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Rob just announced that he is releasing a few great new products. Among them, an essay detailing dungeon crafting in the early campaigns, including Greyhawk Castle among others, as a learning tool for DM's:

"Within that context, Ramsey Dow and myself have concluded that a treatise—an in depth essay—on dungeon-crafting in its many facets should be of interest, so we are gathering notes to add to my already 10,000+ word MS which describes the creation of Greyhawk™ Castle, Castle El Raja Key and M… Continue

I was one of probably 40000 bloggers given a free review copy of KQ 11 a couple weeks ago. I've seen it before, both in paper and pdf, and I like it. It's very reminiscent in style to the older Dragon magazines of a couple decades ago. The articles are very informative and interesting, covering both 3.x/PF and 4.0. One article from Monte Cook in particular stood out. What I liked the most was the ads though. The one from Planet Stories stood out as pretty neat, with a retro look as befits the li… Continue

It was fun. I actually DM'd the group in my modified 3.x adventure Red Hand of Doom, as a trial run for the Con I will be running it at. They didn't know it was coming, expecting the Bard campaign.

Players were my brother and a friend who also hadn't played AD&D in over 20 years, and one guy who never played D&D at all until 3.0 a few years ago. I had copies of the DMG and PHB for all. We hadn't expected the new guy to show, which is why I thought it would be a good night to spring the… Continue

Since Friday's AD&D game (my first in over 20 yrs.) I've been thinking about racial limits to class and levels. When later editions came out, I remember thinking cool, they got rid of that. It never made any sense. Now, looking back, I think it made sense from a certain perspective. After getting back into the literary roots of the game, and reading a bit about where certain aspects of the game came from, I think I get and appreciate the class and level limits a bit better.

Basically, the b… Continue