Gauntlet of Tyranny and Pain, Part 5
Zak tries really hard to read Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk some more.Chapter 4: City of Thieves."Hey I just met you and this is crazy but the Thieves' Guild has learned of your exploits beneath...
View ArticleAdvanced Unseen Fiendish Librariankin, Part Six
"Gygax Zagig built the Tower of Magic for one purpose—to teach others about his often controversial and always unorthodox theories of magic. But as his quest to become a god consumed greater and...
View ArticleWe Now Interrupt Me Babbling About A Module To Bring You Kimberly Kane...
Our party's Barbarian/Druid in her costume for the upcoming Wonder Woman porn movie. More Greyhawk tomorrow probably.___
View ArticleExpedition To Suddenly Less Sucking Than I Expected, Part 7
After 148 pages and 6 blog entries we come to the last, longest, and (who knew?) best chapter of Expedition To The Ruins Of Greyhawk.Last time the PCs found the boss, beat the boss, then the boss' boss...
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CLIMATE/TERRAIN: Radioactive sci-fantasy junglesFREQUENCY: Very rareNO. APPEARING: 1ARMOR CLASS: 3/17MOVE: 12 they are too fat and fucked up to flyHIT DICE: 9-12% IN LAIR: Don't careTREASURE TYPE: If...
View ArticleThe 56 Good Ideas In Expedition To The Ruins of Greyhawk
Finishing up the Expedition To The Ruins Of Greyhawk scrape-through.The nice thing (by which I mean the lazy, dull thing) about Expedition is there aren't very many interesting structural things about...
View ArticleThis Is Why Ruins of Undermountain Is 234 Pages Long
This isn't even the whole room description--there are 2 bugbears you fight first."End of the Black Banners The corpses, very recently slain, consist of three bugbears and seven human men. One bugbear...
View ArticleThe Hexenbracken
What the inhabitants of the area known to the people of the north as the Hexenbracken call it is not known.What is known is that it is characterized by shipwrecks, goblin raiders, and a very thin veil...
View ArticleMore Hexenbracken + How The Hell Do You Run A Hexcrawl Anyway
Ok first thing's first:Ramanan took the collaborative hexmap from yesterday and totally pimped it out.That link should take you to a clickable map of the whole area, it has a few less locations marked...
View ArticleYou Will Always Have A Home Here
No-one knows if The Snail Quarter (home to all living adventurers) is well-named or not--whether it fades slowly from city to city or whether it shifts quickly at hours when no-one near is sober enough...
View ArticleSome Reasons You Did Not Die Beneath Hex 1709
Dear Monday group,Ok, one of you did die, but he was first level and he hit that gong, so what did we expect? But the rest of you survived. Here are a few of the reasons--some you already know and...
View ArticleA Little Kimberly Kane Appreciation
Left: Porn. Right: Brand X Official Warner Brothers TV show.So the press has seemed to notice...That our Dungeons and Dragons group's barbarian-turned-druid looks like she's going to be a way better...
View ArticleThe Kraal
Frost giants, mastodons, devil swine. Hey look! Another free, collaboratively-made hexcrawl.Thanks again to Ramanan for doing the heavy lifting on making it web-friendly and thanks to everyone else who...
View ArticleEverything I Need To Know I Learned From Tiamat
It was 2006. The Lord of the Rings movies were over. Britney Spears had not yet shaved her head. And there came forth a module: The Red Hand of Doom.Some said Whoa, a module! WOTC hasn't put out one of...
View ArticleAmbitious Bugbear Sorcerer Taxidermist Ghost Faker, Part 2
After being my usual blindly-angry-that-things-written-for-children-half-a-decade-ago-are-crap self yesterday about the introduction to the Red Hand of Doom module, we now move on to the actual...
View ArticleGo forth, Mount your Beasts, and into their Gullets stuff Bread Crumbs Of...
In Chapter 2: The Red Hand Of Doom module powerfully evokes all the ignoble and fascinating terrors of war.No, wait, it doesn't do that, this table on the Middenmurk blog does.Use it if you get it in...
View ArticleAn Opera About A Five Headed God Dragon And Some Other Ideas Worse Than That,...
Mr S, how many blog entries does it take to get to the center of the freakishly overrated 3e adventure module known as The Red Hand of Doom?A...oneA...twoA...threeThree!No, look, it keeps going.Why...
View ArticleYou push the needle in, Face death's sickly grin....PART 6
ZAK KEEPS READING THE MODULE CALLED RED HAND OF DOOM PART 5Oh these things I do for you people.HERE"S THE REST OF IT IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.Chapter 4: The big fight.Thing That Could Easily Have...
View ArticleI WENT TO THE ELSIR VALE AND ALL I GOT WAS 8 RULES ABOUT HOW TO WRITE MODULES...
2 AMShower head's dripping.This morning in Mech Pendragon we fought absolutely no-one for the second session in a row. It was like eating macaroni and cheese two meals in a row: really good but god...
View ArticleA Song Of Pterodactyls and Radiation
So there's the group here in Los Angeles, trying to find the Antikythera Mechanism.And, on-line, there's the Kangarat-Insominiac Murder Society (Australians, New Zealanders, and Americans who do not...
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