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Month: February 2020

AD&D Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea OSR - Old School Rules

Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic

28 February 0202028 February 020205 min read

Getting back into writing more narrative-style content for D&D adventures has led me to do a bunch of research on keeping my theme and tone

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d30 Thursday – Set Dressing – Kitchen

27 February 020201 min read

At a loss for how to describe what your PCs find in the kitchen of the castle? Roll a d30! Hand-carved wooden utensils (spoons, ladle,

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d30 Thursday – Foraging

20 February 020202 min read

Searching for food, for material components? Perhaps the PCs are Hunting, Fishing, or Prospecting for precious minerals. Here is a chart designed to help determine

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d30 Thursday – Trees and Shrubs

13 February 020207 February 020201 min read

Trees & Shrubs Pecan Pin Oak Honey locust Pear Ginkgo Crabapple Redbud Saucer Magnolia Golden Plum Arborvitae Douglas Fir Tricolor Fir Dappled Willow Red-twig Dogwood

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What Ho, Frog Demons! – A Review

11 February 020203 min read

The Hill Cantons was one of the first #OSR blogs I discovered last year when I got back into the D&D scene. I was looking

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AD&D Grimdark Greyhawk OSR - Old School Rules World of Weirth

The Unseen Servant – Part One

7 February 020201 March 020209 min read

I’m doing some world-building, thinking about the role of magic in general and Clerical magic in particular. This bit from the AD&D Player’s Handbook has

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AD&D Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

d30 Thursday – All that Glitters

6 February 0202023 January 020202 min read

A d30 Treasure table for making things interesting. Assign GP values as you see fit for your campaign and PC level. A plain, silver ring

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Hobby Progress 2021

Models Painted:
Final for 2020: 58

YTD for 2021: 11
WIP on the workbench (Jan '21): 9

Writing projects:

World of Weirth - WIP
* Magic in the World of Weirth - In playtest "beta"
* Tower of Zenopus - Complete
* B1 - In Search of the Unknown re-boot - Complete (Maps ✓, NPC re-skin ✓, Backstory update ✓)
* B2 - Keep on the Borderlands re-boot - WIP (Maps WIP, NPC re-skin WIP, Backstory Updated ✓)
Order vs Entropy - An Alternate Alignment System
Gygax75 - Building the Faerie Realm Gary's way! - WIP

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