16 June, 2026

The Halls of Tizun Thane Remaster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albie Fiore was best known in life as a cunning crafter of crosswords for The Guardian, who published a fine obituary for him when he died in 2009.

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/aug/18/albie-fiore-obituary 

For fans of fantasy gaming, however, he will always be known as the creator of two iconic adventures published in early issues of White Dwarf: The Lichway (WD #9) and The Halls of Tizun Thane (WD #18).

I thought it would be fun to convert the Halls to a more breathable format.  The original, maps and all, is crammed into 5.5 pages of tiny text, and its usability suffers as a result.  However, I've chosen not to radically re-edit this in the OSE bullet-point style so popular nowadays, feeling that if you're going to make a tribute to a fellow, it's best to use his own words.  In any case, I think Fiore's intentions come across best in their original plain-text form.  I've limited myself to some light grammatical edits, and otherwise worked to add more paragraphs, subheaders, hotlinks, bookmarks, bolding, and such.  Really, even just increasing the font size works wonders.  I've scanned in all the original maps and other artwork at high resolution.  You can download the rework (80 megs) below:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LTmDIA277_h3_16hgXvHibF5DjgHnWg2/view?usp=drive_link

I'm also including a VTT map of the Hall, created by markus_cz.  The original posting of this is at https://princeofnothingblogs.wordpress.com/2020/12/26/review-white-dwarf-18-the-halls-of-tizun-thane-bone-deep-ss/.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wtSKMPk9ug_zaK7K-MoOfiU1JhxYaiN5/view?usp=drive_link 

If you have any other suggestions to improve this, or find any errors, please let me know below. 

7 comments:

  1. Lovely work; thanks

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  2. Looks great, thanks! My niece and nephew expressed interest in trying a game of D&D this summer. This might just fit the bill!

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  3. Wonderful! Really looking forward to checking this out!! I did something similar for The Lichway. I’ll link to your post on my blog as well.

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    1. Thank you. Would you mind commenting here with a link to your Lichway post? I'm sure the readers here would appreciate it.

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  4. Thanks indeed! I remember once trying to read 'Halls', this time I will make it through.

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  5. Awesome! Thank you!

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  6. Wow, I had been doing something similar, with next to no progress! This is great stuff, thanks.

    Here's the link to Aron's great work as well:

    https://onthetabletop.blog/2024/01/27/five-o/

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