My OSR Blog about fantasy world building and rules analysis for D&D. Also home of the B/X inspired 5e-clone "Into the Unknown."| mythlands-erce.blogspot.com
My OSR Blog about fantasy world building and rules analysis for D&D. Also home of the B/X inspired 5e-clone "Into the Unknown."| mythlands-erce.blogspot.com
Apparently my special interest now is writing about the annoying mundanities of AD&D city/town life - taxes, tolls, intentionally misleading encounters, and irritating and expensive NPCs. To this end, I've been reading all about henchmen in the DMG. Boy, it is a lot more difficult to recruit these people than I gave it credit for!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
Look at this guy's face: He's mad! Why? Probably because, per the AD&D DMG, dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating": The exam...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Finpension 3a Erfahrung: Review & Testbericht 2025 Die digitale Vorsorge-Revolution hat die Schweiz erreicht – und Finpension gehört mit 0,39% Gebühren und 99% Aktienanteil zu den absoluten Top-Anbietern am Markt. Als einer der ersten Schweizer Finanzblogs, der Finpension getestet hat, kann ich aus vielen Jahren Praxis-Erfahrung berichten: Das Luzerner Fintech hat sich zu einem der […]| Schwiizerfranke
Since I wrote about indentured magic-users and clerics being encountered among the city guard/watch, I've been poring over the rest of AD&D's city/town encounters. Yes, yes, that's the part of the book with the infamous harlot table:| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
Here's something that I mentioned very briefly in my post about the AD&D DMG's section on "taxes" (including duties, excises, fees, tariffs,...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Something amusing I found while poring over the AD&D city/town encounters:| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
The blogosphere is celebrating Stanley Yelnats's birthday by posting hole . It's a blog bandwagon! A holewagon. The following post is my hum...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Let's pretend it's still 2024. It may now be the Year of the Snake, but in my heartit's still the Year of the Dragon!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
No, I'm not actually going to describe one hundred thousand encounters with a dragon. How would I even do that? If you want an exhaustively ...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
When I first read Jack Vance's Tales of the Dying Earth (and other Appendix N literature) and became familiar with Mazirian the Magician, C...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
This is not a Dragonlance post!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
The AD&D wilderness inhabitation tableshave infected my mind. They have wormed their way in, forcing me to make sandboxes I may never use. Now that they've burrowed deep beneath the surface, living (rent free!) in my brain, so too have I begun to dig beneath the surface. I'm increasingly interested in analyzing and rationalizing the implications of these tables, picking apart the little oddities that likely exist only because Gary Gygax simply wasn't thinking that much about it.| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
As you've probably noticed, I've been spending some timeusing the tables found in Appendix B of the AD&D 1e DMGto populate my sandboxes, which I will definitely use in a real game at some point...| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
The knock spell first appears in original D&D's Book I: Men & Magic. It is a 2nd-level magic-user spell. The description is as follows:| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
My most recent foray into using the AD&D DMG to stock a hex map sparked some discussion about the frequency of "totally deserted" castles.| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
I am back again to stock a third ring of hexes using the AD&D 1e DMG! You can find Parts 1 and 2 here and here . As with previous installm...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
I am back to do more sandbox stocking with the AD&D 1e DMG! I'm continuing from Part 1, here . I start by filling in the terrain in the nex...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
I thought it would be a fun exercise to try stocking a sandbox using the procedures presented in the appendices of the AD&D 1e DMG. I'll be ...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
The Cloak of Mastery This appears to be a finely made grey woollen cloak with a hood. It will detect as strong alteration magic. The c...| nagorascorner.blogspot.com
Greek Worshippers| Nagora's Corner
Xochipilli (Lombard Museum)| Nagora's Corner
Babylonian Worshippers| Nagora's Corner
Magic resistance in AD&D is not very precisely defined, although it’s not too bad compared to some rules. It is initially covered in the Monster Manual thusly:| Nagora's Corner
Greek Worshippers No paladins in the Greek pantheon. Seems reasonable, I guess. Zeus Swanning About Art: Linda Sutton Including Titans Thi...| nagorascorner.blogspot.com
Just a gentle tap should fix it - oh...| Nagora's Corner
So, I recently discovered that the world upon which The City State of the Invincible Overlord (CSIO) is situated has two moons, according to the Necromancer edition of the setting. There’s nothing I know of in the original release to say that this is the case, but it’s not unlikely enough for me to reject it.| Nagora's Corner
Hooray - Granny's in Town!| Nagora's Corner
Last time, I uploaded a map of the area we normally think of as constituting what we call "Ancient Greece" - a designation that the people living there may have struggled to understand given that they so rarely thought of themselves as being anything other than rivals until Alexander the Great rolled in and told them all to shut up. After he died, of course, they went back to not thinking of themselves as one nation until the Romans rolled in and told them all to shut up and pay their taxes.A...| Nagora's Corner
Finnish Worshippers| Nagora's Corner
Art: Inonibird@tumblr| Nagora's Corner
Filling the Sandbox| Nagora's Corner
Cthulhu Mythos Worshippers| Nagora's Corner
Simulating, but simulating what?| Nagora's Corner
Or: D&D meets Javascript| Nagora's Corner
Shang-Ti, crusher of tortoises| Nagora's Corner
Celtic Worshippers| Nagora's Corner
American Worshippers| Nagora's Corner