All Dead Generations: Dungeon Design Note: Defining Interactivity
A lot of dungeon design advice focuses on “interactivity”, and to a degree this word can be a meaningless substitute for “stuff I personally...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
A lot of dungeon design advice focuses on “interactivity”, and to a degree this word can be a meaningless substitute for “stuff I personally...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
A HUNTER OF THE VERGE AND WASTE At the heart of all violence, atrocity, and suffering is fear, and a mortal's greatest fear is death. Some w...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
This is an odd post, it’s adventure design advice, specifically dungeon/location based adventure design, but it’s not about specifics, just ...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
A Brief Barrow Fields Gazetteer I was born on the Cidro. The City of Fountains, b ack during the war. Devil's pox and the proscriptions to...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
You want to run a “Dungeon Crawl” adventure… Not just an adventure in a "dungeon", but a Dungeon Crawl - that distinct, classic mode of RPG play about exploring a fantastical space, obtaining its treasures, and unraveling its secrets ... while surviving its dangers. Notably, the first rule of Dungeon Crawls is that surviving dangers does not always mean destroying or even overcoming them. | All Dead Generations
I've been running an ongoing Crystal Frontier campaign using the "Fistful of Crystals" ruleset for the past several months, and at the same ...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
Gary Gygax is probably the best known name in Role Playing Games -- still, nearly 15 years after his death. Considered Dungeons & Dragons’ ...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
THE LAST ROOST OF THE BEAKED GOD| All Dead Generations
"Vpon the Seuentene Daye of the Seconde Moneth, that same daye were all ye fountaynes of the greate depe broken vp, and the wyir of ye heauens cast wyde."| All Dead Generations
Fabulation, Tall Tales, & Lies.| All Dead Generations
Crawling Down From 1974| All Dead Generations
TACTICAL COMBAT MECHANICS | All Dead Generations
“There are many worlds. Some have passed and some are still to come. In one world the Lui all creep; in another they all walk; in another they all fly. Perhaps in a world to come, the Lui may walk on four legs; or they may twist like snakes; or they may swim in the water like fish. Perhaps this is that world already."| All Dead Generations
To the North and East of the Crystal Frontier, beyond the Bay of Fallen Stars or across the Maiden Tombs over the Road of Dead is the Province of Blackacre, sometimes known as the Blackmash. Grey salt marshes rising from the Silt Straights and beyond deep, wet forests of colossal evergreens and ancient malice. Blackacre was the last Imperial Province settled, and never much beyond wilderness. A wealth of lumber, fish and the rare dyes of found in the vast tidal pools along its shores provided...| All Dead Generations
Character Generation | All Dead Generations
A DUNGEON DESIGN CHALLENGE FOR THE NEW YEAR| All Dead Generations
I've created an Archive of all the free adventures I've written since 2012 here:| All Dead Generations
Stumbling Towards D&D's Alternate, Alternate Combat System| All Dead Generations
A draft cover for a potential| All Dead Generations
THE BOARD GAME - DUNGEON!| All Dead Generations
Another year has passed, and my 11th blogging about old fantasy roleplaying games begins. Looking around the classic RPGand Post OSR community today I see a lot of folks talking about 2021, what lessons they took from it, what they accomplished. I won't. I learned nothing in 2021.| All Dead Generations
GAZING BACKWARDS INTO THE ABYSS| All Dead Generations
Back in the aughts and the 2010’s, a decade ago now, there was a movement in older RPGs that I was part of - the “ Old School Renaissance ” ...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
DES I GNING FOR DUNGEON 23 With my decision to work on Dungeon23 coincides my starting a public Crystal Frontier Campaign and being diss...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
SLOUCHING TOWARD PROCEDURALISM “Here we come across another, very positive feature of play : it creates order, is order. Into an imperfect...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
All Illustrations are Howard Pyle's from 1883 - 1921 TREASURE TROUBLE One aspect of Dungeon Crawl play that All Dead Generations hasn’t cove...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
FIVE ROOMS DON'T MAKE A DUNGEON This blog is largely devoted to repeating a single message about game design, hammering away at the same sub...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
You want to write a dungeon adventure for a classic style roleplaying game, and you want it to be good. How does that work? What exactly do...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
MERCILESS SHILLING Broken Bastion is the third “mini-adventure” I’ve written up for Tombrobbers of the Crystal Frontier. ( Link to Drivethru...| alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com
