Making Temple of Elemental Evil bigger
Some of the criticism of T1-4 over the years has been around the idea that it’s just too big. There’s too much detail in there, too many things going on for the DM to get a grasp of. I beg Read More
Giving up on fixing the Temple of Elemental Evil
For the past week or so, I’ve been working on something I’ve been calling T5. It was essentially meant to be an expansion of the existing T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil, adding new elements like additional preliminary adventures similar to Read More
More on the Temple of Elemental Evil
Over the years I’ve done a lot of thinking about the published T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil. To my mind, it’s one of the great disappointments in D&D history – we fans were waiting literally for years for the follow-up Read More
From Hommlet to Tharizdun, by way of Tsojcanth
Lawrence Schick, in his introduction to module S4 in the WotC reprint volume “Dungeons of Dread”, tells us this interesting tidbit about the module and how it fit into Gary Gygax’s original conception: “S4 The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth marked Read More
Love in the time of clerics
The possibility of death by disease was very real in history. I’ve often wondered how the presence of D&D-type healing magic might impact the course of an outbreak of some plague or other. Having a little bit of time on Read More
Is the Temple of Elemental Evil a Megadungeon?
Norman over at Troll and Flame thinks so. So do some of the commenters over at Grognardia. Personally, I disagree. It does touch on the definition of “megadungeon”, of course. To my mind, a “megadungeon” in the strictest sense lacks Read More
