Behind the DM Screen – Managing numbers
Michael / Chgowiz Alex Schroeder (of campaignwiki.org) and I were having a lovely chat on Mastodon this morning: @kensanata: The one thing that surprises me the most in role-playing games: how almost nobody…
Michael / Chgowiz
One Page Dungeon Templates
Back when David “Sham” Bowman and I came up with the One Page Dungeon Template, I used the Google “sites” tool to host files. That was back in 2008. Over…
Mid-summer Musings
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…