About a week or so ago, the wonderful Hilander prompted me to get back into writing up proper dungeons.
A lot more of my personal experience I feel has focused on cultivating weird situations for players to engage in while wandering about in more open pointcrawl / sandbox sort of situations, as opposed to traditional dungeon crawling. So this was a good change of pace!
Overall this dungeon was originally going to be for Cloak & Sword, but as I was writing it a little bit each night I feel like the tone drifted way too far from the chivalry and romance of the setting. (The main focus of the scenario is essentially escaping an extended hostage scenario run by nature spirits occupying an ethereal bug zapper after all).
So I rehab'd what was there into something a little more setting-agnostic, though with French accenting and a bit of implied setting of En Plus Paris (perhaps in a potential future where an English led Industrial Revolution is threatening nature?).
I also specifically wrote it for my own rule set as more of a testing / starter dungeon; which in practical terms means that there's very little numbers & dice to adapt.
As an important note: I usually write and prep content in Obsidian, with no sort of considerations for print or sharing it directly with others. When I was trying to export this out to a more shareable format, I ran into a lot of trouble as the usual cool tricks and formatting I employ all broke and weren't working.
So instead I forced it into a Google Doc to get at least the general flow & hyperlinks working, but it's definitely not formatted amazingly. Apologies!
Click here to check The Tower of Ausrud!
(unless you know me in real life since I'll probably be running it sometime soon)
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