A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| forlornencystment.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
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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
The main complaint about weapons in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons is their simplicity, the lack of meaningful choice, and the existence of...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Wizards of the Coast has released the newest playtest packet for the forthcoming 2024 republication of the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition ...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
If one goes looking for what are commonly considered to be the "problem" spells in 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons , there are some usual sus...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| 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
I ran the first session of my new Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, 2nd edition game last night. How did it go? What did we learn? Did the party...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
Last night, we had the second session of our AD&D 2e campaign. My play report from last week's session is here . Recapping To recap briefly...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| 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
A TTRPG blog constricted in a pore some 45 miles below the surface of the earth.| 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
I'm not one of those people who thinks Dungeons & Dragons needs a "social combat" system, of all things, I swear. I think social interactio...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
This is not a Dragonlance post!| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to do so. My sandboxes tend to be big - probably too big. The 100-hex sandbox was my attempt at codifying a procedure for creating a play area that felt big enough to contain the bare essentials that I would want for a campaign without going overboard. | Blog of Forlorn Encystment
Here's one that came to me when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep. I've written before about my social in...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
I love wizards. It used to be that when I made a character for a Dungeons & Dragons game, I waited to see what everyone else was playing fi...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
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
This post is part of the papal conclave Blog Bandwagon/Blogclave . As the world turns its gaze towards the Vatican, the blogosphere turns it...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
What follows is a collection of reviews of four short adventures for Mörk Borg. Spoilers abound beyond this point. Bloat Bloat is a "A glutt...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
One of my greatest hang ups with 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons (and D&D generally, although it is more or less a problem in different editi...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
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
The Goblin Grinder is a scenario for Mörk Borg. It is written by Ripley Caldwell, with graphic design and art by Johan Nohr, and editing by the Moonrat Conspiracy (Fiona Maeve Geist and Jarrett Crader).| 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
The Death Ziggurat is "a cosmic necrocrawl" scenario for Mörk Borg. It is written by Carl Niblaeus with editing, graphic design, and art by Johan Nohr.| Blog of Forlorn Encystment
I just finished running this scenario for my Mörk Borg group, so I thought I'd do a review while it's fresh in my mind. | Blog of Forlorn Encystment
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
I typically propose very minor alterations to D&D: how to fix summoning , how to fix shapechanging , how to fix weapon damage . I'm not real...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
I wanted to do a quick demonstration of how I use reaction rolls to determine the nature of relationships between factions in a sandbox camp...| forlornencystment.blogspot.com
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
