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I was thinking about the themes of traditional westerns, spaghetti westerns, chanbara, and Red Dead Redemption 2, which I’m playing again, largely because I love the wildlife....
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Continuing to muse about oracles and campaign building. Nick started these thoughts, and I’ve done dungeon rooms, hexes and NPCs. What about treasure? I think the best take on...
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Continuing to muse about oracles and campaign building. Nick did work on adventures, I’ve done dungeon rooms and hexes. What about NPCs? I think of NPCs progressively detailed...
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I’ve even pondering my and Nick LS Whelan’s thoughts on using Magic the Gathering as an oracle. Nick was saying on twitter that he doesn’t use it anymore because MTG cards skew...
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I’ve been going through my games shelf (honestly, I’m not playing most of what’s on there). and I found a few oracles I haven’t really looked at before. One is Rory’s Story...
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Honestly, if you thought I wasn’t going to come back to Advanced Fantasy Dungeons, you were being optimistic. Marcia’s Mosaic Worlds neatly matches with AFD’s counties, and...
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I invented the pathcrawl yesterday, ten years after Daniel D. invented it, although I didn’t know that until this morning. Daniel’s is more complicated, which I don’t like, but...
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Joel wrote this, about why he doesn’t prefer hexcrawls. Joel’s got some sense, and it made me think about what I don’t like about hexcrawls. Namely: As anyone who has travelled...
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Sean McCoy recently posted an old perhaps reddit post by Frank Mentzer, talking about how he always improvises the same dungeon. Along with it, Sly Flourish wrote about the...
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There’s been a lot of talk lately about proceduralism as it relates to various D&D-likes. I’ve written about procedure as it relates to Advanced Fantasy Dungeons here, but...
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If you’re walking in on the end of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. That’s a wrap! Kind of, anyway, we have our rules sketched out. Advanced Fantasy...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I want to increase the tactics and surprise of war without increasing memory...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Treasure in second edition is a ridiculously complicated affair. Each...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. The challenge with granted powers is that I don’t want them to just be free...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I’m not sure exactly how to present the fighter’s Elite Followers. I wonder...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Ok, so my problem with favoured enemies is that it’s pretty racist, but there...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. After removing concepts of desperate or controlled position from various...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I realise I haven’t listed or talked about proficiencies exactly. Let’s give...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Second edition’s Turn Undead isn’t simple: Takes one turn Once per encounter...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I felt after developing out the classes, I needed to clarify the downtime...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. So, I’ll start sketching out classes. I decided that for each class, a picklist consisting proficiency...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of this series, there’s an index here. To build our heritage, I need four lists: Heritable traits, heritable foibles, ethos and rituals. I’ll...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I realised working on monsters, that I didn’t have a saving throw table for...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. I forgot a few details in combat again: Namely, how a GM runs a monster from...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Factions are groups of people who share a similar goal and have collective...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Having separated out the advice for building a campaign and the advice for...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Second edition does not describe play at all except through the examples of...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Similar to monsters, I really want spells and magical items to be cross...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Thinking about a common question that will come up with my particular group...
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If you’re walking in on the middle of the Advanced Fantasy Dungeons series, there’s an index here. Remembering that whatever weird design approaches I take, this is full...