A Gods & Monsters Adventure
Lost Castle of the Astronomers
A Gods & Monsters dungeon crawl suitable for three to six 1st to 2nd level characters
by Jerry Stratton
Copyright © 2011
http://www.godsmonsters.com/Guide/Lost/
Things that fly and things that creep
with leather wings and slimy hoof,
feared, and fled, in the forest deep
before the Mist’s well-armored horde.
See godsmonsters.com/Guide/conversions/ if you’d like to use Lost Castle of the Astronomers in other old-school games.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.3, published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”
September 7, 2013
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- The Order of the Astronomers
- The mountains of West Highland are dotted with scholarly orders, most of them now lost. The Order of the Astronomers and the Order of Illustration were rivals over a hundred years past. Scholarly disputes in the high days of the Orders often led to battle, and the Astronomers and Illustrators were known to fight over the finer points of their philosophies.
- Lost Castle: Hightown
- The adventure goal in Hightown is to acquire enough information to foray into the Deep Forest in search of Kristagna, the lost castle of the Astronomers.
- The Journey South
- No description available
- The Leather Road
- The characters are likely to spend no more than a few minutes on the Leather Road, but you may find this information useful if they decide to travel somewhere other than Hightown when the adventure ends.
- The Deep Forest
- The forest south of the Leather Road is thick, and smells of autumn. Oak and maple trees form a canopy above the dry ground. Brown leaves crackle as you walk along the rolling hills. Sunlight shines through the trees in beams that shine like spotlights to the ground. You step through ferns and bushes, some flowering in bright blue, others mustard-yellow.
- Lost Castle: Kristagna
- Now that they’re at the castle, the adventure goal will be character-specific: different characters may have different goals, such as finding treasure, finding knowledge, or going home again.
- Lost Castle: The End
- The End in Lost Castle of the Astronomers
- Lost Castle: Resources
- Look in the resources file for the maps and handouts. You can get the resources on godsmonsters.com/Guide/Lost/.
- GNU Free Documentation License
- Version 1.3, 3 November 2008
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