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Long marble hallway smoothed all the way down, add some graffitti of cryptic wrighting and such warning to stay away but also clearly visable treasure. A longer path winds around with many more traps of your choosing. A Pressure plate as they enter the hallway seals them in meaning the only way out is through the hallway. Some ways into the hall there is a crack (perception check DC... your choice but I would base it on how fast they want to move through the hall) this crack is where the floor ends instead it is now a perfectly balanced slab that stepping on will cause to fall into a pit with a hazard. I like lava personally...


If they end up sealed the way to escape is to have a stronger charicter toss the lighter ones to the other side of  the balanced marble and hold down his/her end in order to keep them from falling on the other side. They can then go to the end of the room and press the switch that unseals the hall. The strong charicter now has to traverse the tomb or what have you alone and the weaker members can either go and do it backwards in order to reach him and make it easier or just start the looting. Bonus points if the treasure is enchanted and they have to make a will save to resist the urge to not help him.



Really... you just cant go wrong with party split if you want to really challange and test your players.

I thought about Tomb of Horrors but I'm only doing about 2 2.5 hour sessions, and it looks like Tomb of Horrors is a bit longer than that.

I was actually thinking of doing a bit where the rooms all look the same but there's something different in each one. Also, I'm planning to put them on the clock so from start of the crawl to the end they have exactly 4 hours or so. One round of combat = 7 seconds, travel between rooms = 5 or 10 minutes, all other interaction is real time.