I have not blogged in what seems an age but for good reason.
Most blogs which fail their save versus death are the result of work, family
and just life in general. I obviously fall into this category since my blog is
covered in the dust of the ancients.
This summer our local circle of gamers (several dozen of us)
will be running our 2nd private CON. It will be a story driven event which
combines over three decades of my campaign world. That alone has virtually
gobbled up my time just in preparation for the event. However I was able to
cobble together an entry for the One Page Dungeon Contest which you will find
below. I decided to go with a wacky idea I had years ago which I also submitted
to Dungeon Magazine.
Of course I received a rejection letter which stated my
ideas were too outlandish for Dungeon. I was basically told by the editor that
they wanted more vanilla adventures which could be inserted into any campaign
world. I live outside the box so that of course left me with a raised eyebrow.
Alas, was it Asimov who had his apartment walls covered in rejection letters? I often think of that as inspiration. Nevertheless below is a very condensed version of the original idea:
I was going for an old school feel with my blue map and
title play on words. The adventure has to be system neutral hence the lack of
mechanical information. I just found out this year about the contest and Alex
Schroeder, et al deserve a big salute for putting it together.
In other news a friend of mine and regular in our gaming
group, Daniel Ireland went to Reapercon and scored a Bronze Medal for his
entry. I just wanted to give him some extra kudos because I know how hard he
worked on this miniature (the picture does it no justice).
The miniature is based on one of the characters in our epic 4E campaign known as Grimm.
