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Appreciate it!

Hireling die a lot in old-school games and often without a lot of consequence. Ktrey helps you change that!

Your hexcrawl's new lunar calendar

Hagfish Hall 'bout to get reeeal tough...

Now we are getting to the 🍖 of Clayton's ENNIES debrief. This post provides a boots-on-the-ground view of judging and offers general tips for applicants. 🏆Gold, people, gold!🥇

Sean might have written one of the best "DMGs" with the Warden's manual, so I'm gonna have to check-in on MOTHERSHIP does a campaign setting.

Always fantastic to have someone take the time, blood, sweat, and tears to explain a process. Wonderful to get this four-part insight!

CoC 8th should change half its skills to be crimes:

35% Kidnapping
60% Assault & Battery
25% Burglary
Ect

I think would help drive home the PCs shift from law abiding citizens to crazies using any means to stop a supposed greater evil

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Time for Sid to crack this case & figure out why this kid was turned into some sorta “battery”

I work with my hands…
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Brewing up HIS MAJESTY THE *LEARN*

Very nice downtime tables for all magical school games.

Over the Garden Wall is generally fantastic, but this scene always really makes me laugh

75% of my approach to old-school fantasy adventure games

One of my favorite adventures!

Carouse, Carouse! is out!

I love all these newsletters each with their own view of the old-school DIY scene.

Nicely done y'all!

DURF Expanded is now live on Kickstarter! 🔥

www.kickstarter.com/projects/emi...

These feel particularly Dolemenwood encoded!

A nice list, I’ve done something like this at con games to great effect by saying you have X relationship with the PC to the left of you.

I’ve even included weird ones like “You inexplicably look exactly like the PC to your left but are not a doppelgänger, twin, or sibling” & got triplets that way

If I were to do a discord for trans fems who like old (pre-wotc) versions of D&D and like Big Dungeons in particular, would anyone be interested in that

DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON: Let the Players Do The Creative Cooking But seriously, " D-in-D" IS a good manga Jumping again on the gravy train that is Delicious in Dungeon posting. Here is a post by Grinni...

That’s generally in the downtime in the week between dungeon delving.
Some crafting is best done only by NPCs because it’s low-overhead and it’s a reason PCs shouldn’t piss off the town

But here is my stab at cooking/crafting: icastlight.blogspot.com/2024/07/deli...

So sorry KC! Please let us help if we can and if you need anything.

Nice! Blog it!

Good questions, I’ll have to update the post with ‘em

Otherwise, I am not arguing that megadungeons are superior to citycrawls or pointcrawls but they are not archaic nor *inferior* to those modes (or other campaign structures) and provide advantages.

The fruit void here is both "physical" as in exploiting the building structure & contents and "social" the various factions needs/wants/secrets/poximites. All while being much easier on DM prep & PC keeping track of things because of repeated exposure to similar elements

E.G. 1st floor of Versailles is smaller than a city, but reasonable to contain 2-4 factions, yet, you'd lose detail if you reduced these 30 rooms to a point crawl of its 6 or 7 major areas (denoted by the major headings). The detail provides a fruitful void for player actions/unexpected outcomes

Many of my thoughts are in the post, but in brief: *For a weekly 2-4 hour D&D session*, megadungeons are more focused & require less prep than city crawls while retaining muti-factions, but are also more detailed & choice-laden than pointcrawls

So instead of a farm boy destined by birth for great things as guilded by a wise mentor, I want to be the dude in the back of the hive of scum & villainy figuring out a score after witnessing a shooting & a dude getting his arm cut off by a zealot- do those thing involve me? Only if I want them too

The type of story I like is similar to life, it’s an emergent one that arises out a series of events informed by PCs’ choices that align/conflict with other groups all in a cool place; the only true grand goal or “arc” is that set by the PCs- Megadungeons provide this

Pretty good bandit camp for today’s 🦇 Nightwick Abbey game (where we are out of the dungeon and in the swamp)

And almost half of a #mordheim board

I appreciate the rule in 🍄 Dolemenwood 🍄 that allows some non-martial classes & kin to use instruments, cookware, & even food as improvised weapons (1d4 dmg)