As I mentioned in an earlier post, What Price Glory and Hit Points, Dave has an interesting change to hit points in his What Price Glory rules that splits hit points into two parts. I did something similar back in … Continue reading →
From Sham’s Grog ‘n Blog: What Price Glory is a collection of Rules Packets for combat. Each collection of rules or packets may be used alone, or with any combination of the other modular pieces of What Price Glory. As … Continue reading →
I’ve just had an epiphany. If you simply drop skills (all four of them) from Microlite20, you should be able to easily run “old school” style adventures very similar to those of “pure” Original Dungeons and Dragons — the three … Continue reading →
Original Dungeons and Dragons is more of a toolkit than a hard and fast set of rules. In addition to the three little beige books, there are additional rulebooks (Greyhawk, Blackmoor, Eldritch Wizardry, Chainmail, Swords & Spells) and important articles … Continue reading →
Sham/Dave over at Sham’s Grog ‘n Blog has written an excellent series of four post on why he likes OD&D. They are definitely worth reading. Why OD&D? Why OD&D? part 2 Why OD&D? part 3 Why OD&D? part 4
Continue reading →WOTC posted an article on minions in fourth edition D&D recently and it has gotten quite a bit more reaction than I expected on blogs and in forums. The idea of easy to kill hordes of followers is apparently new … Continue reading →
The Expedition Into the Black Reservoir; a Dungeon Adventure at Greyhawk Castle By Gary Gygax To the east of the busy walled city of Greyhawk the land is forsaken, overgrown with thorns and thistles. Oozing marsh creeps slowly down. The … Continue reading →
I just read an article about D&D4’s treasure and economy over on the WOTC web site. Excerpts: Economy & Reward wherein I was told that “conscientious” GMs figure out how much treasure the characters in their game should get while … Continue reading →
When reading forums devoted to D&D, I often hear players and gamemasters complaining about experience points. Sometimes it’s that they are a pain to calculate (especially in later editions of D&D). Other times it is that they seem very biased … Continue reading →
I was going through some of my old Judges Guild stuff and came across this addition to the City-State of the Invincible Overlord, located in an empty building on the Street of Crafts. This writeup dates from around 1979-1980 as … Continue reading →