The Tower of Xyloz 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 17 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 explain that a wizard’s tower has stood for years but no-one has seen the mage in decades, not that any of the local villagers want to check.
For the Game Master explains this is an adventure for 1st level characters and set near the Village of Grey Rock, which will be in a later release, and it, and other adventures are in a new setting called the Ravaged Realms though are suitable for other settings. It explains that finding the tower isn’t difficult.
Rumors has rumours that can be uncovered, ten in total, some true, some false and some a bit of both.
Wandering Monsters (Woods) has encounters for the woods.
Wandering Monsters (Tower) has encounters inside the tower.
Key to the Tower covers the various locations.
Conclusion to the Adventure has some information related to discoveries that the characters can find out.
New Magic Items has a couple of new items.
The final page of content has a map of the tower.
The Tower of Xyloz 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 okay.
This adventure is easy enough to drop into other settings; all that’s really needed are some woods to locate it in and a fairly near village to ask questions at. The adventure itself is straightforward enough; simply go to the tower and clear it out of anything inside. The Tower of Xyloz can be found by clicking here.
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