City – Verbobonc City Gates
City - Verbobonc City Gates The city of Verbobonc has a well-maintained city wall with professional guardsmen who watch and patrol its length, but the city has not been attacked in a very long time and some laxity has crept into the prime realestate outside of the walls. In the city's recent ... read more!
The Ruined Tower of Zenopus Index
The Ruined Tower of Zenopus IndexAcolyte [CLS]12 Adventurer [CLS]4, 6, 13 Alchemist [CLS]7 Amev (Merchant) [NPC]15 Anders [NPC]17 Ape [MON]10-12 Arcane Lock [SPL]5, 6 Azure Sea [RVR]16 Bandit [CLS]4, 8, 13, 14 Bed [ITM]5 Belt [ITM]6 Belt, Jeweled [ITM]6 Bench [ITM]5 Bless [SPL]5Bone [ITM]6 Book [ITM]10 Bottle [ITM]4, 13 Brazen Head of ... read more!
History of the South-East, Part 6: A Continuance of Sorrow
History of the South-East, Part 6: A Continuance of Sorrow“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.”― Homer, The Iliad Wicked is as wicked does. The Great Kingdom was but a pale reflection of what it had been. The far-flung protectorates ... read more!
NPC – Huntmaster – Leader Howling Night Flinds – Spinecastle
NPC - Huntmaster - Leader Howling Night Flinds - Spinecastle Two hundred flinds. Anywhere but Spinecastle that might be a number to strike horror into the hearts of their enemies, but Spinecastle is a nexus of horror, a metropolis of evil, and the heart of a growing kingdom of humanoids not seen ... read more!
Planar Architecture for grodog’s Current Greyhawk Campaigns
Part of what I'm working toward, by defining and incorporating the forgotten Folio forest into my current Greyhawk campaigns, is to play a more gates-oriented game. This is one of several campaign concepts on my DMing bucket list, and in this case they appear excerpted here as a cluster of related ideas:Games/campaigns ... read more!
NPC – Oldbone – Chief Weeping Dark Goblins – Spinecastle
NPC - Oldbone - Chief Weeping Dark Goblins - Spinecastle The 300 or so goblins of the Weeping Dark are a small fraction of the thousands used as sword-fodder during the taking of the city. Since that time many have left the city and many have been eaten by their larger and ... read more!
grodog’s Mega-Dungeon Maps – Revising and Expanding the First Two Dungeon Levels of My Castle Greyhawk
In one of my two concurrent Greyhawk campaigns, the players are exploring the dungeons beneath Castle Greyhawk, which has been pushing me to revise and expand the first two levels of that infamous death trap. The inventory work for all of my newly-designed levels from the past 15 years began a few ... read more!
NPC – Hoghead – Butcher — Spinecastle
NPC - Hoghead - Butcher -- Spinecastle Even more active than The Pit where the gladiatorial games are run is The Slaughterhouse where the food is divided among the humanoid tribes of the city. All of the tribes in Spinecastle except the ogre's Thundering Club maintain groups of hunters who scour the surrounding land ... read more!
On the Ratik That Was, Wasn’t, Then Was Again
On the Ratik That Was, Wasn’t, Then Was Again"Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist A rumination on Ratik: Ratik is a small ... read more!
NPC – Vassliss Priestess of Iuz – Spinecastle
NPC - Vassliss Priestess of Iuz - Spinecastle During the Siege of Spinecastle a secret cabal worked against the cities defenders. Unbeknownst to the great and good within the city a cult of Iuz worshipers festered amid their ranks. What their ultimate plans had been none can say. Deep in the sub-basement of a ... read more!
An Unsung Death In Geoff Part 2
An Unsung Death In Geoff Part 2 The sun was setting as the small group, just three men on horseback, arrived at the Oytriver bridge. The evening was cold and a misty fog had settled down over the river and the surrounding land. The bridge, it was old, very old. Large and ... read more!
Spinecastle Encounters
Spinecastle Encounters 12 Encounters for the streets of Spinecastle 1. A pack of gnolls is 'patrolling' the street, but mainly looking for trouble. Before they get close a group of goblins comes around a corner right in front of them. Both parties pause only for a moment before a pitched battle to the ... read more!
NPC – Miklos Feltch of Tenh – Merchant – Spinecastle
NPC - Miklos Feltch of Tenh - Merchant - Spinecastle Miklos is a beast in human form. He buys and sells anything . His deity is coin and he is a devoted worshiper. He has been driven from Tenh and has settled in Spinecastle and has found the city very much to ... read more!
An Unsung Death In Geoff Part 1
An Unsung Death In Geoff Ragnar Hellson drew the honing stone slowly back across the edge of his axeblade. There was a dull rasp as he worked out the notch a metal helm had put in the steel. Back and forth, back and forth, he worked the stone with care. He had ... read more!
NPC – Vilmos – Viridian Guild – Spinecastle
NPC - Vilmos - Viridian Guild - Spinecastle Vilmos was once a Wolf Nomad or the Setjare Fark as they call themselves, but he had to flee for his evil acts upon members of his own tribe. Like many of his ilk in the north he has gravitated to Spinecastle and has ... read more!
