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Here’s where we wrap everything up. Apologies – this is a rather long one, but I think it’s worth it. Previous installments: Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4 As laid out in a previous installment, we have the four Elemental Power Read More
This series is coming fast and furious, I know! This is how it works sometimes. I’ve been knocking around these themes on the blog for more than a decade, but now it’s all coming together. I think I’ve been looking Read More
In the previous installments of this series (Part 1, Part 2), we established that the Temple of Elemental Evil was built where it was because of the presence of the Elder Elemental God’s “anomaly”. I posited that it was the Read More
I think I’m finally closing in on the connection between T1-4 Temple of Elemental Evil (ToEE) and D1-3 Descent into the Depths of the Earth/Vault of the Drow. In my previous installment, I went through the timeline of the two Read More
One thing I noticed is that my proposed “Machete Order” for the early Greyhawk modules is that it rather neatly solves a problem that had cropped up in some of my earlier ruminations. To wit, it allows the contents of Read More
A few weeks ago, I puzzled through the chronological sequence of some of the iconic adventure modules of early D&D and the Greyhawk setting; the Giants/Drow/Queen of Spiders series, the Temple of Elemental Evil, and the Slave Lords adventures. Now, Read More
