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Nib rubbed his eyes. The wood smoke always seemed to blow into his face when he tended the fire. His grandfather watched with amusement. His grandfather never had difficulties keeping the fire fed. Grandfather always knew what to do. “Tell me again about the old gods?” “Finish your chores, young one, and fetch me some… Continue reading

I have finally hit upon the name for my campaign setting, Reuel. It is inspired and in honor of J.R.R.Tolkien. Reuel was a family name for Tolkien and has a nice ring to it. I’ve read conflicting views on how much of an influence Tolkien’s work is on Dungeons and Dragons. It matters little to… Continue reading

Let me set the scene for you. Our Roll20 game tonight begins in the village of Larm. We are using the Labyrinth Lord Original Edition Characters rules. Three players with these characters; cleric, elf, and magic-user. We hire a man to take us upstream to an evil temple and we also hire a man-at-arms. He… Continue reading

I open my notebook to a blank page, grab my pencil, click it twice to advance the lead. I’m sitting in my car at the park, a diet Coke and cheeseburger and fries on the passenger seat. It’s a beautiful day, a cool breeze blows through the car windows. This is my favorite time, a… Continue reading

The second session of our Old School Essentials (BX dnd) Roll20 game saw the unfortunate demise of Lydia Bucktooth, a stalwart dwarven fighter. It was Lydia’s first foray out on the road east of the Keep on the Borderlans. The party consisted of Lydia (dwarf), Fodder (druid), Tad (hireling), and Yersan (hireling). The group walked… Continue reading

Tonight I started a new campaign using module B1 The Keep on the Borderlands. It will be different than my solo play with Pits and Perils. For this, we are going back to B/X rules but using the Old School Essentials by Gavin Norman. This is like coming home to me. My first game of… Continue reading

Greetings and good wishes to you all for the coming new year! I have put the blog on the back burner to simmer for awhile. I imagine many of us do this with projects they’ve started. It’s not for a lack of gaming that I’ve been silent, but on the contrary I’ve been gaming once… Continue reading

I’ve been busy setting the table for a new campaign on the Smoldering Wizards Forum. The campaign world is based on much of the content I’ve written in this blog. Running a play-by-post is a great way for me to build on the campaign world. The play-by-post is using Whitebox rules, but I want the… Continue reading

Critical hits and misses are an often house ruled thing. Most of the time I’ve simply allowed the player (and npc) to roll twice for damage if they scored a critical hit (rolling a 20). It’s simple and it works, and it is boring. Players love to have something special happen when they roll a… Continue reading