Article Info

Column  Up on a Soapbox
Title  All I Needed to Know I Learned from D&D Lesson #8: Ain't It the Pits?
Author  Gary Gygax
Book Type  GM Advice
Genre  Fantasy
Setting  Greyhawk
Series 
System  D&D / Original
Parent: [ D&D / OSR ]

Article Summary

The evolution of the pit trap.


This article is contained in Dragon #294.

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