Monthly Archives: August 2010

Last session, monk Arisha was severely wounded in a fight with an armoured orc. After killing it, the adventurers dealt with turncoat bandits, cutting two down to the brink of death as they struggled against Quareth’s Entangle spell. The last…

After session 1, the party decided to climb a cliff to avoid another encounter (the winter wolf left them a bit paranoid). Arisha free-climbed up, let a rope down and helped the party up to bed. After three fitful watches…

So now we come to the first major rules revision of my AD&D game. During session 1 I used a number of old-style ability score checks — roll 1d20 and get at or under the ability score — except for…

What the hell. I normally don’t to Actual Capitalized Play for reasons I’ve stated many times and places, but I figure I’ll do it now to keep a rough narrative record to jog my memory. So:

Each of them came…

Sages divide human history into five aeons. The Prehuman Aeon is a theoretical era, when our nonsapient forebears blundered through nature’s trials to give birth to their betters – to us, the autochthons, evolved humanity! Next: the Primitive Aeon, which…

So, I love the D&D Gazetteers. One of the worst mistakes I made with my gaming collection was to get rid of all of them except for Ken Rolston’s amazing pseudo-Viking Northern Reaches sourcebook. I took this out yesterday and…

It is the hundred millionth day of humanity — of the speaking, dreaming root people of Earth. Over 200 centuries have passed since men and women investigated the atom, sailed the Void in metal shells or began the first, simplest…