The default background for the adventure has the Seer of Urnst persuade his duke to employ adventurers to retrieve the Soul Gem. Though on fog-shrouded nights the central tower can supposedly still be seen (a "ghost tower" if you will). The entire Castle Inverness was magically lifted "from the very foundations of rock upon which it rested." Within the central tower was said to be the "Soul-Gem" which "dragged the souls of men screaming from their mortal flesh and trapped them within its many facets." When one day the wizard failed to return an angry mob (presumably with pitchforks and torches) stormed the castle and tore down the central tower.
The Ghost Tower of the title refers to the central tower of the castle of the dreaded wizard Galap-Driedel. Part of the reason, now that I think of it, is my grandmother needed the picture of the seer within it as a model for the Halloween costume she sewed for me - my grandmother was quite the seamstress but not particularly familiar with the fantasy genre. Every month over 600 patrons come together to make these releases possible.For whatever reason, I don't think I played C2: The Ghost Tower of Inverness more than once or twice. The maps on Dyson’s Dodecahedron are released for free personal use thanks to the support of awesome patrons like you over on Patreon. In an adventure like this I would end up writing some “dungeon dressing” into the empty rooms (if uninspired, I would roll on the DMG dungeon dressing tables) – just to have something to mention when the door is smashed open into yet another empty side room. Each room in B1 is described with a some detail, giving you a feel for the structure and the purposes of the rooms.
While non-encounter rooms are fine with me, I realize how spoiled I am by being introduced to dungeon design via B1 – In Search of the Unknown. On this map there are a score of unkeyed rooms with no text whatsoever. This map also got us to talking about old school adventures and the number of “empty” unkeyed locations on the maps. Ghost Tower of Inverness Dungeon Map – Player Version
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