Ocean Temple

Drag your players under the sea for a change! Hidden temples & enemies hide just below the waves, waiting for foolish adventurers to stumble onto the battlemap.

Thoughts

• By popular request, loosely inspired by FFXIV’s Shisui Temple. You could stuff an octopus-mimic-thing in here. (I have never played FFXIV. I just watched a few quick dungeon walkthroughs, haha.)
• Listen. You don’t need walkways. You’re underwater, you can swim. But you could constrain something to them. Players? sure. But how about cannon-toting crabs that can’t swim, with limited range? Now they get to scuttle around while players have mobility.
• Alternatively, reverse it. Players get diving suits or magic MacGuffin thing that forces them to walk. Does this make sense? I dunno, maybe. Maybe the “you can breathe” rock you have to carry around is heavy.
• Alternatively, use the Beach Tide Pool map as a “low tide” situation, and flood the players by swapping to the main variant a minute into the battle!

Contents

• Main: An ocean temple built by mermen — or maybe flooded a century ago! What lurks around its perimeter?
• Abyssal: The ocean depths is where this bleak & blackened temple lies, illuminated not by sun but only by the soft glow of ancient magic rites.
• Beach Tide Pools: The water’s drained away! Or maybe it had never risen. The walkways are exposed to air, so you’ll have no problems waging war upon their planks.
• Bleached: This ocean is poisoned. The coral have died, along with the fish — and soon, you too will perish here!
• Blood Tide: This isn’t a blood moon. It’s a feeding frenzy.
• Portal: Someone’s either showing up to kill you, throwing you down here, or kicking you out.
• Underwater Sun: A mass of incandescant gas — a gigantic nuclear furnace — has sprouted from the seas! Or is imprisoned here. Yeah, the mermaids stole a star. Figure that one out.
• Day/Night Variants: Where applicable!