Understanding AD&D 1st Edition Combat

After a first look through of the combat system in the Dungeon Masters Guide, I boldly went to the gaming table thinking that I understood how to run things. Boy, was I wrong. Well, not necessarily wrong, mind you. But I froze up pondering potential corner cases in the system. Thank goodness that it...

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Under the Christmas Tree!

Under the Christmas tree, I found a stack of AD&D 1st edition reprint books; the Dungeons Masters Guide, Players Handbook, and the Monster Manual. I started D&D with Moldvay Basic & Expert and never owned any original 1st Edition AD&D books so it's neat looking through them and discovering...

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The Twilight Company a Castles & Crusades Campagin

We're getting ready to kick off a Castles & Crusades campaign. The two PCs are sole survivors of a destroyed mercenary company called the Twilight Company. The adventure will be driven by their attempt to rebuild the company from scratch. This means that they'll have to delve into dark places...

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Gave Fantasy Dice a Whirl

Recently, I picked up Fantasy Dice and we gave it a whirl, but before getting to that, a bit about the game itself. As presented, Fantasy Dice is a generic system that you can play historical or gritty fantasy right out of the box. It also provides all kinds of switches, knobs, and advice...

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Troll Lord Games 5 x 5 Sale

I normally don't post up about sales or what-not but this one's too good to pass up if you're a Castles & Crusades fan. The Trolls are putting on a big sale for the release of the 5th printing of the C&C Players Handbook. Print: http://tinyurl.com/74sosrk PDF: http://tinyurl.com/43gdxjf I...

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Burning Wheel for Fun and Profit

Well, not for profit but for research. Yes. Research! Kinda anyways. Since the release of RuneQuest 6, I've had the feeling that it and Burning Wheel cover a lot of the same conceptual territory but obviously as different game implementations. I wanted to blog a bit about it but my BW-wise is a bit...

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Wushu With Kids

Last Thanksgiving, I ran a WhiteBox Swords & Wizardry game for my niece and nephew. It was a huge success. I recently had the opportunity to play with them again. They were very enthused about playing but had a little difficulty getting back into the groove. I took it as an opportunity to try a...

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ZWEIHÄNDER!

Run, don't walk on over to Grim and Perilous to check out the upcoming release of ZWEIHÄNDER! From the site: ZWEIHÄNDER Grim and Perilous is a dark fantasy role-playing game, loosely based on the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay tabletop system.  Set for release in autumn of 2012, ZWEIHÄNDER...

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RuneQuest 6 (digitally) in my hands!

As soon as I saw that RuneQuest 6 was available I rushed over to RPGNow and grabbed a copy. I wasn't disappointed. The first impression was that I was looking at an artifact of history. I own Mongoose Runequest 2/Legend and really like them. RQ6 just feels different. I somehow get the feeling that...

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Chomping at the bit for Runequest 6

I've been finding myself chomping at the bit for the release of Runequest 6. I already own both versions of Mongoose Runequest, Legend, and the big gold BRP book so why the interest in 6? To be honest, at first I wasn't intrigued but I've come around. Back in the day of shopping for RPGs at Walden...

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Part 2: The Funnel With Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2

After dinner we picked up right back up where we stopped... Cole knew that they needed more bodies to build the ranks and with having no luck recruiting in the village he called in some favors from his army connections. The new recruiting roll went very well. Instead of rolling low for success we...

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Part 1: The Funnel With Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2

With me working extra long hours we haven't played anything in months. It got to the point where I said, "That's it! We're playing something this weekend!" That got the thumbs-up so it was a go. What to do. What to do... We have a really neat game world under development that we started playing in...

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Dungeon World on Kickstarter

Dungeon World is up on Kickstarter. It's a great game so head on over and check it out....

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Spiffing Up The Place

If you've been around for a while you may have noticed that I've spiffed the place up a bit. I kept putting off theming Platonic Solid because I had to learn how Blogger did things and I already had tons of stuff like it on my plate. One day last week I woke up and the old look finally got to me. It...

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Picked Up Honor + Intrigue

I recently picked up Honor + Intrigue which is based on the game engine found in Barbarians of Lemuria. Instead of playing a barbarian who crushes those in his way to hear the lamentation of the women you play a character who hums a baroque tune that dances around the glissade of flashing...

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Experienced at 1st Level?

When playing Dungeon Crawl Classics it sure feels like it. Last night we sat down and did a test encounter with Gareth the woodsman turned 1st level warrior and a new character, Henrik a 1st level cleric. Both were played by my wife. I randomly determined the opposition force and it came up 5 dark...

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Dungeon Crawl Classics Followup: The Funnel

In a previous post I introduced the 0-level PCs who were part of the game; Thorek the dwarf, Gareth the woodsman, Saul the cobbler, and Mithra the alchemist. The second session was non-stop survival by the skin of their teeth. The 1 HP cobbler was the game changer who once again stepped up saving...

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Finally Played Dungeon Crawl Classics

I finally got around to playing Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics last night and I gotta say that it was fun. The first time I read the game I was turned off by some things. No, not the weird dice. I loved that idea. I was instead turned off by the 3rd Edition-isms so I tucked it into my hard drive...

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