From the publishers blurb:
For as long as we can remember, the landmark has been a facade of solid stone. False windows and doors carved into the rock. But Sly Diego found a way inside. He says it's hollow, there's a whole building in there. And now he's telling anyone and everyone the way in. So... who will be the first?
First to plunder the creations of the mad elementalist and discover his strange fate?
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The Occluded Keep of the Doomed Elementalist is a wizard’s funhouse-style location intended for a roughly 3rd or 4th level party. Most groups take about 3-4 sessions to finish the delve. The keep has multiple intersecting routes with tons of hidden doors, unexpected pocket dimensions featuring different biomes, slumbering guardians, weird artifacts, interesting situational riddles to solve, and map/portal trickery involving a hidden floor of the structure. There are roleplaying opportunities, puzzles and secrets, many encounters that can be avoided (but some that can't, including a couple tough ones), and there's lots of interesting magic items for your players to get creative with like an enchanted mining pick that melts through stone. The module tends to play out with the PCs connecting those intersecting routes and slowly figuring out just what kind of wizard put this place together, until eventually they put that knowledge to use when they find themselves being hunted by a rival group showing up to steal their glory.
I've always loved wizard's workshop scenarios but I also have a real desire for adventuring spaces to 'make sense' and a lot of the funhouse adventures just don't do it for me. This was my attempt to create a weird sorcerer space that was a bit inscrutable, but still cohesive enough for the story of the wizard's downfall to shine through in the environment.
This one is bigger than my other modules and it took a long time to playtest and draw up, so it costs a little more. It's really good, though- this adventure got a special shoutout on the Between Two Cairns podcast with Yochai Gal and Brad Kerr so let me just brag about that, okay? I've gotten a lot of mileage out of this adventure at my tables and I hope you will too. You can preview the entire thing before buying.