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I wanted something a little more precise when I started making my own “grid crawl” sandbox. I wanted a first-level dungeon within an hour or two of the base town, but does that mean an adjacent square, or does it need to be in the same square as the town? Knowing the miles-per-hour rate helps...

A hearty “thank you” to The Sigil, for recommending that list of products; King’s Festival has a bit of information on it’s “adventure clock” (p. 20) that I could not find anywhere else: how long an adventuring day lasts. Twelve hours. The rules elsewhere say that a party traveling at 90 yards a...

I’m reading through B11: King’s Festival, and there certainly is an element of “don’t try to talk to these orcs; they want to fight you” in it. B2 had the option to pit one group of monsters against another, but, as you pointed out, that’s B/X instead of BECMI.

Another thing I just discovered is that the RC doesn’t have information about encumbrance reduction for magical armor. In the Red Box, magic leather armor weighs 10 lbs (100 coins) less than non-magical armor, magic chain mail weighs 25 lbs less, and magic plate mail weighs 30 lbs less. B11...

I’ve been running my six year old through the Red Box solo adventure. She chased off the goblin, killed the snake, and just met Aleena. I’m making her write everything down on a piece of paper (ability scores, hit points, and equipment). She asked why the pictures show her as being a man...

I added a few rules from Moldvay: 1. Anyone can search for “room traps” 2. Natural healing of 1d3 HP a day (or 1d4 HP, if I go by the 1991 Black Box) 3. Crowbars

The RC is my very favorite D&D book. I got the pod version, and it’s very nice.

B/X Blackrazor, despite his name, has gone all-in for 1e, for the same reasons. He asserts that AD&D has the best rules for long-term play.

My impression is that this was something that he did, and it worked out for his players, so he recommended these adventures to others. I would need to watch the video, again. The theme that I took from his list was “adventuring in Mystara”, from crawling through a dungeon to gaining Immortal...

I always plan to do this, but wind up wasting time doing other things; I want to run the “adventure path” that The Sigil recommended, except start with Castle Mistamere from the Red Box. The Sigil: how sandbox-y are the modules in your adventure path? Does one start with King’s Harvest, then do...

BECMI Berserker recommends an adventure path that consists of B2 (Keep on the Borderlands), B10 (Night’s Dark Terror), X4 (Master of the Desert), X5 (The Temple of Death), X7 (The War Rafts of Kron), CM1 (Test of the Warlords), CM2 (Death’s Ride), CM6 (Where Chaos Reigns), CM3 (Saber River), and...

Check out 3d6, Down the Line, on YouTube. They have been playing this for two years now, using houseruled Old School Essentials. Arden Vul is tailored to D&D 1e, as I understand it. Spoilers, though, since they are playing through the dungeon, and show the maps (both the book maps, and the...

I can see where someone accidentally hit an extra key on the phone when inputting the price.

I didn’t know if, like, the journal had belonged to an exceptionally good DM, or something

A product popped up: “Pre-Owned RPG journal: Mixed paper: Ruled, graph, hex: For role playing gamers: Notes, tracking, mapping, terrain plans: Vintage brown dice deco cover design Paperback” It costs $251 What gives?