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I'm planning on running a one shot on Saturday October 8th, around 7 eastern of Grizzled Adventurers. We'll be using the Pub discord and die roller. Grizzled Adventurers is based on Beyond the Wall and Through Sunken Lands - basic D&D with a few tweaks. In Grizzled, you start around level 4...

When you play/played Basic or its clones, do you use any house rules or homebrew addons? In the old days, after a while, we added a few nudges to increase early survivability. One was to start at a higher level, such as 2500-5000 xp or so. Nowadays, I don't like that as much as it jumps...

I guess I was impressionable and sensitive as a kid. There were several times when I was flipping around channels by myself and get sucked into some bad show. I remember catching bits of a show when I must have been 3 or 4 which literally gave me nightmares - this was my main nightmare for...

Here's a lazy Sunday idea: take a music video you like and use the guts as a plot for an adventure. Two minutes of plot is about right for a one shot, with the rest as combat and goofing off. Game: CoC or similar. The party investigates a think tank where several of their colleagues work...

After months of just blankness, a switched flipped and I've started screwing around with things again. I'm trying to finish some things enough to be readable to others. Most of these don't deserve a full thread in my opinion so I plan on dropping them here as I finish them. If others want to...

It comes and goes but tie-in fiction has often a good sized chunk of fantasy and science fiction at least since the 70s. Is that a good thing? I started the topic because I'm genuinely not sure. I'm not deeply concerned, just idly curious. On the one hand, it has introduced many new readers...

As a DM, I've received quite a few multipage backgrounds from players. They often assume incorrect things about the world. They have things that would take wrapping the whole campaign around to make use of, and each player's would go in a different direction. I'm sure that I'm not alone...

If you were going to make a list of best early modern fantasy in English, what would be on it? Best here means both enjoyable and influential. My 15 year old is homeschooled and, at this point, wants to be a writer. So I'm putting together a reading list for a class on the foundations of...

I miss playing with adults. Yet the pandemic continues. I have lots of game ideas that I'd like to try. Running one shots gives more variety and removes the commitment of making it every time. I've used Roll20 and it's decent but I'm not married to it - I just use it for maps, counters, and...

In this thread @Necrozius was asking about ways to have a rogue without sneak attack. There were warnings that it would be hard to keep the combat power and make them more interesting if their key striker ability was taken away. But it could be done if you're ok trading possibly weaker combat...

Darkness had come too quickly. Storm clouds raced across the sky and shut out the light like hastily drawn curtains. The sheets of rain only worsened the view. Twilight was turned to midnight, broken only by the occasional blinding, deafening lightning. Five kids scrambled blindly through the...

This post is setting stuff. It will be updated as more information is revealed. Links will be added for stats and maps and stuf. Players and Charactersheets Silverlion: Silvyr Taenaran Willowwind Elf Enchanter Mage Dumarest: The Wanderer Elven Ranger Rogue-Mage Voros: Pulg, Untested Thief...

I started rereading Beyond the Wall and got the urge to play or run it. Anyone else for playing or even running it? For those not familiar with Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures, it's an OSR game very similar to Basic. Only 3 classes, 10 levels max, magic very toned down. One of the...

Suppose you might want to run a campaign where killing wasn't the focus. What system would you use? Examples ideas: corporate office is teleported to a desolate plane but the bosses pretend it's still business as usual, a dating simulator in a fantasy world where you can't advance far in...

I'm thinking about running a pbp game using the new B/X version of the Gangbusters rules. The provisional title is The Big Sleep in Naptown. The characters start as employees in a private investigation company in 1920s Indianapolis, which consists of: Major Harrison - an middle aged wealthy...

I've been going through my game files, which are on a pc, laptop, external hard drive with the ghosts of old pcs, and a few flash drives. As I get things organized, I'll post stuff that might be useful to someone. Here are a few tables I've made in Excel which use code to pull entries from...

Now and then, I screw around with rules and settings to relax. Lately, it's been mostly 5e stuff. Below are some links for things finished enough to read in the hopes someone else also gets some use out of them. If others have homebrew material, feel free to post it here. Battle Box Outlines...

GOG is having a 10th anniversary sale. There's only a day left. Quite a bit of older stuff I haven't played that looks interesting. At the rate I play, I'll be able to get a year's worth of games for ~$10. Witcher, Witcher 2, Dungeon Keeper, are Dungeon Keeper 2 are <=$3 each. I also see...

My son and I were brainstorming today about mecha like things for fantasy. 1. Imagine a typical fantasy world. Portals start opening and giants pour out, intent on conquest. They have ogre servants. They also have trained war pets such as dinosaurs and other huge creatures. 2. To deal...

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