Tim McDonald

Proud to be the 66th 😎 on @BackerKit for Ghosts of Wrath: An adventure for 5E and other TTRPGs. Thanks @cawoodpublish ghosts-of-wrath-5e.backerkit.com/community_shar…

@ez2bFISH @atanak74 He's still around! He's on Bluesky social as well.

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Surprise your players with a new adventure! Ghosts of Wrath is playable with 5E and any fantasy TTRPG: backerkit.com/c/projects/caw…

A ghost ship appears off the coast and a mystery begins... Ghosts of Wrath is our third 72-page adventure book for 5E and any fantasy TTRPG. Check it out on Backerkit: backerkit.com/c/projects/caw…

@atanak74 Awesome!! Baby Tiamat!

@deidungeon Those Dungeon Magazines are pure gold

I have some new items in stock! Dungeon Magazines, filled with adventure, two Complete books for AD&D 2e, and a very well-loved DM's Screen. #ttrpg #adventure #ADnD #shopsmall

@SpurtTheKobold @BlindTemple RIP, Spurt.

Spurt would have been 2210 days old today. #Critters #CriticalRole

@atanak74 Oooh! Can’t wait to see it!

Looking for a new adventure for 5E or OSR, or any fantasy TTRPG? Our Ghosts of Wrath adventure is coming to Backerkit soon. Sign up with our crew here: backerkit.com/call_to_action…

@atanak74 Arthur Adams is far and away my favorite comic book artist. Mike Grell is #2

@JoeGKushner @roguecaliber I'm always in a state of confusion as to why all of the older stuff is not print on demand . . .

@roguecaliber They need to reprint it! And then folks up with an updated version!

Holy damn has this jumped up in price…eeesh

@BugbearBrothers @KenCape0327 Have never run it as a DM, but have played in it as a PC twice. In both cases, the DM provided what you termed as missing pieces to suit the campaign we were in ( one of those, the mega module was the campaign and we died in the depths). It is quite vast. Gotta take it in bits.

The grandfather of all dungeon crawls, the Temple of Elemental Evil was written by Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer in 1985, as a follow up to The Village of Hommlet module, for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons rule system. In 2004, Dungeon magazine rated it the 4th best adventure of all time. But there were horror stories we’d heard about running this beast. A few years ago we ignored the warnings, threw caution to the wind, and undertook the adventure. While enjoyable to play, we had a few issues with the play through. We found there to be very little player information as to what their goal is; there wasn’t really a clear macguffin besides ‘fighting evil’. There is no arguing it’s place in history, but perhaps it doesn’t speak to modern player’s sensibilities. The novelty of a dungeon crawl or mega-dungeon has long since passed, and players are no longer just happy to be there, they need a juicy plot to sink their teeth into. In this way it seems to buckle under its own weight, as the goal seemed to be making a huge dungeon, rather than an engaging storyline. The main villain is barely mentioned in the text, and if played in a certain way, it is very possible for the players to run into this creature with no idea who it is or why they are fighting it. This would obviously fall on the DM to prepare, however the adventure is so massive, foreshadowing and other prep that should be taken care of by the module can be very time consuming. These criticisms are of course, made decades after the fact, and it’s easy to forget that this is one of, if not the first adventure of its kind. It has been scrapped for parts for over 30 years, to the point that it can be a challenge to appreciate all the incredible tropes it’s given us.

@atanak74 We all need more frog stickers in our lives.

@RetroGamer_Meph Awesome! Thank you!

@tmcdon_2 @tmcdon_2 I joined their discord and they have a channel for all of their Living Darksun Campaign rules. Here is a link to their Reavers of the Silt Sea campaign guide. drive.google.com/file/d/13ByzNt…

The swap meet didn't disappoint. The FR Grey Box was $40. Box is beat but contents are mint. The Lankhmar books were $40. The Greyhawk Gazetteer Revised was a gift from Troy Alleman of Cannibal Publishing. It Lurks Below is this years con adventure by Pacesetter.

@BugbearBrothers Loved this book when the group first got it. I don’t remember there being the criticisms you alluded to, but then we would have just ignored them anyway. One of my all time favorite D&D books.

A battle worn copy of the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons first edition of Unearthed Arcana. Unfortunately the contents didn’t really live up to the Jeff Easley’s stellar cover art. Panned for its multitude of errors and overpowered character classes, Gary Gygax was forced to compile an erratum to be published in Dragon Magazine later that year. While not a darling with the critics, Unearthed Arcana inspired many young designers to create their own character classes and magics items, showing them how much fun gonzo D&D could be. While a lot of the contents was previously published by Dragon magazine, it introduced a wide audience to some very popular playable character classes and races such as the Barbarian, Cavalier, Thief-Acrobat, Drow, and Svirfneblin.

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