The Tower Between Worlds: the Frozen Wastes

There is a strange tower that exists in many worlds, many places, many times. The Tower Between Worlds is a six-level spire in every version, but the interior (and often parts of the exterior also) can be quite different from each other. One element that each version of the tower has is the fifth level of the tower where the “tower shifting” mechanism is. On the fifth level (the upper left level on the map), there are four magical “tables” built into the wall, each with a small orb on it. Each corresponds to one of the versions of the tower, and any attempt at picking up an orb immediately transports everyone on that level of the tower to the corresponding tower (and the orb remains where it was – they cannot actually be removed from their respective tables). But it turns out there are more than four towers, and each tower might have different orbs on its four tables.

The tower layout goes from right to left, bottom to top – so the ground level on the lower left, level 2 on the lower right, level 3 on the middle left, etc.

The Frozen Tower exists on an elevated deep southern mountain range on the edge of a huge glacier. Much of the base of the tower is locked in ice, and the upper level windows have broken allowing banks of snow to build up within the structure.

The lower levels are connected by stairwells. Access to the top two levels of the tower is via a ladder that comes up the centre of the tower. The purposes of the chambers on the various levels are difficult to determine – the tower has been abandoned for ages, and used as a shelter by locals on occasion.

*The original four designs of the Tower Between Worlds appeared in the Explore Dungeons! “Tales from the Tower” zine. This new tower and a few more will be appearing in an upcoming product.*

*The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 8,700 pixels x 12,600 pixels (29 x 42 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 100 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 200 pixels (for 10′ squares which is what this was originally designed at) – so resizing it to either 2,900 x 4,200 or 5,800 x 8,400 pixels, respectively.*

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