At the dawn of time we played around the kitchen table with a mishmash of rules. I thought these were just how the game was played. In reality how the game was played varied quite a lot, almost everything was house rules. One of the rules that we used a lot was the Critical Hit…

Here is my answer to the Tomb of Horrors. This is dungeon is mostly traps and has a bit of a Raiders of the Lost Ark vibe. Good for any type of party from 1st to 3rd level. Lower level parties will find the traps more dangerous. Clever players should be able to negotiate the…

The Runes of Doom was the third book by Dave Hargrave in the Arduin series. Originally there was a trilogy of: Dave Hargrave went on to publish more books in the Arduin line be I think these came later. You can read my reviews the first two books: Arduin Grimoire and Welcome to Skull Tower.…

Welcome to Skull Tower the Arduin Grimoire Volume 2 is the second book by Dave Hargrave. Published in 1978 following the Arduin Grimoire. Similar to the first book it was a self published zine style book 100+ pages in length. Content Looking at the Arduin books provides window into the minds of people who writing…

The Arduin Grimoire is book of variant rules for D&D published by Dave Hargrave in 1977. Arduin is the name of Dave’s “setting” for his weekly Dungeons and Dragons campaign. I guess the story is that Greg Stafford, of Chaosium and RuneQuest fame, played in Dave’s campaign and asked him to publish his house rules…