The Banshee’s Tower by Joseph Mohr is a role playing game supplement published by Old School Role Playing for use with OSRIC. 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 30 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 give some background on an elven princess and how she was exiled and then killed because she refused to go far enough away.
Game Master Information that the princess is now a banshee, that she is the sole wandering encounter on her level of the dungeon and mentions a powerful artefact in her ruin as well as other treasures. It says the adventure is aimed at characters of levels 6-8 and that magical weapons are needed.
Random Encounters has those for the tower levels, and explains how they work in the dungeon where the banshee is the only encounter.
The Banshee’s Tower describes the tower and the dungeon beneath it.
New Magical Items describes the new items in the adventure, as well as the artefact.
The final page of content is a map of the tower and dungeon.
The Banshee’s Tower in Review
The PDF lacks bookmarks and is long enough with enough different sections that these would have been useful. Navigation could be better. The text maintains a single column format and some minor errors were noticed. There are a handful of colour and black and white illustrations. Presentation is okay.
This is a comparatively straightforward adventure, and there are few traps and little of any other hazards apart from the monsters, although there are a lot of undead. There is also quite a lot of treasure, making this a dangerous adventure with a good reward. The Banshee’s Tower can be found by clicking here.
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