These caves and cold, dank, and unfriendly.  The halls of this level are only 6 feet high, but the cavern roofs vault high above.  The rough and uneven floor is covered by a thin layer of hard scrabble that makes finding your footing tricky.  Not so for the eight...

As things stand I’ve got the megadungeon, one page goblin caves, and the revised Crypt of Laun Phien.  That’s two big and one little dungeon.  Not a bad start, but the players are badgering me about what’s going on between these dungeons.  Luckily, they grew up on a steady diet of...

This old relic of an arrow is imbued with a powerful and permanent sorcery.  It appears as a stone age arrow with a flint tip and a crooked shaft.  The brilliant red fletching may be attractive, and that an arrow this old should still see use suggests something special.  But seeing...

Need a natural cavern map?  Here’s one you can use:...

This portion of The Dungeon is a once-opulent hermitage gone to rot.  The magnificent rugs and furnishings are dusty, moldering, and falling apart.  Only the shelves and books in the library, protected by powerful spells of preservation and protection, still contains polished wood and many curious volumes of quaint...

In which the author recounts his experience running 5-7 thirteen year old kids through an OSR D&D campaign: When last we met, our intrepid heroes successfully foiled the evil wizard Bargle’s plan to discredit the king by retrieving the king’s Sword of Authority from a dungeon of Bargle’s design....

…it’s also a river in Sudan.  Just sayin’. FU12 – Mummies FEY3 – Pharoah’s Undead Tomb Guards DN20 – Treasure Pile This post wraps up the undead portion of our show.  Stay tuned for the big brutes, coming soon; rock monsters, ogres, and trolls, I’ll spare you the ‘oh...

Back into the Dungeon we go.  The Air Temple centers on the Pool of Air, a bottomless pit which emits a steady stream of clean fresh air.  This could be a portal to the Elemental Plane of Air, but that would be a literal leap of faith.  More likely, it’s a...

This otherwise non-descript steel sword is marked by the blue runic letters engraved along the blade as shown.  Any character who speaks the language of the northern barbarians will recognize the words from an ancient dialect that can be loosely translated as “the breaker of curses”.  In game terms,...

Pendraken calls these dog faces Anubis guards.  They’ve got a great fantasy Egyptian feel to them. FEY1 – Anubis with sword FEY2 – Anubis with spear And for a little bonus, here’s a close shot of the bat swarm.  You can see the scale in the group shot posted...