Rethinking X2 – Castle Amber
Michael / Chgowiz I was looking for a relatively self-contained adventure for a one-shot game I was putting on for a group of folks recently. I was looking for an adventure that would…
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[Solo Game w/Wife] Arena/Gladiator combat
Are you not entertained?!? Is this not why you are here??! Gladiator combat. In my experience, it’s either all fun or all boring. I’ve seen it done as a simulationist…
One Page Game Prep
I love poking around the Intert00bs and Google+ to find great new blog posts. And just when I thought I had seen it all with one page dungeons, hex crawls,…
Wargames/D&D Campaign – Dynamic life of an NPC
Too often, NPCs have felt as stiff and unchanging as the little metal figures I parade across the table. I’ve caught hints over the years that this doesn’t need to…
New Act for my online Dark Ages game made public
Fall 21, 56 AD (Anno Doom) It is a quiet and tense ride back to Skalfier, and the horses need to be ridden hard to try to make it there…
The creeps
“Man, those Legionnaires marching around, not talking … they’re giving me the creeps!” (paraphrased from Ostlen’s player this weekend) It’s dawned on me over the past month just how the…
Hey ChicagoWiz, how’s those Pedion terrain tiles working out?
I frakkin’ LOVE these Pedion terrain tiles. I got them from supporting a Kickstarter that I wasn’t sure was going to make it, but it made it and then some.…
Hey ChicagoWiz, how’s that new approach to DM’ing working out?
So about a year ago, I posted “Restarting my AD&D campaign – doing it differently” as a rant against myself about how I’d run my campaign previously. How grindy it…
Why I don’t publish modules – my modules is suck!
Do you write modules or adventures to publish them? Or do you write them for your own table? If you answered yes, then do you have Bryce Lynch’s blog tenfootpole.org…
More Book of War + D&D = Great Fun!
My PCs are becoming shakers and movers in my campaign these days, with helping take back lost areas, clearing out ruined monasteries of Chaos and now having performed a rescue…