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Inside Slanty Tower, a Hither Adventure

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One never quite knows what to expect when they enter the Feywild. When a hot air balloon flies across the sky and crashes into a tower tipping in the swampy ground, even the most epic heroes may wonder, “What in the world is going on?” In order to get to the bottom of it all, the heroes must first reach the top of Slanty Tower and save a faerie dragon knight with vital information about Prismeer. Will the heroes find a way to save him or lose themselves in the swamp?

A Wild Beyond the Witchlight Adventure - What's this all About?

Chapter 2: Hither is the first portion of Prismeer described in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. Each of the locations presented in this chapter can be explored quickly, outside of the village of Downfall. This is because the book tends to favor non-combat resolutions to encounters and these locations do not have maps to explore. This mini-adventure aims to revise the Slanty Tower location in order to create a small “dungeon” experience where characters can engage in some tactical combat (or find clever ways to avoid it). 

The book describes Slanty Tower as a leaning tower that is 50 feet tall and 20 feet in diameter and contains nothing but a spiraling set of stairs. This adventure creates a whimsical interior and story for the tower so the characters may engage more deeply with the location. This supplement presents the events that occur in Slanty Tower as an alternative to those detailed in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight. As always, it is up to you how much of the content you want to use. It’s perfectly fine to use some parts of this supplement while discarding others, or simply let the ideas presented here inspire new ideas of your own. This supplement assumes a party of 4-6 characters of 2nd level and presents scaling options for parties up to 4th level.

This Adventure Includes:

  • Expanded Adventure in Hither. Take Slanty Tower from a quick hello, to a fully fleshed out, memorable location.
  • Color VTT-Ready Interior Maps. Explore the interior of the four floors of Slanty Tower.
  • A New NPC. Meet or fight Elmer, the cursed hobgoblin turned ettercap.

Adventure Summary

The party arrives at Slanty Tower after seeing a balloon crash. When Sir Talavar calls down to the party, he is snatched up by Elmer the ettercap, and brought into Slanty Tower. On the first floor of the tower, the party encounters a trap set by Elmer to deal with thieving harengons. On the second floor, the party encounters Elmer’s dog, Wover. On the third floor, the party finds important information pertaining to Elmer’s history and the o'-wells. On the fourth floor, the party encounters Elmer and must reason or fight with him to rescue Sir Talavar.  

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stephen G September 06, 2022 1:24 pm UTC
Are the maps of the tower decent enough resolution to be printed out?
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Daniel K September 06, 2022 4:47 pm UTC
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All of the maps are 150 pixels per inch. So as long as you print it where a grid square is 1 inch in size, they should look great when printed!

SlantyTower-AllMaps-grid-12x11-150ppi.png can be printed on an 11x17 piece of paper
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Ronald H February 02, 2022 6:55 am UTC
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Love this content! Question though, about to run this for my group and i noticed that the tripwire in the first floor has no perception or investigation DC to notice it. is this on purpose and if so is their no way to notice the tripwire?
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Daniel K February 02, 2022 12:33 pm UTC
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Looks like an oversight. Thanks for letting me know! I would make it DC 16 Wisdom (Perception) check to find so that it's just beyond the passive Perception of a harengon brigand (the intended target for the trap).
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Daniel K February 03, 2022 12:44 pm UTC
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I've added a version 1.4 of the document with the DC for the trap. Thanks for the bug report.
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Ksenia S January 08, 2022 9:05 am UTC
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Hi, Daniel!
I'm gonna run your Slanty Tower tomorrow, just realised, that you got some updates but cannot find any summary of what was changed and why... Is there somewhere something like quick note of the recent updates?
Thank you!
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Daniel K January 08, 2022 1:56 pm UTC
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Hi there! You can see a changelog for any product you've purchased if you go to My Library, search for Inside Slanty Tower (or another title), and then hover your mouse over the (I) icon on the right side next to the Updated date.

The updates so far have been small tweaks to the PDF:
2021-12-05: Moved scaling notes to the bottom of paragraphs. Revised a minor inconsistency on the 2nd floor with the dog's behavior.
2021-12-01: (added references to Within Brigands' Tollway) - forgot to notate this one
2021-10-20: Fixed trap area on pg. 4 and added references to the Watcher's Pool adventure.

Good luck running the adventure today, let me know how it goes in the comments/reviews!
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Ksenia S January 10, 2022 8:14 am UTC
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Oh, thank you, that didn't appear very intuitive to me! Btw the session went great, Sir Talavar was exchanged to a piece of parfumed soap! XD
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Konstantin K December 19, 2021 1:58 pm UTC
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This was honestly so helpful and one of the best products to buy quickly, and you get so many cool ideas from it mixed in with yours it's a recipe for success!
From great and beautiful maps honestly, to a funny references to elmer the hunter from looney toons, nice stat blocks and a few suggestions this product is great.

Even if you buy it for the map alone which is amazing, how many times do we have to dm a tower or some sort of tower-like area, u could use it for anything honestly it's that good.

I added a few cool elmer guns the party can find a few cool clues, a nice backstory of Elmer being a hunter for zibilna and a caretaker now turned to the hourglass coven, giving the party an opportunity to convert, fight or escape him.
Its an awesome idea from the product that u can give your own spin or run as is
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Daniel K January 08, 2022 1:58 pm UTC
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Thank you so much! It's so fun to see people take these adventures and expand them even more.
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Ronald H October 20, 2021 5:12 am UTC
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Hello, first may I say love the adventure but I noticed in area s1 it says characters within the area marked A are effected by the trap. But I do not see an area marked A.
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Daniel K October 20, 2021 11:33 am UTC
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Thanks for the bug report Ronald! It looks like I put a 'T' for 'trap' instead of 'A' for 'acid' on the map on page 4. I'll revise the text in the update today to reference the 'T' instead.
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Daniel K October 20, 2021 11:50 am UTC
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Oops. I misremembered and I see the issue now. Adding an 'A' area on the map on page to depict the area of the acid spray. Thanks again. :)
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Jeffrey A October 13, 2021 1:05 am UTC
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Don't suppose this will be converted to Fantasy Grounds in the near future? :)
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Daniel K October 13, 2021 1:23 am UTC
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How soon do you need it? We could make it happen!
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Jeffrey A October 13, 2021 1:33 am UTC
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My group just started the carnival, so they might be getting to Prismeer in 2-3 weeks from now? Very interested in expanding all the locations of Hither. I like the RP aspect to the adventure, but I know my group will be itching to whack something in combat, too.
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Daniel K October 13, 2021 10:19 am UTC
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Okay we’re working on it. My guess is we’ll be done not this weekend but the next one. There may also be a follow up hither adventure by that time. :-)
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Jeffrey A October 14, 2021 1:40 am UTC
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Excellent, looking forward to it.
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Daniel K November 08, 2021 12:54 pm UTC
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Jeffrey,
Here are the links to the FG versions of Slanty Tower and Watcher's Pool!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/376737/Inside-Slanty-Tower--Fantasy-Grounds

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/376738/The-Watchers-Pool--Fantasy-Grounds
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