In Support of the Silver Prince

Wieliczka Salt Mine, Galicia; ARTIST Name: Rocault, Jules; BOOK Title: Les merveilles de l’industrie, vol. 1; Author(s): Figuier, Louis; Publisher: Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, 1873

I’ve been running a bi-weekly game for a group of regular players for the past 5 years. This year we’ve been engaged in a historians’ exercise of AD&D 1e “rules as written”. Anthony Huso has been our librarian who has introduced to this Herculean effort, though our own study of the text has been rewarding. I have been publishing my own AD&D 1e learnings here on this blog when I have something worthwhile to share.

We are playing Huso’s epic “Castle of the Silver Prince”. This campaign begins at level 0 and includes all the nuisanced AD&D stuff: training, weapon speed, combat segments, percent based reaction rolls and more.

The campaign does refer to an abandoned ruby mine as an adventure location, but is unkeyed. As our play moved closer and closer to the ruby mine I experimented with actually keying an AD&D 1e dungeon.

You can find that key along with some notes on how I approached the work here.

You can find a summary of our campaign events here, recorded an managed by Archivist AI.

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