Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices are flowing again. Recently at my day job A pair of younger co-workers have discovered D…
Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices are flowing again. Recently at my day job A pair of younger co-workers have discovered D…
Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st level characters are tough bravos. 2nd level characters are champions. 3rd level character…
Never forget the power of description. There are two doors on the northern wall of the chamber. The one to the right is a simple oaken door with brass fittings and ring pull. The door to the left is half again as wide and half again as tall…
Sometimes you want your PC heroes (and knaves) to push on, to try harder. Here's a game mechanic for any system where you roll high. The Push Die. The Push Die is a die added to your normal resolution check to improve your odds of success.
I think it's a cyclical thing. Everything old is new again. Before Gygax discovered polyhedral math rocks, they used xd6 rolls. I recall a wargame breaking down multiple d6's into almost % results years back as the authors were unaware of d…
A seasonal trap/encounter for yuor RPG campaigns. A fields of earth, sand, or gravel concealing bound undead that will reach up from under the ground to hold victims in place. A casting of "Find Traps" will provide allies with a +2 hit bonu…
An enduring and old complaint about D&D and similar RPGs is "what are the monsters doing in those rooms?". Well, they don't have to stay there. Many published dungeons seem to treat the monsters in any given room and the entire room itself
XP Varies... yeah I'm being a stinker here. Deep spores are knobby leathery globes 2-5 feet in diameter sporting at least one large eye spot that float about the dark deep underground realms and caves. They appear to hover as would a balloo…
XP Varies... yeah I'm being a stinker here. Deep spores are knobby leathery globes 2-5 feet in diameter sporting at least one large eye spot that float about the dark deep underground realms and caves. They appear to hover as would a balloo…
So Yeah starting HP for 1st level PC's are garbage in old-school games. It's a perk... it's a feature...it's a darned annoyance even when the longest part of character generation is buying equipment. Yup I said it. After years and years of
So Yeah starting HP for 1st level PC's are garbage in old-school games. It's a perk... it's a feature...it's a darned annoyance even when the longest part of character generation is buying equipment. Yup I said it. After years and years of