Shipwreck at Har’s Point This article is the spin-off (pass me the term) of this article: Old School Review – AD&D DMGR6 The Complete Book of Villains #4 Many readers asked me to provide more information about linear and matrix adventure. Most of you were suprised about the content of the article, so I decided […]
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UNDERSTANDING TRADE How many of you as ever asked your Game Master to buy and trade stuff, from one city to another, for a profit? Honestly I don’t know the numbers, but I bet that someone out there did. We have published the awesome Merchant Guide, a pdf available on DrivethruRpg. Just have a look
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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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ARTIFACTS INDEX INTRODUCTION ARTIFURNACE! This item unknown to many. The artifurnace is a spelljamming helm that draws its power from an artifact, a rare and powerful magical item that has unique and mysterious properties. The artifurnace is the ultimate development of the furnace, a type of helm that uses fuel to propel a spelljamming ship
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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SESSION FIVE Previous Article…Campaign Chronicles #7 – Session Three and Four So, here we are again to tell the events occured in Session Five of these campaign chronicles. In the previous episode we left our characters close to their goal. Reaching the lighthouse after a small skirmish against a patrol of two pirates. As I
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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