Dungeons and Dragons Blog

My all time favorite campaign setting is Forgotten Realms. I remember hearing it was coming out in the early 80s only to wait and wait. At the time, all we had was Greyhawk. Then it came out and I rushed out and picked it up. I want to say it was 1985. To this day, I still have that box set and refer to it constantly. Since then I’ve also bought the 3E hardcover, but the old boxed set is one of the things that didn’t get destroyed in a flood or just plain disappeared.

And one of the coolest settings within the Realms was Undermountain. TSR turned the dungeon into two boxed sets, pretty much making it the largest dungeon ever. Both of these box sets are on my wish list to pick up over at RPGnow.com.

In the meantime, Wizards.com’s Forgotten Realms page is taking us back to Undermountain. There’s a very cool into., along with some beginning maps. You can check these out here:

Introduction
Room 1 – The Bottom of the Well
Room 2 – Down on their Luck

Very cool stuff. The Intro gives you the option of downloading the map of the first level. I don’t know if they’re going to keep putting out free stuff, or if this is going to lead to a “Return to Undermountain” setting. Either way, I’m taking advantage and downloading this stuff for future use.

Alright, I’m just getting back into the D&D scene, and I was checking out Wizard of the Coasts forums where I found a reference to an awesome site called RPGnow.com. You can get just about anything via PDF. I bought two classic modules that would have fetched a nice dime on Ebay. Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth is a very cool outdoor/indoor module. I remember playing this one as a kid and remember the archnemesis at the end pretty well.

I also picked up the supermodule Temple of Elemental Evil. Very cool module that can basically be an entire campaign.

Mine was always the Desert of Desolation series. I haven’t bought the Sandstorm supplement yet, but that’s right up my alley. Feel free to post your favorite module in the comments section.

Welcome to my little piece of the internet. I’m a huge D&D fan, and I just wanted to start this blog as a meeting place for players and DMs alike to post their ideas and thoughts. I’m busy at work through the middle of April, but I hope to post regularly and provide an interactive environment to fans of the game.

I grew up playing D&D in the early 80s and cut my teeth on Keep on the Borderlands and the Basic and Expert boxed sets. I moved on to Advanced D&D, and I still have my collection of marked up first edition D&D hardcovers. Eventually I want to put an inventory of everything I have up on the site to make it a discussion point.