The Deep Spire: 6th Level and the Citadel (Patreon)

The last part of the Deep Spire is done and so are the DM notes, which... well, they started off as "notes" but, by the end, they were somewhere between a "lengthy screed" and a "borderline manifesto." Anyway, they go pretty deep into the history of the spire and the people who live there.

For those disinclined to read them, the TL;DR is this: a clan of orog raiders called the Tideborne settled the place, a drow noble house rescued the orogs from disaster and moved in, then they opened the place up to settlers and traders to make money.

If you're not familiar with orogs, they're The Other Underdark Race. I like them for when I want an NPC who isn't a duergar, drow or deep gnome, but I also don't want them to be some weird crap like a cloaker or whatever. Orogs are basically orcs, except better. They're Orcs 2.0. They're bigger, as smart as humans and have sophisticated, well-organized societies.

Of course, they're not any less into the raiding scene than orcs are, but, to be fair, that's a very practical trade in a society where everyone is the size of Andre the Giant.

Anyway, the DM notes will give you plenty to read, so I'll leave the post at that. There's a few more things to make for the spire, including some tokens I mentioned previously and an assembled map with all of the spire in it. I'm going to make an annotated version of that as well, which will have a little more flavor to it, now that I've got more of the lore figured out. It shouldn't take more than two days, so I'll be back with that soon. Hopefully a few people will have made it through the DM notes by then, haha.

All right, back to work!