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Kuroth?Kuroth is the namesake for the artifact Kuroth's Quill from the 1979 Dungeon Masters Guide by Gary Gygax (and diverse hands).  I always loved reading the "From the Sorcerer's Scroll" columns penned by Gary (and sometimes Rob Kuntz) in The Dragon and Dragon Magazine, and with "From Kuroth's Quill" I hope to evoke that same sense of design scope and focus, as well as to acknowledge Gary's column through my column's title.  I began to write the first "From Kuroth's Quill" (sub-titled "One-Way Doors, Variable Stairs, and the Accessibility of Sub-Levels") in late 2008 for Knockspell magazine, and despite Knockspell's premature demise in 2011, I've continued to write and collect material "for" the column over the years.  Some of those pieces have appeared as forum posts at The Knights & Knaves Alehouse or various World of Greyhawk sites (like Canonfire!), or in Scott Moberly's AFS magazine, but most remained unpublished.I've toyed with the idea of a blog several times in the past 20 years, but never felt like I could devote sufficient time to making it a continuing, viable platform.  But the idea never quite went away either.  I started working on this incarnation of the blog in the summer of 2016 to collect my old "From Kuroth's Quill" columns, and to scratch the itch for writing more of them.  That in turn morphed into writing and publishing a print-only newsletter dedicated to dungeon design, with Tony Rosten.  The Twisting Stair is now my in-print vehicle for "From Kuroth's Quill" and the blog here will host additional pieces.  Happily, I think that the resurrection of "From Kuroth's Quill" is now complete!The grodog?This is me: (and ... read more!