https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNRFuBSMLx0
Stonehell - BX feel.Easier for new DM.
Castle of the Mad Mage - based on Gygax castle. Is adnd and is Gonzo, weird. But great .
Barrowmaze - a maze under a barrow. Undead. I have heard lots.
More great megadungeons in comments,
EEG = Elder Elemental God, the one that appears in the G3 module. It might or might not (Gygax says not) the same as the Elder Elemental Eye or Tharizdun. But the author of the blog says he thinks they are the same.
The Gygax quote from 2003 that says:
BTW, I love his quote, Byron always had good stuff:
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
―
So the confusion is that the symbol, the triangle with the point down with the inverted Y in it (through it?) is mentioned in G3, with the EEG, but also later they mention that same symbol in some other situations not precisely the EEG. Wikipedia I think had it listed under the Elder Elemental Eye and somewhere about Tharizdun. So some authors are saying they are the same, Gygax is saying not the same. So, how do we deal with this? Maybe:
I better read all of this: https://davidleonard-greyhawkmusings.blogspot.com/2020/10/history-of-south-east-part-10-uncertain.html
Have you seen a movie with lightsaber nunchucks man fighting a Darth Vader ripoff?
Or how about a D&D themed fire breathing wizard?
Maybe an Ultraman wannabe cool suit guy?
Look no further than these insane movies from the Shaw Bros. , featuring
The picture says it all. This guy is in Canada and says this happens with nurse logs and nurse stumps even. Basically, old logs end up being a useful spot for new trees to start growing due to no competition at that moment (maybe 10-20 years after it fell?). In this picture, there are 3 trees that were all on the same log, so they have these arches in a row. Over a very long time the roots get bigger and bigger and eventually should close the gap (a LONG time).
How's this apply to D&D?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayYBNCc-9VY
(And this has overlap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llvjPbJdFro)
He’s got some good stuff. Here he says 3 main things, OSR especially-
He just went.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVPvIIOECmI&t=838s&pp=0gcJCSMKAYcqIYzv
Have it so some other mobs moving in trying to take over? Or is it too soon. ?
Maybe do more pyrohydras plus giants same time.
Read this blog about the temples and Eclavdra and connections to Keep'Borderlands, oh man such good stuff, G3 is going to be memorable for sure: https://davidleonard-greyhawkmusings.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-green-god-and-elder-evil-part-2.html
Plasm, https://www.completecompendium.com/appendix/plasm/ Have Drow summon one. It's SUCH a cool monster fight, I think it'll have to be very separate from the tentacle wall, huh?
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Yes, room 10 with the three ghastly tentacle monsters eating self-sacrificing creatures of nearly every race is disturbing. Why do they just stand there letting it happen?!?! Quote:
The wall to the east shows a scene of various creatures crawling, then creeping, up to huge, vaguely squid-like creatures with 10 hairy tentacles. In the forefront of this mass self-sacrifice are elves and men, but there are also dwarves, gnolls, orcs, trolls, halflings, ogres, goblins, etc. amongst the crowd. Those near the monsters are being torn apart and the bloody gobbets eaten as dainty morsels. There are 3 of these ghastly things, mottled in various shades and tints of purple and violet.
Just read this, says it all probably. : https://screenrant.com/dnd-magic-vance-dying-earth-dungeons-dragons-wizard/
I'm finally getting aroudn to reading stuff myself, see a post 2 or 3 back, very very very entertaining and interesting so far.
Gibbering mouther origins might be Jack Vance. In the first Dying Earth story, he mentioned a thing "all eyes". And then look at this old book cover:
Great ideas here, never saw these guys before. From Spain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt96-EqkY8I
It explains how old dnd worked for dungeon maps… very nice stuff. Definitely a mini game in the game if done rifht.
I think I better get DS for art
Art talked about here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHDfxv7tPI
Other here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8dJOesNffE
10 osr rules to steal here, oh these are good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP75JE2vv9o
Erudite - having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying (says m-w.com)
Erudite derives from Latin eruditus, the past participle of the verb erudire, meaning "to instruct." A closer look at that verb shows that it is formed by combining the prefix e-, meaning "missing" or "absent," with the adjective rudis, which means "rude" or "ignorant." (Rudis is also the source of the English word rude.) We typically use rude to mean "discourteous" or "uncouth" but it can also mean "lacking refinement" or "uncivilized." Taking these meanings into account, erudite stays true to its etymology: someone who is erudite has been transformed from a roughened or uninformed state to a polished and knowledgeable one through a devotion to learning.
"the amulet holding Laccodel’s Rune to his wrist. Then he sat down and from a journal chose the spells he would take with him. What dangers he might meet he could not know, so he selected three spells of general application: the Excellent Prismatic Spray, Phandaal’s Mantle of Stealth, and the Spell of the Slow Hour."
"...uttered the Call to the Violent Cloud. All was quiet; then came a whisper of movement swelling to the roar of great winds. A wisp of white appeared and waxed to a pillar of boiling black smoke. A voice deep and harsh issued from -the- turbulence. "At your disturbing power is this instrument come; whence will you go?’’ (((so this was some magical force or person speaking back? We don't know)))
‘‘Four Directions, then One,’’ said Turjan. ‘‘Alive must I be brought to Embelyon.”’ (((it is interesting that it seems to almost rhyme, sorta like the show Bewitched, but what if you were going to Timbuktu and you couldn't rhyme it?))) The cloud whirled down; far up and away he was snatched, flung head over heels into incalculable distance. 4 directions was he thrust, then one, and at last a great blow hurled him from the cloud, sprawled him into Embelyon. Turjan gained his feet and tottered a moment, half-dazed. His senses steadied; "
Interesting that he tells it he needs to be alive... scary and dangerous magic, isn't it?
Techie sidenote: Notepad++ trick to remove carriage returns: But if you have Notepad++ 5.x, you can use the 'extended' search mode and look for\r\n. That does find all yourCRLF.
“When your mission is accomplished, crush this crystal and at once you will find yourself in this room.’’
Another spell:
bringing the Omnipotent Sphere about him. = that must be like globe of invulnerability
I need to use this description in dnd (pinions as in feathers... well the end of feathers I think, this was a demon of hell):
Silence of a shocked intensity held an instant; then came an appalling screech, so wild and demoniac that Turjan's brain sang. Mighty pinions buffeted the air, there was a hiss and the scrape of metal. Then, amidst muffled roaring, an icy wind bit Turjan's face. Another hiss—and all was quiet.
Words: sauntered, erudite (opposite of rude in the old sense of unlearned), elucidate (make lucid), pinion (ends of feathers),
Names: So he used the X'xxxx form of names.
Check out Dying Earth monsters like Deodands here: https://boxfullofboxes.blogspot.com/2019/10/dying-earth-monsters-part-ii-deodand.html
Well I'll be, old Grognardia is all about it too:
He says a lot so I won't have to, though my preferred books were definitely encyclopedias and not dictionaries. I definitely was not a massive reader as a youngster, b/c I was given all the wrong books. For me, reading technical things are always more fun... but there are some great fiction books out there I have on my list still.
