Imagine this story as the story of VHS and Betamax. The first took over the second for marketing reasons. Advanced Heroquest was a D12 based game, while D&D 3.0 was a D20 based game. However, the core difference between these two systems is not about dices. It is a conceptual difference. Oh! Let’s make it […]
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DND OLD SCHOOL REVIEW Here we are again to write a review about an old tome of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The Complete Wizard’s Handbook. Old, yes, but always extant as any D&D 1ed and AD&D products after all. So, let’s see what interesting stuff we can find and employ inside this handbook. Chapter 1
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This article does not contain adventure ideas or tricks about how to run high level campaigns. This article is about viewing high level campaign under a different point of view. You may want to download the free pdf Wrath of the Immortals to discover more about old school concepts of high level campaign. Running high
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GAME REVIEW Today I want to talk about a small jewel of the past. A game that was not a true role-playing game, neither a classical tabletop. It stood in the middle of both categories. Advanced Heroquest was published in 1989 by Game Workshop. It was meant to be the sequel of Heroquest. However the
This article wants to provide the Game Master an answer, and a method, to the daunting question… How to explain D&D rules to newbie players When I say “D&D rules” I’m including Rpg like D&D 3.0/3.5; Pathfinder 1ed; Pathfinder 2ed; Starfinder and D&D 5ed. The list can be extended to other Rpg rulesets of course,
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BOOK OF ARTIFACTS ARTIFACTS INDEX INTRODUCTION This artifact is also known as the Alchemist’s Apparatus, but among sages Apparatus is the most used form. This artifact must not be confused with the Apparatus of Kwalish, because the last one is not an artifact at all, it’s nothing more than a wondrous item. According to the
SESSION THREE AND FOUR Previous Article…Campaign Chronicles #6 – Session Two In this article we resume the events occured in session three and session four. SESSION FOUR This session marks for the character the arrival at the town of Seawell, after a week long journey and a couple of encounter with gnolls. The PCs now
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BOOK OF ARTIFACTS ARTIFACTS INDEX FOREWORD If you are planning to employ this artifact in your campaign, be careful, because it is an object I consider a “sneaky destroyer”. The artifact itself does not possess or grant amazing and destructive powers, however, on the long term its curse becomes very nasty. I suggest to use
Buildings, Equipment, Infrastructures and Trade Goods Previous Article…Dwarves & Mining #5 part 6 – D&D Mining Guide – The Settlement’s Events This article is the last about the small pack of tips to build a mining settlement. We present a sketch of what we call Buildings, Equipment, Infrastructures and Trade Goods. Some explanation about each
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THE SETTLEMENT’s ACTIONS Previous article…Dwarves & Mining #5 part 4 – Mining Guide – The Settlement’s Experience and Tier In this article we’ll talk about the actions a settlement can perform. We’ll add the section about events later. Previously we only made a list of actions but we did not include the effect in terms
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