Tag Archives: AD&D

Yes, I’m still running the game. They conquered the Moathouse after a third sortie where they invaded the inner sanctum of Lareth, who nearly killed them with cleverly employed Darkness and Hold spells. The tide turned when they baited Lareth…

Last Tuesday we finished the 16th session of The Hundred Millionth Day, my increasingly modified, dying earth genre AD&D 1e game that, Dear Reader, is still probably more true to the original rules than your favourite retroclone or whatever. In…

They took four days to get to the old moathouse. They were mostly uneventful, save for an encounter with a small swarm of giant ticks (they rode away on horseback) and bombardier beetles as they climbed one of the rocky…

Last time, our rogues fled from a chance encounter with a ghost. Kaith ran a different way from the rest, using his talents to climb and scramble. Aethelred soon discovered whence their lost, deadly sheep fled and led the others…

These are my translations/simplifications of the DMG’s social systems — the ones I use in The Hundred Millionth Day game. I basically converted these to a d20 from d%, made a few implied things explicit and matched up tables that…

In many countries, a passive lay public heeds a bureaucracy of professional spiritual masters. As a priest I can’t completely object to this system, but here in the mountains righteous beings heed the Great Peace; we keep shrines close, pray…

Last session saw the defeat of Sneer, half-orc bandit chief and assassin, sub-director of some sinister alliance between failed adventurers and powers deeper in the Rock. The party slaw Sneer and his sorcerer, but captured a priest of Xasu Nazarist,…

They killed the riders sent to avenge their ambush on the bandit fortress. After that, they disposed of the bodies via dead fall and began a slow circle back to the enemy’s ancient citadel. After killing sixteen enemies they were…