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Last night, we played the ninth session of our ongoing AD&D 2e campaign. The play report for session 8 is here.To recap, the party was attempting to remove some bones from a...
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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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Last night, we played the 8th session of our ongoing AD&D 2e campaign. The combined player report for sessions 6 and 7 is here.To recap, after a near-deadly ambush by a band of...
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Last week, we played the sixth session of our ongoing AD&D 2e campaign, but I went on vacation the day immediately after and didn't have a chance to write a play report. Last...
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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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Greetings from Mexico! I'm not in Mexico at the time of writing this, but will be when this post is published. I am communicating from the past, anticipating the...
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I didn't have a big post prepared for today, and might not for a while (I'm going to Mexico next week!), but felt the need to share something on a Friday. For my AD&D 2e game,...
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We played the fifth session of our ongoing AD&D 2e game last night. The summary of our last session is here. To recap briefly: The party had mostly cleared out the Warlord's...
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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...
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In our last session, the player characters continued their exploration of the Warlord's Tower, battled some cultists, succumbed to magical fear, nearly died, fought a magical...
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One of my greatest hang ups with 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons (and D&D generally, although it is more or less a problem in different editions of the game) is the length of...
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We had our third session of our AD&D 2e game last night. There were some technical issues with the internet on my end, so we ended up getting off to a rocky start.The party...
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The main complaint about weapons in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons is their simplicity, the lack of meaningful choice, and the existence of clearly "better" options than others...Linked by the ring
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I'm not one of those people who thinks Dungeons & Dragons needs a "social combat" system, of all things, I swear. I think social interaction in D&D is, like many aspects of the...
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Last night, we had the second session of our AD&D 2e campaign. My play report from last week's session is here. RecappingTo recap briefly, the party decided to aid the...
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If one goes looking for what are commonly considered to be the "problem" spells in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons, there are some usual suspects which always come up -...Linked by the ring
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I ran the first session of my new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd edition game last night. How did it go? What did we learn? Did the party of 1st-level characters in the...
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I love wizards. It used to be that when I made a character for a Dungeons & Dragons game, I waited to see what everyone else was playing first, and picked a class which met...Linked by the ring
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Last night, I started what I hope will be a new weekly game of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition. After my three-year D&D 5th edition game wrapped up, I wavered between...
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Wizards of the Coast has released the newest playtest packet for the forthcoming 2024 republication of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition core rulebooks. The document includes...
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I find the official method for determining what magic items are included in a treasure hoard in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons to be pretty unsatisfying. Basically, the Dungeon...
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Rewarding experience points is out of fashion among modern Dungeons & Dragons players, and the designers of D&D seem to recognize this. Although the 5th edition Dungeon...Linked by the ring
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Total Party Kills are a funny thing in Dungeons & Dragons. The "killer Dungeon Master" is a myth and a trope as old as the game itself, originating in the earliest days of D&D...
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It behooves any Dungeon Master to write out their character creation rules for their players. I include these rules in the same document as any house rules I might be using....
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Baldur's Gate 3 has been out for a few months by now, so many people have played through it at least once (a lot of people had somehow beaten it within days of it coming out,...
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With the release of not-OneD&D's (let's call it NOD&D) most recent playtest, Bastions and Cantrips, it seems that strongholds - or "Bastions", now (out of habit I'll probably...
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It's fitting to write a post in October about horror in Dungeons & Dragons. There has also been some by now not-so-recent discourse on TTRPG Twitter (a truly terrifying place)...
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“What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously."I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for...