I write this at just under an hour until midnight in the Eastern time zone, here in Southwest Michigan. 2014 was a great year for RPGs and me. I went to my first Con in thirty years or so at Marmalade Dog in Kalamazoo, and I did nearly daily posting and many days multiple posting … Continue reading 2014/2015
Last night I wrote here that I found out that the local gaming convention at WMU in Kalamazoo is this weekend. It started at 9:00 AM and due to waking up way early, I lost track of time working on something since I was up, then having a hard time figuring out where to park … Continue reading Marmalade Dog 19 – Part II
While attempting to find players within close driving distance, I checked the area D&D Meetup and they had pictures of play at a prior Marmalade Dog gaming convention, held by the Western Michigan Gamers Guild (WMGG). I knew they had it in the first few months of the year, so I checked and No. 19 is … Continue reading Marmalade Dog 19
Why do we get the ideas that we do? The other day, it came to me. I wondered, why don’t we have a collection of generic tables for the most common attributes of persons, places, and things? With the addition of adjectives and verbs, one can use simple tables to build up hints for ideas … Continue reading General Tables
Q – Quarters Cities have different divisions or districts. How does this affect the layout of the city? In March, 2014 I published an article on districts or quarters of a city. That thread had someone ask me for my research, so I posted the links from my research. While following a chain of Wikipedia … Continue reading Day 17 Q is for Quarters
In February, I ran Village of Hommlet at Marmalade Dog 20. I was very much over prepared. The map in my original module is very faint, and the blue of the ink is the kind that does not copy well. I purchased the PDF from DriveThruRPG, but the map did not print very clearly. So … Continue reading Laminating My Hommlet Map
How can I not mention the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae? While 300 blog posts is not as impressive as the feat of those long-dead Spartans, as someone with a BA in history and a big interest in ancient and medieval history, I could not help it, nor did I try. Someone posting daily for a … Continue reading 300!!
Now that I am past my busiest time of year at work*, my energy and enthusiasm for other things leaves brain power available to get creative. I also was busy wrapping up my hex for Tenkar’s Landing, and getting ready for Marmalade Dog 20. I have been coming up with a lot of ideas and … Continue reading Posting Frequency
There was a discussion on the OSR G+ Community that got me to thinking. In my campaign, AD&D, I have made the Player’s Handbook available, but the players don’t read it, except for spells. I don’t make the other manuals available. They have a lot more fun with the surprise of some strange monster they … Continue reading Do Players Have To Read The Rules?
+Adam Muszkiewicz over at Dispatches From Kickassistan has his write up of what he calls “emergent characters” that I touched on in my write up of Marmalade Dog 20, and in more detail in my post about collaborative roll playing. Adam goes into details about its origins and how it has worked in actual play … Continue reading Details On The As-Needed Character Generation
