Explosive Runes
Perilous Mazes has been shelved The Holmes clone won’t be published. I never played Holmes and didn’t have much more than a passing interest in this particular clone, but I’m sure that a number of...
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Tech Levels for Fantasy Sandbox Settings I’ve simply ruled various arms, armor, or equipments was “unavailable” before in certain campaigns or certain areas, but using a Traveller-esque TL system could...
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Old School Emphasis: Character vs. Adventure A “Rosetta Dungeon”? One time at D&D camp… Are you kidding me? There was a Dungeons & Dragons summer camp? Giant statues reveal red hat secrets...
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Deities & Demigods: A Christian Perspective A good quick post on this topic, and I’ve thought the same thing for a long time. A lot of people complain that D&DG is just a “super monster manual”...
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Straight from the 1930s – Lizard Men city under LA Mining engineer G. Warren Shufelt believed he had found the ruins of an ancient lizard man civilization under LA. Here’s a 1934 LA times headline:...
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An essay on “Old School Gaming” A good write-up. Form-Fillable LL/AEC Character Sheet The Venomous Pao cooked up a goodie. Frail boy-king Tut died from malaria, broken leg Egypt’s famed King...
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Parlez-vous Glantrian?: Dialects and Alignment Languages Just Say No to alignment languages. Though I have tried using various human/regional languages before, we usually just revert to “everyone...
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THE OCD Dungeon Doors Legend More info on dungeon doors than you should rightfully be able to expect on a map. After school, students morph into druids and dwarfs A Washington Post article on D&D...
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Huntsmen of Annuvin & Cauldron Born I’m a big fan of Prydain. Here are some write-ups from old White Dwarf and Dragon magazines. Spell Point Systems I’ve considered trying to run a magic-users...
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First, a few links regarding the Magic Blast and Low Level Magic-Users I’ve been posting about lately: M-U “Zap” Powers in OD&D Tower of the Archmage has a whole series of blast-like powers for...
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