The RPG Campaign Tour Challenge Day 5 prompt delves into campaign history. Day 5 – Can you tell us about the campaign’s history? In the real world and within the universe. Visit Nuketown’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026 Prompts page for the rest of our challenge posts. A long time ago … in Pennsylvania I’m … Read more
Day 4 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge asks “is there a map?” Is there a Map? Give us a visual! Show us a map of your setting! Don’t have one? WHY NOT?!? Visit Nuketown’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026 Prompts page for the rest of our challenge posts. Sourcing the Map The 2024 edition of the Dungeon … Read more
Day 3 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge asks … where the heck are we? The Greyhawk ’76 campaign takes place on the world of Oeryth. It’s an Alternative Material Plane version of Oerth, the default world in the classic Greyhawk setting. But the World of Greyhawk is a big place, and we’re adventuring in … Read more
On Day 2 of the RPG Campaign Tour Challenge, we get to meet our guide to Greyhawk ’76. The prompt: Day 2 – About your Tour GuideIntroduce us to a character who can serve as our guide through your campaign and its setting. Visit Nuketown’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026 Prompts page for the rest of our challenge … Read more
Just as I was itching to get back to writing on Nuketown, along came the perfect series of writing prompts via Barking Alien’s RPG Campaign Tour Challenge! For 28 days in February, the challenge asks folks to share the details of one of their RPG campaigns. I’ll be writing about Greyhawk ’76, my current weekly … Read more
Forge of Fury is my favorite published adventure, for sheer playability through two generations of gamers. The first time I encountered it, the Forge of Fury formed the foundation of our dwarven Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition campaign. We all played dwarves intent on reclaiming the forge for our clan, eventually re-establishing a hidden dwarven … Read more
My most memorable character demise was Zilanderan, at the hands of the resurgent Fire cultists of the Temple of Elemental Evil. He was a starting character in the Blackrazor’s Redshirts campaign, in which we all played first-level characters who belonged to the Blackrazor Guild (our fictional adventuring guild in the world of Greyhawk). We had … Read more
Out of all the many PCs I’ve played, Merywn the Spellsword is my favorite character. He was my second character for the Blackrazors’ Return to Temple of Elemental Evil campaign (aka the Redshirts campaign, featuring no-name, low-level minions of the Blackrazor Guild getting in WAY over their heads. My first character, Zilanderin, died at the … Read more
Vince Hendricks was my first RPG game master. There were other game masters before him, but Vince ran the first real, ongoing, sustained campaign I played in. Vince was my first college roommate – a senior when I was a sophomore (I transferred in that year) and he introduced me to a ton of gamers … Read more
My first RPG played this year was Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition, but that’s almost always the answer. I started 2023 by pitching my Elemental Apocalypse game to the Blackrazor Guild (my Sunday online game). The campaign asks the question: “What if the Temple of Elemental Evil rose … and the World of Greyhawk fell?” Eight months … Read more