#jeff grubb

[oldschoolfrp]

"Candlekeep is a complex of clustered towers perched on a spur of volcanic rock overlooking the sea." (A Grand Tour of the Realms by Ed Greenwood and Jeff Grubb, part of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting boxed set, TSR, 1993 -- interior art credited to George Barr, Denis Beauvais, Tim Conrad, Uttam, and Valerie Valusek)

[telegraphavekiss]

love how medivh treats khadgar and garona like his naughty children who can't get along

[comicscans]

[miyku]

[HazzadorGamin tweet] [Jeff Grubb's Game Mess video]

Dragon Age Dreadwolf this year?

[have-you-read-this-comic]

Have you read Forgotten Realms (1989) by Jeff Grubb and Rags Morales?

Yes

Partially

No

I've never heard of this

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2025

[blazehedgehog]

Thoughts on Jeff Grubb and current Giant bomb?

My first impression of Jeff Grubb was him being an asshole on twitter and endlessly dunking on Sonic fans for no reason. Punching down is never a good look and he was doing a lot of it.

That's colored everything I've ever heard of the guy since then. And if you search his account for "Sonic" he's still doing it! Constantly! All the time! This man lives to rile up Sonic fans like Sonic the Hedgehog personally killed his dog or something.

I want to believe he's a normal human being. I remember the Galloping Ghost video he did with Jess and Dan and he had this really fun big brother energy that I thought was charming. But also he's positioning himself like he's trying to be an enemy, you know?

I have gone back and forth on the current state of Giantbomb. When Jess and Jason got laid off I kind of fell off pretty hard and you could definitely feel the vibe of the site get really sad for a while. Then around February of this year I started getting back into their stuff...

And discovered that the current crew is, like, raunchy as hell? In a way that's far beyond what Gerstmann and the old crew would ever touch. And like, I don't think I'm much of a prude (despite keeping it relatively clean on this blog), but sometimes they hit on really nasty grossout humor that crossed a line for me.

And then, like, every now and then I'll see clips of them just being really aggressive and adversarial with each other, there are times where Dan's competitiveness runs rampant over everyone and he seems like he's going too far... just kind of a nightmare in a lot of little ways.

Plus, like, I'm not a wrestling guy. It'd come up some times in the old guard, but it never felt annoying and was kind of kept to sort of a minimum since only Gerstmann and Alex were really in super deep. Gerstmann was a lapsed fan, too, so he was grumpy and had kind of a distance from it anyway.

But Dan does not shut up about wrestling and the rest of the crew is constantly needling him for factoids and every time I hear Dan say "For Shoot?" instead of "For Real?" I want to grab and shake him until the rocks in his head fall out. And again: seems like he's more dedicated to "being annoying because it's funny" and I personally do not enjoy torturing myself as a form of entertainment.

The last GiantBomb video I watched was "Catch Me If You Dan" but I haven't been interested in anything else they've released since then.

[dndhistory]

215. Jeff Grubb - M2: Maze of the Riddling Minotaur (1983)

The second of the solo adventure modules for AD&D and also an occasion to welcome Jeff Grubb, who would be instrumental in the creation of lore for D&D, both for the Dragonlance and the Forgotten Realms settings, as well as writing novels for those settings and later on Blizzard's Warcraft and Starcraft universes, among many other stellar contributions to nerddom. He had already been working for TSR for about a year, in the background, contributing to upcoming volumes such as Monster Manual II, which would come out soon.

Again, as in M1, these solo modules have kind of aged badly. This is no fault of the writer or the story but just because mechanically, the reliance on invisible ink and so forth didn't survive well to our days. Today if you want a copy of this it's either blank, just has an unreadable yellow smudge over the boxes where once the invisible ink could be seen, is written out (which loses the effect of surprise), or if it is a digital copy it's pretty much useless. 

However, there is still fun to be had here. Grubb wrote out a pretty compelling introduction, very much based on the classical myth of the minotaur, and the idea is that the player has to traverse a labyrinth full of quizzing Minotaur statues who block the path. The player moves on by getting the answers righ, answers which are hidden in the invisible ink bits. The game also innovates by having a diceless combat system, with a kind of scratch card system of combat, where you reveal the ink to see combat results. Fun, but again, 40 years later, mechanically impracticable. Still, great writing by Grubb and great interior illustrations by another newbie, who we will see again often: the great, unfortunately late, Keith Parkinson.

[mousemeep]

Jeff...my guy

TF are you even SAYING