This is the second post in a series of posts dedicated to reading and annotating every single 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Adventure. Today’s adventure is A2: Secret of the Slaver’s Stockage.

This is the first post in a series of posts dedicated to reading and annotating every single 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons Adventure. The adventure on the block today is A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity.

A while ago I had a great idea for a new campaign I was planning on. All the players would start out as hardened criminals incarcerated in a maximum security prison mine deep inside a mountain. The adventure started with a prison break. The characters would start out practically naked with no weapons in a hostile environment. Giant spiders and other hideous creatures could leap on them at…

From the moment I entered the convention center, I felt immersed in a massive chaotic swell of gaming culture–unreleased video games, photos with cosplayers, shiny new board games, walls of slick videos, back to back panels with gaming legends, creative indie games, marketers trying to shove useless crap in your hand every ten steps and everywhere you look, throngs of unapologetic gamers. Trying…