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dagger run dagger run monday april 25 2011 moldvay basic in a possible attempt to capture my youth i have started to purchase old d d rules my last conquest was a decent copy of the moldvay basic set rulebook b2 and even the box i had never owned this set having started with mentzer which places me at being 10 years old when i started to play i had had considerable fun with b2 however and subsequently the 25th anniversary return to the keep on the borderlands i lovingly opened the box the hole punched side immediately caught my attention as i could not see through there must be a piece of paper there i first assumed that it was an invoice for the order but was pleasantly surprised by this i have always scowled at the power gamer i really do enjoy playing and dming a game where the dice are a contributing factor to the outcome rather than an annoyance on a natural 1 i still struggle to this day with taking 10 if just because there are no dice rolled i hate when i hear the words character build dump stat level dip point buy and any of a hundred other words that exist in the modern metagame vernacular but borg touched my heart i wonder when this guy was created and for what even though i know the rules where not really looked at in the making was the player amped about playing and then got sorely disappointed because he found nobody to play with the lack of erasure marks speaks volumes to me when i look over items i bought for the game and never used from time to time i look at notes i took about adventure ideas or maps i created and wish i had the time to play them all looking at the sheet i see someone who wanted to win maybe at this point he hadn t seen where there are no winners or losers in d d i see someone who was afraid of the dungeon and inflated the numbers so that they didn t need to be frightened i am sad that no equipment was purchased but can almost hear the guy who was going to be dm say don t buy any equipment we will do that when you start to play i see a kid that chose to be neutral and know that chaotic was likely not an option because the dm said so i am very glad that i had a chance to see this i m glad that whoever has owned this in the past didn t throw this out posted by bguinan at 10 40 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 20 2011 trolls he was perhaps eight feet tall perhaps more his forward stoop with arms dangling past thick claw footed legs to the ground made it hard to tell the hairless green skin moved upon his body his head was a gash of a mouth a yard long nose and two eyes which were black pools without pupil or white eyes which drank the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam three hearts and three lions poul anderson this truly must be where the d d troll came from during the fight the regenerative qualities of the monster are described and finally they figure out how to kill him i have finished this book first of the appendix n books that i have read besides tolkien first in the list of appendix n books overall i enjoyed the book and can see how it had an impact on the creators of the game i wonder what d d would be like if all designers were required to read appendix n in order to get a job posted by bguinan at 11 06 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 18 2011 geas verisimilitude and adventure reasons wow three hearts and three lions really delivers in chapter 17 the geas spell although like much of d d this has origin in mythology gaelic is this ones origin which makes a lot of sense taking the whole of the novel real neat to see it used outside of d d i could not learn your identity sir holger a geas has been laid on every being which might have told me verisimilitude another strange word that i learned from d d never seen it outside of d d but here it is it is often spoken of when talking about setting design here is some information for those who want it advertising martinus admitted corroborative detail intended to lend artistic verisimilitude adventure reasons this fellow makes a good point and then lays out a few different things that holger could be doing up north this could be re tooled as a statement of rumors for an adventure area if you wish to preserve the secret of your goal leave not quite so much room for speculation tongues will wag more when no firm facts bind them thus some folk will guess you intend a knightly exploit like slaying one of the trolls which infest yonder uplands often as i ve heard stealing humans to eat though the local people with whom i ve chatted maintain such trolls are unkillable then again other folk will insist that sir rupert went to beard the king of the heathen but the peasant mind being what tis most will believe you seek a treasure of gold buried somewhere there posted by bguinan at 5 12 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday april 15 2011 invisible servants a bottle and three dirty goblets floated in and landed on the table about time grumbled the sorcerer after a moment when the invisible servant had presumably left he went on i declare there is no decent help to be had these days three hearts and three lions poul anderson that is a classic d d image the spell would be seen by many as a waste but having it to use was very wizardly it allowed for actions outside of combat it showed in it s simplicity that there is more to d d than killing things posted by bguinan at 2 21 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 9 2011 silver cords yasmina again that far weirdly dreeing cry from realms immeasurable aid me i am far from my mortal house wizards have drawn my soul through the wind blown darkness they seek to snap the silver cord that binds me to my dying body they cluster around me their hands are taloned their eyes are red like flame burning in darkness aie save me my sister their fingers sear me like fire they would slay my body and damn my soul what is this they bring before me aie the people of the black circle robert e howard outside of d d this is the first time i have seen mention of a silver cord what is neat here is that he is communicating to a devi which i assume is a holy woman however it is a hindu word this information which she hears as faint and far away idea for adventure a king has been cursed by evil sorcery while still alive he is trapped on the astral plane the characters must brave the astral plane and find him all of the information they have is in cryptic dream like fragments spoken by the king and translated by his close advisor an obvious twist would be the the advisor is part of the problem and has given them false information maybe from some grudge on the characters or maybe the advisor wants some astral being defeated posted by bguinan at 3 25 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday april 8 2011 hex crawl map redo well something just seemed plain with the last version so i added some town symbols and such and changed some of the symbols also started on hex 0906 in detail not happy with the effects on the borders so i will likely make some changes the scale here is each small hex is 1 2 mile and the large hex is 6 miles or at least that s the scale i m using enjoy posted by bguinan at 8 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 31 2011 hex crawl map i have been reading about hex crawls the only one i can remember doing that was specifically a hex crawl was the isle of dread i played it with my friend bob i would like to do this again so i have started to work on maps for the hex crawl i think i will use the following as the main map going deeper into each hex as the need arises maybe this is what i will use if i play the dcc rpg anyway feel free to use this in your personal games posted by bguinan at 10 50 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2011 10 april 6 moldvay basic trolls geas verisimilitude and adventure reasons invisible servants silver cords hex crawl map redo march 4 about me bguinan i am a 46 year old gamer who loves the aspect of world design mapping and character development through play rather than by splat book view my complete profile awesome inc theme powered by blogger