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

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

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

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

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

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

Marlowe The playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe died at age 29 on May 30, 1593, ostensibly in an argument over who should pay the bill of a bar tab or food bill. To say the least the story is suspicious.… Continue reading

This is a follow-up to my post of earlier today regarding strength differences in AD&D males and female humans. This one looks at the strength limitations imposed on the different character races in AD&D. There is a famous table on… Continue reading