Hey you! Do you like DnD? Are you tired of Artpunk? Are your eyes still bleeding from funky font choices and garish layout nonsense while all you want to do is kill goblins in a beautifully jaqueyed dungeon? Do you want your children to be safe? Well so am I! Everyone is always talking about … More Introducing the PrinceofNothingPresents No-Artpunk Contest!
It was on the 2nd of the Eyrmont, when Winter had begun to set its claws in the north, but the south was still an impenetrable sea of ochres, ambers and browns, that the Lame Ones travelled for Rugalov by the River, combing the Dymrak for any signs of the Khlosluk that had taken the … More [Actual Play] Swords Against Chaos 35 (Mystara B/X); The Search for the Wolfskull Tribe
[Adventure]A Thousand Dead Babies (2013)Zzarchov KowolskiNeo-classical Greek RevivalLow Level Sponsorish Content. Zzarchov Kowolski, as I am in the habit of saying, is underrated. He was one of the guys in the background of Lotfp in its hayday, doing silent work while the A-listers were preening in the foreground, and managed to churn out quite a … More [Review] A Thousand Dead Babies (NGR/OSR); Rustic Charm
[Adventure]D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (1978)Gary Gygax (TSR Games)Lvl 9+ The crawl into the Underdark continues! Two encounters followed by a major area set in the map of the fantastic Underdark, Shrine of the Kuo-Toa excels at portraying a fantastic location in a more naturalistic vein, rife with possibilities for adventure, but with very little … More [Review] D2 Shrine of the Kuo-Toa (AD&D 1e); High D&D
We’ve had quite a bit of the weird stuff, the zenith, the nadir, the weird, the brobdignagian. I need to feel like a member of the proletariat again. The next couple of issues of White Dwarf are all one giant linked city/adventure so Dungeon Magazine will have to serve, even if I have practically memorized … More [Review] TENFOOTPOSR 4: Dungeon Magazine #1; Recalibration
[Adventure]Deep Carbon Observatory [Remastered] (2020)Patrick Stuart & Scrap PrincessLvl 3-5 Once there was an Empire of unspeakable wealth that traded in secrets, dark wonders and death, and many of the strange things now on earth were theirs. They drew their power and magic from a gate within the earth. But, as their kingdom slowly died, … More [Review] Deep Carbon Observatory (Remastered); The Grievous Miracle and the Beautification of St. Patrick
And so it was that on the 17th they set out once more for the Dymrak, in search of Stephan, the Drover’s brother, who, if he was still among the living, had now been a captive of the Goblins for over a month. As the weather turned fell and the green of the trees was … More [Actual Play] Swords Against Chaos 34 (Mystara B/X); Disaster at the Red Blade’s Lair
[Megadungeon]Stonehell Pt. I; Down Night-Haunted Halls (2009)Michael Curtis (Three-Headed Monster)Lvl 1 – 5+ Beware All Who Enter These Benighted Halls of Stone. Within Lies No Solace Nor Any Comforts of Home. Toiling For Our Crimes We Must Dig Where We Dwell, With No Freedom or Mercy In Our Vast Stony Hell.– Message carved above the … More [Review] Stonehell Pt. I (LL): Down Night-Haunted Halls; Overlord
[Adventure]On the Crimson Trail (2021)Andy Marielis (Adventure Bundles)Lvl 9 (HA!) Disclaimer: Sponsored Content. I am harsh on 5e. It is true. I have a preferred play-style and 5e has many violation of its central tenets built-in. But no grognard I know HATES 5e. For of all the manifold editions that emerged in the wake of … More [Review] On the Crimson Trail (5E); The Problem of Scale and Coherence Erosion in Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons as Illustrated by a Sponsored Contribution
Age of Dusk 