Currently viewing the category: "AD&D"

Zine-Scene – The Phylactery from Planet X Games

By On 26 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules

Journal: Quarantine day 8 Social distancing is taking its toll. I can’t stop scrolling online Social Media Apps!

Wait! What’s this? A pretty cover and Oh! some wicked creative ideas! BRB

Not having a job for a bit has a silver lining: I’m getting caught up on TONS of reading, especially gaming stuff I just […]

Continue Reading →

Adding Personality to Your PC

By On 19 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

Spotted a great thread on Twitter tonight: @anxietywizard


It was requested that Wizard put this thread into a blog post, and they might, but I though I might add a little commentary.(Also, I edited the tweet into a collated set of lists)

it’s actually very boring when all the features of […]

Continue Reading →

d30 Thursday – Effects of Roots and Tubers

By On 19 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

Ever wonder what plants are like under the ground? Some fun things for your PCs to discover while foraging.

Roll a d30!

Magical Roots and Tubers

 

Some are known by the name of the food-stuff made from their roots, others by the flower, shrub or tree they support. These seemingly common roots and tubers […]

Continue Reading →

Clerics, Witches, Paladins and Druids

By On 10 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

 “There are a number of other character types which are detailed in ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS. There are sub-classes of the four basic classes. They are: paladins and rangers (fighting men), illusionists and witches (magic-users), monks and druids (clerics), and assassins (thieves).”

page 7 – Dungeons & Dragons, by Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson – Edited […]

Continue Reading →

Spell Failure Tables

By On 6 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

An idea for Spell Failure tables, borrowed and modified from Adventures into Darkness https://adventuresintodarkness.blogspot.com/2014/10/critical-spell-failures-and-wild-magic.html

 

When a spell fails it will likely have an adverse effect on the caster, and possibly on those around them…

These effects will also utilize the Sanity Rules

Spell Failure Probability (DRAFT)

 

When casting a spell, […]

Continue Reading →

d30 Thursday – Set Dressing – The Noble’s Library

By On 5 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules

Books! Scrolls! Maps! Your PCs always want to know what’s in them, what are they about…

What treasure will this map take us to??

Roll a d30!

Book of Receipts and Disbursements – a detailed ledger of the Housekeeper’s accounts. Food, drink, and other supplies. Aeroica’s Codex – “Poems and Fancies” – a collection of […]

Continue Reading →

No Proficiencies in Particular

By On 1 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules

When D&D 2e came out, we were pretty psyched, because the new PHB had a bunch of cool new Proficiencies. Something that IIRC had been introduced in Dragon Magazine as an option had been expanded and made “official”.

We quickly discovered that by relying upon a limited number of skills that our PCs could be […]

Continue Reading →

Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic

By On 28 February 02020 · 1 Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules

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 consistent. Two recent resources that have been very eye-opening are Adventure Writing like a F***** Boss by Venger Satanis and Stealing Cthulhu by Graham Walmsley.

These two […]

Continue Reading →

d30 Thursday – Set Dressing – Kitchen

By On 27 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, OSR - Old School Rules

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, paddle) Forged iron utensils (spoons, ladle, paddle, meat forks) Bone-handled iron paring knife Wood-handled copper ladle Wood-handled iron cleaver Forged-iron tripod for hanging a cook-pot Small iron cook pot (1/2 […]

Continue Reading →

d30 Thursday – Foraging

By On 20 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules

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 how long it takes to find an item of a particular level of scarcity.

Roll a d30!

1 6 hours Very Rare 2 5 hours Rare 3 4 hours Scarce […]

Continue Reading →