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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...

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[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...

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Merry 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!

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[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...

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[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...

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My 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...

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[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...

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[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...

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My 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...

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[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,...

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A 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...

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[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...

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[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...

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Our 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...

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[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...

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CincyCon 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...

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[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...

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How 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...

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[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...

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[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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