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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XII: (To the) City of Copper In which the DM informs our noble heroes that it is Day 122; that it is some twenty-two days from Ball to the Red Cave; and that the chevalier’s preparations for the ‘winter campaign’ will be completed on Day 226, about a hundred days from...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part XI: Back and Forth Night 103, continued: An hour later, around seven o’clock in the morning on the surface and thus at the end of the day in the Underdark, our noble heroes reach “The Single Man” again. They knock on the door, which opens forthwith, and they are ushered...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part X: The Single Man In which our noble heroes start the session engaged in conversation on what to do next, but not before the chevalier has been pestering Navarre for at least half of the profits of the trade deal he didn’t negotiate. “I am considering my uncle Alphonse to...
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    TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e?

    Bah! I saw the name of the original thread a couple of months ago and I've been mulling about that question ever since until the answer suddenly hit me today. And now you tell me this? Not really a question? Sarcasm!? But you shall have my answer anyway! Probably fits better in here anyway.
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    White Dwarf Reflections #27

    Spitting images they are. The WD spikehead has no poisonous bite, though. And I don't have access to UO#3 (gnash, gnash), so I don't know whether that version has the poisonous bite--which may then have been edited out by WD for reasons. Still, green man, white ape, wirrn, they're all based on...
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    White Dwarf Reflections #27

    There was a spikehead in Underworld Oracle #3--big ape, horn on head. While that doesn't necessarily make its author "Underworld Oracle" (as per the Fiend Folio index), it seems likely. Cool! Didn't know about the Dr. Who link.
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part IX: The Kingslayer In which the chevalier announces that he has changed his mind and wants our noble heroes to buy chain mail from the duergar queen instead of plate armor; the DM informs our noble heroes that their elders do take them more seriously now than they did...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VIII: Back to the Surface – Continued Night 65: Some time that morning, our noble heroes notice that the normally stale air becomes more humid, that the temperature rises (from some 8 to 12 °C), and that molds, oozes, slimes – pause for effect – and fungi, lichen, and...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VIII: Back to the Surface In which it seems that the visit to the palace led to nothing, that our noble heroes have returned to their folding boat, and that Navarre seems to have forgotten that he is actually quite inebriated. Night 57, continued: We join our noble...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VII: Basileus Ante Portas – Continued When our noble heroes reach the amphitheater, they realize that the duergar king is approaching on the other side of the city. And so they start making their way across the city in haste, some more willing than others, and presently...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VII: Basileus Ante Portas At some time during the ten-day they spend in and around Stalag, we join our noble heroes as they are discussing the duergar, with Sir Eber expressing his utter and undying hatred for the creatures once again, and the chevalier, as seems to have...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VI: Queen of the Dripstone Cavern – Continued It must be around six o’clock in the morning when our noble heroes start climbing the palatial staircase. After a while, they emerge on a plateau some distance up the wall of what seems to be a huge cavern – by far the largest...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part VI: Queen of the Dripstone Cavern Day 46, continued: Having dropped anchor about half an hour downstream, our noble heroes are waiting for the drowsiness to wear off. Sir Eber and the chevalier are discussing the dwarven helmet, which the latter has donated to the former...
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    The EVERY CLASS EVER List: Can You Add to It?

    Here's a plethora of Paladins (AD&D) Myrikhan Garath Lyan Paramander Fantra Illrigger Arrikhan
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part V: Land Beyond the Magic Egg – Continued The old duergar takes our noble heroes, past many stalagmites and columns and whispering voices, to a central, twilit plaza of sorts, where they notice what must be shops. Here, every now and then, some duergar appear out of...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part V: Land Beyond the Magic Egg In which the DM informs our noble heroes that Sir Oengus actually attempted to open a different set of doors than he did in the last installment (number “6” on the second map instead of “2”), claiming confusion because he has different numbers...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part IV: Secret of the Egg In which the rough notes seem to indicate that our noble heroes did not go the refectory at the end of the last installment but rather to the house across the street from it – i.e., the one to the left of the gate that took them into the egg. Day...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [9/13/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part III: The Egg of Klop Day 44, continued: It must be around seven o’clock in the morning when our noble heroes leave the smithy for their third expedition into the Underdark. Sir Suvali has explained to his noble companions that the coven added some extra potions to the...
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