November 30, 2023 High Level Shortcuts - I’m obsessed with two things in dnd: giant campaign spanning megadungeons and vast wildernesses to journey through. These often seem at odds with...
November 9, 2023 Megadungeons are Anti-Product - This is a 400+ room mega-dungeon with multiple levels and sub-levels, built around a direct goal: retrieve the SKOROS ORB, the mysterious artifact...
November 6, 2023 Dragons are the Encounter - Thinking more about The Underclock and how it fits sort of my ideal dnd game as more of a countdown. It makes me think there’s a whole game in the...
October 29, 2023 Hex map encounter levels - Maybe there’s something to having a base encounter HD for certain hex areas. 1/3/5/7 seems about right. And we can use this similar level chain to...
June 6, 2022 The First Line of Every Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - “ONCE UPON A TIME, long, long ago there was a little group known as the Castle and Crusade Society.” – Dungeons & Dragons (1974), “Foreward” (sic)...
August 31, 2018 Divine Right: Minaria as a D&D Setting - So, I’m starting to put together a new D&D campaign for my niece and nephew to play in and I want to do it up with Megadungeons and Hexcrawling. I...
May 8, 2018 Build a Dungeon, Level Up - Let me just start off by saying, this is not going to work for everyone. Top-level fighters (Lords and above) who build castles are considered...
March 21, 2018 The Golden Barge: Session Report [LotFP] - Note: This is an old session report (I’m posting it two years from its original posting) from an old blog of mine I dug up, I figured I might as...
March 7, 2018 Brendan’s Twenty Rules Questions - From Necropraxis, this makes things semi-easier. This is specifically for my Nilvein campaign. Ability scores generation method? 3d6 in order....
March 5, 2018 The Hall of Sweet Mourning - is a One Page-ish Dungeon. Download it here. Here’s the breakdown: Page One: Map (below) made using Gridmapper (which is...
February 25, 2018 Equipment As Prestige Classes - The base classes in Nilvein are Fighter, Thief, Magic-User, Cleric, and they are meant to prioritize very specific playstyles. From combat to...
February 24, 2018 Designing a Character Sheet for Castlevania - If you haven’t read Brendan’s post over at Necropraxis about ablative armor then you should do so. I’ve been looking for something like this for...
February 21, 2018 Simple Poison Rules for Old School Games - Poison has a rating the same as the HD of the creature that it came from (ie. a Purple Worm has an HD 15, so its Poison is strength 15). If the...
February 20, 2018 My House Rules for Weapons in OD&D - All weapons do d6 damage in OD&D. However, some weapons have special abilities, and all weapons have different effects based on how you wield them....
January 23, 2018 I’ve Got Some Art in Megadungeon Issue 2 - When Courtney Campbell (of Hack & Slash) said he was going to be doing a new Megadungeon zine, I was pumped. One, because I love zines and would way...
December 21, 2017 Isaac’s Basement - is a one page dungeon that’s meant to be dropped into your campaign near a mountain, or forest, or any area where the PCs will be...
December 14, 2017 What Do The Monsters Want? - One of my favorite tools in D&D is the Reaction table. It’s incredibly simple (three sentences of description) and if you want, it can adjudicate...
December 13, 2017 d20 Quick Cleric Religions - New clerics in my games roll on the following table and develop the religion as they see fit. Notes on their religion are passed down to future...
December 11, 2017 Running a Siege Against the Keep on the Borderlands - Started a new campaign yesterday for my regular group, with some new scheduling restrictions. Everyone is too busy for a weekly sandbox campaign, so...
December 5, 2017 Building Better Magical Components - When it comes to casting spells in my D&D games, I like the tactics of oldschool Vancian magic (preperation, one time use, powerful spells, wide...
December 4, 2017 My Infatuation with 2D Maps - Inspired by Jeff Rient’s Vaults of Vyzor and Natalie Bennett’s Sewers of San Draso, I’ve been working on a new megadungeon campaign for my B/Xers...
December 1, 2017 What Are the Guards Doing? - In preparation for my new campaign, I’ve had to scrounge together a lot of random tables from old notes. Here’s a list of 20 things that the city...
November 28, 2017 How to Make Treasure Interesting - I’ve been preparing for a new campaign recently and so broke out a bunch of my old notebooks to harvest ideas that went unused in old campaigns, and...
September 11, 2017 B/X/R/X: Ape, White - The B/X/R/X series is a remix of the monsters from the Basic & Expert D&D sets by Moldvay and Cook, inspired by similar work by Alex Schroeder. You...
September 7, 2017 B/X/R/X: Acolyte - The B/X/R/X series is a remix of the monsters from the Basic & Expert D&D sets by Moldvay and Cook, inspired by similar work by Alex Schroeder. You...
September 4, 2017 B/X/R/X: Remixing the Best Monster Manual - There’s something really magical to me about Moldvay & Cook’s Basic/Expert boxed sets of D&D. From a product design standpoint they hold up even...
June 26, 2017 Top 20 Twitter Bots for D&D - About a year ago I decided to see how hard it would be to make a twitter bot. Apparently it’s not that hard depending on what you want to do. I...
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