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AD&D Forbidden Fruit: Stealing a Kiss
My three regular readers may have noticed that not everything I post here is serious. Really, almost none of it is, it’s just about gaming after all. Nonetheless I do try to make things I post usable to some degree.… Continue reading
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The Gorean Tarn
Back in the day Dragon Magazine had a column where they presented stat blocks for fictional characters. Issue #61 included that statistics for John Norman’s Tarl Cabot of Gor. If you don’t know Gor and John Norman, look them up.… Continue reading
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Product Review: Wight-Box
Two product reviews in a row. Things are getting wild here. I’m going to try to keep this short. Here is my product review of The Basic Expert’s Wight-Box. What’s in the box? The box contains: three rule books; a… Continue reading
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Twilight of the Orc 2: AD&D Mass Combat, Fort Fenrir Troops versus Orcs
This is the same docketed encounter discussed previously. Now that you’ve seen one potential outcome, what I present here is demonstration that any one enounter can have a wide variety of results, but also a method that adds complexity to… Continue reading
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Twilight of the Orc. AD&D Mass Combat, Fort Fenrir Troops versus Orcs
In the AD&D campaign I currently play in, we ran out of time to carry out a mass combat within the session. So, the DM put the forces on the board for people to play out in downtime through the… Continue reading
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AD&D: Monks and unarmed combat
Monks in AD&D are something of an odd man out. While the rest of the game is based on primarily European sources, the monk is based on Asian sources. Or, really, a European or American interpretation of Asian sources and… Continue reading
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AD&D: Giant Tactics
This post , asking about how to use giants in interesting ways other than just a bags of hit points, generated a bit of thought on XTwitter. My knee jerk reaction is just to use the rules that already exist.… Continue reading
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AD&D: a simple War of the Gods
Deities and Demigods is probably the least used of the four original AD&D books. The book is mostly full of stat blocks for gods which the text of the book will tell you is mostly for comparative purposes rather than… Continue reading
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Jeffro Catches Up
Jeffro is back and in fine form on Substack. He’s got a beaut of a post here. And, as typical he’s right. Everyone go read it now. It’s more important to read that one, than this one. Jeffro discusses M.A.R.… Continue reading
