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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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Apparently my special interest now is writing about the annoying mundanities of AD&D city/town life - taxes, tolls, intentionally misleading encounters, and irritating and...
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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...Linked by the ring
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Since I wrote about indentured magic-users and clerics being encountered among the city guard/watch, I've been poring over the rest of AD&D's city/town encounters. Yes, yes,...Linked by the ring
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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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The blogosphere is celebrating Stanley Yelnats's birthday by posting hole. It's a blog bandwagon! A holewagon. The following post is my humble contribution. Check in at...Linked by the ring
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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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When I first read Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth (and other Appendix N literature) and became familiar with Mazirian the Magician, Cugel the Clever, Rhialto the...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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Here's one that came to me when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I've written before about my social interaction rules for 5e. My rules are...
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The AD&D wilderness inhabitation tables have infected my mind. They have wormed their way in, forcing me to make sandboxes I may never use. Now that they've burrowed deep...
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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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What follows is a collection of reviews of four short adventures for Mörk Borg. Spoilers abound beyond this point.BloatBloat is a "A gluttonous dungeon for Mörk Borg". It is...
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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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I am back again to stock a third ring of hexes using the AD&D 1e DMG! You can find Parts 1 and 2 here and here. As with previous installments in this series, I begin by filling...
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The knock spell first appears in original D&D's Book I: Men & Magic. It is a 2nd-level magic-user spell. The description is as follows:A few things about this are immediately...
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The Goblin Grinder is a scenario for Mörk Borg. It is written by Ripley Caldwell, with graphic design and art by Johan Nohr, and editing by the Moonrat Conspiracy (Fiona Maeve...
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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...
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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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The Death Ziggurat is "a cosmic necrocrawl" scenario for Mörk Borg. It is written by Carl Niblaeus with editing, graphic design, and art by Johan Nohr.As always, the art of...
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I just finished running this scenario for my Mörk Borg group, so I thought I'd do a review while it's fresh in my mind. On a purely aesthetic level, the art and layout are...
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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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"Gold for XP" is a concept from older editions of D&D. Essentially, characters get 1 XP per gold piece of treasure they acquire. The exact implementation of this concept varies...
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Another Bug Hunt (MRPG-M4) is the introductory adventure for Mothership 1e. It contains four scenarios which can be strung together consecutively to form a larger adventure or...