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but I don't wanna play the cleric!!

while you can make an argument for 'logical' dungeon layouts... none of that applies to natural caverns. Maps of real cave systems like Carlsbad abound online, and they are way chaotic. Adapting this to a FRPG Underdark is pretty neat. You can assume that the natural cave tunnels have been...

since I didn't get any D&D stuff for Christmas, I decided to use some of the cash I got and buy "Ghosts of Saltmarsh". This was a neat idea that I would like to see more/similar releases. Revamping some classic adventures from 1E/Dungeon, adding some new stuff, and giving kudos to the original...

there already was a light saber in D&D, kinda sorta. Check out the Wand of Force from module WG4

agree on his writing skills. But I ended up using the city from the novel as an adventure for my group more or less as he wrote it, and added in some other stuff (like the anthropoid demons from a later novel); it was a pretty good short term arc in the campaign...

I rather liked Sea of Death, as it detailed an area I was always interested in; the Forgotten City/Suel capitol city in the Sea of Dust. But yeah, the series in general is rather hard to read. Still, if you want an idea of what EGG had in mind about Tharizdun, these will do it...

Griff the Ranger, who made it up to about 14th level or so, and ran through the GDQ series as the capstone to his career; this was way back in early 1E days...

If you can find EGG's Gord the Rogue novels, Tharizdun is a major antagonist in about half of them...

a bit OT, but... my niece is one of the many people who got into D&D5E. She already has a pretty good collection of dice. Her birthday is in Feb, and I was thinking of an odd gift idea.... one of those chest shaped dice boxes and some novelty dice (D7s and 15s, other odd ones I've seen out in...

I didn't get any D&D stuff for Christmas. My family doesn't really 'get' D&D. I did get some cash though, so I can buy my own D&D stuff...

Bunnies are infesting Farmer Codswaddle's cabbages, and must be removed. But you can't kill them because Codswaddle's daughter Imogene thinks they're cute and will cry if you do. So you have to devise cunning nonlethal traps and snares to get rid of them. Okay, this one might be best if your...

in 1E/2E, DMs were really tempted to rush the PCs through the lower levels, just to get them to survive. With the 'gp=xp' and 'magic items=xp' rules, you could do that. Once the PCs finally got up to a survivable level, you could slow advancement down too...

never played 5E, but it seems to be a lot more 'time compressed' than the early editions. As in, PCs will climb through the levels a lot faster. 1E/2E advancement could really be adjusted by the DM a lot, with the 'gp=xp' rule...

what's really sad is to read just how much money was wasted by the company pre-WOTC... they tossed money at way too many things they had no real reason to be involved with...

well, if we're looking at older stuff... there's the GDQ series, Isle of the Ape, Nightmare Keep, and the whole Bloodstone series too....

back in 1E days, the highest level adventurers I saw/ran topped out about 14th level... and that one was mainly because we took on the GDQ series when we all hit 10th level or so, and that was one fantastic series that really prompted you to stick with it. But otherwise... yes, campaigns did...

not sure about 5E, but from what I remember about 1/2E... all of the fighter and thief classes got to be a bit meh at higher levels after a while, because they only get better at doing the same stuff they did at first level... fighting or thieving. It's not really an issue when you are pretty...

back in 2E days.... stoneskin. Gawd, I hated that spell. Primarily because in 2E, there were no restrictions on who could receive it. So every PC had it. In response, I had NPCs loaded with them too. Which led to loooong combats as each side fruitlessly hammered on each other, waiting to...

ah, Gencon. The first one I went to was in 1989, and it was an absolute thrill. It was great in those early days. Eventually, signing up for it (particularly when the Internet really got going) got to be way too much of a hassle. The last time I went was in 2000. While I will likely never...

I used Spelljammer twice in a FR campaign. In the first one, the party found a town freaking out because a giant pyramid was floating way up in the sky; later, they found their way to a very old SJ ship hidden in a huge cavern and used it to fly up to the pyramid and take out the mummy lord who...