Gary Gygax's Necropolis is an odd bit of my personal RPG history. About 25 or more years ago, before I had kids I was working downtown C...

Following up on my previous post on Desert Elves & Orcs , I thought I might detail the region they live in some more. Ærypt is a pas...

Again, no gaming for me this weekend. So when I am not working on my current 5e game my mind tends to wander a bit. Lately, I have been thin...

It's a blah rainy day here in Chicagoland.  Great day to do some prep on my Desert portions of my Second Campaign . I am currently r...

Wrapping up the myths of Egypt today for One Man's God.   A brief note about the objectives of these posts. I am trying to go through th...

N is for Novice Series. Although I also thought these were called the N series because the first one was written by Douglas Niles. The...

 I am skipping over the otherwise great  Ravenloft Campaign Setting, Revised for the last core book of the Ravenloft AD&D 2e line for a...

One of my favorite old-school adventures has finally made it to PDF at OneBookShelf. I9 Day of Al'Akbar . Gotta love that 80'...

So yesterday I started talking about something I am calling the "Second Campaign".  It's not really a second one (more like ...

Over the weekend we continued with what was going to be the Second Campaign.  Still is...but I'll get to that. The boys made some new ...

I was working on a desert based adventure for my son's game the other day and I got to thinking about some things I really liked from AD...

 While within the Necropolis, the party moves near an open temple. As the party approaches, they are surrounded by Shadows moving in. Though...

 Often times the campaign settings of Dungeons & Dragons are known as "worlds." If there are multiple worlds then there must b...

To the side of this city is a large burial area. In this shadow elf necropolis, the party will encounter 1d4+3 Spectres  and 1d6+4 Wraiths .

Welcome back to Friday Night Videos as we continue the Vampire theme for Vampire Month here at the Other Side. These songs are ones we u...

 This week is Gary Con, so I thought while I am celebrating 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons, I would also spend some time with Gary Gygax...