Seafoot Games - Ruined Desert Fortress | 20x30 Battlemap

Once, long ago, there was a great king, who belonged to a peoples  which voted only the most suited rulers into power—the ones who wished  for it the least. He and his queen ruled well, and justly, from a small  secluded fortress. But tragedy struck, as one seeking power waged war,  and brought their political system crumbling down around them; spelling  the ruin of the kingdom and fortress both… 

Adventure Seeds 

• Your party has found an ancient treasure map, and followed it to the  fortress. Only, at the disturbance of the treasure, the two ghosts of  young kings appear—both of whom do not wish you to have it. As it turns  out, they both loved the same Queen, and the chest is filled with her  jewels. However, they suppose they could part with it, if you but  exorcized the other king’s spirit…  
• You have been sent to  inspect the fortress by a wealthy proprietor, who seeks to purchase and  restore it. But the ruins are overrun by a ghostly legion of warriors,  from both sides of the war—and neither wish to see it fall into anyone  else’s hands. Would the ghosts be willing to listen to reason? 
• You have been offered bounty to capture or kill local bandits, who have  made the fortress their stronghold. But they are desperate, and have  only become bandits as a means to survive the famine without starting a  war, unlike the other peasants who breached the elven peace treaty by  cutting down their trees for their noble. They only attack those who  have more than enough; for them, it was the lesser of two evils.   But  the peasants have the backing of a noble lord, and you will make an  enemy of him if you return empty handed. In his eyes, you’re either with  him, or against him. Perhaps, if you bring the bandits back alive, he  won’t torture them in his dungeon. Perhaps, like the noble said, they  will have food, and be well provided for…