Showing posts with label Ken St Andre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken St Andre. Show all posts
Monday, February 29, 2016

Some thoughts on the latest T&T edition

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So finally did the big book arrive! The Kickstarter campaign was not really the most pleasurable experience you could imagine, but it no shi...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A solution to echoing empty rooms in a dungeon

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Some people might remember that I have written before about the empty dungeon. For some people that is not a problem. They like the explorat...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - Tunnels & Trolls 1st ed.

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Now, some of you might object to that title. Surely T&T is not a clone of D&D, and it surely isn't an old D&D edition!? No, ...
Saturday, December 14, 2013

Saturday Night thoughts on the sparsely populated dungeon

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It's Saturday night, and I feel a Saturday Night Special feeling coming over me. Some of you might have read my last post on dense Gyg...
Monday, December 2, 2013

Different Old Schools - dense or sparse maps

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I was listening to a podcast talking about that famous picture of EGG running a game at a con, sitting with a dense map in front of him and ...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

New Loot - pictorial evidence!

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Here it is! My holy grail for a time have been to get hold of a copy of the 1974 edition of D&D for a decent price. In addition to that...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Loot!

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I am finally the proud owner of a copy of The First Fantasy Campaign! From the personal collection of Ken St Andre it came, in marvellous co...
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 ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

A few words from Ken

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In case you had missed it, or thought he had come clean. Here's the latest words from Ken St Andre about James Shipman: [ some parts r...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

A report from outside the dungeon. There's a dungeon here!

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I'm in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on a business trip right now. As can be expected, nothing much related to gaming happens on a busines...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Year with The Eye

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Roughly one year ago, I had been reading Grognardia and been thinking of blogging. Tunnels & Trolls had become one of my favourite game...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

Old School. More than a feeling?

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Some of you might have read Grognardia a short while ago, where a quote from Ken St. Andre was commented upon. I liked it myself and nodded...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Trollgod's Party

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Last night Ken St Andre hosted a party at his site Trollhalla . It was interesting to sit by your computer, sipping a beer and chatting with...
Friday, October 2, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Adventure Points p.29-30

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Welcome back to T&T Friday! Today I'll talk mostly about Adventure Points, and also a bit about the small interspersed pieces of gam...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Some thoughts about how to organise rpg rules

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I was just reading the Swords & Wizardry forums and found a thread about how neat it is to be able to take the .doc format file of Whit...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Character Generation II p.p20-28

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Now we have come to the part of the rulebook which talks about attributes. I find it odd that these are described after the Types, since the...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Character Generation p.6-20

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Who said it was slow on Fridays in the blogosphere!? Here I am again, reading T&T from cover to cover. This week I'll look at Chara...
Friday, September 11, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Troll Talk p.3

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Let's start this walk through slowly. In the introduction, Troll Talk, Ken St. Andre tells how this edition came to happen, and also te...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Reading T&T 7.5 - Introduction

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As every blogger knows, Fridays are a bit slow. I'm going to make the Fridays kind of special from now on. Inspired by some kind of thre...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Who in gaming is worth knowing about?

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After my exasperated outburst about people not knowing about Ron Edwards I started thinking. Jeff Rients, always with his eye on the pulse ...