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Dungeon23 - Wk (17) - Mapping with Dungeon Architect Cards - a mini-review
A week of the dungeon cards and I'm already done with mapping of level 6! Now comes the keying part. I have 21 more days in April, so definitely no hurry!Why so fast on the mapping? Well, I had some...
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Dungeon23 - Wk 18 - The Death of Brog in the Black Maw
I've started populating and keying Level 6. This is going to represent a definite shift in the dungeon, the players are halfway through and things are about to get... interesting.----As I'm building my...
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Dungeon23 - Wk 19 - Where is my megadungeon?
This week, I completed keying of Level 6, 11 days early! The wandering monster list is complete. So now what do I do for the next 11 days? I went back to my original premise for the Black Maw and the...
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Dungeon23 - Wk 20 - Diving into the 7th level
I couldn't help but get back into the rhythm and start on Level 7. That's the one thing about establishing a habit, if I'm ahead of the curve, I'm still going to want to work on the thing daily. We'll...
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Session summaries in 500 characters or less!
Alex Schroeder posted an interesting idea on Mastodon back in late March:I liked the idea - spin down a session to its most important facts in 500 characters or less. I've started using it and it...
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Dungeon 23 - Wk 21 - One Monster-type Dungeon Level
The dice love to tell a story, and it's my job as some sort of weird Oracle or shaman to interpret what the clickety-clackety magic math rocks are telling me.Level 7 continues and - because I just...
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Traveller and Battlestar Galactica
Back when I created this new blog, I said it was going to be about the games I love, and love to play. Well, I'm about to throw you all a curve ball, because I'm about to go into a place that has been...
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The 3 Essential Elements of the Perfect D&D Village/Town/City
Heh. How click-baity can I make that title? But, I'm dead serious with this. There are three things that, in my experience, PCs tend to care about in a town, a village or a city, or anywhere they make...
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Classic Traveller - Why would a starship have fighters?
One of the weird ways I learn a system is to make a referee's guide. I did it for microlite20, back in '08 when I was rediscovering D&D. Then for AD&D, Swords & Wizardry, White Box... and...
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Dungeon 23 - Wk 22/23 - Level 7 finished
Level 7 is finished with 9 days to go in May, and I'll probably start on Level 8 next week. It took me a big longer to write up the key, as I've been extremely distracted with rediscovering Classic...
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Dungeon 23 - Wk 24 - I Can't Stop Mapping! Sharing More Random Tables
I think I may have a slight problem... I am enjoying mapping way too much and I can't stop at just 5 to 10 min. Over the past week, I've filled up half of the two page month for Level 8. I just get to...
View ArticleSession summaries from May's AD&D/OD&D games
(continuing from last month's OD&D and AD&D game recaps - 500 characters or less each!)Eastern Borders AD&D game:4/8 session: PCs regrouped after escaping imprisonment by a chaotic mage...
View ArticleDungeon 23 - Wk 25 - Over 500 rooms!
Thanks to a steady pace and a recount, I've reached the 500 point, and then some! I'm at a total of 548 rooms, across 8 levels and 4 sublevels. So what have I learned in the first 500 rooms? Nothing...
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Chainmail in my OD&D
This is a companion blog post to Episode 55 of the Dungeon Masters Handbook, which talks how Chainmail expects you to adapt it for the game you want to run.This post goes into details that seem more...
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Three things I learned from running Classic Traveller for the first time
Back in early May, I posted about a crazy idea of mashing up the two Battlestar Galactica series into one setting, and running it using Classic Traveller. Since then, I've fleshed out this concept into...
View ArticleSession summaries from June's AD&D/OD&D/Traveller games
(continuing from May's OD&D and AD&D game recaps - 500 characters or less each!)Eastern Borders AD&D game:6/4 session: With enemies vanquished and myconid friend rescued, the PCs dispelled...
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DM Tip - Making a six-level dungeon out of a single map
I had a problem - I wanted to create a dungeon that would challenge my players with increasing danger, but I didn't want to make it have multiple levels. I'd never done anything like that before, so I...
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Classic Traveller Supplement - Seluna's Veil
I participated in my first "jam" back in June and used the opportunity to flesh out a portion of a subsector for my potential Traveller/Battlestar Galactica campaign. So, Seluna's Veil was...
View ArticleSession Summaries from July's AD&D/OD&D/Traveller games
(continuing from June's OD&D and AD&D game recaps - 500 characters or less each!)Eastern Borders AD&D game:7/23 session: After resupplying at Dragonsbray, the PCs followed up on rumors of...
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RPGaDay 2023 - Days 1 thru 7
I'm normally shy about these things, but thought "What the heck" and wanted to share some of the things that make me happy about playing RPG games. So... here you go! Days 1 - 7!1. First RPG played...
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Dungeon23 - Wk 26 to 33 - Work continues!
I haven't given up! June and July were extremely busy time, and to be fair, I felt these updates were getting boring as I wasn't doing anything particularly interesting or exciting, outside of the way...
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GaryCon 2024 XVI - Events Submitted!
Event submissions and badge sales have begun over at the GaryCon website! I'm going to go back to what I love to do - running games at GC! I've got four submitted. If life and events permit me time to...
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RPGaDay2023 - Days 8 - 14
8. Favorite Character This is hard because I don't typically play, although I've forced myself to do so lately to learn and grow.Right now, my most interesting character is Sidreed, a bard/thief in a...
View ArticleChange is in the air! I'm moving to Substack!
TLDR; Moving here: https://chgowiz.substack.comI've been using Blogger, formerly Blogspot, since 2008, when I was at my old blog http://oldguyrpg.blogspot.com/.I've also been podcasting for a bit -...
View ArticleLast move - to self-hosting!
As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at)Blog: https://chgowiz-games.etinerra.com/wp/Podcast:...
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