Unstable Pillars of the Great Hall

Three ancient wooden pillars hold up the sagging roof of the Great Hall of Green Lord's Tomb. A fourth collapsed long ago. The crinwin have built nests around what remains, further weakening them.

Presented as an impending doom with grim portents hazard — a structured countdown the GM advances each time a pillar is struck or as a hard GM move.

Advance one mark each time a pillar is struck or as a GM move:

• ☐ Pillar cracks/buckles, dirt pours down
• ☐ Stones fall (1d6+1 damage, forceful)
• ☐ ☐ Pillar breaks, stone slabs fall (1d8+3 damage, area, forceful)
• ☐ IMPENDING DOOM: Ceiling collapses, burying anyone still inside (Death's Door); connecting tunnels blocked off

Make the checkboxes public during the fight. The countdown is its own pressure — every spear-thrust into a pillar, every fireball, every wild swing has a cost. The kids and Pryder are also in the structure; PCs have to choose between killing crinwin fast and not killing the building.

Approach Impending Doom · Kind Structural Collapse

Telegraph: Sagging ceiling, the collapsed fourth pillar in the rubble, roots dangling through cracks in the white stone, crinwin nests built right onto the pillars