Borough Bound

Gruuk Jit'Jit 09 - Fort Vaulter

Added 2022-09-26 19:57:40 +0000 UTC

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Welcome back to Gruuk Jit'Jit y'all! We're going to be releasing a bit of extra Gruuk Jit'Jit content later this week, but this is the grand finale of the flying goblin city for now! We'll be releasing a Definitive Edition in a few weeks with fully stitched maps, the Foundry module, and more... but this map and guide bring the main story of the city to a close.

Let's see what's inside!

Borough Guide

This week's borough guide is a room by room dissection of Fort Vaulter, exploring every corner of the great palace in the sky. This should make for some particularly elaborate dungeon crawls (either Theater of the Mind or using our interior maps). Along the way, you'll meet the Vaulters and a slew of a foreign dignitary NPCs. Finally, we wrap up the entire city with a quest hook to finally advance negotiations in the endless standoff.

Maps

Fort Vaulter takes up the entirety of this massive sub-island. Every inch is filled with the great goblin palace. You'll definitely have fun using this in non-Gruuk Jit'Jit campaigns as well. After it... it's a sky fortress. If your campaign doesn't have a sky fortress, your campaign is probably pretty lame.

We have a whole bunch of interior maps for you today, covering all of the crucial rooms in the goblin fort: the great hall, the diplomat suites, a slew of offices, and the hedonist paradise blanket fort on the top floor. These are only available for Chief Courier tier patrons and up.

We've also got some bonus black and white maps for the basements below by BB team member Jelke! If you like these black and white retro RPG maps, please let us know! Jelke is considering making quite a bit more of these, and we'd love your feedback

Music

If your players make their way to Fort Vaulter, it'll probably be to discuss with the ambassadors. Throw on "Stalled Negotations" for all of your complex political dealings. If you tackle some closed-door sidebars, maybe consider throwing on the solo piano variant as well.

If your players decide to descend below the palace, you'll need to throw on our bonus track "Beneath Fort Vaulter" for sneaky sleuthing. This dungeon track should slot well into a lot of a subterranean settings, so hopefully you'll get some good use out of it!

Goblinized Boomerang of Iron Doom | Collaboration with Rudok's Tavern

Our pals over at Rudok's Tavern helped us out with another 5e legendary item for you to tempt your players with. The Goblinized Boomerang of Iron Doom is the ultimate... uh, magnet boomerang. Your players are sure to use its complex attraction / repulsion mechanics to hilarious and devastating effects.

Rudok's Tavern makes incredible 5e homebrew. Go check them out on Patreon!