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It was probably thirty or so years ago (early to mid 1990s), when I was walking through a discount store (I think the name of the store was “Ike’s” and had a circus elephant motif), and saw a bin containing small-ish boxes labeled “Advanced Dungeons and Dragons”. The boxes, in my memory, were...

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?

I made the mistake of reading through the descriptions of “poor food” while eating spaghetti. There are options for playing “kindred-as-class” in the appendix. Breggles get arcane magic at higher levels. I dislike that the publishers continued the misguided tradition of calling a particular...

Nothing I write here will be new (probably). I was reading through my copy of this module, thinking about trying to run it again with the tax deductions. As Professor Dungeon Master said in one of his videos, this is a mini-Westmarch campaign, except it's really an "Eastmarch-style campaign"...

This may take a minute. I’ve not played any of these. Dungeon Issue # 155 “Heathen”, 5 for characters of 5th level. Starts on page 29, ends on page 59. Find out what happened to the paladin and his crew. Setting is generic. Would posting the number of encounters in the adventure count as...

I finally saw the D&D movie, and had a good time. The music was good the jokes were funny, the action was exciting. The first joke was cleverly done, and hooked me right away. There is a piece of advice for new Dungeon Masters that I have seen: steal shamelessly from your favorite books...

I haven’t watched it, so I have no idea if there are spoilers, so assume that there are:

I used a map I had made a few months ago. The first main room (40’ by 40’ square) had a fireplace, a painting of dogs playing cards around a table(valued at 500 gp), a painting of dogs playing pool (valued at 500 gp), a pool table (the surface of which was a dormant green slime, and a few of the...

So, I finally got to play a little D&D with the fam—starting what I hope is a campaign through the Dungeon Delve. Part 1: Coppernight Hold The mayor of Adventure Town stepped into Floyd’s Coffee House (a popular place for adventurers and their potential clients to gather) and asked the...

Did you know that the print copies of the 4e rule books don’t have the price for oil? The core PHB says that a lantern produces light for eight hours for each pint of oil, but oil isn’t included in the equipment list. The pdf of the core PHB has it, now, but the printed book didn’t. The only...

Just saw an interesting article in Dragon Magazine #418 (published December 2012), discussing inns. There are several charts for generating names, the names of owners (based on racial heritage), the types of food offered based on location (in the desert you can get "meerkat dumplings with...

From the Parcast Podcast, “Unexplained Mysteries”, this is part one. It details the incident of a wolf-like beast that attacked people in France in the 1760s.

Throwing an idea for level recovery if a PC has been level drained. Add one to every level that has been drained, and treat it as a multiplier for XP gained until the PC is back at the pre-drain level. For example: a 5th level fighter is drained three levels during a fight with a wight. The...

If one were considering purchasing a rpg-ish board game, which would be the preferred choice: the new Heroquest or Castle Ravenloft (or similar, like Wrath of Ashardalon)?

Found this on YouTube: Rime of the Frost Maiden

I was scanning through my excellent print-on-demand copy of the Rules Cyclopedia, and began reading the rules for weapon mastery. Interesting stuff. Kind of fiddly. Here is my alternate houserule: Weapon skill levels are Basic, Skilled, Expert, Master, and Grand Master. Fighters, Elves...

For anyone interested in seeing 4e in play, Matt Colville has posted videos of several play sessions on Youtube The unedited videos can be watched on twitch. He gives the link in the description box of his YouTube videos.

I am pretty sure this topic has already been covered at some point in the ancient past, but how would one use the 4th edition skill challenge rules to mimic a dungeon crawl for a group of players? Does one use a map, or something more like a flow chart, and only bring the map out for fights...

I am wanting to get a print on demand version of the Basic Rules, and am looking at either the Rules Cyclopedia or the Dark Dungeons retroclone. What are the pros and cons for each book?

So, I was skimming through the rule book for "Gateway to the Savage Frontier", and the section on magic says it takes 4 hours to prepare 1st and 2nd level spells, and six hours to prepare 3rd level spells, minimum, plus 15 minutes per level of spell. So, preparing 2 first level, 1 second level...