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Swords & Spells, or: Coming of Age Part III: Fire on King’s Lake Day 185, continued: “Surely we can all agree that sinking Mim’s barges will weaken him?,” the chevalier cuts in. “We will disrupt his supply lines, he will lose his hold on the rivers and King’s Lake, he will lose revenue and men...

AD&D 2E, Thirteen Bells (19 Dec 2025) And the clock struck thirteen.

AD&D 2E, Thirteen Bells (5 Dec 2025) Zizis retrieves her silver ring.

Swords & Spells, or: Coming of Age Part II: Barges and Brigandage, or: Highborn Hands in Deeds Unbecoming In which the DM has informed our noble heroes that it is late in the afternoon of day 181 when Sir Eber, Navarre, and the chevalier reach the point where they are to meet Sir Oengus and Sir...

Here's the pdf. Readers are advised that some naughty words edited out for the thread are still in this pdf and that, on occasion, its text differs from that in the thread for various reasons. Thanks for reading.

Swords & Spells, or: Coming of Age Part I: Coup de foudre Night 167: The company reach Stalag at the end of the day. They make their way through the forest of stalagmites and stalactites and across the suspended bridges to the palace, where the duergar queen receives them at once. “Majesté!,”...

Title: Swords & Spells, or: Coming of Age (Being a Sequel to Duergar & Daemons, itself being a sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) Author: ilgatto Number of Threads: 1 Type: Fantasy (Early to Late Medieval Europe-ish) System: AD&D 2E Setting: Homebrew (The Forest, Moftah Pilastru) Started: 6...

AD&D 2E, Nineteen Thirteen Bells (28 Nov 2025) Zizis retrieves her silver ring.

Cool find! A favorite character of mine once ran into what seems to have been an incarnation or avatar of Hel in an epic campaign, so here's another one!

I think that's extremely cool, especially because I recently ran a series of adventures that mixed (To the) City of Brass with exactly that--the cover of the PHB (APHIS, DEMON OF FIRE, anyone?). And I've even got the T-shirt. I have to admit that I'm at a bit of loss there, for though I've been...

Yes, eventually a number of sessions followed this series, which I'm still trying to write into a story. But it's complicated, and like this one, real life eventually intervened--though there is some sort of ending to it. After that, the campaign hasn't been resumed and it doesn't look like it...

AD&D 2E, Nineteen Bells (21 Nov 2025) Zizis buys a silver ring.

Heh. Correct. That was me thinking of 2E being blinded vs 1E being blinded when wondering whether imposing to hit penalties would be worth xp. The whole thing is becoming a bit complicated at the moment. 🥵

I hope you'll forgive me for trying to protect you from the terrible ire of Zytra, Demon Prince of the Dread Mind Flayers! :geek:

What was I thinking!? Because I’m getting the feeling that I’m getting nowhere fast, I’ve started to think that using Appendix E as a starting point to try and find out what they were thinking when they made Appendix E may have been the wrong choice. Why? Well, for one thing, because it lists...