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I started this blog, lo these many weeks ago, to document a project of recreating the Caverns of Doom and the Sorcerer’s Crypt. As I sought out information to fill in some gaps (Ihad lost some of the rules sheets and discarded the boxes, which had the character and monster stats in the case of the Sorcerer’s Crypt. I found Scottsz’s Sorcerers of Doom project and was so impressed with what he was up to that I thought I’d start my own blog. That’s when I put up most of the “static pages” too, as I was figuring out how blogs work. The just shows the map.

You can see some older, blurry pics on the Caverns of Doom post. So I touched up a few of these guys, and rebased them all on dungeon black. I still have a few other original Heritage figures that came with the set to paint up, but in the meantime I’ve got similarly old-school stand-ins for the rest. Left to right, a Grenadier wizard, a Prince August elf (cast from a mold), a Grenadier cleric, a TSR barbarian (the original figure in the set is a “barbarian woman”), a Heritage paladin, standing in for the knight, and the original thief figure, still one of the best D&D thieves I’ve seen. They are standing on the map I made. A slightly better shot of the wizard. He is clearly using some sort of protection scroll, as it is pointed at his opponent!

Some of the monsters. Not pictured: the rats.

I have three of the original four rats, but usually use some plastic rats from the Heroquest game. Back row, left to right, Grenadier vampire, original Heritage skeleton archer, Grenadier skeleton, original Heritage demon, a Standard Games mon-ogre standing in for the hobgoblin. Front row, a Grenadeir slime and a spider made from a dollar store toy (you can get bags of dozens of these little glow-in-the dark spiders at Halloween). But the Caverns of Doom are deadly because of the Dragon most of all. My Heritage dragon is mostly MIA (I still have the body section but not the head, wings, and tail!). Adobe encore cs6 trial serial number.

So I use a Grenadier that is the right size (3″ long) to fill the three squares. Quite feline, actually.

This dragon is clearly the stalking kind. I don’t like how the striped tail turned out but otherwise I’m happy with him. Sadly, most of the figures that came with Caverns of Doom were lost or broken over the years. So, when I recreated the CoD map and began playtesting it, I gathered the few that remained and chose some other figures that were from the same early 1980s vintage. Here are the my stalwart adventurers: The thief is original. The knight is a Heritage paladin, the wizard and cleric are Grenadier AD&D figures, the barbarian is a TSR figure, and the elf is cast from a Prince August mold.

I still have the original knight, wizard, and cleric, they just need a paint job, and the barbarian woman needs her legs & sword reconstructed. I’ll try to get to them some day. The monsters similarly are a mixed bag. I don’t think my set (actually my brother’s — I got the Crypt, he got the Caverns that fateful Xmas) ever had the Hobgoblin figure, but it had two demon figures, one of which I converted to a Gollum figure by filing off the wings, tail, and horns, but that is now long gone. The spider didn’t last long, with skinny legs and being made of soft lead. The demon and skeleton with bow are original; the slime monster, vampire, and skeleton with axe are Grenadier figures from the Tomb of Spells set; the rats are plastic accessories from the Heroquest game (a fairly decent dungeon crawl game in its own right); the spider is a plastic toy from a bag of Halloween decorations.

The hobgoblin is a “Mon-ogre” from a manufacturer I forget — maybe Broadsword or Asgard? The dragon is another Grenadier, from an “Action Art” set. I still have part of the original dragon — just the body.

I tried making a new tail, head, and wings a while back but the head and tail really need to be redone before I’d be willing to let anyone see it! Minifigs.com has a number of the Dungeon Dweller figures back in production and maybe some day I’ll try to replace more of the original set with their recasts (which are also in a sturdier tin, I believe. All written content copyright Mike Monaco, 2009-2018, except where attribution to others is explicit or implied. Some images have been collected through Google Image Search and their use is not intended as a challenge to the copyright holder, and they are included for educational purposes only. I try to use public domain images, or my own photos or drawings whenever possible. If something that belongs to you appears here and you want it removed or better attribution provided, please let me know.