From Kuroth's Quill -
grodog's AD&D blog

"From Kuroth’s Quill" is grodog's regular design column covering the elements of adventure design (and more-specifically dungeon design, given my interest in that topic). I will also wander through the design of spells and magic items; monsters, traps, tricks, and treasures; PC and NPC classes; planes and pantheons; and likely other topics as well. In the blog, I hope to provide practical examples that will be useful in campaign play, to show theory in action.

23 May 2025

Black Blade Publishing and the OSR Community

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...or, Why Does Black Blade Publishing Still Exist? Earlier this year, Jon Hershberger and I met to conduct some Black Blade Publishing  202...
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11 May 2025

grodog's Top 10 Favorite Greyhawk Adventures

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On tonight's Gabbin #353 "The Top Published Greyhawk Adventures!" show , Jay Scott, Anna Meyer, and Mike Bridges feature Erik...
22 April 2025

A Brief History on the Development and Design of the Planar Cosmology in AD&D

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I was reading a good discussion a couple of months ago (in February 2025) about the nomenclature for the power levels of different types of ...
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17 April 2025

The grodog Thither and Hither and Points Between

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While the blog and I have languished together in torpid stupor for quite some time now, the blog's silence did not originate in or from ...
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Allan T. Grohe Jr. has been playing D&D and other rpgs since 1977. Allan’s first professional gaming publication (“More for the Shadow Master”) appeared in White Wolf Magazine #11 in 1987; he has also contributed to The Unspeakable Oath, Pyramid, Polyhedron, and Dragon Magazine, among others. Allan co-founded Event Horizon Productions, and has worked extensively with Biohazard Games (Blue Planet, Upwind), Pagan Publishing (Call of Cthulhu publisher of Delta Green), Different Worlds Publications (Tadashi Ehara), and Pied Piper Publishing (Robert J. Kuntz). Allan co-founded Black Blade Publishing with Jon Hershberger in 2009. Allan’s editorial, design, and development work has contributed to winning one Origins Award and securing four Origins Award nominations, winning one ENnie Award and two ENnie Award nominations. Allan is known online as grodog, where he publishes a website featuring Greyhawk D&D content, as well as his non-gaming writing (poetry, personal essays, and literary scholarship), and the usual fan ephemera. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his lovely wife Heather, their two boys Ethan and Henry, and their two pugs Tara and Gypsy.
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