The Castle is Alive

[loverdrive]

If we treat this castle as some kind of broken place with alien geometry, where reality itself is falling apart you can have a nice opportunity for a "partyless party game", where characters are constantly separated and united.

 

[TaranTheWanderer]

I’m not sure if this is for a D&D adventure but Just read the most underused spell in the phb:

Guards and Wards.

 

[Bohandas]

Wanna point you all to The Waking of Willoughby Hall

 

[Bohandas]

*The castle staff fron Beauty & The Beast, but surly and violent
*the building changes colors like a chameleon
*fountains of the four humours
*feeling of being watched
*random living items like in Summercamp Island
*Anything that dies there is digested
*Illusory or semi-real occupants/servants/staff/guests
*Blatantly a metaphor for body or mind, like the titular palace in Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace.
*Stuff from any of those corny smart house gone amok sciemce fiction programs but adapted to be magic instead of technological
*Things that are normally alive slowly become inanimate and inorganic

 

[arbados]

WOW, great ideas. Thanks, so much! I believe with these responses I have all I need but that does not mean that other ideas and aren't welcomer. Let's keep it going as I think this is a pretty cool idea for many.

 

[arbados]

I was thinking:

The Breathing Castle: Thea castle breathes and sucks the breath of ones within requiring them to make a save (type dependent on game). If they fail, they become slowed, stunned or start to "drown".

 

[arbados]

Constricting Walls:
The castle walls move in constricting, and players suffer damage unless they escape that area with a save or ability check.

 

[Bohandas]

Each room is themed after a different intermal organ

 

[Bohandas]

*liquid that falls on the floor is "drank" by the building
*at least a heart room and a brain room, even if you don't do rooms representing all the major organs
*The building slowly grows over time, possibly accelerated if it absorbs the right material
*constructs and earth elementals
*The wall decor comes to life and laughs at you like in The Evil Dead
*Elevator full of blood like in The Shining and Evil Dead 5
*A noxious miasma seeps from the back entrance