The Cursed Invasion of the Bone March, The Humanoids Part 2
The Cursed Invasion of the Bone March, The Humanoids Part 2 The Invasion Begins In 561 CY, the mountain orcs came down from the Rakers in force led by Gergash and the Death Moon tribe. Gergash led his horde north of Spinecastle, skirting the Loft Hills, where he was joined by ... read more!
Thoughts on A0 Danger at Darkshelf Quarry
Thoughts on A0 Danger at Darkshelf Quarry “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Skip Williams has had a long history with TSR, first as a part-time clerk at the Lake Geneva game store, ... read more!
The Castle
The Castle “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Shrieks echoed, mingling from near and far. Human, orc, gnoll. The gnolls were the worst; theirs was a twisted, hideous laughter. Don’t listen, he ... read more!
History of the South East, Part 8: Total War
History of the South East, Part 8: Total War “…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.” Homer, The Iliad And thus the Great Kingdom fell. 448 CY Ivid I of House Naelax brought pressure on the southern princes to fall into ... read more!
On the Circle of Eight
On the Circle of Eight “You see, we cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.' He paused, considering what he had just said. 'Yes', he ... read more!
Jim Holloway – RPG Artist
Jim Holloway passed away on Sunday, 28 June 2020, per the note posted by his son Mike Holloway in The Art of Jim Holloway group on Facebook:I feel like it’s necessary to post this because of all of the support everyone has given my dad over the course of this group. Earlier ... read more!
Oerth Journal #33 is Released
Another issue of the Oerth Journal has now made it to press! It's been a long row to hoe, but not really any more so than usual. *<insert winking emoji of your choice>* This was a pretty big issue, as far as publishing things. There's always a lot going on behind the ... read more!
Timeline of the James Bay Frontier
Timeline of the James Bay Frontier “This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.”-- Henry Hudson Ratik is a relative newcomer in the history of Greyhawk and the Flannaess. There were elves there, surely, and dwarves, and gnomes too, but their arrivals are not set in the annals of the ... read more!
Ghost Riders of Geoff
http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#75200Originally published on the Hall of the Mountain King blog.
History of the South East, Part 7: The Turmoil between Crowns
History of the South East, Part 7: The Turmoil between Crowns “By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember.” ― Homer, The Odyssey What can be said of the Celestial Houses of Aerdy? History says that they were great and good, and that their ... read more!
grodog’s Favorite Mega-Dungeons
Some info about my favorite mega-dungeons, from the classics to the newest, hot-off-the-presses OSR titles (well, "new" as of today, 15 June 2020 anyway....). This post was inspired by some discussions over on the Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea forum, as well as a similar thread over on TheRPGSite. The questions ... read more!
Retconning Ratik
Retconning Ratik “Presume not that I am the thing I was.” William Shakespeare 'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 5, sc. 5, l. [61] Time for a little retroactive continuity. I’m sure many others have set their campaign in Ratik, but I doubt many have done much in my little corner ... read more!
Blackmoor Land of a Thousand Witches – The Crowned Beast of Stone
Backmoor Land of a Thousand Witches - The Crowned Beast of Stone The Crowned Beast of Stone At south-east of the Burneal Forest can be found a statue of some great beast crowned with a rusting ironband whose spiked ends, now snapped off into jagged spears, suggest gems or valuable crystals once ran ... read more!
On Keraptis
“This thing of darkness IAcknowledge mine.”― William Shakespeare, The TempestLong before the coming of the Aerdi, the Ur-Flan held dominion over all they could see, having wrested it from the elves, and scattering them to the far corners. Those tales are harrowing, not for the feint of heart. Indeed, they are the stuff of ... read more!
NPC – Redface – Chieftain Scalded Hand Orcs – Spinecastle
NPC - Redface - Chieftain Scalded Hand Orcs - Spinecastle The Scalded Hand orcs refuse to live inside the walls of Spinecastle and instead have a permanent camp on the Parlous Plain. They are perhaps the most dangerous of the humanoid forces on the Plain but camp toward its edge near a ... read more!
