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Some Thoughts on Encumbrance

By On 24 November 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, Low Fantasy Gaming Compatible, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

Continuing my shameless rip-offs, I had some thoughts on Encumbrance.

Warren and Delta have laid some groundwork for this concept, but I’m trying to get it to fit, aesthetically, into the Low Fantasy Gaming Campaign. The Basic LFG rules don’t really have granular rules for encumbrance. I want to be able to track what PCs […]

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OD&D – Chainmail – The Keep on the Borderlands

By On 24 November 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, Miniatures, OSR - Old School Rules

Huh.

At B/X Blackrazor there is a post with a “secret” about the Keep on the Borderlands. It’s kinda interesting.

What’s REALLY interesting is the comment from UWSGuy who says he drew up a Force List for Chainmail rules based on the forces at the Keep…

In the interest of preserving this info, […]

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The Satanic Panic

By On 13 November 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, Personal Updates

I saw some tweets today about how some folks dealt with the Satanic Panic of the 80s and 90s, when concerned parents were afraid their kids were going to start running around in sewer drains and stabbing each other with swords. Or gathering in darkened rooms, casting spells by candle light.

Obviously, we all know […]

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Sneak Preview – The Sample Dungeon

By On 23 October 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, Low Fantasy Gaming Compatible, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

I am fascinated by the idea of the sample dungeon in the first edition AD&D Dungeon Master’s Guide. The example description of play was exactly what we needed for getting the feel of how to present these scenarios to the players in our campaigns.

Waaay back in antiquity, when I was just a lad, I […]

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Law vs Chaos – Thoughts on Alignment

By On 15 October 02020 · 2 Comments · In AD&D, Appendix N, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

Alignment in D&D and similar FRPs is an oft-maligned subject.

For the Swords & Sorcery-styled World of Weirth campaign I am looking for some over-arching tensions to drive the plots and dramas of the setting.

I do not like the “Alignment as personality profile” school, nor do I want to get into the issues of […]

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Ability Scores vs DC – Rambling Thoughts

By On 12 October 02020 · 1 Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules

(I’ve been working on this off and on for a few days. Having trouble getting my thoughts together on it…)

Having been away from the RPG hobby for a while, I missed the advent of the Difficulty Class mechanic.  Catching up on blogs and articles has been illuminating. There is a good deal of discourse […]

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World of Weirth on World Anvil – More Peoples

By On 29 August 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Workbench, World of Weirth

I’ve added some more lore to the World Anvil account, detailing some of the races and creatures of Weirth.

The Tanso:

The Tanso are a secretive and isolationist people, centered around the great lake of Lago Tanso in the North. They have made their homes on boats and barges since time immemorial, except for […]

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We’re Just not Playing the Same Game

By On 22 August 02020 · 1 Comment · In AD&D, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules, Philosophy

The game called D&D is over 40 years old now.

Many of the people that invented it have passed on, so we can’t ask them what they think of the state of the hobby today. But that’s okay, because some people think they know, some people don’t care, and others actively despise what those men […]

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Gygax 75 – Week One – The Concept

By On 8 August 02020 · 2 Comments · In AD&D, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

It has been a busy week at Casa Purple Druid, with much work done out in the summer heat and humidity. Which leaves little energy for anything else! But, I have been working on the Faerie Realm setting (which I still need a name for) for the Gygax 75 project. This has been a lot […]

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WW on WorldAnvil – Tuathacoma, the High Desert

By On 31 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

In the Faerie Realm there is a desert, located high on a plateau, between two mountain ranges:

This high, dry plateau is home to a variety of strange and monstrous creatures, as well as two sorts of human-like creatures that call it home. The Thri-Kreen are an insectoid race, looking for all the world like […]

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