Mazirian's Garden

This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s Gradient Descent in my Mothership home campaign.

This post is about how I now writeup wandering monsters.

There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you.

Mothership has a wonderful character creation process, where a few random “flavor” rolls both convey a lot about the setting, as well as tantalizing suggestions about the character.

For our purposes let’s just say that lore is “setting background”: information about the setting of a campaign.

I have big news for the future of Through Ultan’s Door.

Two Problems Although I haven’t exactly been quiet for the last few years—I’ve created a supplement about downtime and a launched a first season of a podcast on megadungeons—I have been stuck on releasing new issues of Through Ultan’s Door.

The system of downtime actions I created is individual by design, built as a counterbalance to OSR games where the action is focused relentlessly on cooperative exploration, so that characters might develop as individuals and chart their own path between…

I had some more thoughts on downtime I wanted to share.

Art by Evlyn Moreau I have been using my downtime system, published in Downtime in Zyan and originally presented across this blog here, for my face to face dreamlands campaign.

In this special Halloween episode, I interview Miranda Elkins about her long-running Nightwick Abbey campaign--a dungeon literally possessed by a demon!

I’m very excited for the upcoming Halloween Special episode of Into the Megadungeon, “Literally From Hell”, where I interview Miranda Elkins about her long running Nightwick Abbey campaign.

This morning when I sent out Episode 6 of Into the Megadungeon, the audio for the episode was broken.

I’m very excited to present the first of two blood curdling October episodes of the podcast.

In this episode, I interview Nick L.S.

In episode 4 of Into the Megadungeon, “The Human Element”, I interview Josh McCrowell about his eight year megadungeon campaign, and his forthcoming megadungeon ruleset, His Majesty the Worm.

Hull Breach: Volume 01 (available here) is a 3rd party companion for Mothership, the ttrpg of space horror in the tradition of Alien and Event Horizon.

I have another episode and reader notes to share with you!

I'm very excited to release Episode 2 of my podcast Into the Megadungeon.

I am excited to share the very first episode “Mysteries” of my brand new podcast Into the Megadungeon, where I interview veteran GMs about their amazing megadungeon campaigns, campaigns focused on a single adventuring location with 100’s of rooms spread a…

I listened to the “expert delve” segment of this episode of Fear of a Black Dragon (starts around the 28 min mark) with great interest.

I was on Google + for five years.

By the time you read this, I will have recorded three episodes and a trailer of Into the Megadungeon, my new podcast exploring megadungeon games.

Missives from Beyond the Veil of Sleep First off, given the impending collapse of twitter, and the continuing general crumbling of social media, I've decided to start a newsletter called Ultan's Door: Missives from Beyond the Veil of Sleep.

So, Dungeon23 is rolling along.