Any chance the Citadel of the Bloody Hand details could get released from the TSR nda vault? Rumor has it Ed has a map, and my players are searching for a secret entrance to the castle dungeonsEd has a map, and he knows where (on the uppermost level of Undermountain) the secret entrance is. ;} Yet NDAs are strong like mountains. Of which Mount Waterdeep is one. Which brings us around to…Ed has a map… ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2018
Does the nda cover “describing” the citadel, harpers hold and where the access to the dungeon is? Here's how far I KNOW I can go (because this has all been said publicly at GenCon seminars over the years): The Citadel is inside Mount Waterdeep, under the griffon-rider flight decks and City Guard (now City Watch) military base (and RIGHT above the uppermost level of …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2018
…Undermountain. The Citadel is a single level (horizontally), and is very like an old-fashioned "dungeon geomorph"… one of those maps that used nigh every ten-foot-square, in a labyrinth; in this case, a labyrinth of "killing rooms" with firing ports, traps, secret doors,…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2018
…et al, that allow members of the Hand to retreat step by step, inflicting maximum casualties on advancing intruders. It's Crazy Trapland. ;} As for how you access it, I KNOW that's covered by the NDA. And all the Hand members in the city will come after you if they think…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2018
…you've learned it. "It" being any of the five ways in or out. Did I say five? I might have misspoken, to quote a certain past politico. I might have meant two. Or three. Or seven. Or…yeeeeEEEAAAAAHHHHHglkkh
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2018