So in the early-mid 80’s I did a lot of gaming. Mainly AD&D. For a couple of those years, it was just about all that I did. In the last seven years, I’ve dabbled in it again with some folks in town. Not AD&D 1ed, but other D&D and other non-D&D games. But, for some…Read more
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world gone awry…
So my ill-fated AD&D campaign continues in its bountiful nowhereness. I’m now up to 100 or so pages of campaign background materials. But I’ve put so much time into it that it no longer feels like gaming prep, it’s now more like some big disjointed world history… One thing that I am always contending with…Read more
no, it’s a module…
Having a conversation with a co-worker yesterday, of a similar vintage as myself, I realized that we both shared the same approximate Dungeons and Dragons time, about 1981-1987. he mentioned that he had usually DM’d and they that had bought, and gone through, most of the modules. Unfortunately, as most of my time gaming in…Read more
pulling out every one of my teeth, or at least 32 of them…
Ah yes, Table (III.E.) Special. I am a huge huge fan of the Dungeon Masters Guide (1979 edition). I got my copy in, I suppose, 1981, and I am convinced that it is one of the great works of imagination out there. Not just the best RPG book (which it is), but just a great…Read more
… and i’ll take the low road.
So as I may have mentioned earlier, I started a AD&D campaign. 1st Edition, as that’s what I played back in the day and what I prefer. Okay, I actually started it as a Basic D&D (because of the kids) but rapidly converted it to AD&D as soon as we started. Well,, started is a…Read more
Whither the tomes…
Well, my AD&D thing has now become a bit of a fixation. In the time spent online, both putting together my campaign environment and also just catching up on what’s been written out there, I have learned that there are a lot of resources that I find intriguing. I have gained a good number of…Read more
Away they go… Now come back.
Last year, in the midst of one of our household purges of unused junk, I decided to get rid of many of my old RPG games. Of course, soon I regretted it. Primarily because I wanted to show the kids D&D, but I gave away alll of my AD&D books except for my earliest editions….Read more
Following, not (yet) running
And on it goes. As a sort of follow-up to my earlier Runescape post, here is another! Runescape is definitely a love/hate relationship for me. I’ve been playing for over nine years… To the sad tune of 8,428 hours (yes, that works out to two plus hours a day, every day for nine years). I…Read more
Those halcyon days of yore…
Finally, you can all relax… It is time for the long awaited follow-up to my Freaky Freaks post of a year and a half ago (here)! This was actually brought on though by the news at they.mislead.us that this is Play A New RPG Month! And, yes, this topic is actually something that I do…Read more
Freaky freaks.
So this week I started reading Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks (An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms) by Ethan Gilsdorf. While currently I am at a part that doesn’t really interest me… It being about the SCA and LARP and such things, I find the…Read more