Free TTRPG Battlemap – Raider’s Ruined Temple of the Lost Ark

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You are hired by a recruiter in a tavern to unlock an ancient chest at the recently-discovered ruins of a temple. It is sealed with magic, as well as physical locks, so their excavation team needs someone’s who’s good with the arcane arts, as well lockpicking, to open it. If you succeed, you’ll receive handsome payment.

They guide you through the mountains to the rest of the excavation team in the temple. Only, once you arrive, you are greeted by three dirty men seated at the entrance—who the guide doesn’t recognise.

WHAT’S HAPPENING? After the guide left to recruit the help the excavation needed, bandits took over the site. The group of historians hadn’t expected to be attacked in such a remote location, and only had two guards with them.

The bandits have locked the historians up in two tiny cells, which are very uncomfortable for a team of about 10 people. In the meantime, the outlaws have been going through the excavation’s food stores while trying to unlock the chest.

The excavators told the bandits that they hired some people to open the chest, and upon seeing your party they will guess you’re the team. The bandits tell you that they have a new deal for you, and that if you help them open the chest they’ll give you a share of whatever’s inside.

Will you help the bandits, leaving the excavators as prisoners, or will you risk your life to save them?

The chest itself is made of brass, with gold bindings, and has melted into the stone beneath it. It radiates warmth and is hot to the touch. There is spiteful fire djinn trapped within, and if released, he will emerge with a flaming sword and thank you for freeing him. However, he will not return to his realm empty-handed after such a long time; when he returns, his castle will need sprucing up, and to do that, he needs slaves.

As you were kind enough to release him, he will spare you. But, depending on which group has survived, he will demand either the bandits or the excavation team be handed over to him as slaves… If you refuse to give either of them, he’ll attack.

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LUKE: The founder of Seafoot Games, Luke's been making maps and RPG games since he was a child, and spent over a decade creating his own game systems from scratch to play with his brothers. That was before he discovered other TTRPGs existed. Now, he paints the realistic grimdark fantasy battlemaps we're known for, helps write adventures as needed, and spends his free time printing and painting 3D minis, as well as working on his forever in-development TTRPG system.

BEB: Luke's wife, Beb's been writing, painting, and graphically designing things her whole life. She published her first book when she was 20, alongside a handful of sci-fi short stories, and was responsible for writing almost all of our adventures until mid 2022 when Steve joined the team. Now she mostly creates the outlines for the adventurer's guides with Luke, graphically designs documents, handles the bookkeeping (or as she likes to call it, bureaucrat wrangling), and manages the website—but she is slowly delegating these responsibilities, so she can focus on raising her and Luke's beautiful son.