All That Glitters

From publisher blurb: The gold in the town of Taurum is disappearing. Precious family heirlooms and unsecured savings vanish overnight without a trace. The culprit, unbeknownst to most of the town, is a rare creature indeed: a gold elemental. Small and decades young, its ravenous craving to gather more of its namesake is more than enough to ruin a small community like this one. Worse still, local legend says a statue in town wears a gold symbol upon its chest that must never be removed. They say a powerful paladin trapped an evil force more than 250 years ago, and citizens fear that evil will reemerge if the sacred place is disturbed. All That Glitters is a Q-Encounter, or Quick-Encounter, that can be run for a group of four to six players with 17th-level characters. This encounter would be considered a ‘medium’ to ‘hard’ encounter.