On D&D: The Humility of the Truly Talented Tenth
There are two kinds of smart fellers in this world. Maybe more. For the sake of today’s analysis of the culture of D&D, let’s lump the smart fellers into two groups, anyway. The first group contains the smart fellers who know they are smart, who make being smart their...
This Is Huge – Gamechanging
The full ramifications of this little fact have yet to be explored. Probably because the bulk of the D&D crowd plays linear, story-line chasing, games that think too small to include such concepts as player-created megadungeons. In Brian’s case, the dwarven faction is mining in the hopes of finding...
On Chainmail: The Play Is the Thing
Chainmail: Rules for Medieval Warfare really isn’t that hard. It has an undeserved reputation for being byzantine and difficult to parse and put into practice. A reputation that, now that I have a dozen games under my belt, makes a lot more sense. Chainmail is a game written to be...
Gathering No Moss
Huge events keep grinding away out there in clown world, but your humble host has too much work to pay more than passing attention to it. Feels good, man. Taking Jordan “Ciderman” Peterson’s advice, I’ve spent the bulk of my free time completely renovating my bedroom. If you want...
Chainmail Quick Reference Sheet
If ever there was a wargame that cried out for a quick reference sheet, Chainmail is it. Find yourself a girl that looks at you like Gary Gygax looked at unique subsystems, fren. And yet, after literal minutes of searching, I couldn’t find hide nor hair of a QRS...
It Begins
Remember when I said the following? [W]hen a critical mass of people adopt [the lost art of Gygaxian campaign play] for their own table, you can expect a deluge of smart-boy posts from the Usual Crowds staking a claim to have “always known” about the glories of real-time and...
Epic D&D Made Easy Through Faction Play
Jeffro spitting fire on the latest episode of Geek Gab: There’s a key moment where Jeffro points out that Modern D&D cannot handle a moment like that in The Two Towers where the Fellowship of the Ring breaks up. Taking a broader view, I would contend that a truly Epic...
Trollopolous Lives!
Things are getting a little crazy over in Trollopolous and her nearby provinces. The besieging orcish army, leaderless after the capture of their demon-queen, has quit the field, and that only made things worse. Jeffro’s AD&D campaign-by-the-book has kicked into high gear with a week of Braunstein style faction...
A Tale As Old as Time
Brace yourself for a revolution in table-top RPGs. At last, after forty years of D&D and twenty years of instant and always-on communications, the two have been married to create a style that is a literal game changer: But it ain’t me. It’s Jeffro, the madman that redefined how...
More Campaigning for the Best Campaigns
Got another big blog for you fans of old school tabletop RPGs. This time around we’re taking a look at a longish game of ACKS, Autarch’s excellent Adventurer, Conqueror, King. This is another one of those new-old campaigns that takes advantage of certain lost secrets to present a style...