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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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] [7/27/25]

    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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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [7/27/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part II: Descent Into the Depths of the World – Continued Day 31: When he wakes up, Navarre checks his memory to find that nothing has changed. Annoyed, he joins the others at their breakfast. Sir Oerknal has woken up from his catatonic state again and says that he knows...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [7/27/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part II: Descent Into the Depths of the World In which the DM informs our noble heroes that they didn’t quite make it back to the cave and smithy yet. Day 30, continued: Our noble heroes are just past the room with the crystalline plants when a light approaches and Olaf...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [7/27/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part I: In Search of Adventure – Continued And so Sir Eber and Navarre climb back into the pit, put their swords and two torches on the floor and wait, their backs against the wall, for the ice troll to come charging out of the tunnel. And sure enough, it does. The chevalier...
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    Magazines White Dwarf Reflections #20

    I'll always have fond memories of Grakths Crag [sic], as it is the second published D&D adventure I ever played, back when everything was still shiny and new. Indeed, I still remember how we thought of the pudding in the shaft as "black mold" and how we - with our English lessons fresh behind us...
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    Story Hours Index (Authors, add your own):

    Title: Duergar & Daemons (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: 19 May 2025 Status: Ongoing Average Installment Length: Short...
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    Duergar & Daemons (Being a Sequel to An Adventure in Five Acts) [Updated] [7/27/25]

    Duergar & Daemons Part I: In Search of Adventure In which the players and the DM agree that our noble heroes did not venture into the mountains after all but rather made camp a short distance from Albert Murphy’s hideout; that Sir Oerknal has been catatonic ever since he set foot in the hideout...
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