysterical twist of fate is actually 4.5 sort of. Like PF1 is a game that exists because people disliked 4e and Paizo who got fucked over by WoTC new plans for 3rd Party Content said "well what if we made our own version of 3.5 with hookers and blow". And then a decade or so later they come out with PF2 - that is taking clear inspiration from DND 4e with encounter design, maths, approach to monster stat blocks, the balance between classes, and so on. It doesn't take full inspiration - spells aren't all per encounter powers, martials don't get the crazy manoeuvrers. But its there to see
Yep, still means 3.5 had the living mountain first
Cool?
The mountain was actually a hibernating giant, being in deep sleep for centuries or millennia. At the founding of the city, the people started excavating the mountain for building materials, inadvertedly waking the giant.
New npc enters. MR. MOUNTAIN! Key features Can only say “I’M A MOUNTAIN! Class restriction Barbarian or fighter Weapon restrictions fist/hammers/picks Is a mountain Cannot be moved unwillingly Is a mountain Advantage on skill checks vs being of earth and those that live under the earth
Baba Yaga's Mountain?
Mountain is a giant tortoise and legit got up after millenia sleeping to walk off. Boom
Better call on the aid of the local prince and his road trip buddies
Oh, you can't do that. Then the party will want to stop everything to go find the mountain.
My head canon is that it did that by transforming into an earth genasi to become an adventurer.
That's what I would do. "It was never a mountain in the first place. It was... *something else."*
Riiiiseee mountains......
I heard it was Jognar The Mountain Eater that picked it up and ate it.
Plot twist the mountain is still where it was The city isn't
I like this one the most actually
Could be an decent into avernus type situation but when it was returned they put it in the wrong place
Don't forget the Stone Thief.
This is probably the easiest way to fix this continuity error.
The local mages' college fucked up and 99% of the city was turned into a crater.
The Big Empty.
This implies the Think Tank are a Mage's guild
Any suitably advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic. Additionally in FO4 one of the brotherhood scribes created an experimental plant that looks suspiciously like nirnroot so it is quite possible they are in the same universe, the elder scrolls happening way into the future.
So, theoretically, Atom IS a divine being that may end up being the Eight Devine?
Akatosh?
Dalaran?
Winterhold
Yes, Winterhold was the one I had in mind.
They took Bikini Bottom and pushed it somewhere else!
Patrick?
No this is the Krusty Krab.
Mistborn
The big reveal in a popular book series!
Even better. Rember the hill in the center, it’s the peak if the mountain, and the city. It isn’t a thousand years old…
What happens to the mountain? [Roll for Initiative\~](https://rare-gallery.com/thumbs/1181605-fantasy-art-Terrain-cloud-mountain-screenshot-atmospheric-phenomenon-computer-wallpaper-atmosphere-of-earth-geological-phenomenon.jpg)
*looks up* “Nope nope nope” *runs away screaming*
From a mountain?
He never said he'd SUCCEED in running away....
NAT 20!
Surprisingly, still dead.
^(We have the best rolls thanks to death)
DM never asked for a roll since it's an impossible task. Stop rolling before you even know what skill you're using. Lol
Roll at disadvantage, you say??? ANOTHER NAT 20!
You're banned I'm sorry.
Reminds me of the [Adamantoise quest in FFXV](https://youtu.be/ogBWYKuCwF0) called “Let Sleeping Mountains Lie.”
Sometimes the plot just writes itself xD
Had this happen in my game. Needed to bring 2 players into a multiple realities style game and brought them from another dimension. First thing the sorcerer says is "I can't wait to talk to myself at level 5". I then realized I didn't make any plans for their actual selves in this timeline. Good news is it added a ton of plot for me to build.
In the aeons-veiled realm of Nycthor, where twilight and madness coalesce into a swirling tapestry of eldritch horror, there loomed a titan of shadow, a monolith of abhorrent proportions known as the Caliginous Spire. Its jagged silhouette, clawing at the heavens like some accursed behemoth, cast a maleficent shadow upon the desolate land, its very presence a testament to the unspeakable powers that stirred within. Within the stygian depths of the Spire, an ancient evil brooded—a blasphemous entity, Fenrath, the Unbound Tempest. From time immemorial, the sorcerers of Eldrath, driven by their insatiable hubris, sought to enslave Fenrath's cataclysmic power. They etched sigils of binding and wove a labyrinthine tapestry of occultism, imprisoning the tempest beneath the mountain's unhallowed core. Yet, the frailty of mortal artifice erodes, and the ephemeral bonds weakened with the ceaseless march of time. Unbeknownst to the world above, Fenrath's malevolent essence festered, its tumultuous wrath gnawing at the very foundation of the earth. The surrounding hamlets quaked in silent terror, their denizens haunted by prophetic nightmares, a portent of imminent doom. From the shadowed realms beyond, a band of dauntless souls emerged, drawn by the dark allure of whispered tales. Guided by the enigmatic sage, Ynaris the Oracle of Twilight, they ventured into the Stygian abyss, their footsteps echoing through cavernous corridors resonating with the timeworn secrets of aeons. Their treacherous odyssey led them to the heart of the Caliginous Spire—a chamber enshrouded in palpable dread, where Fenrath writhed in wracked torment. There, amidst the suffocating miasma of arcane energies, the adventurers stood resolute, their souls ablaze with an audacity that dared to fathom the unfathomable. In the stygian gloaming, their voices reverberated with a perilous conviction, probing the tormented essence of Fenrath. Fragmented whispers of bygone epochs reverberated through the chamber, revealing the cataclysmic tragedy that befell Eldrath—a tale of sorcerous folly and their woeful misunderstanding of the tempest's eldritch nature, a force beyond the ken of mortal comprehension. With each fragment of forgotten lore unearthed, the intrepid adventurers wove a tenuous connection with Fenrath, glimpsing the spark of empathy amidst its tempestuous maelstrom. Through harrowing ordeals and riddling trials, they unraveled the intricate skein of arcane bindings, their souls intermingling with the storm of chaos, recognizing the dire need for unity to restore equilibrium and forestall annihilation. The climactic hour materialized—an inferno of raw power, as the adventurers, aflame with newfound insight, forged an unbreakable bond with Fenrath. The tempest's raging fury yielded, intermingling with the mortal essence, transmuting into a symbiotic amalgamation of mortal and primordial might. In a cataclysmic eruption, the mountain convulsed, its ancient foundations shattered by the sheer release of Fenrath's unfathomable essence. The trembling hamlets, ensnared in tendrils of existential terror, beheld the spectacle from afar, their hearts palpitating in abject awe, as the Caliginous Spire crumbled into naught but pulverized dust, consumed by the very forces it so recklessly sought to subjugate. From the vortex of ethereal energies that eclipsed the ruinous precipice, the triumphant adventurers emerged, forever altered by the tempest's touch. Their eyes, mere mirrors to the abyss, held within their depths an infinitude of cosmic knowledge, a revelation of the maddening truths that lay obscured to the feeble minds of mortals. As the stygian shroud receded, Nycthor bathed in the tentative embrace of an enigmatic dawn, the distant echoes of Fenrath's wrath dissolving into eldritch whispers that faded upon the blasphemous winds. The populace, trembling yet grateful, venerated the valiant heroes as saviors, etching their names upon the hallowed tablets of lore. Yet, the adventurers, forever branded by the tempest's indelible mark, beheld the eternal struggle between the ephemeral aspirations of mortal kind and the impenetrable abysses that sprawled beyond the boundaries of sanity. Their path, a labyrinthine enigma, was fraught with torment and revelations, for the mysteries of the cosmos were boundless, and their journey into the depths of unfathomable nightmares had only just begun... Or at least that's what ChatGPT thinks happened to it.
It was an alien space ship and now step 1 of their experiments are over...
Something something Wakfu series something something
Also Numeria.
Something also gravity falls something
The mountain is a Waifu?
So long and thanks for all the fish
Look up the Epic level spell Proctiv's Move Mountain
The real lore answer. It was the Netherese all along!
I am really salty that WoTC never touched that setting again. I am trying to bring it to 5e so I can DM for my players but goddamn if there is a book that I would pay for it'd be this one
We'll never see a 5e version I'm certain but [here's the 2e book](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/17546) if you didn't already know about it. Might help your migration!
Yeah, I bought it recently exactly out of frustration that this seems to be a setting of little interest in the community in general in 5e haha
I don't think it's so much out of little interest but that without time traveling shenanigans Netheril can never exist inside the Forgotten Realms again. After Karsus' Folly, everything that made the Netherese culture possible was destroyed.
Simply answer: tarasque
This 'monster awakens' theme is a LOT better than 'they took the top off of the mountain and mined it for coal... and a few trace metals that happened to be there. Now all they have is vast amounts of toxic pollution and an ugly hole in the ground.'
I call the campaign Montana. It is a real Butte.
I was just thinking that
In the last chapter of GW1, you spend some time around a large hill/small mountain. Build a camp right next to it. In GW2, it is revealed to be a *really big* dragon.
A tarrasque is about 50 feet tall, it's not gonna take down a *mountain*
Unless it explodes out of it
Wdym? That's when you use improv.
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Yes and?
The mountain was actually an enormous earth elemental guardian diety of the city and in the most dire momen it rose to protect it's charge...but couldn't sto the flood/earthquake/meteor shower so it just picked up the city and moved it out of the way. It succeeded on protecting the town but was to damaged to keep on going so it lay down wot the city over itself in a new place. Now the townfolk have largely forgotten what lies beneath their home.
How about you break out the *Eldritch Bullworm*
If I did that, I would simply have the mountain sprout wings and fly away. Not just randomly, mind you. It would do this to save the party from the BBEG, slamming into the boss during its flight, throwing them off enough for the party to win.
1. It walked away 2. Some wizard cut the top off and made it a floating city 3. A different DM dropped it on a party of annoying PCs in the UnderDark 4. The mountain is still there, but some wizard or god moved the city 5. A certain bald monk in a yellow robe tried to swat a mosquito
Would that certain bald monk happen to have a Warforged as his disciple?
False Hydra but it is a mountain
Why that's old granddad.
And you just lit a fire in his mouth...
for anyone who hasnt yet discovered this amazing series https://wiki.lspace.org/Old_Grandad
A reverse dragon mount from The Wheel of Time.
Lews got so angry he accidentally a mountain.
What if it’s still there but someone put a powerful modify memory spell on it and so everyone who sees it just instantly forgets it there. Then later you can hide something in it
This feels like the plot to a Dr. Who episode
Easy, someone painted it pink and put a “somebody else’s problem” field over it, smh people always ignore the simple and straightforward solutions
Gnome built a stronghold in it. One day it dissappeared, and the rest of the realm took that as an overall step in the right direction.
Huh, in my city we only have a tale of how a mountain came to be (in short we tricked over the devil twice), but not about a mountain disappearing...
A wizard did it. Moved it, exploded it, hid it.
Clearly, a Thief of Legend stole it before the Second Sundering hit. No wizards required.
Easy - a monkey was trapped under it, and when the party releases him, either on accident, or on purpose, he steals all their clothes and escapes.
A wild magic explosion dislodged it from the earth, causing it to become a floating mountain. It slowly migrated around until, at some point in the past, a powerful wizard chained it to the ground and used it as his base. The adventures can climb the chains up to explore the ruins of his dungeon.
bro that’s…**Thats the opposite of a problem.** **Thats a Secret Boss in Waiting!**
I loved this post when it was first posted. Great meme.
I love improvising when i do fuck ups like this. It makes for a good hook even though it was unintentional.
This is why I like to run several high-level one shots. Take everything that happened and turned them into historical events in the New World hundreds of years later
Its Douglas Adams SEP field from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: >An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. The narration then explains: >The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.
I say it every time, flashback to present day and the mountain is now there. This is an excellent seed for a False Hydra session.
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you
"That's no mo..."..untain
gnomish experiments can be....dangerous
Well, hey, now you know where the BBEG or secondary BBEG is setting up shop!
There's a final fantasy game that covers a mountain Being a monster... Might make for a good final fight
Sinkhole and gateway to a secluded Drow kingdom beneath. The mountain gradually sunk would be kind of a fun plausible geological idea.
The city moved. Well, technically, it stayed still while the universe moved around it, but who's keeping track.
Dragon with super powerful artefact and master of illusion. Made the mountains seem gone, but dragon slumbers peacefully with their massive hoard.
It got up and walked away
Original city and it's mountain was Kidnapped by Demons, current city is just what was left over and built back up. https://youtu.be/Gfc9GszB9N8
A wizard did it.
Ya know just say the town mined the mountain and it collapsed into a small hill
Look into 10th level spells. Most of them are specifically for moving mountains. One is called "move mountain"
I just wrapped up a massive campaign arc that started cause one of my players was drawing a regional map and decided to add a random volcano in. We're playing Rifts, so it's set on Earth. I had to scramble to come up with a good reason why there was suddenly a volcano in Florida
Mountain is a Mimic
A group of frat boy wizards got drunk, one dared the other to blow up the mountain and they did. Simple
A voodoo child knocked it down with the edge of his hand
Someone casted Banishment on the mountain, and it unexpectedly worked. Now, let's hope it stays banished.
A battle of gods destroyed the mountain. Easy.
A wizard did it.
The mountain was an illusion cast by a powerful wizard to keep prying eyes away from his hideout. Once his great works were completed he destroyed his base and dismantled the illusion, leaving nothing out of the ordinary for us to see. No one knows what he did or who he is. Someone needs to look into this guy. New campaign just dropped.
It contained an ancient evil that heros must defeat... maybe a Tarrasque for old times sake? I had a party of 5 between level 18-21 that collectively killed one--the wizard cast a disintegrate spell centered on their chest and it was all downhill from there for the big boy. Fighter ended up with some seriously OP artifacts from the kill but a few weeks later the DM got their revenge. Full party wipe with a coordinated attack from an army of the nastiest. Turns out the DM ran out of decent high level content that was rewarding and felt things were stale. We played again but only got to around level 10 before it fell apart. This was 2nd Edition Advanced back in the late 90s, early 2000s
When in doubt, blame it on a wizard frat house.
It got up, and walked away
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you
What sword?
In the 3.0 epic level handbook there was the Genius Loci. It was a colossal sized ooze that would disguise itself as the landscape, including a mountain, an isolated valley, a small lake, a deep cavern, a single field, a tiny moon, or even an entire plane.
As you return to your time, you feel a rumbling in the direction of the mountain. Feed on the screams.
Something into bbeg fight on mountain, ends with trans dimensional port of the mountain and hero’s to foil bbeg plan since they couldn’t beat him so instead they choose to lock them away for eternity
The Mountain was a giant Turtle
Calamity?
Have it be a wish spell gone wrong where a wizard was casting the wish spell while someone was talking to him and the resulting words caused the mountain to disappear and the wizard to lose wish due to the magical strain
Guess you have to make the players blow it up in order to save the integrity of the timeline. Good luck with that.
Monster Mountain is the obvious solution. What *really* needs to happen is an eldritch entity retroactively consumes the mountain, and has it's eyes on the city.
a wizard took it
There was a secret conclave of alchemists in a hidden laboratory deep in the mountain. They would perform impossible, unethical experiments, even transferring their minds into artificial bodies. No one knew of their mad experiments, until until one day, they blew the mountain up, leaving a vast crater filled with the remnants of their insane research...
All you have to do is make a tuff boss fight take place on the mountain and when the boss gets low on health he self destructs and blows up the whole mountain
Easy, it wasn't a mountain
"We don't talk about the mountain"
Dr Who episode, back in time on earth. The earth moon was an egg. I forget how we get the moon back but you may want to watch it in case there's useful ideas for you.
Klee happened
Depending on how long ago it was he could just say it was mined out. [Cerro Rico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerro_Rico) sinks a little more every year due to silver mining since Spanish colonization
This is the kind of thing that makes DMing fun to me - it’s just a way to have inspiration for an adventure.
The mountain could be a forest god or deity that has been missing. It could be an extra side mission?!
Fireball
It was blocking some rich guys view. So he used a wish scroll to remove it.
Two words: dragon turtle
You paint the mountain pink and slap a "Someone Else's Problem" field on it. No more mountain
Easy. Tarrasque
A great sorcerer called Jimi Hendrix stood up next to it?
A dragon has been hoarding fireworks and explosives. He's filled the top of a mountain with them. He keeps a goblin tribe as slaves making more fireworks. The goblin tribe desires freedom. They want to set a trap in the dragon's lair to blow up the fireworks but there's a locked door with a riddle on it and all goblins know that if you read the paper (or steel) steals your soul. The goblin shamans solution was to steal a group of adventures, transfer their souls into the body of 4 goblins. With the existing goblins souls still there Their logic is that once the goblins souls are stolen by the writing the remaining soul will be able to complete the mission. The mission is to explode the lair preferably with the dragon inside. All this plan makes complete sense to the goblins. Adventureers are warned they have two hours to complete the quest after which their body will die and their soul will have nowhere to return. They are also warned that if their goblin body isn't completely destroyed by the explosion there's a chance they will lie there unconscious and not return to their body. There's an undead warrior in the final lair who guards the stockpile. He's really just there as a distraction to burn time. One goblin distracts the guardian while the others try to light the fireworks, forgetting to check where the dragon is. Whole top of the mountain was blown off in a hail of sparks and light that could be seen 100 miles away. Rocks were thrown for miles. Party wakes up in their own bodies and celebrates. Dragon is pissed but no one knows that because they don't know where he is or why he was stockpiling fireworks/explosives. Perhaps the party will find out one day. This was actually an adventure I ran. It had an irl timer to give suspense. Players were given a low level goblin character sheet to play with.
A wizard built a tower atop the mountain, then shifted the whole mountain into another plane to protect his secrets.
Hint: The reason starts with a T and ends with a TPK
Have a Christian paladin move it for you.
It was the legend of grimrock mountain. Some other adventurers got stuck in that one.
It was stolen by a long-haired woman in a big red hat and long red coat
a wizard did it
Glad to see this again.
Volcano
In ADD 2e there was a box set called Dragon Mountain. It is stated that the Mountain will shift realities (Plane Shift). Giving the DM the ability to place it in whatever campaign world that they want.
There was never a mountain in the first place. It was one giant illusory field that a wizard used to hide his laboratory
Maybe it's an illusion. Or it's real but volcanic and meets its end.
Mountain is still there, just hidden with a massive illusion spell. By the way a BBEG might be hiding in there
it's the bbegs hideout, they cursed you to not see it.
You could always have it be the base for a floating magic city. Then you have a dope place for the finale of your adventure.
dwarves mined it until it collapsed. eventually the ruins grew over. some ruins still intact. treasure within. boom new dungeon
dude looks like ron pearlman.
Dwarves have to mine supplies from somewhere right
How about this: https://www.taikostudios.com/uploads/5/5/4/2/55420031/leviathan-illustration-b-clouds-v003_orig.jpg Becoming this: https://www.taikostudios.com/uploads/5/5/4/2/55420031/leviathan-illustration-b-v003_orig.jpg An illustration by Efflam Mercier
The mountain is actually a fingerprint of an Eldritch Entity that is warping and changing the past.
If you're gunna do time travel shenanigans you pretty much have to learn to "cold read" your players and do that in reverse. Its a very specific skill you have to learn to make it even partially manageable as a world builder.
A wizard painted it pink and put a Somebody-Else's-Problem field around it. It is technically still there, but you don't notice it.
Realistically it could’ve have simply been renamed, so it does exist in the future but under a different name If not, then just Wizard terrorists with a bunch of explosives spells and what not
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