Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Rules vs. the Game

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I've spent a lot of time lately looking over rule books trying to pick a game system to run, and it's finally stuck me that I've...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Games for Old-school Dungeon Crawling

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I've put together a quick summary of three retro style games that I think work best for old fashioned dungeon crawling.  This is just de...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

What makes a "good" dungeon?

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I've been thinking about the question of what makes a good dungeon for a while now, so I think it's time to write down a brief summa...
Sunday, January 11, 2009

Some more thoughts on hirelings and henchmen

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I'm quite sure that of those who even remember the prevalence of hirelings and henchman in the early days of RPGs, quite a number of the...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Dungeon Entrances

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One of the biggest problems that I have when designing a dungeon is coming up with the main entrance. I've been doing quite a lot of th...
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Monday, January 5, 2009

A Quick Primer for Old School Gaming

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How we gamed in Ye Olde Tymes. And Best of all, it's free. http://www.lulu.com/content/3019374

Resurrecting "Old School"

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The Traditional Adventure Roleplaying Association announces International Traditional Adventure Roleplaying Week, January 10th through 17th,...
Sunday, January 4, 2009

In which we creep closer to my finally choosing a system

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I'm in the mood to run an old school dungeon crawl. The type centered around a village on the edge of a dark forest, with a nasty beast...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Gaming resolutions for the new year

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Of course I never keep these sorts of things, but what the heck. I resolve to play more tabletop games and less computer games.  I have no ...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Retro Redux (Dragon Warriors)

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Dragon Warriors is quite possibly what D&D would have been had D&D been created in England.  Thanks to Magnum opus and Mongoose Publ...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Going native...er...retro

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I have reached the threshold of middle-age and still consider myself a gamer. If you would have asked my at 14 if I thought that I would st...
Monday, December 8, 2008

The Tao of RPGs

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"Have little and be fulfilled. Have much and be confused." I've always been fond of these words from the Tao Te Ching. Th...
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The Roaring 20's

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I am proposing a new campaign set in to 1920's (1925 to be exact). The characters will be based in the fictional Pennsylvania town of K...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

A place to post my gaming stuff perhaps?

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