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I picked up a copy of the new limited edition S-series adventure compilation Dungeons of Dread. It’s a nice hardback book that collects 4 modules released by TSR that were...
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I’m thinking of running a Dark Sun game using the Original Dungeons and Dragons rules at some point. As such, I wanted to figure out a simpler set of rules of psionics. I...
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Gorgonmilk is the place to go for all your DIY D&D needs. I’m a particular fan of his alternate covers for the Original D&D booklets. I discovered the site recently, and it’s...
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If you feel like you aren’t getting enough Final Fantasy in your D&D, Hack & Slash has you covered with this new class for your D&D games, the Blue Mage. Now you can play Gau...
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As far as I can tell, TSR put out four splat books for Dark Sun that were very similar in their presentation: Elves of Athas, Dune Trader, Slave Tribes, and Veiled Alliance....
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I was thinking the next little web application I was going to build would be something for managing notes for a hex crawl. One problem with the way they are published now is...
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Slave Tribes is one of the first Dark Sun splat books I bought to help me run the epic D&D campaign I never ended up running. It’s authored by Bill Slavicsek, who went on to...
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The last of my recent Dark Sun purchases I read was Dune Trader. The book is a detailed look at the merchants and merchant houses of Athas. It’s similar to Elves of Athas and...
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This short–a Bachelor film project from The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark–is amazing. It’s 120% D&D.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates from the Atlantic writes briefly about playing D&D and the Caves of Chaos, and is featured in a short clip from the the upcoming D&D documentary. I wonder if...
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Elves of Athas is an early supplement for the AD&D 2nd Edition setting Dark Sun. The book pulls in details from the Troy Denning Dark Sun novels to present a fuller picture of...
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I would be remiss not to touch on the last season of D&D encounters, as it felt like a vast improvement over the previous two seasons I have participated in. You may recall my...
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I am moving all the discussion on this site over to Google+. As it stands most of the discussion that takes place about my posts happens there anyway, and it’s also where I go...
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I quite liked Carcosa by Geoffrey McKinney. I enjoyed it so much I wrote a very long review of the book split over several blog posts. To make sharing the review with other...
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This post from Mike Mearls has me once again quite excited about D&D Next. The recent play test packets for D&D Next have struck me as overly complicated, and I had thought...
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Over the holidays I decided to pick up some Dark Sun books I missed out in my youth: Elves of Athas, Dune Trader, and the adventure Dragon’s Crown. I remember wanting Dragon’s...
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Update 2012-12-26: And we’re back: our long national nightmare is over. Just a heads up to my readers, and random Internet people, that my three D&D web apps: Random Carcosa,...
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I recently purchased both of the modules put out by Chaotic Henchmen: F3: Many Gates of Gann and the F1: Fane of the Poisoned Prophecy. The modules are a throwback to AD&D...
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Continuing my series of great D&D blogs, may I suggest the consistently good Dungeon of Signs by Gustie1. It’s hard to pick any one thing to highlight, so I’ll point out the...
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Last June I emailed my cousin, asking him if he could draw me a banner for this website. He can draw, and I can’t. And so I patiently waited. The old banner for this site was...
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The first module for Geoffrey McKinney’s new imprint Psychedelic Fantasies is Beneath the Ruins by Alex Fotinakes. The module describes the first level of the vast ruins of...
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On Friday I played a D&D one-shot to rescue a character from Wampus County trapped in Carcosa. It was a lot of fun. What follows is a Carcosa-esque play report. Gustie, from...
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There has been some discussion online about what constitutes a role-playing game. When you are playing a game that you suspect might be a role playing game, ask yourself these...
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I’ve been reading through my DCC RPG adventures recently. I’ve been buying them as they come out, mostly for the covers, but there is probably some aspect of comic book...
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Delving Deeper was released as a set of PDFs yesterday. It’s a retroclone of the Original D&D rules. The only other edition i’m aware of that is similar in scope is the Sword...
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In How Brightly Coloured Should Carcosa Be? Richard Guy discusses the relationship between He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Carcosa. It’s probably one of the most...
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The Magnificent Joop van Ooms is the most recent supplement from Lamentations of the Flame Princess. The supplement describes 16th century Amsterdam, the enigmatic Joop van...
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Since starting this blog the amount of D&D I’ve been playing has increased greatly. I continue to participate in the Encounters games held at Dueling Grounds. In addition to...
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Duties It is not practical to try to determine the time and expenses necessary to accomplish everything possible for the scores of standard hirelings possible to employ, so...
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