This adventure is compatible with OSR products such as AD&D, B/X D&D, Shadowdark, Knave, White Box, Swords and Wizardry, and more. It is designed for a group of 4th-5th level characters with suggestions on how to increase or decrease difficulty depending on the number of players you have. The adventure is a pure dungeoncrawl and is only one level. My personal preference are short dungeons you can complete in a single session, and that's what this one is.
Comes with map as separate download!
The Story So Far...
The PCs will find a book or missive during one of their adventures that reads as follows:
“As
the decades passed, people began to question the Baron’s inexplicable
youthful appearance. He never seemed to age beyond his thirties despite
the fact many of his peerage had since died of old age. Additionally,
complaints from the peasantry, normally ignored, began to paint a grim
picture. Youths, numbering in the hundreds, had gone missing over the
past few decades. Youths are foolish, and the lives of peasants are
cheap to the nobility, but the sheer number was alarming. When the king
ordered an investigation of the Baron’s estate, the horrific truth was
laid bare. The baron enticed youths to his estate with false promises,
where he slew and devoured them to sustain his unlife. Fearful of the
truth causing a panic or worse, a revolt, the matter was buried along
with the baron. He was sealed in his manor, essentially buried alive,
and the estate in which these fell deeds took place fell into ruin and
was forgotten. The region quickly overgrew with dark and twisted trees
and choking vines, such that the manor itself, a forgotten monument to
barbarism, was concealed within them. The knights who sealed the baron
in his home removed much of his fortune to distribute to the grieving
families of the lost youths, partly in a hope to silence them, but
rumors maintain that more of the baron’s wealth was buried with him
along with the countless remains of those who bore witness to the
baron’s monstrous appetites.”
The document contains a map leading to the estate and manor.
