d20 Necromancer Games The Tower of Jhedophar.pdf

by Casey Christofferson

A d20 adventure for 4 to 6 characters 13th-15th level

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Credits

Author:

Casey Christofferson

Interior Art:

Stephen Poag

With additional material by:

Skeeter Green, Erica Balsley and Scott Greene

Front Cover Art:

Rick Sardinha

Developers:

Clark Peterson, Bill Webb, Casey Christofferson

Cartography:

Rick Sardinha

D20 Content Editing:

Scott Greene and Erica Balsley

Playtesters:

Clint Bennett, Kathy Christofferson, James

Beauchesne, Neil Dawson, Jeremy Hardin

Roger Pierson, Darren Walters, Adam Wellman

Art Direction and Design:

Bill Webb

Special Thanks:

For Joe Albrecht and John Stuhl, my English teach-

ers at East Waterloo High School. I bet I spelled your

names wrong. Additional thanks to Skeeter for his

11th hour service!

Layout and Typesetting:

Steve Johansson

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Introduction

The Tower of Jhedophar is an adventure designed

for four to six PCs of 13th to 15th level, although eas-

ily scaled for higher or lower levels with slight modi-

fications to the format. For suggestions on how to

scale the adventure see the Scaling the Adventure side-

bar. The adventure has several difficult traps, which

only a skilled rogue may bypass or remove as hazards

to any PC party. It is therefore suggested that at least

one PC be a rogue, and that the party also include one

cleric, and one arcane spellcaster. The remainder of

the party should consist of front line fighters or multi-

classed PCs.

Beyond the construction of the labyrinth and the

sealing of the great portal, little is known of what goes

on within the gleaming tower. It is believed that

Jhedophar is a great traveler of the planes, and a fre-

quent visitor to the City of Brass. Speculation being

what it is, one fact remains. Jhedophar was the bearer

of the mandrake staff , a unique staff said to possess

unlimited power in the hands of its wielder.

Sy n op si s

The PCs, having heard of the great wonders hidden

within the Tower of Jhedophar have sought it out

with the intent of plundering its vast resources of

magical knowledge, and destroying the powerful evil

which the very existence of Jhedophar represents.

The PCs travel at great distance through tangled

wilderness or over rough and stormy seas (at the dis-

cretion of the DM), to finally reach the fabled Tower

of Jhedophar. Once there they enter the Labyrinth of

Jhedophar which girds the towers exterior. The PCs

face down new adversaries and traps as they come to

the tower itself where they enter its forbidden portals

and peruse its secrets.

After encountering undead creatures known as

spellgorged zombies, the PCs finally face Jhedophar,

where the lich attempts to dissuade them from

destroying him by asking the PCs to rid him of a red

dragon which has taken up residence in his labyrinth.

The dragon may have already made the same deal

with the PCs attempting to gain the fabled mandrake

staff for himself!

Upon completing the adventure the PCs have

gained a new powerful magic item and knowledge of

new magical spells. It is possible that the PCs may

have gained the sword known as Karelis , a sword that

may be used by the DM as a seed for further adventure.

Background

The Tower of Jhedophar was once a great school of

magic where the arch-mage Jhedophar trained many

of the age’s greatest wizards and sorcerers in the arcane

arts. Times changed as did Jhedophar, and as the half-

elf finally felt the weariness of age creep into his bones

he began frantically to strive as many wizards do, for

means to unnaturally lengthen his life. Such is the

fate of wizards, to possess the power to bind planes and

the mysteries of existence with words, alchemy and

the secret numbers that are the root of the universe.

Vexing it must be to have at had so many wonders to

discover and only a limited lifespan with which to

uncover even greater knowledge.

Jhedophar was once a great hero, who with the aid

of Lord Tork and other great heroes wrested the man-

drake staff from the witches of Stench-Hollow Downs.

Many adventures did he have, the strange mandrake

staff figuring greatly in the building of his legend, and

some say that the fame of his exploits indeed con-

tributed to the success of his school of magic. At some

point, something changed in Jhedophar, turning his

heart to evil. Some say it was the power of the man-

drake staff , others claim it was contact with a dark force

he discovered while walking the planes of creation.

For whatever reason, eight hundred years ago, or so

the legend says, Jhedophar wrought a great ritual

within the summoning chamber of his tower and

made contact with a being of pure evil whose will and

mind were greater than his own. There, Jhedophar

was granted immortality in un-death by the might of

this unspeakable power. The pact Jhedophar signed

and sealed in the blood of his very own apprentices.

Always fearful of thieves, Jhedophar has construct-

ed a great covered labyrinth around the base of his

tower, girding it from outside intrusions. This

labyrinth, which guards the entrance to the tower is

nearly as legendry as the tower itself, having been the

bane of many a treasure seeker or would be plunderer

of the secrets which Jhedophar hath wrought within

his eldritch fortress.

Adventure Hooks

There are various routes by which the PCs may find

their way to the Tower of Jhedophar. Luckily the there

is no set location for where you place the Tower of

Jhedophar into your campaign. It could be located in

an evil city, a ruin, on an island, in a lost jungle, or

high upon a mountain top. Any wilderness adventures

of appropriate difficulty to lead the PCs to the tower

are the domain of the DM. Listed below are several

adventure hooks designed to get the PCs immediately

involved in the adventure.

• The PCs, while traveling from one place to

another find that they are passing close to the Tower

of Jhedophar. Appropriate Knowledge checks give

clues of the story of the fall of Jhedophar and the pos-

sible secrets hidden within his tower.

THE TOWER OF JHEDOPHAR

• PCs passing through a village are beseeched by

the villagers to go forth and destroy a dragon who is

laired within the cursed Tower of Jhedophar. They tell

of a band of heroes who went forth over a month ago

to slay the dragon and never returned.

• PCs find a treasure map with descriptions of a fab-

ulous magical staff called the mandrake staff , and its

supposed location in a place called the Tower of

Jhedophar.

• A cleric PC is sent by his religious order to bring

back the mandrake staff from the clutches of

Jhedophar so that its power may be investigated. This

plot device works equally well for wizards who are sent

by their guild. Alternatively a wizard’s guild could

send them as a form of gaining revenge on Jhedophar

for murdering his apprentices, a taboo perhaps, to

guild structures in your campaign setting.

• A paladin’s order, ranger’s troupe, or barbarian’s

clan send the PCs out in search of the lost sword

Karelis said to have belonged to the famed knight

known as Lord Tork. The sword is said to be destined

to help thwart a great evil soon coming to the world.

Scaling the Adventure

For Lower Level PCs

• Reduce the number of Random Encounters, or

delete them from the adventure entirely

• Change bloody bones to normal skeletons.

• Change demiurge to a wraith.

• Change the greater crypt thing to a normal

crypt thing.

• Change Exeterus to a young adult or juvenile

red dragon.

• Reduce Lord Torks Level from 16 to 12.

• Change Jhedophar from 18th to 14th level.

For Higher Level PCs

• Change bloody bones to mummies

• Increase the HD of the demiurge

• Change Exeterus to an old or very old

red dragon

• Increase Lord Tork’s level from 16 to 18 or 20.

• Increase the HD of the Spellgorged zombies.

• Increase Jhedophar’s levels of wizard by 2-4.

Placing the Tower of Jhedophar in

the Wilderlands Of High Fantasy ™

Campaign Setting

The Tower of Jhedophar may be easily integrated

into any of the Wilderlands of High Fantasy™ cam-

paign maps. It is suggested that Hex 4910 of Map 3:

Valley of the Ancients and The Glow Worm Steppes

be used, for its long history of magic, presence of drag-

ons, and its long expanses of haunted wilderness and

various ruins.

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