Gloamhold: Varma’s Pit

Named for the adventurer credited with discovering this gigantic sinkhole cutting through the Mottled Spire living rock, Varma’s Pit is nothing more than a huge hole piercing the rock above the Twilight City’s crumbling, shadowed precincts. Hidden among a great stand of stunted, wind-blasted thorn bushes and dwarf trees, it is hard to find. To make matters worse, its walls and ledges are inherently unstable and crumble if unduly disturbed. If that wasn’t enough to deter explorers, centuries of bat guano deposits make climbing here all but suicidal.

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Why Your Dungeons Should Have More than One Entrance

It’s a sad fact of life, but most commercially available dungeons only seem to have one—or at the most two—entrances.

The Sunken Stair by Matt Morrow
The Sunken Stair by Matt Morrow

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Gloamhold: The Ghost Tower

The Shard is one of the most well known parts of Gloamhold. Visible from Languard’s battlemented walls, the great ruin soars high above Greystone’s ruins huddling far below. Neophyte adventurers—not ready for the terrors lurking in Gloamhold’s outer halls—often dare the Shard’s ruins in search of easy victories and gold.

By William McAusland (Outland Arts)
By William McAusland (Outland Arts)

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