Groveheart’s Tower by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. As such, it is covered by the Open Game License and some parts are considered to be Open Game Content as a result.
The supplement is available as a 41 page Pay What You Want PDF from DriveThruRPG. Two pages are the front and rear covers, three the front matter and three the Open Game License.
The opening paragraphs talk about a druid who apparently became undead after pursuing the necromantic arts and of a powerful druid who protected the land, but when he vanished the forest became a foul place. An elf recently returned from the forest, talking about a haunted tower and the ancient druid before dying.
For the Game Master explains that the powerful druid is now a lich and his tower and wilderness are now withered thanks to this instead of being full of life. The adventure is for characters of 10th to 14th level, and the lich now lives in the dungeons beneath his tower.
Rumors has ten rumours, some true, some false and one a bit of both.
The Whispering Shadowswood briefly covers the forest.
The Tower of Groveheart describes what this looks like from the outside.
Random Encounters in the Whispering Shadowswood has a d6 table of random encounters.
Random Encounters in the tower explains there is only one possible encounter.
Random Encounters in the Dungeon Below has a d6 table of encounters.
Key to the Tower covers the above ground area, with three levels and a roof.
Key to the Dungeons Below the Tower covers the below ground area, which is filled with traps and a substantial number of valuable things.
Conclusion of the Adventure explains that once the druid lich is killed, the forest begins to heal.
Monster Statistic Blocks has the stat blocks.
New Magical Items has these.
New Spells has a single new spell.
Phylactery and Destroying a Lich explains how a lich can be permanently destroyed.
The final page of content has a map of the tower and dungeon.
Groveheart’s Tower in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation is okay. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. Bar the map and covers, there are no illustrations. Presentation is adequate.
This has the potential to be a dangerous adventure, especially when it comes to dealing with dangers that aren’t foes, though a high-level party may well be able to overcome them more easily than it looks. This is a fairly old-style adventure for Fifth Edition, with the usual sorts of dangers such would have. Groveheart’s Tower can be found by clicking here.
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