Earth AD: Alpha Edition 1!
Earth AD — Alpha Edition 1! OK, it’s here. I finally said "To hell with it." and just did what every good publisher does — burn what’s on the hard disk and call it a release. Assuming I do this … Continue reading →
024 The Carven Spires
The Carven Spires Seen through a scrying mirror, or from some other secure vantage point, this layer of the Abyss possesses some measure of eerie beauty. It is a realm of tall, graceful, spires of stone, in a dozen shades … Continue reading →
The Demonblooded
The Demonblooded Tieflings. Somehow, they’ve gone from being the result of hot demon-on-human sex to being a race of emo posers. Hell, they even dropped the whole idea of Yeenoghu or Orcus or the occasional Marilith getting their freak on … Continue reading →
023 The Oozing Sea
The Oozing Sea It heaves, lurches, and moves, almost like a living thing — which, perhaps, it is. Hundreds of miles across, ringed by craggy cliffs of black glass and dotted, here and there, by daggerlike islands, the Ooozing Sea … Continue reading →
Ye Gods!
Ye Gods! One of my favorite memories of AD&D, First Edition, was the section in the original Deities&Demigods regarding non-human deities — by which I mean the gods of the hobgoblins, trolls, kobolds, and so on. The long series of … Continue reading →
022 The Plains Of Iron
The Plains Of Iron Gray land beneath gray sky. They stretch beneath a sun the color of dried blood, always waiting at eternal late afternoon. The vast flatness is broken by occasional low, worn, hills, or bisected by a flowing … Continue reading →
021 The Midnight Depths
The Midnight Depths There’s darkness. And then there’s something else, something that is to ordinary darkness as darkness is to light. This darkness is not merely the lack of light, but a force unto itself, light-devouring. It can be found … Continue reading →
020 The Clockwork Hive
The Clockwork Hive Something continues to grow in the Abyss, a new power, once which the elder Demon Lords do not seem to comprehend. In the twisting tumult, it infests one plane after another, slowly gaining a foothold in many … Continue reading →
019 The Flaying Tempest
The Flaying Tempest The Flaying Tempest, sometimes called the Cyclone of Blades, the Knifestorm, Razorwind, and so on, is one of the many planes of the Abyss which doesn’t even pretend to mock the shape or form of the mortal … Continue reading →
018 Nugraal’s Arena
Nugraal’s Arena Nugraal’s Arena is an unusual layer, in that it is not controlled, technically, by demons. Nugraal, often called Nugraal Paingaze or Nugraal of the Black Diamond, is a medusa death knight of tremendous power, who struck a bargain … Continue reading →