Showing posts with label DnD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DnD. Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - B/X edition D&D

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In my series going back through old editions and clones I've reached the edition of D&D called B/X, for the "Basic" and ...
Sunday, September 14, 2014

Waking up, smelling the coffee and thinking ahead

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Excuse me if I wax a bit poetic in my post titles. Sometimes I get a bit influenced by Samuel R. Delaney and created titles that sound prete...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Glorantha ORE, maybe?

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I have managed to misplace my copy of Heroes and other Worlds , so I had to get on Lulu and order another copy today. Before that I tried to...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Delving Deeper boxed set at last

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Today I first held in my hand the boxed set of Delving Deeper boxed set. It took forever to arrive, and I will probably never buy anything f...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Material components, taking a cue from Mage

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I have more than once felt that the game Mage: The Ascension could be really cool, if I just figured out how. The rules are a bit too vague,...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Old and new together

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I played D&D 3rd ed. yesterday, and it was a very interesting mix of old and new. Most of the players were older than the hobby, which i...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Action/Drama/Fate points and player engagement

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I was replying in a comment on this post , and realized it was turning into a post of its own. I'll expand all my thoughts below. The ...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

What's important in D&D3 - what I (apparently) thought back then

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I took out my D&D3 books yesterday, since I made a new character . I also found that I had put small coloured tabs on some sections of t...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Old Traveller adventures - the emptiness of space

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I recently bought the Mongoose edition of Traveller, as you might remember me mentioning before. It is a good game, and a fun read. Now I ha...
Monday, February 13, 2012

Old School feats - my take

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In a post some while back, FrDave posted his ideas about how to spice up the use of stats in old school D&D by some "feats" f...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I really don't care

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...about D&D 5th ed.
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Super Endless Quest - does it sound inviting?

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Like I mentioned in my last post, I'm not playing my solo game books to take me through summer slowdowns. I have T&T solos, and I ha...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Am I missing something?

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Now I've seen that in my feed there have been a very intense conversation going on in the blogosphere about shields. But why? After skim...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

AD&D, using just the PHB

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I have been thinking about games I want to run for a while now. Since I listen to Roll For Initiative podcast , which is all about AD&D,...
Monday, March 7, 2011

[DragonQuest] Shields will be splitered!

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I found this reading DragonQuest yesterday: [18.3] Grievous Injury may result if the successful Strike Check is 5% or less of the Modified ...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Some thoughts on character empowerment house rules

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Today I read this blog post, about Gary Gygax's house rules for D&D. Reading that I was thinking back to how the rules for T&T ...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Once again into the breach - starting a new campaign

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So now my Wednesday group have ended due to scheduling difficulties and I'm looking to recruit some new people for a game. First questio...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

So, what do you do in this game?

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I realized today, when I was looking at my collection, that there are a few of these games which don't answer that well the question in ...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Three combat options

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Here are a few more options in combat for the world's most popular frpg, and similar games.  The rules in the block below are Open Gamin...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

15 games - the list

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"So, just name me 15 games you've played. The first ones that pop into your mind" "Like, any kind of game?" "...