It is a fact widely acknowledged that all true Games Masters handcraft the entirety of their world from scratch and refuse to draw any ‘inspiration’ (a nice word for stealing) from anything other than their own grey matter. You don’t… Read More ›
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B/X D&D Homebrew Fighter Class
In this series of articles I’m going to be going through each of the classes in B/X D&D, giving my thoughts on them and then presenting my updated version of the class for my games. I’m in no way reinventing… Read More ›
The 529 hex Barbarian Prince D&D sandbox
In some weird fever dream a month or so back I spent a few days crafting a massive sandbox hexcrawl using the classic barbarian prince map as a basis. Here’s a link to my version detailing each of the 529 hex’s… Read More ›
Lessons improv can teach you about playing Dungeons & Dragons
Improv acting is when two or more people improvise a scene with one another rather than following a script. You’re always going to find moments in your roleplaying games where you have to make things up on the spot as… Read More ›
Knowledge checks are stupid
“Does a bear shit in the woods?” “You might know but your character doesn’t, give me a nature check. ” “Err, 7?.” “You’re unsure whether bears do indeed shit in the woods.” I wish I was being facetious but this… Read More ›
Missing the heart of the journey – Travel in RPG’s
Humans have to an incredibly large degree removed the ‘journey’ from a journey. The 2170 mile Oregon trail from Independence, Missouri to Oregon, for example, would have taken roughly 144 days to complete going at an average pace of 15… Read More ›
