Cleanup On Aisle Linkage
Clearing out the chaff from the wheat of my link list this week, and it occurred to me that some blogs need more than a quiet pointer. Around here, we believe that ACTUAL PLAY >> game theory, and today I’ve got one of the better AD&D session report blogs...
Shots Fired!
Related to yesterday’s post regarding people who have been playing AD&D wrong for decades – a club of which I was a solid member of for decades myself – Jeffro offers up a little look at what we’ve all been doing wrong for lo these many years: Why this...
Not the Flex You Think It Is
Continuing thoughts about Rule Zero and yesterday’s post about Theseus’ RPG. Item #1: If you only ever used a third of a game, have you ever really played the game? You might have been playing something, but was it really the game you say it is? How much of...
Rule Hero > Rule Zero
The problem with Rule Zero: Is not that it isn’t true, it’s that it guards an army of lies. How many planks can you remove from AD&D before you’re not really playing AD&D any more? No one talks about this....
Primordial D&D
Been thinking about this a lot. Ever since watching this movie. Which is great. A must-watch for anyone interested in learning more about the evolution of tabletop wargaming and/or role-playing games. It’s a deep dive into the roots of the hobby, and surprisingly even-handed. But I can’t shake the...
Of Interest: Wisdom from an Angry God
“Gaming, at its core, is a hobby which seeks neither mediation or approval from Johnny-come-latelies.” Heavens to betsy, I do believe I have come down with a terrible case of the vapors. This one is pretty complicated. Basically, there is an in-authentic and ham-handed movement being orchestrated to remove...
[More Than You Know] Cha’alt: Fuchsia Malaise
Discussing a book as creative and original as Cha’alt (a setting written and designed by Venger Satanis for use with whatever iteration of the D&D tabletop RPG) presents a number of challenges for the reviewer. Specifically, the marketing hype used within the tabletop RPG market has devalued the meaning...
Grognardia Respawns
After eight years and with little fanfare, new content is up on the site. It’s just a review of some Swedish OSR product for now, but James is a smart thinker, and I look forward to his thoughts on tabletop RPGs. Hopefully we’ll get more fresh content without another...
Getting Lost in the Wilds of D&D
I’m still hip-deep in a wargaming kick and off the D&D wagon. But I thought the following might be of interest. A friend writes: I searched the PHB and DMG for any mention of having a ranger or druid prevents parties from getting lost. It does say that if...
Wizard Funk 2
Intrigued by the promise of a return to those halcyon days of the late-70s when I was too young to participate in zine culture, I threw five bucks at DiceBro for a hard copy of Wizard Funk 2. And boy howdy did I get exactly what was promised –...