DM Tip – Making a six-level dungeon out of a single map
Michael / Chgowiz I had a problem – I wanted to create a dungeon that would challenge my players with increasing danger, but I didn’t want to make it have multiple levels. I’d…
Session summaries from June’s AD&D/OD&D/Traveller games
(continuing from May’s OD&D and AD&D game recaps – 500 characters or less each!) Eastern Borders AD&D game: 6/4 session: With enemies vanquished and myconid friend rescued, the PCs dispelled…
Three things I learned from running Classic Traveller for the first time
Back in early May, I posted about a crazy idea of mashing up the two Battlestar Galactica series into one setting, and running it using Classic Traveller. Since then, I’ve…
Chainmail in my OD&D
This is a companion blog post to Episode 55 of the Dungeon Masters Handbook, which talks how Chainmail expects you to adapt it for the game you want to run.…
Dungeon 23 – Wk 25 – Over 500 rooms!
Thanks to a steady pace and a recount, I’ve reached the 500 point, and then some! I’m at a total of 548 rooms, across 8 levels and 4 sublevels. So…
Session summaries from May’s AD&D/OD&D games
(continuing from last month’s OD&D and AD&D game recaps – 500 characters or less each!) Eastern Borders AD&D game: 4/8 session: PCs regrouped after escaping imprisonment by a chaotic mage…
Dungeon 23 – Wk 24 – I Can’t Stop Mapping! Sharing More Random Tables
I think I may have a slight problem… I am enjoying mapping way too much and I can’t stop at just 5 to 10 min. Over the past week, I’ve…
Dungeon 23 – Wk 22/23 – Level 7 finished
Level 7 is finished with 9 days to go in May, and I’ll probably start on Level 8 next week. It took me a big longer to write up the…
Classic Traveller – Why would a starship have fighters?
One of the weird ways I learn a system is to make a referee’s guide. I did it for microlite20, back in ’08 when I was rediscovering D&D. Then for…
The 3 Essential Elements of the Perfect D&D Village/Town/City
Heh. How click-baity can I make that title? But, I’m dead serious with this. There are three things that, in my experience, PCs tend to care about in a town,…