The Overgrowth The third layer of Darkbriar, the realm of Zagralath, strongly resembles a typical chunk of the mortal realm. There are small forests, rolling hills, a meandering river or two, lakes, and plains… all covered with twisting brambles, briars, … Continue reading →
Needlemire The second of the layers of Darkbriar, home of Zagralath the Barbed Lord, Needlemire is a vast swamp, set beneath a sky forever locked in evening. A dim and flickering sun remains always on the horizon, and the light … Continue reading →
Icethorn It cannot truly be called a "maze", for a maze implies a mere two dimensions. Like the rest of Darkbriar, Icethorn extends in every direction, plants with no roots and no surface, a sprawling labyrinth of needles to impale … Continue reading →
Darkbriar, Part I Well, time is limited for me to work on this site, so I am combining two "regular" features for this week — Breakfast Crunch and the Abyss Project. This week I’m planning on doing a fairly complex … Continue reading →
Clambering Hordes Some not-quite-undead minions; full details on them can be found here: Ghoul-ash, Part III. Actual stats found after the break.
Continue reading →Ghoul-ash, Part III You can tell I grew up on bad horror movies with bad horror hosts shown at 3:00 on Sunday afternoon, can’t you? For Part III, I figured since the DMG2 includes guidelines for traps and minions, it … Continue reading →
Underdweller Cryptguard And Gravepriest Two more Underdwellers! The Cryptguard is a reasonable fighter in his own right, but his real strength is as a guardian for his allies — he is hard to get past if properly positioned, and if … Continue reading →
Underdweller Cryptguard And Gravepriest Two more Underdwellers! The Cryptguard is a reasonable fighter in his own right, but his real strength is as a guardian for his allies — he is hard to get past if properly positioned, and if … Continue reading →
Underdwellers, Part II Not too much to add by way of introduction, here. A few general notes on using these monsters: If the idea of a relatively passive race of corpse-eating monstrosities isn’t interesting enough, one nice variant is to alter … Continue reading →
Underdweller Harvester The harvesters are the most commonly encountered Underdwellers, as they must venture near to the surface to retrieve the newly buried before the meat is lost to rats and others. Their claws are rich in painful pestilences, and … Continue reading →