Release the Kraken - Ruins of the Gorgon (Patreon)

The first of the two maps to be re-released under the commercial license this month (thanks to your votes in the monthly RELEASE THE KRAKEN poll) is a true oldy of mine - Ruins of the Gorgon!

These ruins of an ancient elven workstation have had a small watch structure built above them to keep an eye on them over the time since the collapse of the elven empire. But since nothing has come out of them in years, the watch has been dropped and the small structure, like the ruins down the hill, sits quiet and abandoned.

But as always, change is inevitable. A group of hobgoblins have just arrived here following an old treasure map, and are trying to find one of the secret doors into the ruins while basing their own operations out of the watch structure. They have found the secret door indicated (the one built into the side of the hill into area A) but haven’t figured out how to open it yet.

Underneath, however, things aren’t quite as quiet as hoped. The elves may have abandoned their research facility, but some of their servants remain (a clan of cannibalistic gnomes), and the devolved remnants of failed experiments still lurk here in the form of various oozes and slimes.

I used the adventure I originally wrote for this location in a third-edition campaign a few years back that ended up featuring a scene with the characters chucking cannibal gnomes at the massive grey ooze to lure it away elsewhere. Also, something I never mentioned was the bottom-most chamber being specifically designed to feel similar to the one in the end of a previous adventure of mine – Goblin Gully. The elves have a history of experimenting on slave races, and their most recent attempts prior to the collapse of their empire had a number of breeding pits hidden throughout the lands where they were working on their weird hybrid thralls.

Before releasing this one, I went back to the original scan that I made of it over five and a half years ago, cleaned it up a bit better, and am releasing it here at a higher resolution and larger size than the old copy that you can download from the post at http://wp.me/psUVp-2oH