The Fellowship of the Thing has a ten-level mega-dungeon from the original Blackmoor era and the history of RPG dungeons.
It’s a system-neutral dungeon, but there are free samples for 5e and a flip-through movie for the 156 completed book. You can see more progress from Kickstarter.
Free samples? Yep! There’s the 11-page sample (PDF) and 1-page 5e teaser (PDF) too.
Greg Svenson was given a play-test copy of D&D in the summer of 1973, while Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax laboured to finish the manuscript. He applied the guidelines to his own adventure dungeon. Tonisborg is the Twin Cities group’s second-oldest Mega Dungeon. Svenson and Arneson set the dungeon in the world of Blackmoor, which is where Vestfold can be found.
Unfortunately, all copies of the maps were presumed to be lost or destroyed within just a few years. The maps became known as “The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg” or simply “Tonisborg.”
Decades later, when filming the documentary Secrets of Blackmoor, a mystery set of 10 old dungeon maps was discovered, which proved to be photocopies of Svenson’s originals.
Tonisborg is also a guide to being a better DM. Learn secret tips and tricks to effectively referee a dungeon adventure as an immersive theatrical experience for your players.
The book digs deep into the mysteries of being a game master. It breaks down what a game master does into easily understood concepts and explains why expert referees do what they do, accompanied by practical examples of how you can implement those techniques to improve your skills. Additionally, the book contains quotes and advice from the people who invented the game.
You can support the campaign by sharing it around, telling your friends, bragging that you found it first or through some cash pledges. Backers who pledge $5 will get video-on-demand access (for 72 hours) to the Secrets of Blackmoor.
A soft cover, and those 72 hours of Blackmoor history, unlock at $60, which is about £54, but it’ll only ship to some countries.
It takes a pledge of $100 to get the hardcover book or $140 to get a softcover and hardcover edition for completeness.
Some tiers have sold out, but a $3,000 first printing tier is limited to one person. Only 30 were made, and there’s only one left.
The estimated delivery of the project is February 2023.
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