dungeons and dragons

https://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/2023/12/thirteen-tips-to-running-dark-sun.html Dark Sun is one of my favorite campaign settings but one of the least played according to sales figures at TSR during the heyday of Loraine William's tenure as CEO. It is a difficult setting to get...

Surprised to find that we apparently don't have a thread dedicated to 2e D&D. This thread idea is sparked by this slightly polemical but not self-important blog post (second part to come) defending 2e pretty well imo here...

So a brief discussion with @JAMUMU on the best Gygax modules spurred the idea for this thread. As a kid and a teen my brothers and I spent far too much of our money on D&D modules so I've read, run and played a pretty large number of the early modules through B/X, BECMI, 1e and 2e eras. I'm...

Don't think we have a thread dedicated to the Basic and Expert sets by Cook/Moldvay, Mentzer and company's Basic to Inmortal expansion of the B/X core and Old School Essentials, the current darling (rightly) of the OSR that compiles the original B/X rules in one book AND the Advanced OSE which...

The next version of Dungeons & Dragons has officially been announced, titled One D&D. Unofficially, it's pretty much 5.5E. Wizards of the Coast also announced an official Dungeons & Dragons VTT for One D&D. You can read about that here.

My players want to give one a try. I was curious how you would do it among those delightfully Chaotic Evil assholes. :)

The latest episode of Fear of a Black Dragon turned me on to this.

Link here. Blog post by Necro here. Video by Questing Beast here. I doubt these surveys get enough respondents to be remotely accurate but they're interesting at least. Looks like they're trying to figure out if people brought to the hobby end up playing other games and what they like in a...

The first 5-7 minutes of this are fun even if you don't want to watch the whole session to just hear more about Colbert's memories of playing D&D, meeting Gygax at Gencon and Metamorphis Alpha!

So the next adventure announced by WotC is Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Apparently, as the title indicates it starts in Forgotten Realms and then moves to the first layer of Hell. Probably includes some elements of The Blood War, I wonder how much Planescape they've included or if this...

Anyone checked out Kobold Press’ 5e releases for their setting Midgard? Are the adventures any good? I generally like Wolfgang Baur’s work in the past, some of it was excellent like ‘Kingdom of the Ghouls.’ The mix of Norse setting and slighly gonzo detail seems promising. I missed this setting...

So I found this cool review of the 2e D&D Golden Voyages box set by James West on his blog. I also recently revisited Golden Voyages and it is a gem, like much of the Al-Qadim setting. I discuss it here. But I realized we didn't really have an apporpriate thread to post James' review in so...

Love the Britishness and period detail of this BBC video on D&D. Some of the comments by the players are a bit silly, I can see how an outsider could be very confused by them.

With the death of G+ I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread of cool gameable content and art posted to blogs, OSR and otherwise. What inspired this was this recent post by Ben L with art by Evlyn M. White Jungle Races: Plumed Reavers & Mole Rat People

I've long thought of checking out Anthony Huso's Fabled City of Brass and The Night Wolf Inn but have yet to pull the trigger. I also see he's recently done The Mortuary Temple of Esma. These are OSR adventures and rather unusually for the OSR are based on 1e not B/X mechanically although I...

I was going to post about this new OSR zine Through Ultan's Door and realized we apparently don't have a thread dedicated to OSR and other RPG zines. So this will be that. I'll post some others I dig and have recently discovered. Feel free to post your favs as well. TUD is really a mini-setting...

Has anyone found good stuff on DM's Guild? This Mission to Thay: Nethwatch Keep got a good review by Bryce Lynch of tenfootpole as did this city adventure Rats of Waterdeep. Also heard good things about The Howling Void, The Night of the Rise and the adventures of Ashley Warren are well laid...

Skerples has released an updated version of his free beginner module Tomb of the Serpent Kings. It is pretty sweet with art by Scrap Princess and maps by Janon. It looks a lot cleaner and well laid out than the last version I read.

The author of Tenebrae, going by the name of Unusual Existence on G+, posted their mini-setting with a very flavourful tweaked rules-set. The lovely, unusual and strange artwork is by K. Yani. I can detect traces of Vance, CAS and perhaps Delany in this very alien world where the classic 4...

So Peterson doing his usual good work seems to have uncovered a possible explanation/rationale for how descending armor class was supposed to work. DAC never bothered me, particularly once I discovered THAC0 but I have wondered 'why?' I'm far from a math whiz but something always seemed off...