Lords of Darkness

by Ed Greenwood, Scott Martin Bowles (Editor)

Genres: Fantasy, Dungeons and Dragons, Games, Role Playing Games

Paperback

First published February 1, 1989

About the author

Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms fantasy world, which became the setting for his home D&D game in 1975. Play still continues in this long-running campaign, and Ed also keeps busy producing Realmslore for various TSR publications.

Ed has published over two hundred articles in Dragon magazine and Polyhedron newszine, is a lifetime charter member of the Role Playing Game Associaton (RPGA) network, has written over thirty books and modules for TSR, and been Gen Con Game Fair guest of honor several times.

In addition to all these activities, Ed works as a library clerk and has edited over a dozen small press magazines.

Invented the character Elminster from the popular Forgotten Realms RPG series. Currently resides in an old farmhouse in the countryside of Ontario, Canada.

Reviews

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bit of a mixed bag. There's a bunch of small adventures, although some are more vignettes than adventures. They're by a variety of authors, so the quality also varies. Some are admirably clear about 'if the party does this, go here' kind of flowchart. Others are sometimes muddled in their descriptions of how a trap works or a monster behaves.

The non-adventure lore stuff is interesting, adds a bit of color to the types of undead. And some suggested variations on level-drain for those DMs whose players would just revolt upon losing a level are welcome. Occasional non-intentional comedy though, when one of the authors, in what was presumably an attempt to be as Dark and Evil as possible, specified "virginal infant human blood" as an ingredient.

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I ran the zombie adventure to the tune of Michael Jackson's Thriller. It was serviceable but nothing that special. Haven't had the opportunity to try out any others.