tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63175432644629757852024-03-13T15:54:50.066-04:00The Ruins of Murkhill™ - OEOEFASRPG™Hail Fellow and Well Met! This is my Original Dungeons & Dragons blog named for my main campaign The Ruins of Murkhill™. I have been playing and refereeing OD&D since Sept. of 1975. I am apt to talk about almost anything game related here. Open Ended Original Edition Old School Fantasy Adventure Sandbox Role Playing Games™ (OEOEFASRPG™) The Open-Ended Sandbox Exploration of Dungeons, Wilderness and Cities. World Building is one of the great pleasures of life.Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.comBlogger669125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-38267588511292031432024-03-05T21:40:00.002-05:002024-03-05T21:40:43.064-05:00Attronarch's Athenaeum<p><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">Over at the forum <span itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><a class="user-link js-user-link user-250 group-0" href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/user/250" itemprop="url" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #194ae6; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="@elborak">El Borak</a></span> mentioned Attronarch in his thread <a class="norewrite" href="https://ruinsofmurkhill.proboards.com/thread/9210/hirelings-loyalty-morale" rel="norewrite" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #194ae6; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Hirelings, loyalty, and morale</a> which you should take a look at.</span></p><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">Attronarch has a website <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=6144980&u=https%3A//attronarch.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #194ae6; cursor: pointer; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Attronarch's Athenaeum (Campaign journals, reviews of TTRPG stuff, and musings on D&D)</a>.<br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /></span><div class="quote no_header" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 10px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 0px; position: relative; top: 0px;"><div class="quote_body" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 10px; border: 2px solid rgb(0, 3, 7); margin: 7px 0px 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">About<br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />Welcome to my digital home. Here you'll find session reports from my D&D campaigns, reviews of TTRPG stuff I've collected over the years, thoughts on the game itself, and some, hopefully useful, resources.</span><div class="quote_clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><div class="quote no_header" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px 10px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px 0px; position: relative; top: 0px;"><div class="quote_body" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 10px; border: 2px solid rgb(0, 3, 7); margin: 7px 0px 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 10px;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">I’m running a weekly online D&D B/X game focused on hexcrawling and dungeon delving in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy Barbarian Altanis—a hostile land filled with ancient riches and antediluvian evils.</span><div class="quote_clear" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"></div></div></div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;"><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />He has a ton of stuff to help you with your game and I highly recommend you go check it out.<br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" /><br style="max-height: 1e+06px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" />Also I just discovered he lists this blog The Ruins of Murkhill in his blogroll. </span><img alt="8-)" class="smile" src="https://storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; max-height: 1e+06px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;" />Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-69554838202154641652023-03-16T20:44:00.003-04:002023-03-16T20:44:16.476-04:00New Wotc D&D Survey<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7209559/dnd?geo=en&src=twitter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Wotc D&D Survey</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I enjoy filling these out and telling them things they don't want to hear. </span><br /></span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-7633959522363768532023-03-14T23:30:00.001-04:002023-03-15T02:50:19.722-04:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 073)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You retreated to the right side Door #7 room and hang out there and eventually the Cube of Death passes leaving the corridor spotlessly clean. You peak out the door and see it turn the corner back at the T.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? Try one of the Door #8 again or move on?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">OK, Door #8 it is, left or right?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">OK, right side first.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The door opens right away this time, perhaps the Cube of Death lubricated the hinges or broke up some of the rust. This room is 30'x30' and the floor sunken about a foot below the corridor and has a sandy bottom to it. As you examine the room you note that the sand is very clean and before you stepped in there was not mark in the sand at all. There is nothing else in the room and the walls are bare. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If they are lucky that will find one or more of the three secret doors in this room. Or not.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One secret door leads to a stairway going up (only), one leads to a stairway going down (only) and one leads to a 10'x10' room which holds a what looks like a trollish human that is frozen solid.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-14309542998553778872023-03-13T23:30:00.001-04:002023-03-14T03:10:45.498-04:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 072)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next up are doors #8 on both sides of the corridor. These doors are stuck tight, really tight.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How much time do you want to spend on trying to open them?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wandering monster check, negative.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do you want to keep trying?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wandering monster check negative.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">More time passes, do you want to keep trying?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wandering monster check. At the limit of the torch light, you see something, it slowly get closer. It fills the corridor from top to bottom and side to side, it is semitransparent and as it gets closer you see stuff floating inside it.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-19011239242325229922023-03-12T23:59:00.000-04:002023-03-13T00:09:35.264-04:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 071)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proceeding down the corridor another 30' you come to doors on either side of the corridor (Doors #7)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These doors are made entirely of metal and with a little luck you are able to pick the locks and open each door one at a time. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The right side door opens into a room that is 40'x40' and it is filled with barrels and kegs stacked throughout the room. Everything is covered with a thick layer of dust.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why yes, you mage does detect magic, but he cannot pinpoint it, he thinks it is all around you. You open a keg and a barrel, you find that they are lined with glass and both are closed (under the barrel lid) with a wax sealed glass stopper. The contents of both look the same so you open the keg and discover that it is honey. There are enough kegs and barrels to fill at least 20 wagons.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The left side door opens into a room that is 40'x120' and this room is filled with rows of shelving. The shelves are 10' high going all the way to the ceiling. The shelves are covered with wooden boxes and crates of all different sizes. All are securely nailed shut and even the smallest ones are quite heavy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-50813078870882997912023-03-11T23:53:00.002-05:002023-03-13T00:33:49.759-04:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 070)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Advancing another 40' down the corridor from the vacant rooms and you enter an area where there has been a recent battle. There are fresh blood stains in the corridor and other indications of recent death, but the bodies themselves are mostly gone. The next four doors on either side of the corridor (doors 5 and 6 both sides) are broken down. All four rooms have been trashed, with freshly broken furniture, wall hangings laying torn up on the floor, blood everywhere. There is a secret door in each room that has been ripped out of the wall and a narrow corridor leading away from each of these rooms. Signs of bodies being dragged down each of these corridors is present.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-54524159495181507962023-03-10T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-11T01:07:58.067-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 069)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next up are the 3rd doors on the right and the left and the 4th doors on the right and the left. These rooms are each 20'x20. They are filled with broken furniture, dust, dead rodents and such. Each of these rooms has a well hidden secret door on the real wall in one of the corners.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The door lead into narrow 3' wide passages. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you are successful in finding any of these doors, what do you do? Enter them or move on?</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-55670842292518135432023-03-09T23:30:00.002-05:002023-03-10T03:44:48.025-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 068)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next is the 2nd door on the left. This room is 40'x160' deep and there is a throne at the back of the room. The room is brightly lit and the throne appears to be made of gold. The throne is encrusted with hundreds of gemstones. On the throne sits a man who must be 10' tall. He is handsome and well built, he looks very intelligent, wise and forceful, his hair is black with gray at the temples. He wears a golden crown and he has a huge ring on either hand. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On either side of it are two large chests, each is 8'x3'x4' high. Each has a lid that sticks up another 18" high. Around the throne are two huge men on both sides of the throne. All four are about 8' tall and each carries a sword and an axe. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">None of them are moving at all and there is no sound. A blue glow surrounds everything I have described on and around the throne.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? </span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-61964573559440562802023-03-08T23:30:00.002-05:002023-03-10T02:56:50.983-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 067)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next is the 2nd door on the right. The door is hard to open and when you finally get it open you see two of the largest ogre's you've ever seen, you didn't know they could get that big. They were waiting on you and when the door opens they grab you and pull you into the room and slam the door shut in the faces of your companions and bar it from the inside.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Their strength is incredible, you are helpless and they quickly tie you up and once throws you over his shoulder and away they go through a secret door.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The rest of your party is trying to get through the door. Will they succeed? Will they be able to follow? Will they rescue you in time?</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-67902793217850262382023-03-07T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-08T01:10:34.994-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 066)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So you are climbing down the beanstalk? Are you sure you want to do that? OK</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It takes you a full day to get to the bottom of the beanstalk and when you get there you are a lot bigger than anyone there, you are to them as giants in your own world are to you.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As you look around, you see mounted knights with lances and behind them many men coming towards you with swords and spears. Behind them march many bowman.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">While you think, a flight of arrows is launched, they barely break the skin, but they do hurt and some of them cause a trickle of blood. Right behind them is another flight and another after that. Then the knights charge.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? Fight or start climbing?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Climbing? Good choice!</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-10040555904208944432023-03-06T23:30:00.002-05:002023-03-07T01:13:58.327-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 065)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Next you open the 1st door on the right. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you immediately just walked in, then you had a terrible fall. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you looked into the room you saw no floor, but you are looking down at a vast plain a very long way below you. You see below you what looks like a very tiny village. You are so far away that if there are people they are too small to see.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why yes, there may be a way down. To the left of the door a little ways in, you would have to leap to grab it, is a massive bean stalk and you might be able to climb down it. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-16729188179402401992023-03-05T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-06T01:03:06.436-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 064)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So your proceed to the door straight ahead of you, we will call that door #1, you open the door fairly easily and walk down a 30' long 5' wide corridor that T's into a 12' wide corridor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do you go to the right or left or back the way you came?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You go to the right, along the right you see ahead of you in the dimly lit corridor a series of wooden door set into the jet black obsidian walls. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do you want to try a door on the right hand wall or the left hand?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The left hand, OK this door is very hard to open, but eventually gives. Inside the walls of the room, like the corridor are polished obsidian. The room is 20'x30' and has four 4' diameter tables each with four chairs. Along the walls are six square 2'x2' tables with oil lamps that are lit. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the left end of the room is a 3'x10' table covered with a bright yellow cloth. On the cloth are various trays. One tray has two pitchers that have frost on the outside of the pitchers. One tray has a platter of different cheeses, another has a platter of different meats that are still steaming hot. Two more platters are covered with roasted vegetables and another has fresh, hot loaves of bread and several butter crocks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At each end of the table is a statue that is a carved serving person.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you seat yourself, the statues will animate, fill a plate and a cup and serve them to you. Should you eat and drink?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Think about it!</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-31714482341633224712023-03-04T23:30:00.003-05:002023-03-06T00:45:18.112-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 063)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">At the four way intersection you try each of the forward three options available and each one gets worse the further you go. as the floor sinks into the muck, mire and calf deep oily, slimy water.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You go back and return above ground, the next day you go down to a lower level than before. Here you find a polished marble floor around the stairway and a circular wall that surrounds the stairway with a diameter about 20' bigger than the stairway itself. When you start exploring and looking for doors or passageways you find that a new wall has formed behind you separating you from the stairway. Then the whole thing starts to rotate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As it rotates doors appear, lots of doors, but it is too difficult to count them. Suddenly the rotation stops and you are all thrown to the floor. Then you discover that there are ten doors around the outside of the circle. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-45043219686357756002023-03-03T23:36:00.000-05:002023-03-03T23:36:04.209-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 062)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you try to door to your left, once you get the door open you enter a long, dark, musty corridor with dripping water. There is a general smell of decay and you wish a gelatinous cube had proceeded you down this path. Water pools on the floor here and there along with an occasional skeleton and outcrops of mold and mushrooms now and then. The walls are covered with moss and the walls seem to lean in towards you just a bit.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Here and there you think you see eyes reflecting the torch light back at you, but when you move closer they are not to be found.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">About 60' in you come to a four-way intersection and all directions look like what you have just passed through.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-6391890297594960932023-03-02T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-03T00:44:43.055-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 061)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The dragon and the thousands of wyrmlings are gone, so you try the stairway again. At that first level you find an area that is collapsed, but you can explore the rest of it. There are two doors opposite the collapsed area. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The door to your right opens into a brightly lit area filled with fountains and walk paths between and around them. Butterflies and other brightly colored insects flit through the air. There are many flowers and bees buzz all around. Then you here a chittering sound and realize that you are surrounded by dozens of foot long scorpions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? </span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-42606967275279305602023-03-02T11:11:00.005-05:002023-03-02T11:11:33.589-05:00Arduin News From Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp. 3/1/2023<p> <span style="font-family: georgia;">This following is a quote about Arduin:</span></p><blockquote><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: georgia;">News from Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp. 3/1/2023</span></div><div><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hello Fans,</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We are still here, just been a busy last year for us! Here are the details:</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Arduin Bloody Arduin RPG Rule System is being developed by our team at EmpCho. This has become the focus of EmpCho for Arduin. This development started 15 months ago from December 2021 to present. It has been 15 months of Blood, Sweat and Tears with a lot more to be done on this critical project! We will keep you informed of the progress of this critical project! Here are some items of note about Arduin Bloody Arduin:</span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #373737; list-style-position: inside; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding-left: 10px;"><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is NOT OGL, ORC, Black Flag, or any other open system. This is an RPG Rule System for Arduin, which is Proprietary, Sovereign and Specific.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It will easily be compatible with most Fantasy Role Play Games, especially any of the many versions of OSR rules.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It will have tentatively 25 Races, 20 Classes, Hundreds of Spells, aspects of Dave Hargrave’s Original Arduin will be included into the game.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It will use a D20 for combat, Factors for Characters will be rolled up Arduin style, Racial Hit Points, CF Count for Initiative, Mana, and aspects of Original Arduin.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We will have a very selective playtesting tentatively late this year.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Core books tentatively will be a Player’s Handbook, Gamemaster Guide and Monster Manual. There may be one more Optional Core book, but that would be down the road (Years) after the initial release. We do NOT plan to do any more ‘Core’ books for rules. Once you have the rules, you are good to go! We do not like the idea of new rules and ‘Core’ books every so many years…This is the last version of Arduin Rules.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please understand that we are in development and things tend to change in a blink of an eye! Yet, the above items should be stable and not change unless, there is major reason.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• We are also working on support products for Arduin Bloody Arduin. This includes:</span></p><ol style="background-color: white; color: #373737; list-style-position: inside; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding-left: 10px;"><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Game Master Screen – We have a very rough prototype but are getting a final design this year. It is cool!</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">New map for Arduin and the Continent of Khaora – Large, updated versions and each map about 75% complete.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Adventures – We have one done (Lancer’s rest) and two more 90% close to done.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wanted to talk about Lancer’s Rest – We announced this adventure for release for late last year but have decided to keep the module for the Arduin Bloody Arduin RPG Rule System.</span></p></li><li><p dir="auto" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Miniatures – We have produced new molds but there are still more to be done. We are planning to do more casting and should have more miniatures become in stock soon.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• We do have a new product to announce!!! We have the card sets for the original 4 Dungeons available now! If you are missing cards, need replacements or a new set, please go here to order them:</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a class="group-color" href="https://empcho.com/product/arduin-artifacts-monster-card-sets-for-dungeons-1-4/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #3568aa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://empcho.com/product/arduin-artifacts-monster-card-sets-for-dungeons-1-4/</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/empcho.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dungeoncardsetweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="598" height="800" src="https://i0.wp.com/empcho.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/dungeoncardsetweb.jpg" width="598" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• This is an old video but wanted to repost here, and EmpCho did participate in the 12 Days of OSR Christmas again for 2022 and will do so again for 2023 and on. We want to Thank Erik and Mike for all their great support! Erik has many great videos on Arduin on his channel! If you have not already seen it, please check out our guest appearance from Wednesday 3/2/2022 at 8:00pm EST on Talking Crit with Bad Mike & Tenkar Live Stream on Tenkar’s Tavern YouTube channel at:</span></span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a class="group-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-9uBBasnE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #3568aa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o-9uBBasnE</span></a></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Here is another more recent video from our Friends at Shadow and Son:</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a class="group-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-4KtCl9NY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #3568aa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL-4KtCl9NY</span></a></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Get to know us a little better in this video but excuse the information, which has changed since that point in time 11/7/2022. There also many Videos on all our Arduin products on their channel!</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Jesse Heinig from the EmpCho team ran a one-shot adventure for Caster’s and Cantrips on February 24th, 2023. He sent the 5e DnD group into a small section of Caliban! Check it out here:</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a class="group-color" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs55lZbyq20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #3568aa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs55lZbyq20</span></a></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• We want to give a shout out to Griffith Morgan! He produced the Secrets of Blackmoor documentary/Movie. Please support his great works!</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a class="group-color" href="https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #3568aa; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; text-overflow: ellipsis; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; word-break: break-all;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://www.secretsofblackmoor.com/</span></a></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">We have been in talks with him about doing something similar for David A. Hargrave! It is a long-term goal for us to honor Dave.</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">• Wanted to let all of you know that due to the sheer amount of work, time, and cost with all the Arduin projects, EmpCho will NOT be attending any conventions this year. We will see where we are at for 2024 but our main goal is to get Arduin Bloody Arduin finished and produced along with all the support product as soon as possible!</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I know this was a big update, but there was much to say! We will not deviate from the path of bringing Dave Hargrave’s Dream back to the gaming world! Thank you again Fans for all your great support!!!</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Very Sincerely,<br />David Bukata<br />President<br />Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp.</span></p><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">George De Rosa<br />Vice-President<br />Emperors Choice Games & Miniatures Corp.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><p dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"></p></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-58203633814537641072023-03-01T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-02T02:59:42.144-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 060)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So you have decided on the stairway you will try to access first, after relocating your camp to the best defensible position.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This stairway is a tight spiral and you descend 30' to the first landing. Here you find thousands of what appear to be long thin worms covering the floor, although none come near the stairway as the landing has a very rough and abrasive surface. You scoop one up for a closer look and it is not a worm, at least not like any you've ever seen. It has a head more like a snake in appearance. As you watch you see that they are all crawling into tubes in the walls that seem to slope upward. Soon all of them are gone except the one that you are holding.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you put it down, it will rapidly follow the others.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Up above you hear shouts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you return above you will see these thousands of apparent worms (but they are not worms, neither are they snakes) coming out of the ground and dispersing in every direction.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">(none of you are familiar with the three stage life cycle of dragons)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After they have all departed you decide to wait to the following day to try the stairway again. During the night you hear strange sounds and then the beating of giant wings.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the morning running from a point 40' from the stairway and continuing away from you there is a giant hole in the ground about 120' in length, 40' wide as the widest point and 30' deep.</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-55217715803740574262023-02-28T23:30:00.001-05:002023-03-01T02:09:45.760-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 059)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another earthquake happened during the night as the dungeon reshuffled itself. All around you the ruins are completely different in appearance. Giant piles of rubble where there were little piles before. A dozen pools of water are scattered around.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As you explore the area again, you find over two dozen stairways, chutes and deep holes throughout the ruins. At one of the holes you drop a large rock, but you never hear it hit anything.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You don't have enough men to guard all the openings, what are you going to do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What's that? You are going to move the camp so that you have a defensive position with nothing behind you but a solid wall and all the opening are in front of you. You say you are going to explore that nearest opening, while your camp guards are setup to defend themselves.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You continue to explore and listen and check things out before you ever go underground.</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-75826795922066385202023-02-27T23:36:00.002-05:002023-02-27T23:36:07.787-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 058)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You walk down the stairway 30' to another landing ( good catch, yes, the water level above extends into another dimension, another world) and when you step outside the area of the landing, instead of walking to one of the doors that you see, you find yourself in the middle of a maze, a very large maze.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Can you find your way out, can you solve the maze or can you untie the Gordian Knot of the maze.</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-29745702935854693042023-02-26T23:52:00.001-05:002023-02-27T01:30:18.464-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 057)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As you stand before this seemingly endless pool of water three mermaids rise out of the water standing on their tails. They are large with their heads about 7 feet above the surface of the water. They beckon to you to come to them.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As you watch them, you see that each has a ring in the palm of their hand, again they beckon to you to come take the ring.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you take the ring it is a ring of water breathing, if you refuse, then you will mortally offend them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Choose wisely!</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-17437029796194161902023-02-25T23:30:00.000-05:002023-02-26T00:07:19.530-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 056)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You walk down the stairway another 40' and where there should be a landing their is a pool of water surrounding the stairway as far as you can see in any direction. A "lip" that extends a foot above the water keeps the water from flowing down the stairway. This lip is 18 inches thick. A 10' pole does not reach the bottom of the water. A grappling hook tied to a 50' rope does not reach the bottom of the water.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Shooting an arrow across the water with a long bow results in a faint splash.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Time and patience results in the catching of strange eyeless fish and eyeless eels. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><br /></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-58063675906108077412023-02-24T23:30:00.001-05:002023-02-25T01:46:24.749-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 055)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You continue on down the stairway another 60' to a hexagonal landing that is 60' to a side. This area is well lit in sunshine, from where you don't know. It is walkways of polished stone running through areas of trees, flowers and other plants that occupy most of the space. On the far side of the outer walkway the outside wall is black granite, smooth and polished, with no apparent openings. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">About 40' from you a creature walks out through the wall, turns away from you walks about 20' and then just past the corner turns and walks back through the wall.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is a secret to traversing the wall, do you know what it is?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-14029270198669079652023-02-23T23:30:00.003-05:002023-02-24T01:10:40.681-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 054)<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You continue down the stairs another 80' to reach the next landing. Here you see a landing 40'x40' with the stairway in the center, the landing is surrounded by four blank walls, but when you step away from the stairway, the stairway, the landing and the walls disappear, shocked you take a step backwards and then another and you are again at the stairway with the same scene as before.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This time you move forward slowly and the moment the scene changes you stick your spear into the ground and clearly mark the ground with an arrow pointing back the way you came. Now looking around you are in the middle of a large grassy plain and all you see is tall grass up to your shoulders in every direction, no trees or building or hills or even mountains in the distance, just the grass and the sky. Oddly in the sky you see two suns near one horizon and near the opposite horizon you see three large moons. Your world has only one sun and two moons.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-9775089337236345622023-02-22T23:30:00.001-05:002023-02-23T02:39:55.360-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 053)<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">You go down another flight of the stairs and you come out of the landing to a dark, dank, wet, cold system of small interconnected caves. Water is dripping everywhere and there is fungus everywhere. There is constant noise and you think somewhere nearby is a waterfall and a river. </span><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">At the edge of the light you think you see small creatures darting around you and you hear the chattering of voices.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;">What do you do?</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">Then a large shape comes out of the gloom and as it gets closer you see that it is a heavily muscled *troll with a large gaping mouth.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">What do you do?</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">*My trolls are mindless hungry eating machines. They only become intelligent when they get past 500+ years old and they also grow as long as they live, so trolls that have been around long enough to have some intelligence are also very large, to large to fit into a dungeon. Trolls are essentially immortal and die only of violence, specifically fire and/or acid damage. Even a small piece of troll will grow into a new troll. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;"><br /></span></span></div>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6317543264462975785.post-73673960844553802492023-02-21T23:30:00.001-05:002023-02-22T00:58:03.793-05:00Dungeon 23 Project - The Ruins of Mount Auyán (Day 052)<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You go down another flight of the stairs and you come out on the edge of a perfectly round tunnel, you step from a small landing through a small opening into the tunnel. The tunnel is cut through bedrock in a perfect circle that weaves back and forth as you follow it. Every now and then an identical tunnel cuts across the one that you are in.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As you follow the tunnel, at irregular intervals you see clumps on the floor of the tunnel, clumps of copper, iron, tin, zinc, silver, gold and other metals all mixed together. These clumps which are mostly iron and copper range from one to two feet across and are like half flattened spheres. You come across one every 200' to 300' apart.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">On the walls of the tunnel you see here and there streaks of color that identifies a little ore here and there. Something is cutting the tunnel and concentrating out the ores that are present.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You have been following the tunnels for a while and have changed tunnels a few times. You suddenly realize that you have not marked your path, you are lost and not sure of your way back to the stairway.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What do you do?</span></p>Halenar Frosthelm™, The Perilous Dreamer™http://www.blogger.com/profile/03872120077602032749noreply@blogger.com0