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Yet Another Post About Encounter Tables

By On 22 November 02020 · Leave a Comment · In Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules

Since I started the World of WeirthTM playtest campaign I’ve been working on updated and enhancing existing modules and tuning my own homebrew adventures into the Swords & Sorcery feel. I’ve done a lot of reading on creating atmosphere and researched other blogs for optimizing descriptions and creating encounter tables with a theme.

I have […]

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Gygax 75 – Week Two – The Home Area

By On 21 September 02020 · 1 Comment · In Gaming Community, Low Fantasy Gaming Compatible, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

This week we are supposed to sit down with some hex paper and make a map of the home region.

Since we are using the OD&D map from Outdoor Survival, that part is all set. The hexes on the map are five miles across, and correspond to the Regional (25 mile) hexes on the campaign […]

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d30 Thursday – Mundane Animals of the Tropical Savannah

By On 30 April 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

Sometimes an encounter is not a monster! Sometimes your PCs are foraging, exploring or setting up camp and they encounter a normal-sized, non-magical, completely mundane creature.

But how many can you think of, right off the top of your head? Now you don’t have to!

 

Roll a d30!

Gazelle Buffalo Zebra Rhinoceros Elephant Warthog […]

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Adding Personality to Your PC

By On 19 March 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & 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 […]

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Making Encounters and Descriptions More Thematic

By On 28 February 02020 · 1 Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & 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 […]

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Overland Travel Encounter Tables

By On 30 December 02019 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

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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