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This Old Dragon: Issue #87
I mentioned the collection I got from my old DM and a few Dragons in it. As it turns out, this is the only one I had not done a "This Old Dragon" for. So. Let's go back nearly 40 years ago this month...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 7
The far right corner of room 6 has another lava tunnel that leads to a bright light. It is also getting hotter as the party moves down.The tunnel ends in another one of the magical portals that...
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Wasted Lands, now with FREE content
This one is still going on, and I really want to see it get funded!Wasted Lands: The Dreaming Age Role Playing GameA tabletop RPG of cosmic horror, swords, and sorcery in a savage lost epoch, 1000...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 8
Going back to Room 2 and taking the center passageway this leads to an area where lava is flowing from somewhere above. The floor is covered in lava and only a thin walkway of stone is visible. A...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 9
Moving on from Room 8, this opens up into a larger cavern. This room gives the appearance of some sort of temple dedicated to a god of fire or some unknown demon lord.Moving from the alcoves on both...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 10
The large alcove at the end of Room 9 opens to what appears to be a large worshipping area. There is a large bronze statue of some sort of demonic lord.The statue is a Bronze Golem, but it is...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 0
I have been thinking a lot about gods, monsters, humans, and demons in these pages lately. Between my One Man's God, my ideas for Deities & Demigods II, and playtesting The Wasted Lands gods and...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 1 The Dark Avenger
The Dreaming Age is both very dark and very hopeful. Humanity (well...proto-Humanity) has cast off the yoke of the Old Ones and now lives in a time of unimaginable horrors. There are monsters, there...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 11
A secret door behind the statue leads to a small room. The room is filled with steam.Inside there are four small demons, Steam Mephits. Steam Mephit: HD 3; AC 5 [14]; THAC0 16 [+3]; Atk 2 claws...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 2 The Amazon...
I am continuing my exploration of various superhero archetypes in the Wasted Lands. Today's topic is the Amazon Princess. While this could be Wonder Woman or someone like Starfire, it can also be a...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 12
Heading back to Room #2 and taking the next tunnel on the right. The party does not get very fare into the next chamber when they encounter a group (five) of large and piggish-looking orcs.These orcs...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 3 The Paragon
We are working our way up the power scale to tackle the Paragon. Now this guy (or gal) has Power, with a capital P. They are also a favorite of late for deconstruction or alternate attempts (The Boys,...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 13
Moving on from room #12 the party enters a large spherical room 50' in diameter. The walls of the room are polished obsidian. The center of the room features a large monolith of the same material....
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 4 The Demon's...
Okay, let us scale things down a bit and see what we can do with some mystical characters and some that are not super-powerful. At least not yet.Another concept that comes up is the Demon Spawn that...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 14
Going back to Room #2 and taking the last passageway on the right. This passageway leads to a hard right (and down, as detectable by Dwarves) to a chamber filled with fire. Once inside, one of the...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 5 The Occult...
The Dreaming Age is an age filled with magic. Dangerous to both the wielder and those around them, the magic is the leftovers of the Deeper Dark; an aberration of a time when the Old Ones walked this...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 15
Past the fire elemental, the passageway continues on and the area cools a bit from the previous room. Free Art Assets - Grey Gnome Games - Jason GloverThis corridor looks more constructed than the rest...
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Wasted Lands Playtest: Superheroes in the Dreaming Age, Part 6 The Mistress...
Do you know what today is? Well, yes, it is the last of my superheroes for Wasted Lands, but is it also a Zatannurday! Have not done one of these in a very long time. So lets end this exploration right...
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#Dungeon23 Tomb of the Vampire Queen, Level 7, Room 16
Taking the corridor on the right, this area looks less and less like the front door to Hell and more like a carved-out room in a castle. Though this room appears to have been a library of sorts only...
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Wasted Lands as a Dungeons & Dragons Replacement
All month long, I have been talking (rather obsessively so) about the Wasted Lands RPG. I make no apologies for this. It is a great game, and it shares DNA with my own NIGHT SHIFT, which is just a...
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