Fluid — Druid

RPGs

  • Fireball v. Cloudkill

    This video inspired this post. The video purports to be a statistical comparison of the Fireball versus Cloudkill spell. In reality, the video is an explanation of some statistical concepts. It’s well worth watching for the statistics talk, but it… Continue reading

  • Boot Hill: Nome City

    A challenge has been made to create a Boot Hill style Braunstein in the format of Appendix D in Boot Hill. Here you go. For a fictional treatment of this period see the novel The Spoilers by Rex Beach and… Continue reading

  • Western RPGs: three campaigns

    I’ve talked about western themed campaigns before. I provided an overview of the Gunslinger campaign system. I talked about a more detailed game play loop and random wilderness encounters to Boot Hill. I discussed professions other than gambler for Boot… Continue reading

  • Fire Skeleton & Related Spells

    Because AD&D has a distinct lack of white phosphorus. Continue reading

  • Gunslinger: the anti-Braunstein

    Mr. Wargaming has been exploring Boot Hill. And, he’s got my juices flowing thinking about role playing in a Western context. He’s been emphasizing that the strength of Boot Hill is its tight focus on combat rules. All the social… Continue reading

  • AD&D Longbow: Historically accurate?

    Recently, Tod of Tod’s Workshop came out with a wonderful experiment of the longbow’s effectiveness against armor. See it here. I’m not going to fully examine it, but it did give me some things to look at quickly that I… Continue reading

  • Across the White River

    A few years ago, I wrote a Sword and Sorcery story titled Across the White River. You can find out more about it here if you’d like to read it. In short, it is a tale from a world before… Continue reading

  • Dragons in the Dungeon: will they fit?

    One common criticism of Dungeons and Dragons is the claim that often monsters, in particular dragons, being found in dungeons where they would not fit. How, it is asked, did that ancient dragon end up eight levels down in the… Continue reading

  • Tarzan and Conan: inversions of one another?

    This post isn’t about gaming? Or, is it? Both Tarzan and Conan are present in Appendix N. Which sources one draws from Appendix N will influence one’s game. So there is that. This post inspired what I write here. Tarzan… Continue reading

  • Why RAW is important — Beyond just common sense

    Yesterday, a friend asked me if he was doing something wrong running his game of AD&D. He said it was too deadly, characters keep dying. I couldn’t think of anything that was a problem. Nor, had it seemed to me… Continue reading