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Album, 70 inspiring real world Caves & Caverns

(and one inexplicable inclusion...)

Have you seen "AFK", the webseries?

Until now, I've never been impressed with "OMG, I woke up as my character in an RPG" treatments, but I think this one is really cool. Impressive production values, (mostly) great acting, and addresses interesting aspects of the premise.  I particularly enjoyed the realistic treatment of the preposterous circumstance...  What would it be like if you were playing a character of the opposite gender?  Or were running multiple characters?  What if other players were noobs, or young children?  How would dickish internet players react to the situation? 

Check out playlists, seasons 1 and 2, plus extras!

That Time When We Scored a Ring of Three Wishes

That time back in the day, trying to tackle the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl with too few PCs, because the G-Series is LOADED with loot... and we soon stumbled across the lair of the Remorhaz on the floor of the Rift, and had to use nearly all our Healing, after it beat hell out of the Party...  That's when we found the Ring of Three Wishes, and started spouting all manner of wacky ideas, and I suggested,

"Let's Wish that all the Magic Items within a ten 

mile radius be Teleported to a pile at our feet!"

Our DM just stared at me, and I followed with, "What?!  We'll still explore the module!"

I was flatly disallowed, which came as no surprise, but I still laugh when I think of the look on his face, and think of how much fun it would have been to storm the Jarl's lair, plunged into chaos as all magic stuff just disappeared, and then slaughter every inhabitant with a massive arsenal of their own magic... and not, as it turned out, be caught in a massive glacier collapse, as the result of a foolish Earthquake Spell...

Link o' the Day: https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page

Dungeon Map, using two free programs

Pretty cool smaller dungeon!  Totally free, quick, and nice quality.  :)

Did the walls, doors, stairs using GridMapper, then used Microsoft Paint for text and numbering, and also to shade the solid areas gray.  I hadn't known that the Paint 'fill by color' feature (paint bucket icon) could be used to fill selected grid squares until today, and it worked out pretty well, I think!  Using a number of colors might be a cool way to designate special features, pools, lava, etc.

This is for an adventure I may never finish, most of it is written but not edited, so if you're wondering,"Where the hell is the entrance?", room #1 is shaped like a pyramid; the four walls slope steeply upward to converge at a 10x10' apex which is an opening to the surface.  It is a 60' vertical drop from the entry to the floor of the chamber.  The Primordial Ones simply fly/levitate in and out like hornets from the hive, but the Party may find entry (and exit!) more difficult!  Plenty of space to add in a staircase, if you like... or use the entire thing as a sub-level below a pit trap!