The Haunted Tower (1992) is the last of the big box D&D expansions. It is the best one, on the merits of the cover, at least, which is an enlarged crop of Keith Parkinson’s cover for CA2: Swords of Deceit, one of my all-time favorite pieces of D&D art.

Inside is the same collection of stuff as the other boxes. The big shift here is that the three scenarios are interconnected, making for a nine level dungeon. I wouldn’t call it mega, but it is rather large overall! The big bad at the bottom is a vampire, which seems daunting for fifth level characters, but hey, you gotta have something cool after breaking up all those skelies.

The board game rules are a bit different, rearranging things into a cooperative dungeon crawl adventure game, with no antagonist player.

I haven’t mentioned the back of the box photos yet. They are all various levels of hoot, but this one in particular takes the cake with that craft store Halloween tombstone as a prop. I guess no one had a plastic skull handy.