Blog of Forlorn Encystment
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.
Monday, September 15, 2025
It Did Not End with a Mere Slaying of Ogres: Treasure as a Source of Challenge in D&D
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It's easy to think of treasure as purely reward - the player characters have overcome the challenges of the dungeon or wilderness and ha...
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Monday, September 8, 2025
Appendix N of Forlorn Encystment
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This post is part of the Appendicitis N blog bandwagon , originally put forth by Marcia of Traverse Fantasy . The challenge to bloggers was ...
Friday, September 5, 2025
Retired Adventurers Long for the Dungeon
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From the AD&D 1e DMG, page 106: It is an assumption that high-level player characters with strongholds "will desire some dungeon ma...
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Friday, August 29, 2025
Adventurers Are a Threat to the Established Order
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An excerpt from the AD&D DMG, under MONSTER POPULATIONS AND PLACEMENT , page 91: I found this paragraph interesting for a few reasons. ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Good Henchmen are Hard to Find
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Apparently my special interest now is writing about the annoying mundanities of AD&D city/town life - taxes , tolls , intentionally misl...
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