Friday, April 25, 2025

[Obscure Games] Rolemaster

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 Originally published as an alternative combat system for Dungeons & Dragons , followed up by an alternative magic system and finally an...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Tactics in Adventure Gaming

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Virtual tabletops have caused something of a renaissance in tactical adventure game play, if only because miniatures and terrain are expe...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Some Possibly Unpopular Opinions Regarding Gaming-related Issues

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 I will never attend a convention in Indiana. The people of that state have chosen to enact policies that make everyday existence dangerous ...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Checking In

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I apologize for being quiet for several months, and for not continuing my look at expanded Domain Play in AD&D. I do want to say that I...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

TSR/WotC Returns To The World Of Oerth

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First of all, I don't yet have a copy of the new Dungeon Master's Guide for the updated 5E D&D. I'm poor and will have to w...
Monday, October 14, 2024

The Geist

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The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall All right, no more apologizing. Sometimes it'll just take me a while between articles here. That's ju...
Monday, September 9, 2024

Fine-Tuning AD&D 1st Edition for Different Settings

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First of all, let me apologize for having been so quiet. It's been a hard year and gaming has taken a secondary priority for me. Hopeful...
Monday, May 27, 2024

Lucky 13!

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Today, we celebrate 13 years of this blog. That seems impossible, since I only just started this blog yesterday, I'm sure. Well, no, che...
Thursday, February 29, 2024

[Obscure Games] DragonQuest

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There were quite a few attempts to break the near-monopoly that D&D held on the early fantasy adventure gaming industry. A couple have w...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

[The Domain Game] part 4: Raising Armies

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This is the 1 2 3 4th part of this ongoing series, and it is time to discuss the wargamer's favorite part: how to get an army to send...
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Sunday, February 25, 2024

[The Domain Game] part 3: Keeping Player Interest

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"The Anointing of Solomon" by Cornelis De Vos Now the players have a domain and they are being kept busy by the random encounters...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

[The Domain Game] part 2: Setting Up a Domain

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Reconstruction of an early stage of Kidwelly Castle  Now that you've convinced your players that having a base of operations is a good ...
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Friday, February 23, 2024

[The Domain Game] part 1: Getting Players to Buy Into the Idea

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  Amberley Castle and environs, from here     I want to set down an outline of how to play the Domain Game, which is to say that stage of th...
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Mass Combat in AD&D 1st Edition, a New Approach

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I've been thinking about "domain-level" play in AD&D 1E lately, going through old Dragon magazine articles on the topic an...
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