#15 in Dungeon's "The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All Time" is 1997's "Dead Gods" for AD&D 2nd Edition by Monte Cook. It's actually two adventures in the Planescape setting that can be played separately or together, one of which deals with the return of the dread Orcus (and a visit to the Vault of the Drow from the 1978 D3 module). This module is full of cool stuff like, well, giant floating dead gods, the astral plane, mega dangerous wands, hungry standing stones, evil manipulations, and a traveling circus (just to name a few). "Think killing a god's tough, Berk? Try bringing one back." Monte cooks up the goods… on Map Monday aka Dungeon Day!!
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A second map set for Map Monday! This is mostly housekeeping, I realized I never posted the maps together for MoaH's first dungeon, the Temple of Inverted Time, so that's what this post is for.
Maybe its because I just finished reading Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario, but this map really stuck with me. Although its more "optimistic" than the scenario presented in Jacobsen's book.
The Springhill-class mining ship CAA Heavy Burden was repurposed by the UNSC as an ordnance transport during the Covenant War. Damaged at the Battle of Kholo, the vessel has entered a slowly degrading orbit around a nearby gas giant.
Adrift is a small symmetrical multiplayer map featured in Halo 4.
The Typus Orbis Terrarum, “The Plan of the World’s Lands,” was the first world map to be published in a ‘modern’ standard atlas by Abraham Ortelius and engraved by Frans Hogenberg in 1570. First published in Abraham Ortelius’s atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it was one of the few maps included in the atlas that was created by Ortelius himself.
Learn more (and see the whales up close) in Monstrous Whales · The Art of Cartography: Cartes-à-figures, a digital exhibition curated by Lily McEwen.
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All aboard for #MapMonday! This 1836 map of surveys made for the Delaware Rail Road shows the company’s planned railway branches to the towns of Lewes and Seaford.
The Delaware Rail Road would become first major railroad in the state. It was the personal project of former U.S. Senator John M. Clayton, who proposed the railroad in 1836 to compete with a planned railroad in Maryland, which he worried would draw economic investment away from Delaware. While the state and investors were quick to support Clayton’s efforts, the Depression of 1837-1839 delayed the project. The company’s charter eventually lapsed, but was renewed in 1848. Construction began in 1852, and the railroad made its inaugural run on September 1, 1855.
This map is part of Hagley Library’s collection of Wright family papers (Accession 2575). The collection contains materials originating from the family of Samuel Gardiner Wright (1781-1845), the great-great-grandson of Joshua Wright, one of three brothers who emigrated from Yorkshire as part of the Quaker migration to West Jersey in 1677-1679.
Samuel Gardiner Wright married his distant cousin Sarah Wright (1787-1885) in 1805 and through her inherited a 300-acre farm at what was later known as Wrightsville, Monmouth County, N.J. Here he built a brick mansion that he called "Merino Hill" and pursued the life of a gentleman farmer, breeding Merino sheep and selling produce. Within a decade, he began to expand his operations, first by buying lands in the nearby Pine Barrens and selling cordwood to fuel the new steamboats that were appearing in New York waters. By 1817, he had established himself in Philadelphia as a general merchant, expanding his trade to the Mississippi Valley, Arkansas, and via the Santa Fe Trail with what was then Mexico.
In the 1820s, Wright engaged in the iron industry, operating Delaware Furnace near Millsboro, Delaware, and Dover Furnace at what is now Lakehurst, N.J. Wright also engaged in land speculation, particularly in Otsego County, New York, near Quincy, Illinois, in connection with friends from the Trenton area, and in the Iron Mountain area of Missouri. The economic convulsions of 1837-1843 played havoc with most of Wright's enterprises, especially his iron furnaces and western land speculations, and he spent his last years trying to keep solvent, operating the farm at "Merino Hill" and operating a nearby country store.
Wright was an Adams Republican and Whig and served in the New Jersey State Senate in 1830-1831. He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for Congress in the 1840 "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" campaign. He won election in 1844, but became ill and died before he could take his seat.
Samuel G. Wright's younger brother Joseph Wright (1785-1855) settled in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and his son, Hendrick B. Wright (1808-1881) was a Congressman at the time of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Samuel G. Wright's widow lived on at "Merino Hill" for another forty years.
Of Samuel G. Wright's sons, the eldest, Gardiner Harrison Wright (1806-1886) was sent to manage Delaware Furnace, and he and his descendants remained in Delaware. His son, Custis Wise Wright (1840-1874) was Secretary of State of Delaware in the 1860s. Harrison Gardiner Wright (1810-1885) inherited "Merino Hill," and as his father's executor, was tasked with salvaging the Illinois and Missouri lands, which he also inherited. Harrison G. Wright managed the farm at "Merino Hill," which then passed to his descendants for another three generations.
