Pit of Despair – The Flooded Mines
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The gaol known as the Pit of Despair was an open pit mine now converted
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Dark Provinces: the prisoner’s dilemma - The prisoner’s dilemma is a foundational concept in game theory used to study cooperation and self‑interest. In its simplest form, two individuals must i...
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Chaos Lorebook: The Assassins of Chaos - Like an arrow drawn from its quiver, so were the carach sent forth from their towers of dread iron. And like arrows in flight, so are the carach in their p...14 hours ago
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Kris - Yesterday, Friday, at 5:48pm, my good friend Kris passed away. He was 55 years old. I'd like to eulogize for a minute. *Kris Michael Loving *was affectio...20 hours ago
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RPGaDay 15&16 (sort of...) - OK, so somehow I used the wrong prompts on the last post. I ended up using the prompts for days 16 (Composure) and 17 (Intensity), instead of the ones f...
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[New Magic Item] Seven Silver Teeth - Seven Silver Teeth ‘This is troglodyte territory,’ Zharvis the ranger-guide whispered.‘I will need a short rest before we proceed,’ Uzeb the Wise said.‘Did...2 days ago
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Everything You Need to Start D&D 5.5 For Free - How can you get started with D&D 5.5/2024 without spending any gold pieces? New community member GW asks: Hi everyone. I learned about DnD but thought it...3 days ago
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Behind The Scenes: Writing ‘Getting The Most From AI 2026’ - Techniques developed to write last week’s “Getting The Most From AI 2026” and their relevance. plus some bonus tips. Perplexity AI strongly recommended tha...4 days ago
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Pete Fenlon on the Rise and Fall of Iron Crown Enterprises - Throughout most of the 1980s and 1990s, Iron Crown Enterprises was my favourite role-playing company. Of course, like most, I started out in this hobby pla...
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Hasturi, City of Heroes - Hasturi is one of the most ancient cities in the region, second only to Pazzix. In its distant past, it was a small, walled city-state on the Isle of E...
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Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...4 months ago
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Christ is Risen! - *Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen. O Death, where...
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Still Alive... really. - Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices a...4 months ago
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The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...5 months ago
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TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...6 months ago
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Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...8 months ago
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.1 year ago
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Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...1 year ago
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Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...1 year ago
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Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...4 years ago
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Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD - My 2nd favorite incarnation, OSE, of my favorite D&D rule set, B/X. [My 1st favorite is Necrotic Gnome's previous, B/X Essentials, cause it was soft backe...
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...7 years ago
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
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Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
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It's hard to do horror in D&D - I love the Ravenloft setting, but I have to admit that it is really hard to pull off horror games with Dungeons & Dragons. The biggest issue is clerics. Th...9 years ago
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The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...10 years ago
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Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...10 years ago
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unlikely treasures 2: even still more loot for the taking - Roll d12 for the loot! 1. *Matched set of masterwork half-plate & masterwork heavy shield with silver shield spikes (1400gp).* Weighs 70lbs. A...
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[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
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Bardic Songcasting - Building off of the outline of the Bard class, here is how they cast spells: Bardic Songcasting Bards perform their songs by singing, dancing, or playing...13 years ago
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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...14 years ago
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