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After having owned a copy of Mörk Borg for over a year, I finally had a chance to run a game. We played most of Rotblack Sludge. Hopefully we can play again and finish the...
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This is not a review. I have not played Mothership. I hope to soon. This post is simply my first impressions after reading the four core rulebooks included in the boxed set...
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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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I first published this blog in October of 2023, which means 2024 was my first full year of blogging. I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at the year. I posted...
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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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After hearing gossip about it for weeks, I finally got a chance to look at the 2024 version of the D&D 5e DMG. Reception to the book has been positive. There is a lot of advice...
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I had a chance to look over the new PHB and wanted to record some of my thoughts about what I found there. This isn't meant to be an exhaustive changelog with minor revisions...
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Apparently, the 2024 edition of the 5e DMG will not include the concept of "the adventuring day".by Matt RayThis isn't really much of a surprise to me. As my previous post...
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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 recently ran a handful of sessions in a 5e game in which the player characters had earned the enmity of an arch-illusionist (more on that later). An illusionist is like most...
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't paying attention to OneD&D 5.5e D&D 5e 2024 (?) at all. I'm definitely not interested in playing the new version of 5e - I like the 2014 version...
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I've frequently encountered problems with the use of real-world animals in D&D. Like other "monsters", animals might appear in dungeons or in the wilderness. Many animals don't...
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I recently picked up Skerples's The Monster Overhaul and have been using it to spice up classic monsters in my AD&D 2e campaign. It's a great book, with lots of random tables,...
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We played the 20th session of our AD&D 2e campaign earlier this week. Last session's play report is here.To recap, the party had concluded the previous session by ambushing a...
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The argument that D&D is combat game goes like this: A game is "about" what it has rules for. Because D&D (specifically 5e) has far more rules for combat than for anything...
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We played the 19th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The play report for our last session is here. To recap, the party was locked in battle with powerful aquatic...
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Okay, weird post title. Bear with me.This post was inspired by Warren D.'s post "WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT BASIC DUNGONEERING: And what is not" on the I Cast Light! blog. What...
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We played the 18th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The play report for our last session is here.To recap briefly, the party had just defeated a clan of ogres at...
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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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We played the 17th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night (we skipped last week). The play report for our last session is here.To recap briefly, the party battled a den of...
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Necromancy is one of eight schools of magic in D&D. The eight schools, as they are known today, were - as far as I can tell - introduced in AD&D 1e, with each spell's...
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We played the 16th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The play report for our last session is here.To recap briefly, the party reunited with the invisible forest...
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We played the 15th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The play report for Session 14 is here.To recap briefly, the party had just sanctified and looted the shrine...
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We played the 14th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The previous session's play report is here.To recap briefly, the party returned to Grimerun with ankheg shells in...
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We played the 13th session of our ongoing AD&D 2e campaign last night. The previous session's play report is here.To recap briefly, the party pressed on through the ankheg...
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We played the 12th session of our AD&D 2e campaign last night. The play report for our last session is here.To briefly recap, the party spent some time in town to recruit...
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In a recent play report for my AD&D 2e campaign, I wrote about how the player characters keep having random encounters with merchants and tribesmen, and how I'm struggling to...
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Last night, we played the 11th session of our AD&D 2e campaign. The play report for our last session is here.To recap briefly, the party went on a long journey from the city of...
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This week, we played the 10th session of our ongoing AD&D 2e campaign. The play report for our last session is here.To recap, the party scouted out the Wolfkin Tribe camp to...
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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