Dungeon Master’s Handbook – Episode 43 – Running a Heist in AD&D
Michael / Chgowiz Running a heist game in D&D isn’t as easy/clear-cut as running a dungeon or wilderness adventure. This episode, I cover how I did it, in response to a vlog by…
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Dungeon Master’s Handbook – Episode 42 – The Problem is Choice
I learn lessons from all my games, whether Play-by-Post, online or tabletop/face-to-face. This episode, I talk about how I took the druid from 1st Edition AD&D and made their initiation/level-up…
Podcasting again! Dungeon Master’s Handbook – Episodes 40 and 41 are out now.
Jeez, I really am a complete newbie at this again, aren’t I? I completely forgot that I had started podcasting again. I have two episodes up right now, talking about…
Q: Running hybrid AD&D game: virtual+in-person?
(Also asked this on the r/OSR subreddit…) Thanks to COVID, I had to put my long-running, in-person AD&D campaign on hold. So two years later… I’m looking to start things…
Calculating Mercenary costs in AD&D/homebrew
… 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…
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…