by Shardra

Water

by MichaelLavoie

Many years ago, two of the players in my long-running multi-edition D&D campaign stopped by my house for a visit on a non-game evening. After a chat, they asked if I could run something for their PCs. I had recently bought this item and had been looking through it for ideas and adventure seeds, so I picked out one of the encounter cards (about an apprentice wizard causing trouble in his master's town) and came up with a quick adventure for them. Things went far better than I could have hoped, and we all had a great time...such a great time that I felt the need to use the session as the basis for a story. This would not be the last time that a spur-of-the-moment session with these two would lead to a memorable evening of gaming, but this was the only one that I wrote a story around.

Before I get into the actual story, I wanted to fill in some background. The town of Marley, in and around which the action takes place, was based on (as in "ripped off from") an adventure called Tower of the Dead for the RPG Powers & Perils. "Marley" is the town of "Porta" from that module, altered slightly to fit the game system and the needs of my campaign world. Several other RPG items provided ideas for the setting. For instance, the tower of the Wizard, Glennan, was inspired by an illustration in the rulebook for Man, Myth & Magic, while the creature that I named "Regehr" was from FOR1: Draconomicon. Both of these items were long-established parts of my setting, and having the them available added much to the evening's fun.

I "published" the tale in my zine for the APA Interregnum in three installments. They appeared in issues 17, 18, and 19 from December 1995 through March 1996. Although the action took place in one game session, I will maintain the same format for reporting here because a single report would be prohibitively long. The installments will be presented as they appeared in the APA, with the occasional correction for some typos that I found upon re-reading.

by akoryukov

<div>Russian edition PDF Front cover</div>

by worldofstyria

<div>The Isle Beyond the Mist — Front Cover</div>

by worldofstyria

<div>Styria Player’s Primer: Explorer Edition — Front Cover</div>

by Steve Dubya

<div>Front Cover from PDF</div>

by balzi

Banned for limiting impossible crimes in any way and for all colours of goo.

by Brandizzle

It's already being done. People leave their posts to die. We appreciate that the mods help clean things up from time to time. It wouldn't hurt to do it more often actually.

by SamNZed

master_tactician wrote:

Thanks for the list Sam, and thanks for having us Meatballs!

New Phoenix list here, feel free to still stop by: GCL Phoenix 815 - Decline and Fall (16 August 2026)

See you in the future

by Bahdom

selwyth wrote:

If you find out an item is no longer available and has already changed hands, you can message the moderators to delete it if the seller doesn’t.

Can we not do this? Not sure why we'd delete someone's post based on what a third party has said.

A new episode has been added to the database: QK407: Home Field Advantage

A new episode has been added to the database: Community Radio (Pt. 2 of 2)