Overview
Under the larders: a vaulted hall, the jailers' post, two rows of cells and their prisoners, the torture chamber, a workroom where bones are made into furniture, the green furnace and its machinery, and the hall of bones, where the lord of the castle entertains.
Cold stone, dripping vaults and the sound of chains settling. Far off, a furnace breathes.
Resting: no Something in the cells is always awake down here, and it listens for breathing that slows.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: Stairs down to the dungeon
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen: The lift cage, down to the cells
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs up to the larders |  Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen | |
| 2 | The lift cage, up to the larders | Castle Ravenloft, the Larders of Ill Omen |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
the jailers' chest, great gears turning by themselves
a satchel on the straw
a chest of instruments
People
Who turns up at points in the story (3)
- Nadia Boteanu, The north cells (#3): when not larders nadia fate or larders nadia fate is “waits”
- Doru, The north cells (#4): when doru freed and not larders doru destroyed and larders doru fate isn't “rest” and larders doru fate isn't “freed”
- Brother Anatol, The south cells (#5): when not larders anatol destroyed and larders anatol fate isn't “freed”
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | the jailers' chest | Manacles ×2, Hooded Lantern, Holy Symbol (Amulet), 26 gp | open it |
| 7 | a satchel on the straw | Potion of Healing, 12 gp | open it |
| 8 | a chest of instruments | Thieves' Tools, Manacles ×2, 18 gp | open it |
| 9 | a stoker's pouch | Potion of Healing ×2, 15 gp | open it |
| 10 | a drawer at the head of the table of bones | 60 gp | open it |
| 13 | a loose stone (hidden) | Potion of Healing | Search: Perception DC 14 |
| 14 | a ring set into the throne of bones (hidden) | Ring of Regeneration | Search: Perception DC 16 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Castle Ravenloft Hall of Bones (larders_bone_table)
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 10 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | great gears turning by themselves | Investigation 15 | Work out where the gears' draught comes from | reveals larders_crawl_furnace |
| 12 | a skeleton in shackles | Insight 14 | Read the dead prisoner's tally | reveals larders_open_cell_pit |
Traps
| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | the lamp over the table | 14 | 15 | DEX 15 | 4d10 fire |
| 16 | a false floor | 15 | 15 | DEX 14 | 4d6 bludgeoning |
Locked and secret doors
- a loose iron plate low in the wall: secret, found at DC 15
- a seam in the bone-panelled wall: secret, found at DC 15
Fights
- Three suits of armour stand at the jailers' table as if waiting for a fourth hand. They are empty, and they…, in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Helmed Horror.
- Two burning skulls rise from the coal heaps, and the fire in the furnace stands up on legs of its own., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Flameskull, Fire Elemental.
- A grey figure at the rack looks up, pleased. Hands scuttle out of every corner, and the drain begins to rise., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Wight, Black Pudding, Crawling Claw.
- His hand closes on the nearest throat, and two more shapes drop from the vault above the passage., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Vampire Spawn.
- He laughs, and two more shapes unfold from the vault above the passage., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Vampire Spawn.
- The chain falls. For a breath he is only grateful. Then the hunger reaches you first., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Vampire Spawn.
- At the head of the table of bones, your host rises. Along both sides, the chairs stand up with him., in Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon: Strahd von Zarovich, Skeleton.
Quests and lore
- The Cook's Guests: Below Castle Ravenloft's kitchen, the cook keeps his Master's guests fresh in the cells.
- The Heart of Sorrow: At the top of Castle Ravenloft's high tower hangs a crystal heart that takes Strahd's wounds before he does.