There is so much chaotic bar dnd shenanigans that led to this that I wouldn't know where to begin but here's a fun poster I made for my bar dnd crew of The Dankening. A 6 week ordeal of all different tables of people attempting to thwart an evil reverse-centaur, Dank Dave, from taking over the world.
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DnD March 2
Day 16: Orcus
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14. Gary Gygax and Brian Blume - Supplement III - Eldritch Wizardry (1976)
After the rules supplements Greyhawk and Blackmoor, we get the first one which is not titled after a setting but promises to give us some wizardry stuff. While that's not a complete lie, the truth is that what it is concerned about mostly is Psionics... and what a needlessly complicated thing that is. There's a reason why Psionics did not stick around and that's because it just adds another layer of complication to the rules that kind of make it very unwieldy.
However the supplement isn't all about psionics, there are a bunch of things that did stick around the rules up until today, and particularly things about the lore of D&D that first appear here which are emblematic of the game's universe. First you get the new class of Druid, together with Druidic spells, a lot of the new Psionic powers would also later become spells, so that's a part that sticks around.
In terms of lore you get a bunch of named monsters like Orcus or the Demogorgon that come straight out of Gygax's Greyhawk setting and would still be showing up in Stranger Things in the 2020s. Speaking of Stranger Things you also get the first references to Vecna here, with item descriptions for the Hand and Eye of Vecna, two truly nasty artifacts that give great power at great cost. A mix of bad ideas (psionics) and great ideas (everything else), worth a look.
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A scene from out Our of the Abyss campaign as a gift for our DM - Orcus horrors!
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A movie poster-style Commission for my DM of the Orcus Arc of Out of the Abyss Campaign.
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Paper miniatures are awesome.
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Orcus’s Doorman’ (detail) by Keith Parkinson (1987)
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The below is an excerpt from a choose-your-own-adventure story I've been running through my Instagram. My followers voted through my story poll to decide the direction, and they wanted to know a Demons backstory:
'You wish to know my story do you, well I AM flattered' The feverish heat that has surrounded you since HE mentioned the Anti-Magus and Yorick's betrayal settles into a comforting warmth. 'We have not time for my story in full, but I will tell you it's beginning: In the deepest of realms and in a deeper time still, I was an apprentice to the Grand Architect of Gehenna; a crafter of temples, palaces, and cities that could rival those of the Seven Heavens in their splendour. I was sent to Urth by this Master to steal an idol from a ruined temple to forgotten gods, to be used as some profane centrepiece of a new palace. I was discovered and bound by a sorcerer within that same temple. Using a signet and spells he had divined from the Heavenly Host, the wizard tried to extract my true name. This was the time before the magic of binding was fully understood by men you see, so I was granted a single lie. I gave him the name of my master in place of my own, and the wizard thought he had captured the Grand Architect of Hell and set me to work in such a capacity. While other demons may have railed at this capture, I saw an opportunity to make my mark as no demon ever had - to become a Grand Architect not of hell, but of Urth itself. This wizards vision was narrow, he only wanted me to restore the former glory of the temple. I told him I would craft him not just a mere church, but a holy city that would span from sea to sea, a place truly fit for his gods. With the help of his signet ring I bound a thousand spirits of the land, air, and sea to my cause and for him I built the foundation of what would become the Goetic Empire."
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I looked at my inbox and literally went "why are there so many fucking emails." Anyways forced my guy Orcus to face the same pain I do in college
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