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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 […]

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d30 Thursday – Trees and Shrubs

By On 13 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D

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 Forsythia Rosewood Weigela Boxwood Juniper Dwarf Arborvitae Apricot Fig Cherry Lemon tree Lime tree Chestnut tree Persimmon Pineapple guava Pomegranate Cedar

 

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What Ho, Frog Demons! – A Review

By On 11 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Books, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules

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 for more info on the Old School scene, because I quickly discovered that D&D 5e was a completely different game. Chris Kutalik’s take on the Implied Apocalypse of […]

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The Unseen Servant – Part One

By On 7 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Grimdark Greyhawk, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

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 captured my attention:

Clerical spells, including the Druidic, are bestowed by the gods, so that the cleric need but pray for a few hours and the desired verbal and somatic […]

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d30 Thursday – All that Glitters

By On 6 February 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

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 with an inscription carved around the edge A carved golden ring with a braided pattern A fingertip claw of silver with  an onyx cabochon above the nail A leather thong […]

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d30 Thursday – What’s that Smell?

By On 30 January 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D

Everyone expects a dungeon to smell musty and damp. But they do not always have to be so. Some dungeons may be in a desert, or in a frozen tundra, and the smells would be very different.

When I am laying out the description of a dungeon room, I like to include a smell as […]

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d30 Thursday – Curses!

By On 23 January 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Sworsdmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea

A selection of mildly – to – moderately cursed items to add some brightness to your PC’s humdrum lives.

A jeweled statuette of a sphinx that constantly oozes pus from its mouth. A bag that won’t hold metal items (they just fall right thru). A codex that only allows each page to be read/written on […]

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Area map- Monastery of Samm-Puul

Sample Dungeon Project – Monastery of Samm-Puul

By On 22 January 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Grimdark Greyhawk, OSR - Old School Rules

…and so the adventure begins.

You inform them that after about a two mile trek along a seldom-used road they come to the edge of a fen. A narrow causeway leads out to a low mound upon which stand the walls and buildings of the deserted monastery.

I’ve been obsessing over the Sample Dungeon in […]

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Overland Travel Encounter Tables

By On 30 December 02019 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Grimdark Greyhawk, OSR - Old School Rules

I’ve created a set of encounter tables for Overland Travel, based on some thoughts from Dael Kingsmill’s video on overland travel. She took some inspiration, in turn, from a couple of other posts.

I read them too, and got some ideas. The NewbieDM shares an interesting method:

“Page 106 of the 5e […]

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Cultists, Zealots and Prophets

By On 18 December 02019 · 1 Comment · In AD&D, Grimdark Greyhawk, OSR - Old School Rules

Torches flickered, high above his head, against the cold stone walls of the large round chamber. Was there a green tinge to the flames?  Now purple? Movement in the center of the chamber, someone in a dark, hooded robe extending their arms over a rough-carved stone altar. Flanked by two tall candelabra topped with dark […]

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