RPG Blog Carnival: Underworld & Wilderness Adventures

Friends and strangers! Through November I am hosting the RPG Blog Carnival, and I would like to invite you to contribute! The theme is Underworld & Wilderness Adventures, and your contributions can be anything related to it, from your procedures and practices for creating and running them to random tables for generating and populating them to actual adventuring sites. In OD&D Gary and Dave describe underworld and wilderness as places of adventure, peril, and treasure: ... the referee must draw out a minimum of half a dozen maps of the levels of his “underworld,” people them with monsters of various horrid aspect, distribute treasures accordingly, and note the location of the latter two on keys, each corresponding to the appropriate level. ... When this task is completed the participants can then be allowed to make their first descent into the dungeons beneath the “huge ruined pile, a vast castle built by generations of mad wizards and insane geniuses.” ... Before it is possible to…