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.

17 March 2026

Black Blade Publishing Not Exhibiting at GaryCon in 2026

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Black Blade Publishing logo This is a modified version of the announcement that we sent to our OSR publishing friends and partners earlier t...
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09 March 2026

grodog's Approach to Designing Mega-Dungeons - Part 2: the Function of Size

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 ...or, a Meditation and Reflection on What grodog Likes Best about Playing in AD&D Mega-Dungeons Sean Bean on the futility of finishing...
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23 February 2026

grodog's Approach to Designing Mega-Dungeons - Part 1: the Maps

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...or, a Meditation and Reflection on What grodog Likes Best about Playing in AD&D Mega-Dungeons Introduction This post is my response t...
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30 January 2026

The Rime of Descending Ascent - Why to Plumb the Depths of Castle Greyhawk's Dungeon Levels

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In the original version of the Castle Greyhawk dungeons designed by Gary Gygax, he placed a set of runes that provided hidden guidance for t...
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01 November 2025

Resources Recommendation for Greyhawk's and Dave Arneson's Blackmoor

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Over in /r/osr/ , user acathiadm asked a question about the Egg of Coot : I am doing a take on the Egg of Coot, in Blackmore, Northern Gre...
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31 August 2025

Greyhawk News You Can Use - Harvester 2025 Edition

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I’m well-overdue for another Greyhawk news roundup , and a recent post by /u/talktoh in /r/Greyhawk prompted me to complete catchup on Gre...
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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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