Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Village of Hommlet is Too Much: Minimalist Location Sketches for Sandbox Prep

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Something I often struggle with when creating a sandbox is the level of detail to give to each location, and at what point in the process to...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Discovering NPC personality traits, bonds, ideals, flaws, and secrets (TBIFS) in D&D 5e

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Here's one that came to me when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't get back to sleep.  I've written before about ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Dead Gods Waiting to be Reborn: Ruined Shrines and the Syncretist Cleric in AD&D

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The AD&D wilderness inhabitation tables have infected my mind . They have wormed their way in , forcing me to make sandboxes I may neve...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Clerics Need Spellbooks Too

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This post is part of the papal conclave Blog Bandwagon/Blogclave . As the world turns its gaze towards the Vatican, the blogosphere turns it...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Review: Mörk Borg Miscellany (Bloat, Devil's Tomb, the Hexed Gauntlet of Kagel-Secht, and Nurse the Rot)

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What follows is a collection of reviews of four short adventures for Mörk Borg. Spoilers abound beyond this point. Bloat Bloat is a "A ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

The 100-Hex Sandbox

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As you've probably noticed, I've been spending some time using the tables found in Appendix B of the AD&D 1e DMG to populate m...
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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Using Reaction Rolls to Determine Faction Relationships in the Sandbox

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I wanted to do a quick demonstration of how I use reaction rolls to determine the nature of relationships between factions in a sandbox camp...
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