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There's one of two ways this will go: either I'm a crackpot, or I'm a captain obvious. Been thinking of two posts: Dwiz on long rests, and Inevitable Gumbo on experience.Dwiz...
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What brought this on was that I just published FMC Basic on Itch, and wanted to reflect on how the way I play OD&D has changed over the last few months. For a while, my...
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Suppose my bite-sized dungeon (now on Itch) as a basis, that we have 2 static groups of monsters and 2 treasure hoards (one being guarded, the other being hidden or trapped)....
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Ughghgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.Okay. Deep lore time. I didn't watch anime growing up, or really much now. Up to a point—put a pin in it—I didn't play much video games either...
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Hi all! I've updated my mac & cheese casserole recipe after experimenting with it for this year's Thanksgiving, and also made a printout sheet to share with my partner's mother...
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I wrote a program simulating the distribution of character types in OD&D, accounting for the total prime requisite bonuses players receive for high scores in ability...
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Just wanted to get all my house rules in one place! Here's a GDrive link; the PDF is in color.By the way, I just published a workbook for bite-sized dungeons on Itch!
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Quoting from FMC because it's on hand: "If the party becomes lost, the referee rolls a die to see in which way the party wanders. The party may then correct their course by one...
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My friend Alex from To Distant Lands has been working on a really fun campaign setting. In his words, it's Carcosa but with the nasty shit replaced with Final Fantasy...
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I seem to have stepped into some shit when I published Fantastic Medieval Campaigns. The olds were, as expected, aghast at the (not so) “secret postface”. This was on one hand...
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Prerequisite: "Six Cultures of Play" by The Retired AdventurerI feel like I have two orientations towards D&D that are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but are at least...
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This is a revision of my 2022 blog post, shortened for publication in Knock! and also for clarification. Is the OSR dead yet? If you asked some, they would say yes. There was a...
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The cleave rule is pretty common for fighters: after defeating an enemy, you get to attempt a free attack against another. How effective is this rule, especially when compared...Linked by the ring
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The evolution of my bite-sized dungeons blog post! Won't publish it quite yet, since I want to give it a spin. :)
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My friend Alex from To Distant Lands wanted to run an off-the-cuff game of D&D, generating a random character for OSE (B/X) using his cool webpage and then generating a random...
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Miscellaneous things I’ve been thinking about.HalloweenI have been envisioning my Halloween costume for months: sexy vampire Elizabeth Holmes. Bought a cunty black dress with...
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Extremely humbled by the reception to my OD&D + Chainmail retroclone, Fantastic Medieval Campaigns, released last Monday on 10/9. Within the first week, there were 1,629...
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Some dedicate the second Monday of October to Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who, in 1492, stumbled upon the Americas and initiated the European colonization of that New...
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NVM IT'S OUT NOW
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I'm really sick. Stuck inside. Bored.If we assume that an adventuring day is like 8 hours, we can interface between four different hex sizes as requiring different binary...
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Before I get going, check this: DISCLAIMER The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this with her other interests in literary,...Linked by the ring
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Challenge rating (CR) in Dungeons & Dragons, Fifth Edition determines basically everything you need to know about your monster: armor class, hit points, and average damage per...
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I have made this recipe five times in the last week: first for some friends, then for my partner, then for her friends, and then for even more of her friends. Not complaining,...Linked by the ring
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My friend Liz from Underground Adventures just introduced me to Cthulhu Dark and, in doing so, kinda blew my mind. I've been raving about Trophy Gold, or Trophy in general, for...
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I ran my homebrew ruleset FIVEY for the first time using the first adventure in the Justice for Neverwinter series, originally (sorta kinda) written for Dungeons & Dragons,...
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I've had the rules bible for a while, but that's less fun than something I could hypothetically print!They look pretty plain, but maybe that will change. I'm just happy to have...
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Iron Valley is a solo tabletop game based on the Ironsworn system, but drawing from farming and village life simulation games as its inspiration (especially Harvest Moon /...
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Someone shared a Reddit post, quoted below: Games Made By Cis Women As the title says. Looking for games made or designed by cisgender women. Played most of the indie games I...
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FIVEY uses brackets to place monsters in one of five categories: mooks, grunts, elites, lieutenants, and bosses. This makes it really easy and quick to come up with a monster...