The Grodog's Dungeons & Dragons
A game that has fired my imagination for more than two decades,
Dungeons & Dragons has risen from the ashes of may apathy with the D&D 3rd
edition, and rekindled flames from embers I thought had long-turned cold.
Campaign
The World of Greyhawk was my first love in D&D,
and I have returned to my roots with the WotC release of D&D 3rd edition. My Greyhawk site features my
own delvings into esoteric and scholarly Greyhawk lore, as well as my
Greyhawk-specific 3rd edition rules variants.
In addition, I really liked the process of piecing together bits
and pieces of lore from The Dragon about The Forgotten Realms, back before
it became the default D&D setting for 2nd edition.
Lastly, I have my own campaign world, called Mendenein.
I may even post stuff about it someday, although it's an amalgamation of Tolkien,
Moorcock, Greyhawk, the Forgotten Realms, Thieves World, and other mostly-ripped off
stuff.
The Grodog's Vault
Now that my D&D materials have arrived in California, I hope to begin converting
them to 3rd edition sometime during the year 2001. However, given the amount of work
that my Greyhawk site has required, I wouldn't hold
your breath.
- Adventures
- Character Classes
Altering the Sorceror: spontaneous magic a la Ars Magica
meets D&D 3rd edition
House Rules
Monsters
Magic Items
Prestige Classes
Skills and D&D 3rd edition
- Broadening the skill-set of Fighters, tweaking the skill-points of Rangers/Bards
(perhaps?)
Spells
D&D Research
- Scott Riddick's The Acaeum
is the premiere site for D&D research. A comparative repository of the
editions of most pre-1990 D&D books published by TSR, The Acaeum sets the standard for D&D research
for all pre-1990 D&D products
- Matthias Bock's non-TSR D&D
Publishing lists, a repository of publishers and products produced for D&D
(either officially or unofficially), but not by TSR or WotC
- Adrian Newman's TSR
Archive is a great resource that's currently being rebuilt (as of Feburary 2017), so you'll want to use the full site available via the Internet Archive in the meanwhile. Adrian's site is not as detailed as The Acaeum,
but does provide two good features that The Acaeum lacks: many of the scans on
Brenfrow's web site are of higher quality (and therefore more readable), and Adrian
includes summary information about early TSR product (often reproducing the front and back
cover blurb text, and detailing the components of boxed sets, etc.).
Gaming Magazine Research
- The best index to The Strategic Review and Dragon Magaine is The DragonDex, an indespesible resource, although the Acaeum's Dragon index is also useful to get a quick "issue at a glance" summary too
- Dungeon Magazine is indexed at at http://www.purpleworm.org/tools/DungeonMagazineIndex.htm (and also on my site at http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_dungeon_adventures.html but mine remains incomplete).
- White Dwarf Magazine Indices: prior to becoming the
Games Workshop house organ, White
Dwarf served up a nice smattering of fantasy content, including D&D
adventures, magic items, etc. in the tradition of The Dragon; the following two
indicies seem to be best among those I've found online:
- WotC's Polyhedron Magazine index
(the official journal of the RPGA) is now defunct, but I've preserverd it here on my site
D&D Links
Original D&D (OD&D) and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D, First Edition)
- Dragonsfoot and the Dragonsfoot Forums
- pez
Third Edition (d20, 3e, 3.5e, pre-4e)
- Dungeons
& Dragons 3rd edition official home page
- The
Open Gaming Foundation
- Eric Noah's unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News site is
now defunct, so we're stuck with EN World
The Grodog's Favorite d20 Publishers
- Atlas Games, for
their Penumbra line of d20
D&D books
- The D&D
Community Council (d20 netbooks)
- Judges Guild (see
their listing of products, too)
- Necromancer Games,
for their entire catalog
- Pen &
Paper.Net, for all of its D&D gaming aids
- Sword
and Sorcery Studios, for much of their catalog
- Troll
Lord Games,
specifically for the works they publish by Gary Gygax and Rob Kuntz;
catch the latest news on the Castle Zagyg publishing
project in the TLG
forums
- Wyvern's Claw Design (caput), for their Thievery
101 series of adventures
Gaming Organizations
Clubs
Organizations
Retailers
- Bay Area gaming stores:
- Kansas gaming stores
- Battlezone
- Gatekeeper
- Table Top Hobbies
- New Jersey gaming stores
- Pennsylvania gaming stores
- Online
General Gaming Links
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