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In Support of the Silver Prince

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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 us to this Herculean effort, though our own study of the text has been rewarding as well. In fact, 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.

Advanced Bundle of Adventures

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Peter Mullen cover for AA16 w/ Prisma Gothic filter.

In January of 2023 Bundle of Holding offered a large collection of Advanced Adventures, these being originally designed for AD&D 1e / OSRIC.

Always on the lookout for the next adventure for whatever campaign I’m currently running this bundle was irresistible, especially when a few comments on Redit mentioned how good some of this work was. SOLD!

However, the collection was delivered as 43 (!) separate pdf files without great detail on PC level range for each. So I set these aside without much attention.

3 months later I was starting to cast around for the next adventure for my bi-weekly Saturday game and went back to this collection, creating an index of sorts to better facilitate my review.

That index is available here. Perhaps others will find it useful as well.

As an aside – if you’ve run or played in any of these adventures I would love to hear your feedback about them. The google sheet above is shared with “commenter”privileges.