Smudge Marks & Engel Werks Flash of Steel Wargame [space] Playing at the World Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories CRRPG Addict Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Grumble Jones Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Ravens N’ Pennies Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsTSR’s eighth FR-series module was odd even by the standards of the odder entries in the series. It was a slim boxed set, containing a booklet of advice about how to run city adventures, four sheets of miniatures-scale maps (meant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the original Forgotten Realms boxed set, Evermeet is a somewhat mysterious place off the map, where the elves have slowly been retreating to as their continental holdings fall. It’s impossible not to compare with Tolkien at that point, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sequel to SSI’s first D&D computer game was a little odd in that it was also a sequel to the novel Azure Bonds. On top of that, the TSR adaption of the game into a module carried the code[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
TSR’s seventh FR-series module went into unusual territory again. A 128-page perfect bound book, it was one of the first products to sport a 2nd Edition logo, though the interior stats are all still first edition (magic-user, not mage, etc.).[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1988 SSI released the first of their celebrated “Gold Box” games, Pool of Radiance. TSR cashed in on their new AD&D and Forgotten Realms tie-in with a novel… loosely… based on the game, and 96-page adventure module, Ruins of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The sixth FR-series supplement headed east, extending the detail maps of the Forgotten Realms another panel to the east of the original boxed set ones (while jogging slightly south), and hit the eastern edge of the large map in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Bloodstone adventure series came to a conclusion with H4 The Throne of Bloodstone in 1988. While nowhere near as elaborate a production as H1, with its thin box, BattleSystem counters and 3D-Adventure buildings, it was still more elaborate than[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In 1985 TSR released Oriental Adventures, a new AD&D hardcover geared towards adventuring outside the normal tropes of Western Medieval Fantasy. Unusually for TSR and AD&D, it also contained the outline of a setting, called Kara-Tur, instead of saying as little[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another year, another Bloodstone module. By 1987, the Forgotten Realms had become a TSR property, but the original box set was still a month away when H3 The Bloodstone Wars was printed, so the back cover got the soon-to-be-familiar gold[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fifth FR-series book not only returned to the geography of the Realms, but returned to presenting an area that had already gotten a boost from the rest of the line. It was also a return to “The North” of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…