Memorable Events
There have been many memorable events in the various games I have played in over the years. One that delights us to this day, is a situation where a high level party was fighting an orc tribe in their...
View ArticleMapping Hack with Index Cards and a Siege
My main character, Griswald Stewart, has a small town at the center of his lands. Long story short, he is a duke who succeeded his father, but his father’s generation of the former rulers of the...
View ArticleMagic Battle Standard
Robert, my brother, and I were at a game store that had a huge miniature collection. I believe it was one of the times we made it to Kings Crown in Overland Park, KS, which was about an hour drive...
View ArticleHow Do You Pronounce Paladin?
When we first started playing AD&D and had the new character class of Paladin, we had never encountered that word, so we did not pronounce it correctly. We said it “pAl – a – din”, like “Aladdin”....
View ArticleTrivial Pursuit
My wife won’t play Trivial Pursuit with me anymore since she can never beat me. If we ever played with a group, she would probably insist on being on my team. In college, I once played a game of...
View ArticleTime Sink
Rather than decry D&D as evil in itself, a college roommate, who is now a missionary to Russia, said that the biggest problem with D&D (and all roleplaying games) is that they are a time sink....
View ArticleThe Story Behind “Follow Me, And Die!”
First, it is all how you say the phrase. It should be: “Follow Me!” in a dramatic, heroic voice, with a pause, followed by “And Die!”, also in a dramatic, heroic voice. This is the way my brother mocks...
View ArticleWotC Fan Site Policy Uproar
WotC’s Fan site Policy, as many have pointed out, is actually a license. It prevents you from using some images on your site, yet if you use it, you assign all your writings over to WotC. Not a fair...
View Article“The Rancor”– A Cautionary Tale On Out-of-Character Outbursts
During a long series of play, we called “Dungeon Wars” (One big dungeon/cavern complex with several skirmishes and battles, and no clear winner.) The DM described a creature, later learned to be an...
View ArticlePoint Crawl-Like Session Planning
I tried something new with session planning for the last few sessions of my Sunday AD&D [Affiliate Link] game on Roll20. The party is traveling West across the sands of The Broken Lands. Rather...
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