Alpha Dawn - Star Frontiersman

turns. The distances characters can move in sixsecond
turns are summarized on the following chart:
Epsilon 1.2:
Movement per six-second turn
Race Walking Running
Human 2 meters 6 meters
Dralasite 1 meter 4 meter
Vrusk 3 meters 7 meters
Yazirian 2 meters 6 meters
Players will quickly find anyone running in the
caverns has an excellent chance of falling. Any
character running in the caverns must make a
Dexterity check. The character must make a
Dexterity check once every five turns spent running.
If a character falls, he may move only 1/2 the
normal distance that turn.
SIGHTING
Visibility in the caverns is limited. Even with
flashlights or torches, party members can see only
30 meters. When in large rooms, this means they
may not be able to see the cavern walls.
EXPERIENCE
The Forbidden Caverns encounter section will
require more playing time than most other
encounter sections in this module. You should award
experience three times during the this encounter
section (usually at the end of an evening of play).
Generally speaking, you will find the best places to
award experience points are at the end of encounter
area 7, the end of encounter area 13, and after the
party exits the caverns.
EPSILON SUBSECTION 2:
PLAYERS' DESCRIPTION
After several days travel, you have reached the
Burning Lands. Deposits of phosphorous,
magnesium, and various salts cover the entire area,
and numerous geysers, gas fissures, and lava flows
erupt through the crusty ground. Athru says you will
spend only a short time on the surface of the
Burning Lands; after a period of travel you will reach
a large network of caves. The Ul-Mor know a safe
path through the caverns and out into the desert on
the other side of the Burning Lands. You will follow
this underground path to the Place of True Warriors.
Athru warns you not to stray from the safe path, for
there is an endless expanse of winding caverns
teeming with unknown dangers.
You travel through the caverns for 24 hours, walking
well behind the main body of Ul-Mor. The tunnels
are between 5 and 10 meters wide, while the ceiling
rises as high as 12 meters. Occasionally, the tunnels
spread into underground rooms as much as 1
kilometer in diameter, with ceilings as high as 20
meters.
You constantly pass large stands of a mushroomtype
fungus growing from the cavern floors. The
stalk of this fungus is almost as thick as a small tree
trunk. There is nothing else unusual in these
caverns.
As you move along, you pass many smaller
passages leading away from the main path, but the
Ul-Mor carefully avoid these passages and warn you
to do the same.
EPSILON SUBSECTION 3:
RANDOM ENCOUNTERS
Roll for random encounters once each one-hour
period. A roll of "1" on 1d10 indicates a random
encounter, roll again on the following table. No
random encounters will occur while the characters
are with the Ul-Mor.
Epsilon 3.1:
Random Encounter Table
Roll Encounter
1 Small rastie pack
2 Droppers
3 Poison gas fissure
4 Lava flow
5 Rastie trap
6 Flitters
7 Skeleton and drained blaster
8 Sleep gas fissure
9 Broom, mop, and bucket
10 Dead loper carcass
Do not use an encounter more than once. If you roll
the same encounter more than once, ignore the
result and roll again.
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