Calculating Mercenary costs in AD&D/homebrew
Michael / Chgowiz … or “How I resurrected a spreadsheet written by a player in 2011 and updated it for a homebrew calendar and pricing model” Really exciting stuff, amirite?!? Anyway, the players…
Michael / Chgowiz
NPCs coming back alive…
I’m sure every DM has done this at some point or other – visualized a character from another form of media – TV, film, comics, online – to make their…
Guess it’s not meant to be – for now
Well, I tried. I got some folks interested in possibly playing a run through the classic module U1 – The Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh. I just couldn’t do it. I…
How to restart? (Again)
Hard to believe it’s been nearly 8 months since I last posted, but here we are. COVID year two and still hanging in there. Family is good, nobody has gotten…
Sometimes, the best move is not to play…
I had to do something really hard this weekend, I had to cancel my monthly tabletop Zoom AD&D game, as well as my bi-weekly online AD&D game. I’m taking a…
Podcast Episode 39 – The Barbarian
Join me as I continue my a series of episodes where I read through the (in)famous supplement to AD&D: Unearthed Arcana! Will I use UA in my campaign? Let’s find…
Staying busy during these times
The world is crazy right now. COVID, civil injustice and the unrest that follows. My work has kept me busy, and there’ve been some household changes with the grandkids going…
Podcast Episode 38 – Reading Unearthed Arcana – Paladin, Druid, Fighter
Join me as I continue my a series of episodes where I read through the (in)famous supplement to AD&D: Unearthed Arcana! Will I use UA in my campaign? Let’s find…
Addendum to Priests/esses of Mesha – dialing it back!
It’s so easy, isn’t it? A tweak here, a bonus there, a saving throw addition and now you have power creep. That’s what happened, I think, in the myriad and…
Setting Specific Classes, Inspired by the Cavalier
Episode 37 of my Dungeon Master’s Handbook podcast covered the Cavalier class of the AD&D book Unearthed Arcana and my thoughts on it. One of the big lessons I got…