Art by Chris Huth (and actually roughly matches our party) Last week I finally got to put down my DM's cap, pick up my player's d20, and del...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Over on bluesky, Zenopus Archives posts a new favorite Holmes/OD&D house rule: "...that thieves can fire into melee without penalty; i.e. no friendly fire". This is a great rule and keeps positioning thieves as a specialists in combat. While they still could use a spear in the second rank, thief PC could be out of rank acting as scouts/recon- this rule allows them to use that position and further encourages the *risk* of breaking rank.| I Cast Light!
Elric & Stormbringer | I Cast Light!
In the Rules Cyclopedia, there is a section on anti-magic that explains what is is in terms of RC Basic D&D game. And in that explanation, is brings up that all creatures on the prime material plane are made of four components: matter, time, energy, and thought, but that creatures in the astral plane might lack one of those components. Here is the passage below:| I Cast Light!
I'm giving a bit shorter report these days for Nightwick in an effort to make them more timely. If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
Erol Otus ( Edit: Please see the "Practical Magic" collection here ) Currently playing in Miranda Van Elkin's Nightwick Abbey It has been ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
Last Thursday, I submitted an entry to the 2025 Appx. N Jam! The Appx. N Jam was an itch.io contest requiring submissions to be a four-p...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
Want to learn more about the world of Nightwick from Miranda? You can follow her blog here and the ongoing development of Nightwick Abbe...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
🎨 David Mattingly You know a wizard mentor would teleport into your home, drink all your beer, & eat your snacks For more in the Practical ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
BERSERK by Kentaro Miura Prismatic Wasteland posted a bunch of potential blog topics, which I collected into a list of 34 possible posts to ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
Reaper Miniatures| I Cast Light!
This is a small collection of posts about my experiences, thoughts, and advice on how to run 1st-level MUs as well as make them seem like more than just a 1 spell, 2 hp chump. The class has great potential in old-school D&D games, but its early fragility and seemingly low starting abilities are barriers to people's enjoyment. | I Cast Light!
Context For How I Prep Jumping in on the "How I Prep" series started at Roll to Doubt by describing how I prep for my megadungeon campai...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Country Roads...corrected Previously in Nightwick... Corfu (Dwarf 1) Mayfly (Magic-user 3) Ianthi (Changling 1) Grant (Fighter 1) Sotar (C...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Does the investigator on the right just think this all is a bad black mold infestation? Too calm... Recently, a friend started a pandemic Ca...| icastlight.blogspot.com
A campaign big on torches, less on tommy-guns My ideal Call of Cthulhu game would consist of the following materials: Copy of Cthulhu Dar...| icastlight.blogspot.com
I really like this post from Rotten Pulp about talking animals . When thinking about my own campaigns set in fairytale-like settings, I too ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
"In the D&D BASIC rules, a blinded creature may not attack."| icastlight.blogspot.com
Want to learn more about the world of Nightwick from Miranda Elkins? You can follow her blog here and the ongoing development of Nightwick Abbey at her Patreon here.| I Cast Light!
The D&D cleric has been with us since the game's inception, initially to handle one blood-sucking Sir Fang using the combined powers of the ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
1. The Moon Realm: One of the minor domains of the OSR is screwing with the moon and Alone in the Labyrinth maintains that tradition with their "exiled stone-age psychonauts exploring the spirit realm". I especially enjoy blogging about settings/campaigns because it harkens back to blogging of yore.| I Cast Light!
I am trying to quickly key the last dungeon level for my Tropics of Cancer campaign so I can start running it for friends and family. I'd ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Recently, I wanted to create a low-prep, dungeon-focused, easy-to-grok campaign to run online with my friends and family who've been asking to play some D&D. The first post is here explains how I ran the Gygax 75 Challenge, 75 minutes each day instead of using a whole week each time. Below is the completed effort with each "minutes" section.| I Cast Light!
artist: Stefan Poag What if we design the random encounter table to function as computer RAM- to store short-term information/change without...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Preamble| I Cast Light!
If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey call to you, then please join Miranda Elkins' Patreon! I am so behind on my posting of Sessi...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Gmork, Herald of the Nothing | I Cast Light!
The shrine as seen by the players This past weekend I ran session 27th of Where Hell Comes to Prey, my home campaign set in Miranda Elkin's ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
A common problem quickly encountered when designing your own dungeon or stocking a map drawn by another is the optimal amount of treasure to add. A cousin to that problem could be the "treasure" restocking, again, how much do you add? More distantly related might be if a particular module you picked up is going to contain enough treasure to level a party or at least make the risk worth it?| I Cast Light!
Spooky... SUNDAY SERVICE Wow. I’m behind on these because the last time I checked in was around Session 17 and we are now up to Session 26!...| icastlight.blogspot.com
A common refrain in old-school games, most often from those new to old-school play, is that 1st level magic-users (MU) suck, don’t feel like...| icastlight.blogspot.com
While many assume the OSR is dead, you would not know it from the discussion on Bluesky generated by Yochai’s OSR starter packs feeding into...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Into The Breach D&D Combat Objectives Into The Breach continues to influence how I think D&D combat should be run. Its because i...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Oriental Adventures is a TSR publication often noted for two things. The one I want to talk about today is its regional events because the ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
I am going to attempt to be more brief in these play reports. I think after 98 sessions, the dungeon-crawling aspect of play has been well...| icastlight.blogspot.com
TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL! Session 17 of Where Hell Comes To Prey is my weekly (roughly) experience DMing Miranda Elkins' Nightwick Abbey. ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey call to you, then please join Miranda Elkins' Patreon! Previously in Nightwick... This week's ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
But seriously, " D-in-D" IS a good manga Jumping again on the gravy train that is Delicious in Dungeon posting. Here is a post by Grinni...| icastlight.blogspot.com
HAVE YOU SEEN THE (PURPLE) SIGN? After 13 (!) sessions of Where Hell Comes To Prey, my campaign in Miranda Elkin’s Nightwick Abbey , a cha...| icastlight.blogspot.com
If these horrid halls of Nightwick Abbey call to you, then please join Miranda Elkins' Patreon! Previously in Nightwick... This week's ...| icastlight.blogspot.com
The OSW: Old-School Wizardry Like the rest of the greater D&D collective, I too have been reading, and then watching, the very good Deliciou...| icastlight.blogspot.com
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
Previously in Nightwick... This week's adventurers: Blossom (Rogue 6) Mechtilde (Fighter 5) Mayfly (Magician 5) Liminal Space (Changeling 4)...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Previously in Nightwick... This week's adventurers: Blossom (Rogue 6) Mayfly (Magician 5) Mechtilde (Fighter 5) Liminal Space (Changeling 4)...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Yeah, no feelin' AN ORIGIN STORY In the latest session of Where Hell Comes To Prey my Nightwick Abbey campaign , the players made an inter...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Siblings In December, I finished Doom Guy: Life in First Person by John Romero. I highly recommend the book in large part because it captu...| icastlight.blogspot.com
Swine Chopper from Darkest Dungeons Once again I am surprised by what catches fire on Twitter and what doesn't. The most recent example is a...| icastlight.blogspot.com
