![]() Its just as deadly but has the patience to take its time with the PC's & this is 'Alice in Wonderland' translated by the lens of Gary Gygax. No this is the demi plane that feels like a fever dream happening all around your PC's. But Dungeonland isn't a place that ticks with the horrors of an 'in your face monster'. This demi plane is going to have to fight for existence among the myriad of planes. The idea of the decaying dream realm becoming parasitic.ĮX1 & EX2 are very high level adventures & have some quietly nasty surprises in store for the PC's & it makes sense. This is right in line with some of the themes of Edgar Allen Poe & even Clark Ashton Smith. If the realm of Dungeonland was a subrealm of Fairy or Fairyland then its quirky & deadliness makes a whole lot of sense. After all the barrel entrance to the realm was destroyed in Castle Greyhawk. What if Dungeonland got a bit more aggressive? What if this dreamland wanted out & got a bit greedy for its own sense of self preservation. Be damned if I can find it this morning but its out there. The fact that both of these worlds might be connected to the demi plane of dreams is out there floating on the internet. We know that Mystara & Blackmoor have adventure elements of "Alice in Wonderland" & Edgar Allen Poe in their background. But I'm not at all concerned about that instead I'm more interested in what happens to the demi plane of Dungeonland. ![]() So the official Castle Greyhawk is dust & rubble in the worlds of TSR. EX1: "Dungeonland" (1983) and EX2: "The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror"(1983) detailed the first of them." However, before he was forced to leave TSR, Gygax did manage to produce three adventures based on "demiplanes" - which were strange places that you could get to from Castle Greyhawk. Castle Greyhawk was thus perhaps the first actual D&D adventure location - which makes it all the more surprising that in the decade afterward, Gygax never produced a Castle Greyhawk supplement for TSR. ![]() Gary Gygax probably created Castle Greyhawk in late 1972, taking the idea of exploring dungeons beneath a castle from Dave Arneson's own Castle Blackmoor. Read the comments section the module's Drivethrurpg entry.) " About Castle Greyhawk. Reading through the EX1 Dungeonland product description on Drivethru rpg we get a solid history of the module's background in Gary Gygax's home game ( maybe it seems that there are some doubts about this but let's go with it. But where else are these module's tied to?! This question came up over the Christmas holiday speaking with friends. But its the idea that both EX1 "Dungeonland" & EX2: "The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror" exist as both mini campaign & as demi planes tied to Castle Greyhawk. But this is one of those module series with a quietly underlying fairytale madness to both modules laced with lots of Gary Gygax's warped sense of humor. It has a reputation for both deadliness & a sense of whimsy. EX1 Dungeonland by Gary Gygax is intimately tied in with Castle Greyhawk. I've been doing a lot of thinking about demi planes or specifically those associated with EX1 & EX2 for Dungeons & Dragons. Hoping everyone had a brilliant Christmas holiday or whatever your celebrating.
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