Hunt for Mage Tower - Strixhaven: Hunt for Mage Tower

Hunt for Mage Tower. In this adventure, the characters return to Strixhaven University as second-year students. As the year gets underway, the characters' peers urge them to form a team and compete in a high-profile game of Mage Tower. They'll investigate the odd behavior of the magical creatures at the game's center while they prepare for the big game. And throughout the year, nefarious forces strew havoc across the campus-right up to the characters' fateful game day at Strixhaven Stadium. Will the characters unveil and thwart the threats before something terrible befalls the event? With their full abilities on display, Strixhaven students often create breathtaking spectacles when they play the game of Mage Tower Running This Adventure Here's what you need to know to run the adventure in this chapter, whether you're running it as part of a campaign or as a standalone adventure. Character Advancement This adventure assumes the characters are 4th level when it begins. The Second-Year Level Advancement table summarizes when the characters gain levels during the adventure. 5th Complete the first Scrivening and Symbology Exam 6th Finish the adventure Second-Year Level Advancement Choosing a College Before this adventure begins, the characters must choose one of Strixhaven's five colleges to join: Silverquill, Prismari, Witherbloom, Lorehold, or Quandrix. This choice can happen "off screen" or as part of the preparation for this adventure. See chapter 1 for more information about joining a Strixhaven college and the academic counselors assigned to students in their second year. Adventure Overview The dangerous events the characters face in this adventure are the work of two Mage Hunter-vicious monsters described in chapter 7. The mastermind Murgaxor Grenshel has bent these creatures to his will as part of his effort to weaken Strixhaven and achieve immortality. A Standalone Adventure If you're running this adventure as a standalone, the mage hunters are acting indepen...