A Decade of AD&D - Chronicles of Etinerra is Ten Years Old
It was on Dec 18th, 2008, that I posted a campaign idea to both Dragonsfoot and to my (now defunct) Old Guy's RPG Blog.It is a dark time. Much has changed in the world that your forefathers and...
View Article[Three Hexes] Sixguns and Sorcery
Campaign: Emerging from the strange tunnel that led from the deepest level of the dungeon, the Company of mercenaries and adventurers were surprised to find themselves on the edge of a desert, with...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
May your holidays be full of joy and peace. May 2019 bring you good health, prosperity and lots of great gaming!
View Article[Three Hexes] Babel On
Campaign: Millennia ago, humans fled a dying Earth and found themselves on the world of Haines-Thoreau VI, an inhabited world with many races, none of which were particularly happy with the Terran...
View Article[Three Hexes] Twilight of Adventure
Campaign: It is the Last Age of Homo Sapiens on Earth, a dying world long sucked dry of its essence and resources by countless millennia of generations. Thousands of years ago, the bulk of human race...
View ArticleMy plans, post G+
That picture is still funny.With Google Plus on the final leg with shutdown happening in March or April, there's a lot of interest in who is going where.I'm active on Facebook and the 1st edition...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Exodus
Campaign: The Night of Horrors saw the city walls fall and the Necromancer's unliving pour within, killing and destroying all that they could find. The great warrior Gojun of Palandrin, forewarned by...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Haunted Seas of the Greybeard
Campaign: The once-peaceful waters of the Cyrene Seas now are known as the Haunted Seas, as the once-defeated Dom Cruelo's ship, the Greybeard, has risen from the depths of the ocean to wreak vengeance...
View ArticleMy Players' Homework: One Page and a Wiki
Some great discussions at Necropraxis/Brendan and Nine & Thirty Kingdoms/Talysman (John) about how much a player should know or have to know to come into a campaign.This has been a great concern of...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Resistance versus the Supers!
Campaign: The "Last Great War" (World War 2) ended abruptly in 1944 when the Axis superhumans ("supers"), Der Ubermensch, La Donna Meraviglia and Sugoi Samurai, displayed their powers in Russia,...
View ArticleA sense of wonder and magic in AD&D
You might get the impression, if you hang out on reddit and Facebook AD&D groups, or on some of the AD&D focused forums, that there is no way but THE RULES AS WRITTEN AND THE HOLY WRIT OF GYGAX...
View Article[Three Hexes] Finding the Lost Queen
Campaign: The Queen's Rule in the Monarch Cycle will come once King Stephan dies, however, with his daughter, Nirnya, missing, the sickly monarch has sent out his two sons to find her. With this...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Goblin Choir
Campaign: The King and Queen, spurred on by the royal fortune-teller's belief that their kidnapped children will die soon, have mustered their forces at the border, with orders to wage war on their...
View ArticleOur Game Spaces are a Reflection of Us
CW/TW - brief mention of sexual assault issues.Yea, this post is because of the revelations of abuse by former girlfriends Mandy, Vivka and Hannah of Zak Smith (Sabbath). If you haven't read them, go...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Vacation of Death
Campaign: Death is sick and tired of the murder-hobos, the attacks on good people by evil monsters, the never-ending carnage, the constant headaches (and paperwork) of dealing with wars, so they have...
View ArticleCincyCon 2019 and a visit to Ral Partha/Iron Wind Metals!
I went to CincyCon! Heading back home to my childhood in more ways than one - born and raised in the Tri-State area of southwestern Ohio. I went to this fun little convention of about few hundred...
View Article[Three Hexes] The World Clock
Campaign: The White Elves have unleashed a Chaos Golem to destroy the World Clock! The Magi of Time have slowed it down with their most powerful magical artifacts, but those are being consumed in the...
View ArticleHow I do wilderness encounters
It's a popular question I see asked a lot on the forums and reddit - "How do you do wilderness travel/encounters?""How do you do hex crawls?"It's understandable, with a wide open outdoors map looking a...
View Article[Three Hexes] Lost Island at World's Edge
Campaign: Adventure awaits for those who travel to the Frozen Northlands to follow rumors of treasure, lost islands and challenges that promise glory for those that overcome them. There is no shortage...
View Article[Three Hexes] The Mystery World At Beta Omega 8
Campaign: Probes sent to the system Beta Omega 8 discovered that the body orbiting the star was actually a Dyson Sphere, whose interior is a haphazard set of different terrains and features, but...
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