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Yeah, I'm committing to the bit.I recently converted Dungeon Module B1: In Search of the Unknown to Into the Oddish. It's B1, but with Pokémon. I even created a sandbox for it,...Linked by the ring
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Hey, I haven't created a sandbox on the blog in a while. I just finished up Pokémodule B1: In Search of the Unown, an Into the Oddish conversion of Dungeon Module B1. I made a...Linked by the ring
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We played the sixteenth 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...
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KEY TO THE LOWER LEVELThe lower level of the complex is rough and unfinished. The walls are irregular and coarse, not at all like the more finished walls of the level above...Linked by the ring
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We played the fifteenth 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...
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Many years ago, rumor has it, two noted Pokémon trainers in the area, Rogahn the Blackbelt (a Fighting-type trainer of renown) and Zelligar the Psychic (a Psychic-type trainer...Linked by the ring
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While I have discussed the AD&D DMG in great length on this blog, my interest has largely been in interpreting the general feel of the game: I mostly unpack the implications of...
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We played the fourteenth 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...
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The setup for Dungeon Module B4: The Lost City is as follows:The player characters are traveling with a desert caravan when a sandstorm separates them and causes them to become...
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We played the thirteenth 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...
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This is a touchy subject, and I'll try my best to discuss it with care, but I want to talk about children in D&D - human children, halfling children, orc children, giant...
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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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We played the twelfth 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...
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My goblin post was fun, and it gave me a hankering to do something similar with halflings. Why halflings? Well, mostly because I like that in AD&D, every halfling has 1d4...Linked by the ring
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If you've been following along with the play reports for my B1 campaign, you probably know all about the goblins of Quasqueton with which the player characters have allied...
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We played the eleventh 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...
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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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We played the tenth 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...
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No NPC embodies the Gygaxian maxim that dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating" quite like the sage.Like the spy, the sage is a special class of expert hireling...
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We played the ninth 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...
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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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We played the eighth 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...
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AD&D is a game in which the player characters are expected to overcome challenges themselves. This is made most explicit in the section on NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS, and is...Linked by the ring
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After a few weeks off, we finally had the opportunity to play the seventh session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game. You can read past play reports...
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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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We played the sixth 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...
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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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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...
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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...