These Old Games

I have a lot of hobbying going on, so the blog will go off the rails for a while. I haven't felt like doing reviews or a post series lat...

In the Dragonlance lore, there are 3 moons named Solinari, Lunitari, and Nuitari. They were aligned with Good, Neutral, and Evil, and they s...

I was told I would love Baldur's Gate. And from what I have heard and read, it is great. However, I need a new hard drive in my laptop b...

Back in 1980, Dragon magazine presented an Anti-Palidin. These guys were stereotypical black hat NPCs. The logic behind them was a Palidin p...

It's been a while since I wrote about games that went off the rails, but here is another entry. I had a basic scenario where a small tow...

It's Tuesday night and I am painting some Battlemechs. I like to listen to books or TV when painting. I have this funny trait that the t...

I made a point of getting Nathan physical copies of the D&D 5e rules. He has two different groups that play and it would be dumb if they...

(This is a bonus post, one I wrote back in September of 2022. I found it unposted while cleaning up.)  Stephen Donaldson is known for using ...

It has been a while since I've posted. I have a lot going on but I would like to return to a regular posting schedule. As a head-clearin...

I love posts that start with the Chaos Star The OGL has attained the maximum cultural entropy. Even my wife has a passing familiarity with O...

One of the more intractable problems for an AD&D e1 DM is the addition of a multiclassed character. They cause a variety of problems. Fi...

In the last post about OSE , Vance A. commented that the Old School Essentials had character generators, specifically for NPC, Travelers, a...