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Like ' White Plume Mountain', I feel that 'The Ghost Tower of Inverness' has a B/X aesthetic, and could be run using the Expert Set rules. ' Return to the Ghost Tower of Inverness' (2003) by Creighton Broadhurst and Steve Pearce was released as part of the Living Greyhawk campaign in the d20 era.ДЄ 4e adventure 'March of the Phantom Brigade' (2011) by Rodney Thompson involved the Ghost Tower of Inverness.ДЄ 5e adventure ' Return to the Ghost Tower of Inverness' (2019) by Elisa Teague was released for the D&D Adventurers League. Never having participated in tournaments back in the day - and, even now, the whole concept of it strikes me as odd - I will admit to some curiosity about the entire undertaking. (Author of C2-The Ghost Tower of Inverness) with artwork by Jeff Easley and Diesel. The Ghost Tower of Inverness might be fun to run as a tournament-style module someday, since it includes both pregenerated characters but also a scoring sheet. The time travel aspect of the adventure may have been suggested to Hammack by his involvement with the 4th Dimension board game, completed prior to his work on the tournament module.ДЄ room involving a giant chessboard also appeared in the AD&D Masters Tournament dungeon 'Doomkeep' at Gen Con XII in 1979 (see The Dragon #34).ДЇor those interested, Hammack discusses 'The Ghost Tower of Inverness' in an interview on GrogtalkВ (March 2, 2020) from 45:30 to 54:50 The anniversary wallpaper files are interesting. The dungeon map in the tournament version appears to be the same as in the subsequent, color version (see this post on Dyson Logos blog for more recent, VTT-friendly, versions)ДЄccording to the wikipedia entry, 'The Fourth Tower of Inverness' is in reference to a farmhouse in Quebec, Canada named 'Inverness' after the original home of the owner in Inverness, Scotland.

The entire Castle Inverness was magically lifted 'from the very foundations of rock upon which it rested.' Within the central tower was said to be the 'Soul-Gem' which 'dragged the souls of men screaming from their mortal flesh and.

(Also, check out this postВ on the Metal Miniatures blog for a look at painted miniatures used for each of the five pregens) The Ghost Tower of the title refers to the central tower of the castle of the dreaded wizard Galap-Driedel. *the cleric pregen, Zinethar the Wise, is described as the high priest of Osiris, in keeping with the pantheistic nature of Hammack's personal campaign world In the tournament version, the setting is an unnamed empire,* and the PCs are sent on their mission by the emperor, himself (as opposed to the Duke of Urnst in the subsequent, color version, published the following year).

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Advertisement for Wintercon VIII in the Oakland University campus newspaper ' The Oakland Sail' (November 12, 1979)ДЄs with Origins 79, the tournament adventure was made available for sale at the convention, the second in a series of special numbered collector's editions (see this post at Wayne's Books for more details).

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