Glaugust: Doomed Fighters – Roll to Doubt
(Old notes I’ve found of years prior, back when running a freeform thing. Typed up unaltered for Glaugust HPless combat prompt) Damage takes two forms: Wound and Doom. Assume: A character can…| Roll to Doubt
(Old notes I’ve found of years prior, back when running a freeform thing. Typed up unaltered for Glaugust HPless combat prompt) Damage takes two forms: Wound and Doom. Assume: A character can…| Roll to Doubt
“Slaying the Dragon” by fireflythegreat is licensed under CC BY 2.0. This is an optional rule for Bold Against Monsters (BAM). Also, heroic actions can replace Weapon Masteries in D&…| Dungeon Master Assistance
When your character drops to 0 hit points1 in On A Red World Alone, two things happen:| Papers & Pencils
While researching a recent Twitter/Facebook Fact-of-the-Day post, I came across a notation in the Congressional Globe (similar to today’s Congressional … More| U.S. Capitol Historical Society
Thinking about +Joseph Manola's post on time and distance, I'm going to give my PCs 1-3 months downtime between every adventure. A few loose rules for downtime actions.| Permanent Cranial Damage
I want OSR combat to look more like “OSR Style Challenges” than “D&D combat”. Make each round an interesting puzzle for the players to get out of. The results change the situation and they’re presented with another challenge. PbtA games basically do this.| Lithyscaphe
Mothership House Rule: Spacer Backgrounds and Recalling Memories| Lithyscaphe
Your PC's relationship with the PC to your right:| Lithyscaphe
Encumbrance, Dungeon Exploration Logistics, and Combat| Lithyscaphe
House Rule: Gradually Reveal Character Details| Lithyscaphe
D&D 5e has thirteen damage types. This post is concerned with the most fundamental of these damage types - the most primordial ingredients in the great soup of D&D combat. No, not bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing - the elements!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
The Old DM’s House Rules on Hiding D&D 5E’s rules for hiding are a mess. I previously posted my thoughts on this in my post D&D 5E – Stealth and Hiding. In a similar vein I posted D&D 5…| Dungeon Master Assistance
I've been running D&D 5e for a group of remote friends recently. These are the “house rules” that I've adopted to make things go smoother, or at least reassure myself. I'm sure I got most of these from other places, but I can only credit what I remember.| The Benign Brown Beast
Bring additional dimensions to your classic fantasy gaming! This 64-page book presents players and DMs alike with information to expand the playability and possibilities in their campaigns. It's a cornucopia of information on all aspects of the game including characters, spellcasting, adventures, encounters, monsters and dungeon mastering. This is truly an indispensable resource for the the classic edition Dungeon Master (BX, OSE, LL).| Save Vs. Dragon
So just about the time we finished editing this earlier this year, I decided I wanted to just fold this into a much larger "B/X DMG" with all kinds of additional stuff (e.g., all the thieves' info from In Alley & Shadow, plus I'm working on information about creating pantheons, clerics establishing orders, how to structure settlements and encounters, etc.—you know, the kind of stuff that is the 1e DMG, just for BX). But that's a meaty bite to chew, especially with the demands of work, life,...| Save Vs. Dragon
This has been in the works for a while, and we're in the final round of edits and tweaks. | Save Vs. Dragon
The title to this post pretty much says it all.| Save Vs. Dragon
Sonderlunding culture puts a great importance on honor. Sonderlundings strive to live honorably and perform heroic deeds, both for their own...| tales-of-the-lunar-lands.blogspot.com
This post grew from watching a video by Aaron the Pedantic (Twitter: @cha_neg) I saw recently, where he mentions things he (as a new guy with that edition) likes about AD&D, second edition. One…| Emperor's Notepad
Art by the fantastic DiTerlizzi In reading Marcia's review of her experience with Shadowdark , I contemplated on how I run my own OSE games....| icastlight.blogspot.com
Quintessential BX is a trimming and tweaking of Gavin Norman's B/X Essentials , itself a revision of Tom Moldvay and David Cook's Basic/Exp...| lithyscaphe.blogspot.com
So like an idiot I got a full-time waste services job (which is actually great) so I've been doing more bin crawls than dungeon crawls lately. If you don't like it pay me. Justin Hamilton commented on Death & Dismemberment that he doesn't like the idea of attacks causing wounds on max-damage because it means| Last Gasp
Emmy Allen just put up a great post over at Cavegirl's Game Stuff about wounds/not automatically dying at 0HP, you should read it.On a tangent, last year I found time to start thinking about D&D again, and I found that after such a long time without playing at all it really changes/solidifies what you want| Last Gasp
