Spoilers - You have been warned - Recently, I soloed my way through Escape From the Fortress of Memories (8 pages, at Dungeon Masters Guild). This is an adventure for Fifth Edition D&D which I did use. This was the third adventure for Luna and her friends. For my solo engine, I used a deck of virtual Magic the Gathering cards, all from the Throne of Eldraine set. The adventure started when the PCs arrived in Phandalin. They talked to several NPCs including Sildar. He told them about his daughter, her disappearance, and the details leading up to it.

The PCs got into bed that night, still unsure of what they should do. After sleep embraced them, they found themselves in Alana’s (the daughter) dream landscape. Sildar was there too. They discovered that they were at the Candy Forest location. After reading the riddle/sign, they followed the trail (and ribbons) into the forest. Soon, they find Alana being attacked by The Wretched in a closed-in grove. After the monsters are killed, the PCs search for an exit, but one can not be found. When Alana drops her last ribbon, they find a new path and a Staff of Adornment. Later they arrive at a campsite at a lake. They all look through the items at that location including a Moon-Touched Shortsword. Alana finds her hand mirror and looks into it. The PCs see a reflection of a skulk in it. This triggers something in Alana, and when she talks about her memory, the skulk and its friends appear. The PCs kill the monsters.

The PCs now see a new path and pick up their third magic item – Boots of False Tracks. Soon, they find a full length mirror showing images from Alana’s favorite book. They go through it and discover a castle. They enter it and find Linden the Steadfast Queen. She gives them their quest and they head off in the correct direction. They are halfway up a mountain when they encounter the Prophet of the Peak. They answer its riddle and continue on. Next, they find the Diseased Griffin. Their instruction are to kill it, but they notice it has been hit with an arrow, and that the fletching is made from raven feathers. Luna sings to it, removes the arrow, and heals the griffin. At this point, the adventuring party wakes up. Three of the PCs are still damaged. They do have the three magic items that they found in the dream.

Give this fun adventure a try!

Escape from the Fortress of Memories is a great one shot that is really easy to prep/run and also to drop in to any campaign. It would be really cool to run this alongside Lost Mines of Phandelver since it has Sildar in it as well but it works without this also (I supplemented Sildar with another NPC that a player actually controlled).

It has great description blocks, fun combat and a fun story. I definitely recommend you grabbing this module and also listening to the author DM the module herself on her podcast! I listened to the episode prior to running the module and it helped a lot.

I'm the DM for a podcast/Twitch/YouTube series that plays modules from dmsguild and I ran this module for our Twitch stream. You can find the video here https://youtu.be/RBHMzsIMpWY

Another wonderful adventure from Kat Kruger. Escape from the Fortress of Memories can be easily adapted for any campaign and would be a perfect adventure to foreshadow some future storyline, easiest if that storyline includes the Raven Queen but a little creativity could make it work for almost anything. This adventure is also perfect if you want to create or strengthen a bond between your players and an NPC. As always the this adventure is well put together and easy to run. I would love to see more art from Jen in the next one, possibly some character or monster illustrations.