UPDATE: I decided to make a new version of my house rules supplement detailing the availability of goods and services. It now shows the amount available weekly. This serves my purposes much better as I run my game every week. So rather than having to track what’s available for the […]
Chthonic Shadows – Session 1
I started running a new campaign last week after a few months down. I’ve run two sessions now and I gotta say, it’s been a blast so far. I may post some barebones play reports as we go. The first session was a funnel, with each player controlling four level […]
Duelist
During my last campaign I started with only the traditional classes available in B/X (Fighter, Cleric, Magic-User, Thief, Dwarf, Elf, and my version of the Halfling, the Ratling). As time wore on, I ended up creating multiple new classes, but they all came about as versions of the existing classes […]
Overland Travel Part 4: Equipment
For part four of my four part series going over my Overland Travel house rules, I’m going to discuss the equipment used for traveling through the wilderness. I’ll go over different items, how they work in this system, and what kind of choices players might wish to make in different […]
Campaign Maps
Last weekend I finished up the my most recent campaign I was running, “Embers of an Empire”. One of my players recently had a child and I thought it was about time to move the campaign in the direction of a conclusion. My players really kicked ass and I’m very […]
Ratling Packmaster
I have never liked halflings or their equivalent races. I tend to prefer my games slightly more on the serious and grim or even sometimes heroic side rather than be lighthearted, and halflings have always felt a little silly to me. When I was running dwimmermount, I experimented with replacing […]
Magic Disciplines
I’ve been thinking a bit about how I want to handle Magic-Users in my next campaign. In my current game I have a few specialist Magic-Users that get access to unique spells and I was thinking of codifying this a little bit more for my next game. However, instead of […]
Overland Travel Part 3: Camp
Continuing along with my series on the house rule supplement I use for overland travel, we come to part four, where I’ll go over the rules for making camp (shown at the bottom). Again, my design goal here was to create interesting choices for players by limiting what they’re able […]
Overland Travel Part 2: Weather
In my game, I’ve consistently had issues running travel by the book. Rolling for characters getting lost, foraging, wandering monsters (and then to determine the kind of wandering monster, surprise, whether it’s a lair, etc.) slows my game to a crawl, and more importantly, doesn’t make overland travel feel like […]
Online Character Sheet
Given the huge surge in virtual games recently (for obvious reasons), I thought I’d provide an online version of my character sheet with inventory tracker. I’m running an online game myself using roll20, discord for sound, and a copy of this sheet for my players to use. To use this […]