Doomed to Die Issue 2 - The Tower of Dreams

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This is the second issue of an ongoing zine series, each focused on short, atmospheric material you can drop into your campaign.

Doomed to Die Issue 2 features The Tower of Dreams, a low-level adventure for Shadowdark RPG.

An illusionist’s crumbling tower disguised by magic, a looping ruin that appears endless to those within. From afar, the tower rises into the clouds. Those who enter find fine halls, soft music, and a host of courteous phantoms. Yet as the climb continues, repetition sets in. The same rooms. The same voices. The same illusions fraying at the seams.

At its heart lies Orrin Vye, a failed mage sustaining a fantasy of grandeur, projecting power over rotten wood and forgotten stone. The tower’s ascent is not a climb, but a loop and the revelation brings pity more than triumph.

Overview

The Tower of Dreams is a modular adventure designed for easy inclusion in any campaign. It offers an eerie blend of tragedy, illusion, and discovery, where what seems like a test of endurance becomes an unraveling performance of self deception.

Features

This issue includes:

  • A looping illusionist’s tower that hides its true structure beneath decaying scaffolds

  • The tragic figure of Orrin Vye, master of illusions and delusion alike

  • Guidance for pacing, clues, and the gradual collapse of disbelief

  • Dramatis Personae: phantoms that fight, speak, and fade like half-remembered dreams

  • 24 pages of modular content designed for Shadowdark or any old school fantasy game

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