Category: D&D

AD&D Kits: Not 2e

To speed up the math of character creation, and in direct response to a suggestion from one of my viewers, I built two kits for first level characters.  These are a little like the kits presented in B4: The Lost City.  With the costs and encumbrance calculated beforehand, you...

Corvusburg, the Second Batch

Our first pair of plucky heroes have met their end, eaten by a large pack of worgs somewhere along the road east of Corvusburg.  The don’t call it the Wolflands for nothing. Fortunately, and the elites don’t want you to know this, but first level adventurers are free.  You...

The Corvusburg Chronicles, Part the First

I’ll have to add a new category for this one. Over on the channel we’re having a grand old time running through a solo campaign of AD&D.  One clever viewer has asked for an upload what we’ve learned so far, the better to follow along at home. With that...

Don’t be a Rule Zero, be a Rule Hero

This probably looked pretty weird on the day it happened.  Let me explain. The tabletop RPG hobby has ossified. The conventions have been established, and everyone that follows those conventions can only innovate around the margins.  Or worse, they engage in a complete deconstruction without the re-construction necessary to...

Into Uncharted Gaming Waters

A lot of tabletop gamers totally spaz out when you tell them there is a better way to olay the game they’ve been playing for 40 years.  Even guys with ten feet of shelf space dedicated to gaming advice or coil and a horror when they’re giving gaming advice. ...

Mercenary Trilogy: AD&D as Wargame

In the last two posts we discussed mercenary troops from a modernist perspective.  That is to say, how does using hirelings work when it comes to spending all those gp you grabbed for XP, and how does a Square One focus on building an army contribute to the overall...

More Mercs

Last time we looked at how to build a great big, whopping mercenary army for your D&D fighting-man.  Spoilers: it was expensive. Today, let’s look at things from the perspective of a freshly-minted 1st level fighter.  This is the kind of guy who did a tour in the soup,...

AD&D Mercenary Troops for Dummies

Recent discussions on the sociable medias got me curious about mercenary armies in the venerable grande olde dame of tabletop RPGs.  Let’s take a look at the rules and requirements for putting together a Black Company of your own. We’re going to make a few assumptions to simply the...

On the OGL

WotC can do and say whatever they want. I’m going to keep perfecting the art of the game using the tools good ol’ Gary gave me. There is plenty more to say on the order of retvrning to your roots, and not being a slave to corporate IP, and...

Fattening the Herd

Lots of chatter out there in the media space these days about Big Corporation clawing back control over its intellectual property. We had a round of this when GeeDubs sent out a round of cease-and-desists to the 40k YouTube community.  Now it’s the turn of the D&D fans to...