“As characters travel through the universe, they already know their basic physical and mental parameters: their basic education and physical development have already occurred, and further improvement can happen only by dedicated endeavor.  The experience which is gained as the individual character travels and adventures is, in a very real sense, an increased ability to… Continue reading Traveller Tuesday: 1977 Edition Experience

As I’ve mentioned before…now with items up for auction! TARGA Announces Pledge-An-Auction Drive TARGA is organizing the 2010 Pledge-An-Auction drive in support of GaryCon 2 and the Gygax Family Fund for use in funding a memorial statue in honor of Gary. Come join our virtual auction and help us to present a great donation to Luke Gygax… Continue reading Auction Announcements

So it turns out that I have a bunch of back issues of Great Plains Game Player and its successor, Gamelog, both of them published by Jim Lurvey.  Jim’s a great guy – I can say that, having known him off and on for nearly 30 years now. It just so happens that in an… Continue reading Digging Around…

Something I like about technology is that it helps us do things that would otherwise be a lot more work.  Without further ado, here are five different online tools that ought to make refereeing a bunch easier: Brad’s excellent Labyrinth Lord character generator page. Peccable Productions Moldvay D&D adventure generator. An interesting and quirky random… Continue reading Five links to make refereeing easier

“Worlds orbiting the same star are accessible by inteplanetary travel, including by scheduled liners and by ship’s boats, pinnaces, cutters and even by lifeboats.  Generally, however, interplanetary travel takes long periods of time.  Since most stellar systems have only one major world, interplanetary travel is infrequently used….Worlds orbiting different stars are reached by interstellar travel,… Continue reading Traveller Tuesday: 1977 Edition Starships

Doing some data analysis today, related to a query on this post on Grognardia.  I am currently… Running a weekly OD&D game, using Labyrinth Lord as a base set with variants, missing one Tuesday a month Running a twice a month Chivalry & Sorcery (1st Ed.) game Participating in a monthly gaming meetup, usually running… Continue reading I think I’m busy

Over the past three months, I’ve been running a weekly Original D&D game at my FLGS, Misty Mountain Games.  Like my previous attempt in Ames, I started with just one player, Gene.  Gene had showed up to one of the Madison Traditional Gaming meetups, and had a sufficiently good time that he was interested in… Continue reading “New” OD&D campaign

One of the first things I encountered when I ventured into the online world of the Old School Renaissance was something of an obsession with dungeon design.  What made it worse was the assertion that wilderness adventuring was “broken” and there was no real rhyme or reason to how to design a wilderness campaign. This… Continue reading The Wilderness Architect

One of the distinct differences I’ve noticed between gamers who started gaming after D&D became really popular (c. 1983 or 1984) is that they aren’t as curious as those who started before that, in my experience.  Particularly those who started gaming before D&D actually appeared, playing board wargames and/or historical miniatures.  I got my start… Continue reading Raised by wild wargamers

While technology will certainly progress in the centuries to come, it will also remain a fact that one of the surest ways to injure or kill an adversary will be to subject him to a large dose of kinetic energy, and a simple easy way to administer that energy is by bullet impacts…Some weapons, such… Continue reading Traveller Tuesday: 1977 Edition Combat