Thursday, January 2, 2020

Exciting 2020 Blogs - THAC0 and Red Dice Diaries

I was going to make this post about a lot of blogs, but I only have time for the one I am really excited for: Red Dice Diaries. John is working on a campaign for Colonial Time Period B/X game.

Over on THAC0's facebook page, someone was just asking about guns in D&D, which sort of fits John's idea. However, my question is, how does magic slide into a Colonial Setting?

Go check out the Red Dice Diaries here. And friend THAC0 on Facebook here at this link. THAC0 also has an associate blog page which is a wonderful read if you like anything about D&D.

If I were to suggest a resource or two for John's campaign, I would pick the book "Everyday Life In Early America". I've always meant to do a review of this book as it paints a highly detailed picture of common things the colonist would have done or encountered in a day. I totally use this for my D&D campaigns to get the brain juices flowing.

Red Dice Diaries also has a link to an excellent resource called "30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author's Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds" by A Trevena. He will be using this book to build his campaign, so now is a great time to either follow his blog or add the podcast to your podcatching software.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Phil, thanks for the shoutout - I'm really looking forward to working on my 𝕮𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖆𝖑 𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖕𝖔𝖜𝖉𝖊𝖗 game; my current plans for guns are to adapt the blackpowder firearms rules from Lamentations of the Flame Princess (basically simplify them down a bit). As for magic, I have been thinking about that, I want to avoid changing the core OSE rules as much as possible, but I would love to tie magic in/flavour it more to the setting, not sure how yet though.

    Thanks for the book recommendation, I will give "Everyday Life In Early America" a look :)

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  2. Thanks for stopping by! I love the podcast. I've been listening to it everyday on my drive to work, trying to work my way back to the beginning.

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    1. That's very kind of you, glad you're enjoying the podcast :)

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