Wampus Country: Getting Worse
House rules do two things. First, they smooth over a problem which has cropped up in a group's use of the rules. Secondly, they mold behav...| wampuscountry.blogspot.com
Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as much as the crusading paladin known as Von Hoff.| Wampus Country
My fellow wizards, adventuring-frontiersmen, and priests of suitable repute - we have gathered here today in this dubious saloon to cogitate. To place together our mighty brains, and come up with a solution, a path, a strategy to confront that which is ailing our beloved Wampus Country.| Wampus Country
Typically when people first read Edgar Rice Burroughs, it's the big three - Tarzan, John Carter, and maybe Pellucidar. These are the best-known Burroughs for good reason, but there are some second-tier books I've read recently that I really enjoyed. There are also plenty of homages, continuations, and pastiche that might be worth looking at as well. Below, a few I've recently digested.| Wampus Country
Dragon vs Giant action from Frost Giant's Fury| Wampus Country
Gunsi the Squirrel, my son's fighter, pushed through a good bit of adventure during the lockdown and post-lockdown period. Since we were running a single PC, I was using lower-level published TSR-era material as a skeleton to challenge a fifth-, then sixth-level 5e PC. Gunsi has been searching for his missing sister for some time in the campaign, and he wanted to follow rumors about a squirrel city in the Lumberlands. In order to get to the Lumberlands most directly, Gunsi elected to tr...| Wampus Country
This post contains spoilers for TSR-era modules. | Wampus Country
If you haven't checked out the new online rpg store in town, Big Geek Emporium, you should. It's early days but this is a good time to stress-test the place and investigate products from small presses with which you may not be familiar. And some you know - I uploaded some Wampus Country pdfs up there as well. I picked up some stuff at the Emporium last night, including Colony of Death (which I already had somewhere) - so I want to tell you a bit about these adventures.| Wampus Country
There's so much material out there for D&Dlike games, it's almost impossible to be exposed to all of it. In aid of this dilemma, today I want to highlight a particular issue of DAMN magazine.| Wampus Country
In 2017, for TridentCon, we attempted to run The Golden Crab Mallet Awards - clearly the premiere rpg-related awards process. We solicited pdf entries in two categories: "Free Product" and "Fun Adventure". That was it. We had five judges, three from TridentCon, and two volunteers from The Internet. The nominees would be read by the judges, there would be voting, and the winners would be announced at TridentCon 2017, showering great prestige upon those who wore the laurels.| Wampus Country
The other day, frolicking in the pool, our six-year-old was going on and on about some kind of imaginary Egyptian adventure, with pyramids, mummies that tried to eat him, and 'ancient autographs' (I presume he meant artifacts, but what do I know). The result, of course, is this blogpost. First, some cannibal mummies... we tend to associate flesh-eating with zombies, and blood-drinking with vampires, but then there are those great scenes in the modern version of The Mummy where Imhotep re...| Wampus Country
In reading through all these Giant-related adventures and sourcebooks, occasionally some ideas sparked - things I would want to try, were I writing up some adventure sites for each of the classic Giants. | Wampus Country
Here we are, wrapping up #JULYGANTIC - a whole month of giants.| Wampus Country
GIANT LORE| Wampus Country
Today's read-through is of the Frog God adventure In Vino Gigantus, penned by TridentCon attendee James Spahn. It's for lower-level 5e characters. Let's read!| Wampus Country
Dark Clouds Gather is an AD&D adventure for levels 7-9, produced by TSR UK. There is a lot going on here, and there are cloud giants in it, so that's my excuse to read through it thoroughly now. Plenty of people suggest the TSR UK stuff is better than many of the US-produced modules of the time - let's see.| Wampus Country
I didn't play or run any of Season Three of D&D Adventurers League, but I know there was a bit with fire giants, so I grabbed those episodes and got to reading. Same goal as before - is there anything here worth stealing?| Wampus Country
Pathfinder has a giant-focused Adventure Path called Giantslayer. Let's take a look.| Wampus Country
Colossus, Arise is a Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure by Harley Stroh. It's ostensibly for Level 8 DCC characters, which might mean something like level 15ish AD&D characters or the equivalent. It's a suitably high-level jam. Let's read!| Wampus Country
Broodmother Skyfortress was celebrated on release because everybody liked Jeff Rients and his blog (fair enough). Unfortunately, I don't think it's much of an adventure (here comes the hate mail, and I could use the clicks I guess). | Wampus Country
If you hop over to DriveThru, there's a lot of giant-related content available. Lists, stock art, battlemaps, and of course adventures. I've selected a few to look at here; being a sucker for cloud giants, it's mostly cloud giant stuff. Are all published cloud giant flying-castles basically the same? It turns out...pretty much yes.| Wampus Country
Cloud giants! Storm giants! Today we take a look at some more adventures featuring the sky giants as well as cloud islands.| Wampus Country
At this point we've spent a goodly amount of time talking about Storm King's Thunder and the DDAL adventures that go along with it:| Wampus Country
Frost giants seem to get the most play - is it the viking thing? Strong elemental flavoring + the viking thing probably does it. Let's take a look at a few more frost giant-related adventures.| Wampus Country
Nestled in the pages of Dragon issue #90, Aesirhamar by Roger E. Moore is an AD&D adventure for characters of 9th or higher level.| Wampus Country
Although I ran the entire Parnast sequence from DDAL's Season 5, I didn't run any of the other stuff save this first adventure we'll talk a...| wampuscountry.blogspot.com
Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as much as the crusading paladin known as Von Hoff.| wampuscountry.blogspot.com
House rules do two things. First, they smooth over a problem which has cropped up in a group's use of the rules. Secondly, they mold behav...| wampuscountry.blogspot.com
