Mid-summer Musings
Michael / Chgowiz What’s this? A post from a long-forgotten, long-left-behind old guy? Yep. It’s been awhile, granted – six months about since I last posted anything of consequence. To the few folks…
Happy Fiftieth, Dungeons & Dragons!
Although the exact date of first publication for D&D is not exactly know, it was in the month of January 1974 that Arneson & Gygax’s creation was introduced to the…
Situations and Resolutions in the original game
A thread was going on over at the OD&D Proboards forum on the idea of “rolling under your ability to do XYZ” and it got me to thinking along two…
50th Anniversary musings
Dungeons & Dragons is celebrating its fiftieth year anniversary of publishing in 2024. A worthy achievement of a game that has done so much to shape the last 50 years.…
A New Hope
… or at least a new home! I had moved blog and podcast to Substack, after admiring the the fact that it was a one-stop shop. Sure, I knew the…
Finishing Dungeon23 – I did it!
A year ago, I set off to create a twelve level megadungeon following the gentle advice of Sean McCoy: I started early, because I wanted to PLAY as much as…
Talking about Classic Traveller with Alex Schroeder!
I had the pleasure of joining in a great conversation with Alex Schroeder of CampaignWiki.org about running Traveller! Also present were Blue Tyson and Wanderer Bill. A global effort! It…
Filling in the holes in Classic Traveller
Over in another corner of the Extranet, a referee asks of Classic Traveller: Of course, Marc Miller & GDW answered this question later on in errata, but to me, the…
Classic Traveller Space Combat for my Battlestar Galactica campaign
My first experiences with the space combat rules in Classic Traveller 1977 (CT77) were great fun! The rules are based on vectors and a type of approach that is semi-realistic…
GameHoleCon – Traveller, HEXplore It and Dawn Patrol games
This past weekend, I attended GameHoleCon in Madison Wisconsin. I had planned on attending with my wife, Angie, but with our move, circumstances meant that I was to go alone.…