Showing posts with label Old School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Old School. Show all posts
Thursday, January 15, 2015

DragonQuest Combat houserule

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I got a comment on my last post, mentioning playing DragonQuest without a battle map. Personally I have nothing against miniatures with my r...
Wednesday, January 7, 2015

I bet I could use these rules for...

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Longtime readers of this blog knows I am a nutcase when it comes to collecting some games. I have multiple copies of the 2nd ed. DragonQuest...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - Brave Halfling's Delving Deeper

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As some of you might be aware, the delivery of the Brave Halfling boxed set edition of Delving Deeper was a long and miserable story. But, i...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Bethorm - first impressions of the rules

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Today I had a day off from work, and unusual for me, I managed to plow through a lot of the rules, and made my first character. Here are som...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Bethorm has arrived!

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Yesterday I got to open a package I have been waiting for. Once again there's a Tekumel game in print! Jeff Dee's Bethorm has arriv...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - AD&D

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Way back in the days, I got to take a peek at the game books used by the older brother of one of my class mates and gaming buddy. It was a h...
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, ...
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Old D&D editions and clones - Ambition & Avarice

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I remember when I first heard of Castles & Crusades, and how the creators talked about how it fused the best of older editions with new....
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 ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

100 things you have to do to play like the Old Days, or less...

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I guess you have seen those books, or websites with lists like " 100 movies to see before you die! "? This is the XX things to d...
Monday, September 15, 2014

How many clones do you need?

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Today I listened to a Swedish gaming podcast, Viskningar från kryptan [Whispers from the Crypt], about a new old school game Svärd och Sva...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Vampire sandbox

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I listened to a podcast that discussed the first scenario for Vampire, in the back of the 2nd ed rulebook. I remember when Vampire was the h...
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 ...
Friday, November 15, 2013

Getting hurt in different games

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Since I recently played a game of FATE, I have been searching out other experiences of playing FATE, including listening to podcasts. At the...
Sunday, September 8, 2013

Emergent Story - in multiple ways

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I was listening to an episode of the  The Walking Eye podcast recently. It sometimes has moments of pure brilliance, and I was hoping to ...
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...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

Old School Forgotten Realms

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I have been reading the grey box Forgotten Realms lately. Yesterday I also took out the first supplement, Waterdeep. Apart from some very in...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Thinking more on my last CoC game

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I have been thinking some more of my reactions to the latest CoC session. There was a time in the beginning of the session where the players...
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 4, 2012

The idea of Interludes

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I have been very much into the idea if running Savage Worlds for a week or so. It's a game that manages to look kind of plain when read...