This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox. You can read other posts in the series here. The series will, when necessary, go into detail on the development of my...

We played the fifth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as...

This is the first in what will probably be a series detailing my method for developing a sandbox. I will be using my sandbox for Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the...

We played the fourth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as...

We played the third session of  our In Search of the Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. My session 2 report is here.We were missing Matt (Barthalo-gnome), so our roster was as...

We had the opportunity to play the second session of our In Search of the Unknown AD&D 2e campaign last night. My session 1 report is here.For this session, we were missing...

We played the first real session of our In Search of the Unknown AD&D 2e campaign last night. My session 0 report is here.For this session, we were missing Matt...

I've had a hankering to test out my sandbox for Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown. I enjoy coming up with these sandboxes for their own sake, but the intention has...

Let's do some quick dungeon math. According to the AD&D DMG, 4 in 20 (or 1 in 5) dungeon rooms contain treasure (three guarded by monsters and one unguarded):When determining...

This post is part of the Prismatic Wasteland blog bandwagon on the topic of maps.The first mention of mapping by players in the AD&D PHB is on page 101, in the section titled...

Underwater adventures are grossly underutilized in D&D. Even simple nautical or seafaring adventures (where the main mode of wilderness travel is via boat rather than on foot)...

I'm currently in the process of trying to puzzle out how exactly "territory development" (what we would now probably call the "domain game") works in AD&D, as described on page...

As you may have already seen, I did a readthrough of Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess (both the orange and green versions) on Bluesky. I also wrote a comparison...

Over on Bluesky I did a readthrough of both the orange cover and green cover versions of Dungeon Module B3: Palace of the Silver Princess. My reading of the orange version was...

Over on Bluesky, I recently finished up my readthrough of Dungeon Module B2: The Keep on the Borderlands - actually, by the time this post sees the light of day it will have...

Location types exist in close proximity to one another but serve very different gameplay functions.There are basically four main location types in D&D (and D&D-like games):...

The 2026 Bloggies are upon us, and I plan on submitting a handful of mine - and, of course, others'. If you've enjoyed reading this blog in 2025, I would greatly appreciate you...

If the theme of my 2024 Year-in-Review was despondence, lack of direction, loneliness, and uncertainty, then the theme this year is one of hope, renewed purpose,...

This post is a part of Prismatic Wasteland's Hexmas Blog Bandwagon. The intention was for participants to make a single holiday-themed hex with connections to other...

This is something interesting that came up when I was messing around with the AD&D DMG's Appendix B to create a sandbox (okay, many sandboxes - I have a problem).As I've...

B1: In Search of the Unknown is a very self-contained dungeon module. That is, the dungeon is the module. There is a hint of civilization nearby, but it isn't made explicit how...

Over on Bluesky, I did a walkthrough of B1: In Search of the Unknown. I already wrote about how B1 tells the story of Rogahn and Zelligar, two adventurers motivated "by greed...

I did a fun little walkthrough of B1: In Search of the Unknown over on Bluesky. While you can read the detailed play by play over there (including my step by step stocking of...

This is a topic I've been dancing around a lot for the past few months. As my observations have accumulated, I've begun to feel that it would be beneficial to collate my...

This is a question I've pondered quite a bit in my exploration of AD&D. Theoretically, my assumption would be that there's nothing to restrict a character-type NPC from...

From the AD&D PHB, page 34:In AD&D, it is presumed that "in all likelihood", the player character is unfamiliar with the campaign setting. They are a stranger in a strange...

In my last post on languages in AD&D, I teased that alignment languages were a topic worthy of their own post. Was I right? Let's find out.It's fitting, for context, to start...

Language is a hot topic in D&D. You can refer back to my post from early last year, which also serves as a sort of bibliography of the many talking points surrounding the...

AD&D's most endangered creature.We all know that larger towns and cities will usually have a market for dragons. That is, it is generally understood that adventurers will...

Thieves guilds and assassins guilds are ubiquitous in AD&D cities and towns. Both assassins and thieves are found on the DMG's city/town encounters matrix:The assassin entry...