Eleven Foot Pole

I thought I should get around to formally conceding there's nothing going on on Eleven Foot Pole. * Yes, I am well and alive and happy. ...

A mini-post, for Saturday: Between my writing here, the several games of Keep on the Shadowfell I've played in or run, and the discussi...

There's not much to say about this encounter so I'll keep it brief. The Hall of Howling Pillars is a straightforward ambush. Player...

Here's the thing: when the players win, the DM doesn't lose. The second of Baphomet's tests is called the Hall of the Crimson Wh...

I'm having a very busy real-life week which isn't leaving a lot of time for blogging, but so you don't all just assume I've ...

I give these modules a lot of grief for not making sense. Thunderspire has more than its fair share of contrived plots, half-baked schemes a...

Here is something that the Well of Demons does well: building tension. Without a doubt the best section of Thunderspire Labyrinth is the Pro...

Building an encounter in 4th Edition requires more than just slapping some level-appropriate monsters together and calling it a success. We...

I think the statblock for the Barlgura changed between Thunderspire Labyrinth being conceived and typeset. There's a couple of reasons ...

4th Edition has new treasure rules. The days of rolling up random treasure hoards are over; under the new regime the words "Treasure Ty...

The Seven-Pillared Hall plays home to several subterranean trading cartels; one of them is the Deepgem Company, owned by the dwarven cleri...

I don't normally post on a Sunday, so as to save my work for when people are actually reading , but seeing as people seemed to apprecia...

Just a quick note to let you know my post " No Roll To Hit: Rationale " is featured in the July 2009 RPG Blog Carnival over at 6...

Look, gnolls aren't a bad monster, but putting them next to demons just doesn't do them any favours. Unless the DM has been making ...

Last time we looked at the 4th Edition grappling rules I was a little dismissive . I described the "grab" action as "an exce...

The third and most significant mini-dungeon in Thunderspire Labyrinth is the Well of Demons. That's a dramatic name. It's got ...

Time for a a long overdue response to the most recent Eleven Foot Poll, which shows that you like playing leaders a lot, but strikers ever s...

Bonus post time: a certain someone has been poking me via email to mention the Demon Prince of Undeath conversion on Eleven Foot Pole. I ne...

Here we are, two thirds of the way through Thunderspire Labyrinth , and the module's Big Evil has yet to show himself. It's a sad st...

Today, instead of me being too lazy to do a post, you get this picture of the world's cutest displacer beast. It's arted by Wuffie,...

They can't all be winners. After three genuinely excellent side treks, the fourth and final encounter presented in Dungeon #156 is m...

The Houses of Silence is another side-trek from Dungeon Magazine #156 , which takes players to a kind of minotaur graveyard far to the west ...

I cannot express with the English language how glad I am to be done with the Horned Hold . But before we move on, let's take a look at a...

I am a great fan of focus. The developers of Thunderspire Labyrinth are not. Nowhere is this more clear than in the pantheon of evil deitie...

There are two ways to get to the Slave Pits; one involves taking the passage through the wights and the empty crypts to reach the Slave Pi...