Here is another post salvaged from my G+ feed. The process I go through when importing characters from other OSA games into Macchiato Monsters. – Have six D&D-like stats? Keep ’em if they were rolled old school style. Otherwise roll 3d6 in order and arrange […]
There is a good chance I get to run D&D for a bunch of non gamer nerds over the holidays. I’ll use the rules I’ve posted yesterday, but I didn’t have a character sheet straightforward enough. Nothing puts new people off RPGs like complicated character […]
When I’ not running Macchiato Monsters or a new game I want to try, I use what Jeff Rients calls walking-around D&D. Which means, I use the mechanics I can hold in my head, and adjudicate the rest. For future reference, here is what I tell […]
Who said there should only be one type of gunpowder in the dungeonverse? Following a conversation about ancient handcannons on G+, I started a bit of gygaxian democracy and we ended up with this table. I made some slight modifications and streamlined some prose for […]
As part of my never ending quest for a simple dungeon exploration procedure, I made this mix of encounter and exploration risk die table. You roll a d4 alongside it and you get a situation. From a forgotten potion to an ambush by the main […]
FREQUENCY: rare NO. APPEARING: 1-2 ARMOR CLASS: 2 MOVE: 6″ HIT DICE: 7 % IN LAIR: 100% TREASURE TYPE: special NO. OF ATTACKS: 2 DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-8 / 2-8 SPECIAL ATTACKS: Fragrant ash cloud SPECIAL DEFENSES: Burning surface MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard INTELLIGENCE: Low (as a well […]
This was made on a whim, while I was thinking about procedural dungeons and tactical fights. I don’t know if it’s worth getting into so much detail, but I’ve always liked the idea that knowing what your character is holding right now is a good […]
Kept in a dagger sheath, the Phantom Blade is the stump of a broken sword. Only a maimed swordsperson can wake the memory of its former wholeness. In the hand of such a fighter, this unwieldy knife becomes a +1 longsword for all purposes. Its […]
As much as the decimal system makes things easy, currency of the olden times was diverse and ancient and weird. I think it’s sad to imagine nondescript discs of metal in each and every treasure chest or bandit’s satchel. I don’t advise you should use […]
I kept this minimalist webjournalblogyoke for a while. Didn’t stick to it, so since I’m more or less collating all my old school gaming stuff here, here’s a huge text dump. It’ll look like shit but I don’t care. slash dungeon I’ll use this space […]
Inspired by season 2 of Stranger Things, I made this class for B/X style games. Posting an image because pasting into Blogger from Google docs sucks (as it should), but you can get the PDF of the Zoomer class here.
Here is a class for B/X compatible games that I made as an exercise when thinking about equipment scarcity and puzzles in dungeons. +James V West said he’d play a Naked Wanderer, so I guess it’s not complete nonsense 😉 We all have heard stories of […]