You are also really, really, really good at designing awesome cities and their surrounds, including adventures and encounters. I remember such a buzz from your Scorpion Lands game, where the cities were alive with factions, intrigue and personalities.
I could literally see the flickers of...
The evil water cultists didn't actually release anything. Or at least not of their own accord.
Their role was to transport an aboleth into the flooded temple, for its own dark and evil purposes. And now it is exactly where it wanted to be.....
I honestly never understood why Gygax was so adamant in downplaying Tolkien's influence on D&D. The level of influence seemed both very high and very obvious.
This is such a great series of articles, along with the similar series on Dragon mag.
Partly because they track the history and development of the game in a slightly different way than the various books and YouTube videos, and partly because they link to one’s own life memories in a nostalgic...
Regarding the cover, I assumed the spheres were the dragon's eggs, and Mama returned none too happy about what the adventurers were doing to her brood.
Love this story so far.
I'm working on running my first CoC campaign with my face-to-face group (probably in about 4-5 months, after finishing the Vecna game), so this is great inspiration.
I plan to start the game in London and the Home Counties.
I fondly remember laughing at the Monty Haul articles in Dragon mag!
I agree with the "holy trinity" of belt, gauntlets and hammer, but they always seemed a bit "meh" to me in terms of being such a Thor rip-off. Now make your character a dwarf, and make the hammer a dwarven thrower and your...
I'll weigh-in as one of the four players in this event:
It was both awesome and terrifying at the same time!
I play a rogue and never actually engaged with the Executioner, but it was clear from the start that we were severely outmatched and our elf barbarian (tree of life) paid the ultimate...