The Dice Pool at Two Hundred (posts) Milestone Levelling vs XP There’s a strong argument for XP levelling in D&D type games. The pursuit of XP can be used to promote certain behaviours from the PCs, leading them towards the bigger…

For my 200th blogpost, here’s the topic: is it better to use milestone leveling or XP when writing a blog? Only the most hard-hitting and controversial topics on the dice pool dot com.

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The Editioning Week Four, OD&D The Woes of Sorrowfield, Session Three The hex-crawl continues through the Barrenwood. The PCs have been doing their best in difficult circumstances. Sorrowfield is a miserable place right now. The…

I’ve had a few days off work this week so you lucky people get an early post from me on the dice pool dot com. Today it’s a report on session 3 of our OD&D game, the Woes of Sorrowfield. Loving the looseness and randomness of this one!

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DIE: Metadungeon The real dungeon was the hobby we made along the way. Dungeon crawl your way through half a century of RPG history in this full-scale megadungeon for the DIE RPG by Gareth Hanrahan.

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Microsoft, to its billions of customers:

You must use this product to be hired or promoted.

It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy.

You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it.

It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

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The Editioning Weeks Three and Four, Basic D&D Keeping’ on Keepin’ on We’re two more sessions into the classic Basic D&D adventure, the Keep on the Borderlands. And we’re getting into the meat of it now, I think. We’ve got multiple factions…

We have entered the Caves of Chaos. We brought some chaos of our own with us. Fooled some goblins, slew a Serpent Cultist and set ally against ally. We’re having great fun with our Keep on the Borderlands game!

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Play Unsafe An all-new edition of Graham Walmsley's classic book about playing tabletop roleplaying games.

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The Editioning: Week Three, OD&D OD&D, The Woes of Sorrowfield, Session Two The PCs gathered some hirelings. The town of East Barrens was not replete with adventuring types or even warriors, so I ruled that the only idiots ava…

Still playin’ those old D&Ds in the Editioning. The latest post on the dice pool dot com is about sesssion 2 of our OD&D game. It’s all hirelings and encounters tables. Check it out! Unless you’re one of players!

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there was a young man
from cork who got limericks
and haikus confused

We're excited to announce that we're partnering with Free League, who will publish Fomoria and handle the Kickstarter fulfillment. The Kickstarter is set to go live on April 7.

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The Editioning: Weeks One and Two, Basic D&D The Keep on the Borderlands Friend of the blog, Isaac has generously offered his time and effort to take on the Editioning with me. He’s DMing Basic D&D for us right now. He decided on the Keep…

The Editioning continues! This post is a Keep on the Borderlands one. @lostpathpub.bsky.social is DMing Basic D&D with this classic adventure. Loving it so far. Check out the new blog post about the first few sessions:

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The Editioning: Week One: OD&D Highs and Lows Oh boy, what a D&D week we had. The Editioning has well and truly begun! OK, technically, it began last week with OD&D character creation as I mentioned in the last post. As …

D&D blog again! We had 3 sessions this week for the Editioning, our challenge to play an adventure in each edition of D&D over the next year or so. 2 B/X sessions and 1 OD&D. This post is about the 1st session of Woes of Sorrowfield, my homebrew adventure for Od&D:

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Colleague: Do you want to come out later?Me: Oh sorry. I am pretending to be a lesbian Knight tonight.
Her: What?
Me: What?
(This is a Mythic Bastionland post, hit send)

[at a posh party]

"So, what do you do?"
"I'm a financier."
"Really? What do you specialise in?"
"Pinigeons, mainly".

Time-loop Spell Jammin’ The Editioning has started. We made some characters for OD&D the other night. We have one Fighting Man, one Magic User, one Cleric and one Thief, just as Gygax (or maybe Arneson) …

New post on the dice pool dot com! The Editioning has started with Session 0 for OD&D. But today I’m writing about a campaign that came to an end last week. It’s Spelljammer and it’s a time-loop. Check it out!

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YOU - I don't want to get better -- I want to get worse.

I miss when each class level in D&D had a different title

The weekly r/osr blogroll is up - now under the gracious stewardship of @leicester68.bsky.social - greatly appreciate them accepting the torch and carrying it onwards.

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A new link-collecting newsletter has dropped. It's really good. I like that it includes @elmc.at's projects, I'm especially interested in their more robust webring idea.

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Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

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The investigators gear up and try a more spiritual approach to find clues about Tet, whose disappearance may be more bloody than first realized.

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Thanks! So far, I’m just cranking up the old imagination muscles and taking inspiration from science fantasy authors, Star Trek and the OD&D books themselves. I’m trying to only use the tools presented in the text, and there isn’t really a lot of random tables or anything in there.

The Editioning: How to OD&D The Editioning Begins The first session for our Tables & Tales OD&D game is set for next Friday. I think it’s just going to be a session 0 to introduce the game to the players and have them…

Making a new dungeon for OD&D. Come along with me as I rediscover the joy of paper and pen map drawing.

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