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Dungeon23 (Wk 6) - Finishing Level 2, Changing Up My Approach
Day 36Back from a long weekend and I was drained today. I was thankful I had finished level 2 mapping the week prior and only had to key rooms, but the dice wanted to drive me nuts.The treasure...
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Dungeon 23 - Delving the Black Maw Session 2 - After-Play Report
Second session of the Black Maw in the books. A room was lit on fire. A strange pool avoided. Pranks are being played on the PCs. And they fell victim to one of the classic Grimtooth setups - the room...
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A Country Where D&D isn't No. 1 - Germany's FRPG History
Asking questions is the only way I can learn about things, and this morning, I got a nice little history brief of D&D/fantasy gaming in Germany in the 70s/80s.I've been following @kyonshi/Geoffrey...
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Dungeon23 (Wk 7) - Back to the Source, Finishing Level 3
Day 43Another great set of OD&D specific generators for old school play, and done against the 1974 rules! OD&D Referee ToolsQuick and dirty, but extremely useful, especially to avoid rolling on...
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Dungeon 23 - Players Journals from Session 2 - Burning Beds and Getting into...
Entry #2Here I am again. Ur, standing in the doorway of the pool room, contemplating a swim. But before I could do anything, Loverboy and Bora and the Richman’s Mistake decided to investigate. And I...
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An example of using ChatGPT to create hex map descriptions
(Skip down to the jump break if you want to get to the actual ChatGPT chat/response bit.)Update below as well (11am CST 2/8/23)AIs (or, more correctly I think, VIs) of 2023 are, I believe, one of the...
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Player contributed lore to an AD&D campaign
One of the neat/cool things about Ben Robbin's West Marches game was that players would share info w/each other.To me, that was a really cool thing that I wanted to encourage players to do in my...
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Dungeon23 (Wk 8 and 9) - Still here, still creating a megadungeon!
I'm changing the format of my weekly catchups. I don't think the day-by-day will always work, especially if I'm doing basic things or or just plugging away. I want build logs to be informative and to...
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Dungeon Master's Handbook - Episode 49 - Decoding AD&D and Encoding GM...
I recently took up a project to convert my GM preparation tools to a web-based table generator system called Hex-Describe. What started as just taking spreadsheet tables to text tables ended up being a...
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Dungeon 23 (Wk 10) - What is a diagonal 10' section?
I think I've mentioned this before, but it is hard to draw on the diagonal! Using the 1st edition DMG Appendix A: Random Dungeon Generation, there are a number of ways that you'll be set on a diagonal...
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Domesday / Medieval Demographics for your Hex Map Descriptions
... or, how I became a mad scientist of spreadsheets and abulafia-style random generators!I've mentioned elsewhere about my project to convert my old hex/encounter generation system (using a...
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Dungeon 23 (Wk 11) - The Week Of Coding And Hacking Tools For Dungeon Stocking
This week, I finished mapping of Level 4 and began keying it. 64 rooms of descriptions and creation. For determining room types/contents/info, I'd been using yet-another-spreadsheet where I'd...
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Running an AD&D Imprisonment/Escape game
Classic scenario - PCs enter into a portal | board some sort of vehicle or mode of transportation | walk into a dark room and BAM - next thing they know, they wake up and they're bound/gagged/locked in...
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Dungeon 23 (Wk 12) - A Wandering Encounter and First PC Death
On Thursday (3 Mar), I was setting down to draw the next day of rooms in my Dungeon, and realized that I'd not keyed a wandering monster chart for level 4!Every level has its own chart, and there are...
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Dungeon23 (Wk 13) - Door mini-game
A very quick Dungeon23 update, as this has been a "roll and draw, roll and draw" sort of week.The only thing of note is thinking about a little mini-game I do with doors now, in relationship to the...
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Hommlet and GaryCon 2024 - start of a new project - 3d dungeon!
I'm back into 3d-printing again. I'd tried it out in 2019, with an Ender 3. After a period of failure and frustration, I sold the printer. Inspired by a recent Kickstarter and an idea, I've purchased...
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Dungeon23 (Wk 14) - Different sorts of monsters
Another addition to my personal, locally-hosted Dungeon23 generator, I added the Random Esoteric Creature Generator tables to it.I think it's time to give my players something else to think about -...
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Update to Hommlet / 3d Printing post...
I finished printing out and assembling the first two rooms of the Moat-house dungeon, on Sunday night. This was just to get a feel of how things work and see if my plan of using 15mm figures would pan...
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New Release - Swords & Wizardry Treasure Generator
tl;dr: Stephen Faure and I are releasing a fork of the original Swords & Wizardry Treasure Generator created by Brian Ramsay (foont.net). Our version incorporates a different approach by allowing...
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Podcast - The Big Five-Oh episode - 6 years in the making!
I started my podcast six years ago and here we are, finally at episode...
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