Any adventures feature a cloud giant's cloud castle?

[Aaron2]

Talking about the old JG module Under the Storm Giant's Castle has got me thinking. Does anyone know of any other modules that feature a floating cloud castle? Preferably one that was ruled over by a good cloud giant. It would be nice if it were 3.5 and currently for sale but OOP stuff is at least something.

It seems weird since cloud castles are one of the original things in D&D; there was even one on the first Monster Manual. Yet, I don't think I've ever seen one in print.


Aaron

 

[Mystery Man]

There is an epic level adventure in a dungeon magazine. I don't recall the number right now.

 

[HellHound]

I can't remember the number either, but it's not actually a Cloud Giant's castle, but a Storm Giant, if I recall (I ran the module in question once for our nearly epic party). It involves a floating fortress with an imprisoned chichimec in the top tower (I think that's what it was... I haven't read the module or the ELH in a long time).

The waves of roc riders were pretty scary, and some of the battles pretty hairy - but the party just skipped right up to the top of the fortress instead of running through the whole thing.

 

[VorpalBunny]

I can't remember the number either, but it's not actually a Cloud Giant's castle, but a Storm Giant, if I recall (I ran the module in question once for our nearly epic party). It involves a floating fortress with an imprisoned chichimec in the top tower (I think that's what it was... I haven't read the module or the ELH in a long time).

The waves of roc riders were pretty scary, and some of the battles pretty hairy - but the party just skipped right up to the top of the fortress instead of running through the whole thing.

The Storm Lord's Keep from Dungeon #93. One of my favorites. And yeah, that's a chichimec at the top of the tower.

 

[johnsemlak]

Doesn't Agaisnt the Giants: Liberation of Geoff have soem sort of Cloud Giant lair?

 

[Davelozzi]

Doesn't Agaisnt the Giants: Liberation of Geoff have soem sort of Cloud Giant lair?

Answer below in spoiler text...

Spoiler

Yes, there are a series of linked cloud islands, though there isn't so much a castle as a palace that's really five connected homes covered with a tent, and a fort that's really just four walls that the giants can hide behind and throw rocks. The cloud giants are evil.

 

[Krieg]

M2 Vengeance of Alphaks

An old high level (28-32) adventure for the basic/expert/master/companion rules.

(The borg cube looking thing on the cover is the actual floating castle.)

SVGames has it in .pdf form...

http://www.svgames.com/tsr9148esd.html

 

[Praeden]

There's an old 1st Ed AD&D module that fits the bill. UK7: Dark Clouds Gather.

The final battle is an assault on a cloud castle, that used to belong to a good cloud giant, but has been invaded by evil forces. Since it was taken over, many of the cloud giants family, retainers and pets have been killed or imprisoned, but you get enough history to see how it would have been before the takeover. You could construct a typical good-aligned cloud castle quite easily with the information in this module. There's a map of the castle as well.

It's available from SVGames as an ESD, here:

http://www.svgames.com/tsr9151esd.html

 

[johnsemlak]

FYI, the old TSR mods can also be picked up iin PDF format at RPGNow.

I've used both, and RPGNow is generally more convenient.

 

[Aaron2]

Thanks. I actually have that Dungeon but all I remember where Frost Giants riding mastadons. I'll look again at home.

Aaron