tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:38:55 +0000word of the daytimAmazing Adventurescastles & crusadesPulprpgcastles and crusadesttrpgDaily Dose of Literatureaihrdecampaign planningcampaignsdictionarydungeons and dragonsrole-playingroleplaying gamesgygaxmerriam-websterLord of the Ringsfantasygamesgary gygaxtabletop roleplaying gamesGame PlayTTRPancient mapsbattle mapdungeon mapsfunnygamegary conroleplayingstephen chenaultstevetablletop roleplaying gamesDwarvesRole Playingarchaeologycity mapscrusaderfoodgaryconmainenostalgiarecipetlgtraptrapsvictorian3d Printable Terrain3d PrintersAdventureCanting CrewDragonsDruidFat Dragon GamesGencon CosplayGimliHorrorLittle MonstersMagicPink FloydPlayers HandbookResurgenceTLG CandC sales midnight PDFTeachersTroll Lord Sale BlogTroll's TuskWalking Dead castles & crusadesZombiesadamantineadieuapricityashwagandhabattenbostonbrigandbritannicabugbearburgerbutterbyzantinecalumetcassettecastlecevichechainchickadeechicken stockcinnabarcitruscitycookingcornucopiadicediedilbertdungeondungeon trapemailessenceeuphoniumfighter classfishflehmenfly rinkfodderfree pdf giveaway twitter trolllordgamesgencongigglemuggillgoodman gamesgrillingguddleguitarhalberdhelmetshistoryhorn of plentyhucksterhyggeiceinteresting factsinternetjason veyjim wardjocundjumperkayakkennethkenspecklekickstarterkilterkohlrabilaughterlawlouis armstronglutefiskluthiermacmapmapsmarymeandermedievalmenacemilquetoastminatorymoatmonty pythonmoosemoviesmt aihrde gods monsters YouTube sale PDF newsmulctmultiversemusicmythnoodlingocarinaoceanoddsoedoobleckorganolepticotakuoxymoronoysterspalindromepasselphillipinesphysicspicadillopicayunepiedmontpizzapoisonpopinjayportlandputtanescareduxreprobaterogerruralsalessalmonsciencescreensstate of the denstabletoptergiversationtiramisutom tullistombtometrainingtraitortreacletriskaidekaphobiattprgturmerictwitchtwitterumbrageuniversevapidvcrvermontvidkun quislingwarriorswavesweaponwikipediawolfwormholeyeggyoutubezigguratPopular Culture, Movies, History, Games, Castles and Crusades. The musings of the Brothers Chenault. Troll Lord Gameshttp://trolldens.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)Blogger7401125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-379637813108435333Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:38:55 +00002026-06-08T10:38:55.757-05:00The kingdom of Aachen in the world of Aihrde is lead by King Baldwin III who dwells in Castle Aachen, constructed by his great great Grandfather Baldwin I. This is much how I picture it (Spis Castle in Slovakia).http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/06/castle-aachen-aihrde.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-1679231032792791387Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:34:28 +00002026-06-05T08:34:35.409-05:00http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/06/jacks-saloon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4379237426217938665Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:49:37 +00002026-06-03T22:49:54.681-05:00 I know.http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/06/outlaw-josey-wales.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-233410875668760198Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:32:00 +00002026-06-02T09:34:25.760-05:00As recounted in Howard Blum’s Out There the Drake equation was the brainchild of a young radio astronomer working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Radio astronomy was in its infancy and Frank Drake was a second generation adherent. Radio astronomy had reared is pretty head in 1931 when Karl Jansky working at Bell Telephone Laboratories kept encountering http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/06/determining-life-drake-equation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-2674936833506787930Sat, 30 May 2026 04:08:42 +00002026-05-29T23:08:42.116-05:00Early Heavy Metal Magazines were amazing, all manner of new art, weird stories, new perspectives, a look forward to the world as it might be. Just an all-around different vibe.The list: Heavy Metal.http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/heavy-metal-magazine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-7481491652052361674Thu, 28 May 2026 04:23:26 +00002026-05-27T23:23:26.821-05:00 Long ago when the world was younger and the dwarves new come to the world Aihrde, many of the dwarves set out on their own, leaving the lands and Kingdoms of their kin behind. These dwarves, the 14th Realm as they were called, dwelt in the wilds singly, in pairs, or once in a great while in groups. When the war between the god Ornduhl and the dwarves began, it is these dwarves that he http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/red-gums-raw-story-of-oisoth-eldritch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-1016776168349873133Tue, 26 May 2026 17:21:47 +00002026-05-26T12:24:51.738-05:00We've had many requests over the years on where to place both TLG and TSR adventures in the world of Aihrde. This popped up again while I was writing the Aihrde Expansion Book Saerien Heath. I named a mountain Plume Mountain and then though, that would be cool to attach it to the adventure of yesteryear. Well turns out it wouldn't fit in the arid wastelands of the east, so I got ahold of Mac http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/weve-had-many-requests-over-years-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4626412726280986208Tue, 26 May 2026 04:51:53 +00002026-05-26T07:56:13.210-05:00Whether we recognize it or not, we have been duped.In 1952 members of the Intelligence Community under the Truman administration called together a working study group to examine the UFO problem. The panel included 10 or so members (it varied by day and included photo specialists and Air Fore Analysts) led by the theoretical physicist Dr. Howard P. Roberton.  After several days of http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/weve-been-duped-ufos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-5519742857286155071Sat, 23 May 2026 04:33:56 +00002026-05-22T23:33:56.668-05:00 Here's a blast from the past. Gencon 2008. That Tyler Morrison, Davis Chenault, Todd Gray and Steve Chenault at our booth. That would have been our 9th Gencon. Smaller crew in those days but the spinner racks were still a thing (one of the blew out of the back of the truck some late night and another got crushed in a box stack collapse, we eventually tossed the other two).That Troll Lord http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/troll-lords-at-gencon-08.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4938091084732860427Fri, 22 May 2026 04:26:29 +00002026-05-21T23:26:29.256-05:00I have just dove into the first book in the Mabinogion series by Evangeline Walton. The Prince of Annwn is one of four books that came out in the '70s. They are based on the Welsh stories of the same name, which I know next to nothing about. It might actually be nothing about.Regardless of past knowledge I have taken the plunge. I had never heard of these books before but came across some random http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/currently-reading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-6347746557446307205Thu, 21 May 2026 04:01:30 +00002026-05-20T23:01:30.102-05:00 This is one of my favorite movie scenes. Pure epic from beginning to end.http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/epic-cinema.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-3535855452758259453Tue, 19 May 2026 21:18:50 +00002026-05-20T08:34:16.335-05:00I've been reading a great deal of UFO literature these past few years. It began in Roswell but escalated to a host of books from Keyhoe's urgency, to Dolan's exploration of the Security State. It didn't stop there or in between. There are many things about this phenomena that are strange, both earth-bound and interstellar (maybe). Simple things like the strange editions of Cpt. Edward J. http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2026/05/ufouap-war-departments-new-releases.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-5390572696238628628Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:19:00 +00002025-12-15T15:19:50.156-06:00 My dad was born in 1969. 1969 was Jim Steinman’s senior year at Amhurst College. In order to fulfill the requirements for an independent study course that year, he wrote the lyrics and music for a musical called The Dream Engine, as well as an accompanying book. From what little I understand, The Dream Engine is about a guy who hates his girlfriend’s parents and fights “society”. According http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/12/have-you-ever-seen-rain-grace-carras.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-1891561045680500364Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:26:00 +00002025-12-03T11:26:29.937-06:00We have completed the Codex of Aihrde Expansion Dwarven Trace and it is set to be released any day. This piles on top of the recently released Expansion Tarvine Belt, and, once Trace is out, will make it 9/17 Expansion Books. The 10th Northern Waste is complete and just need my final pass and then on to editing. And the 11th, Reavers Fairway, is roughly 1/3rd written and should be finished by http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-world-of-aihrde-growing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-1994890902698586690Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:03:00 +00002025-11-18T10:03:07.825-06:00The ‘80s had a wonderful slew of fantasy movies that were horribly good. There is the famous Beastmaster, Sword and the Sorcerer, Krull, there was another that escapes me, it had two twins in it, who may or may not have been Playboy Playmates. There was a bunch of them. There were some exceptionally good ones as well, Excalibur, Legends, Dragon Slayer, Conan the Barbarian, and so on. It was a http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/11/deathstalker-steve-chenault.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-864376730188311700Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:18:00 +00002025-11-13T13:18:26.773-06:00No small part of the games I’ve run over the years spills itself into the design work I do on Castles & Crusades, Aihrde, and the monsters I put together. Demons and devils have always been my favorite. I have long since broken them free of any real world connotations, landing them squarely in either a generic game context or, more often than not, an Aihrde-centric mythos.Orcus is a great http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/11/no-small-part-steve-chenault.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4301413896825208395Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:29:00 +00002025-11-11T14:29:31.227-06:00There was a momentary euphoric feeling as I flew. I remember the board beneath me, at a dead stop. I can see the pavement too, cavorting in unnatural angles. The pavement swirled through my vision, then grass. I couldn't find the sky as my face closed with the earth and my feet dashed heavenward. Impact. The pavement bends me as my face grinds to a stop, but my torso still has a few inches left http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/11/tiny-pebbles-steve-chenault.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-1979516029786776337Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:57:00 +00002025-09-22T14:57:37.760-05:00Greetings from the Troll Dens,We wanted to share an exciting development regarding our Aihrde: After Winter Dark campaign setting. We have been steadily working on our Codex of Aihrde Expansions: a series of setting expansion books that dive deeper into each of Aihrde's locales. These books offer adventure hooks, the detailed history of each region formatted usefully as it pertains to http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/09/free-map-codex-of-aihrde-expansions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-7018699934063485017Thu, 11 Sep 2025 20:38:00 +00002025-09-11T15:38:19.998-05:00Greetings from the Dens!You may have noticed our silence on this campaign; we’ve had a lot going on behind the scenes, much of it out of our control. But long story short, we were set to begin building. We hooked the camera up and watched as the first equipment was unloaded. About then things came to a halt as the permitting process ran into some snags. Several weeks of back and forth saw an http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-factory-postponed-but-still-coming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4743014416909425951Thu, 14 Aug 2025 13:18:00 +00002025-08-14T08:25:23.973-05:00Greetings from the Troll Dens,We have some interesting news. A little bit of a setback, but nothing the trolls aren’t used to.As many of you know, particularly those backing this campaign, Troll Lord Games purchased a 5-acre plot last spring and have been working toward building our print facility and warehouse there. Once purchased, we set about designing two buildings and then began the http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/08/an-important-update-re-tlg-factory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-6650787867882464391Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:43:00 +00002025-04-21T09:43:19.098-05:00State of the Trolls, April '25Made in U.S.A., International Trade, TariffsWith all the recent news about tariffs and trade wars, and the potential damage spreading through our community, coupled with the host of curious and angry comments online I thought it is a good time to put out some kind of public statement concerning Troll Lord Games and the manifold projects we have in the hopper. I’ll http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2025/04/state-of-trolls-april-25.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-20244218757220139Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:22:00 +00002024-12-06T12:22:35.540-06:00State of the TrollsIt has been a momentous few years since my last State of the Troll. A great deal has happened since, from the OGL conundrum, to the addition of employees, revamping old infrastructure, rekindling old relationships,  and other sundries. Below we'll tackle all of this as well as dive into some places we’d like to go.I do not want to spend a great deal of time on who we are http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2024/12/state-of-trolls-2024.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-4042075679217131831Fri, 02 Aug 2024 04:23:00 +00002024-08-01T23:29:10.786-05:00 Out trip to Gencon took us up through the Arkansas Delta country, and into the boot of Missouri, across the Big Muddy and on into the sprawling flats of southern Illinois and Indiana. It is a marvel to travel in this part of the country. When people think of the bread baskets of the U.S. their minds always go to the Great Plains, but they forget the never-ending fields of corn that mark http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2024/08/plywood-memories-from-gencon-to-vegas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-5162676421288843199Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:21:00 +00002024-08-01T22:08:13.980-05:00We left Little Rock in the late morning in a truck loaded with books, racks, luggage, a cooler of Dr. Pepper, and all the other sundries one takes on the road. We crossed the Upper Delta of Arkansas, those flat lands of rice fields and soy beans, first on 40 and then hanging a left onto 55 and on up to the show me state. Crossing into Missouri somewhere after noon we headed on to Sikeston. The http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2024/07/on-road-to-gencon-interstate-57-dave.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18361181.post-2792077581358001103Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:56:00 +00002024-07-24T16:38:57.579-05:00 As I wander ever deeper into the world of UFO sightings I keep finding ever more interesting parcels of information. For instance, a Japanese astronomer noted, in 1949, a giant explosion on Mars (December 9 I think). He theorized that it had to be an atomic explosion because of the size of the dust cloud. Were the saucers coming from Mars?There are hosts of these small things that roll http://trolldens.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-saucers-unique-spin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Troll Lord)0