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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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)...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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):...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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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...Linked by the ring
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Adventuring is dangerous business. Dungeons are filled with monsters, tricks, and traps. The wilderness is littered with small armies of orcs and bandits, and strongholds ruled...Linked by the ring
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It's easy to think of treasure as purely reward - the player characters have overcome the challenges of the dungeon or wilderness and have slain some monster in its lair. The...Linked by the ring
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This post is part of the Appendicitis N blog bandwagon, originally put forth by Marcia of Traverse Fantasy. The challenge to bloggers was to compile a list of inspirations that...Linked by the ring
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From the AD&D 1e DMG, page 106:It is an assumption that high-level player characters with strongholds "will desire some dungeon mazes" beneath them. This is not referring to...Linked by the ring
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An excerpt from the AD&D DMG, under MONSTER POPULATIONS AND PLACEMENT, page 91:I found this paragraph interesting for a few reasons. First, in AD&D the assumption is that the...Linked by the ring
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Look at this guy's face:He's mad!Why? Probably because, per the AD&D DMG, dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating":The example that follows is very funny and very...
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Here's something that I mentioned very briefly in my post about the AD&D DMG's section on "taxes" (including duties, excises, fees, tariffs, tithes, and - most notably with...
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Something amusing I found while poring over the AD&D city/town encounters:Magic-users in AD&D cities and towns are punished by being indentured into a year of servitude with...
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Let's pretend it's still 2024. It may now be the Year of the Snake, but in my heart it's still the Year of the Dragon!Here's something from OD&D:And here's a similar excerpt...Linked by the ring
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No, I'm not actually going to describe one hundred thousand encounters with a dragon. How would I even do that? If you want an exhaustively detailed post, see my previous post...Linked by the ring
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This is not a Dragonlance post!I imagine that the most common reaction when encountering a dragon in D&D is to kill it. After all, we're playing as heroes! (Evil) Dragons are...Linked by the ring
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Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to do so. My sandboxes tend to be big...Linked by the ring
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This post is part of the papal conclave Blog Bandwagon/Blogclave. As the world turns its gaze towards the Vatican, the blogosphere turns its attention to the cleric. Subscribe...Linked by the ring
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As you've probably noticed, I've been spending some time using the tables found in Appendix B of the AD&D 1e DMG to populate my sandboxes, which I will definitely use in a real...Linked by the ring
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I wanted to do a quick demonstration of how I use reaction rolls to determine the nature of relationships between factions in a sandbox campaign.Reaction rolls are most often...Linked by the ring
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My most recent foray into using the AD&D DMG to stock a hex map sparked some discussion about the frequency of "totally deserted" castles.According to the DMG's inhabitation...Linked by the ring
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I am back to do more sandbox stocking with the AD&D 1e DMG! I'm continuing from Part 1, here.I start by filling in the terrain in the next ring of atlas hexes using Welsh...Linked by the ring
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D&D 5e has thirteen damage types. This post is concerned with the most fundamental of these damage types - the most primordial ingredients in the great soup of D&D combat. No,...Linked by the ring
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I thought it would be a fun exercise to try stocking a sandbox using the procedures presented in the appendices of the AD&D 1e DMG. I'll be using Hexographer to create the...Linked by the ring
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I typically propose very minor alterations to D&D: how to fix summoning, how to fix shapechanging, how to fix weapon damage. I'm not really interested in redesigning the core...Linked by the ring
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It's been on my to-do list for some time to develop some method for fleshing out settlements in my D&D games:I had become aware at this point that my settlements need some...Linked by the ring
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As far as I can tell (usual disclaimer: I am not very familiar with 3rd or 4th edition D&D, at least not from a DM's perspective), the term "adventuring day", as defined by...Linked by the ring
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I'm currently catching up on Blogs on Tape's backlog of excellent, well...blogs on tape. I haven't always been super tuned-in to the blogosphere, so there's plenty of quality...Linked by the ring
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Initiative is a system that's always bothered me in D&D. There are tons of way to determine it throughout D&D's history, from Chainmail to B/X to AD&D to what exists in modern...Linked by the ring
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In my most recent AD&D 2e play report, the player characters wanted to discover the properties of a strange alien helmet they found in an old tomb. The helmet had seemingly...Linked by the ring
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I recently started playing in a new D&D 5e campaign, which is being DMed by one of the players in my ongoing AD&D 2e campaign. Most of my blog ideas come from being a DM, so...Linked by the ring
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The topic of languages in RPGs is a contentious issue. In D&D, language acquisition is unrealistic. It's a binary on-off switch - when a player character decides to learn a...