Welcome to ‘Of The Cryptic’!
This site is the Dungeons & Dragons and Crosswords crossover that literally no-one asked for.
It all started one fateful Boxing day, after having spent Christmas day enjoying doing some cryptic crosswords with my family. Itch not fully scratched, the next morning I picked up a “book ‘o Crosswords” from my local Tescos, and cracked it open while settling in to catch up on my Critical Role backlog. For half it was easy, but the rest I toiled over Hollywood names and 80’s popstars, and couldn’t help wish for a crosswords that was about the one thing that I knew as thoroughly as a non nerd knows pop culture… high fantasy RPGs.
There are a couple kicking about on line, a few passion projects on reddit… but that wasn’t enough for me.
I wanted lots.
Not a few. Not a book. Lots.
I wanted an “I haven’t had time for Critical Role since Baldur’s Gate came out” amount.
And I didn’t want easy. I wanted my knowledge stretched. I wanted to need my monsters guide, my old campaign settings, and to look up maps on DnD beyond.
And since I couldn’t find them, I made them myself.
So enjoy and digest, if you too fall into the Venn subsection of DND crossword fan.
Warm regards,
OfTheCryptic
