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Toppled Tower - Map
🕑 Added 2019-04-19 20:12:41 +0000 UTCHey all!
This tower once stood high and proud on the hill as a lookout post and tax station for the surrounding lands. It now lays toppled and disused, destroyed years ago by marauding hill giants invading the lands. Used now as a way marker and camping spot for passing travellers it offers a good view over the surrounding countryside for advance warning of anything approaching.
What would surprise many who use the tower is that if they where to move certain stones they’d find a tunnel and stairs that lead down within the rock to the base of the hill where there’s a disused and hidden sally port. Further investigation would find that they can in fact descend yet further still in to the darkness and the secret caverns below. Those with a keen eye would spot that they aren’t the only ones to have used this tunnel recentlyThis map has a great amount of potential as either a random encounter on the road - or the start of a greater quest. 
Perhaps the party meet questionable bandits and highwaymen at the intersection, they’ve taken the ruined tower and will rain arrows down on the party unless they pay up. Maybe the party, tired after the days travel, decide to rest up within the tower over night when they start to hear howls of hunger approaching from all directions. Or the eagle eyed amongst the group finds the hidden entrance in the tower that leads below to the smugglers caverns and who knows what else beyond. 
I hope ya’ll enjoy this encounter map - it was good fun to make whilst coming up with ways of how to use it in my home game.
As always - if you like em, share em and let me know what you think. :)
Matt
