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The hex crawl continues! This month we head north from the area described in Loviatar #5. Lavishly illustrated by Jay Penn, "Hex 004" offers adventurers a richly detailed experience. PCs can visit Combe, a predominantly halfling village, where a basilisk is loose! The monster hunters who brought...

One thing I really dig about a sandbox/hex crawl is that it's eerily similar to a good World of Darkness chronicle. Basically, you establish a setting (a single hex or city) mix in some NPCs, locations, and rumors then sit back to see what the PCs do. Their actions send ripples outward that...

Thanks, man. The hex crawl has been a lot of fun to write. People really seem to like it, so I'll press on with it. :)

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The first issue of 2012 is ready! The old style D&D hex crawl continues with the aptly named "Hex 002." This hex features a mystic who has channeled a powerful spirit that embodies the most aggressive aspects of a wolf. He will attempt to recruit anyone he meets into his cult. Indoctrination...

Hello friends, I'd like to begin the new year with a D&D campaign that focuses on the roots of the game. I have in mind a sand box campaign using a pre-3x version of the rules. By sand box I mean a classic hex crawl that is truly a "choose your own adventure" kind of thing. The...

Hex 001, an article for Basic D&D, gets things started. If you want to run a hex crawl/ sandbox style campaign you're going to need a place to start. Hex 001 provides that beginning. The article offers maps, illustrations, adventure hooks, planned encounters and suggestions for future play. With...

When the humans' colony ship was intercepted by the enigmatic Masters, the robots in the cargo hold were put to use by the aliens. The Masters had already failed miserably with their intelligent, talking wolves so perhaps the humans' robots could be turned into effective spies. The humans...

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No. 3; October 2011 The gritty streets of Baldur's Gate call! In this issue you'll meet some violent toughs who lurk along the miserable neighborhood of Pigeon Street. They call themselves the "Murder Boys" and they live for a good scrape with rivals. They are affiliated with a mysterious cleric...

I am forty - behold the ravages of time - and I think I am just as nerdy as I was when I was 14. Maybe more so in light of the fact I still write a fanzine. The thing is, I am probably more well-rounded than my early, early days. I surf after work, I like to cook, work in the garden and so on...

My wife is a chef and she suggested something called "metro shelving." They are a kind of steel, modular shelving unit you see in a lot of restaurants, but people use them at home, too. If you look on Craigslist, you might find someone trying to sell their shelving.

Back in the day there was an article in Dragon mag that presented several magical swords. One of my favorites was Susk. Susk was a +1 longsword with an oiled blade that gave it kind of a dark appearance. What made the blade unique was that it could hover. If you let it go in midair, it would...

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I have a Google+ account and from what I can tell, a lot of guys are playing via the hangouts. They seem to be utilizing the Hangouts to great effect. A lot of the people I see doing this are individuals who write many of the "old school Renaissance" blogs for systems like Labyrinth Lord and...