These Old Games

If I mean to catch up and create 31 characters for January, I need to start doing 3 or more characters at a time. Here we go.  Let's sta...

 I've always meant to do the #CharacterChalllenge. And I always miss it. For 2026, I am going to try to catch up with two posts a day.  ...

I've always meant to do the #CharacterChalllenge. And I always miss it. For 2026, I am going to try to catch up with two posts a day.  L...

In my last post, I said that X2 Castle Amber made me a better DM, but I did not fully explain why. What makes a good DM and good players is ...

The Wizard Dallehm is a long-dead character in my campaigns. But he was the owner of many magic items and the inventor of several spell ide...

In my last post, I covered the Crown of Saunders . This is the history of that item. I like to codify these mysteries and histories so that ...

I was always fascinated with the artifacts in the DMG, but there was always a problem with them. They were written for someone else's ca...

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

For some strange reason, in all of my years of playing D&D, not one of my players has expressed a wish for the reincarnation or resurrec...

I noticed a tiny item missing from Old School Essentials: percentages of characters appearing.  And... it immediately became obvious why thi...

I am continuing to work on this town, I think I have a name: Manteva. I am looking at some old maps of Italy and this one jumped out at me. ...

Facial hair is impressive,  but does not  contribute to defenses I have thrown a bunch of ad hoc rules at D&D over the years. And my fav...