“GenCon, the four one and three-quarters biggest days in gaming!” I think that’s what the line is, anyway. I used to laugh at it because when I was working GenCon, it was six days on site plus all the preceding prep time. But like last year, I got a free badge because one of my …
Micro Mechanics: DC Success Thresholds and Phased Encounters
DC Success Thresholds (5e/Shadowdark/etc): Many scenarios up the pressure by specifying something like, “The ritual can be ended with three successful DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) checks made within 5 feet of the obelisk.” What if instead of saying you need three successful checks, we give it something more akin to hit points? Let’s say the …
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D&D& Demons!
It was OSE Month over at Backerkit and the theme was demons. Demons have a weird history in D&D. BECMI excluded them almost entirely, with only some odd creatures slipping through the barrier between systems. They were famously written out of AD&D 2nd Ed in an attempt to appease unappeasable people, then written back in …
Blog Prompt Potpourri 4
Continuing with the prompts from d4 Caltrops’s d100 Table of Topics to Blog About, ever onward into the blog mines. 27 - How difficult is it to be brought back from the Dead? Is such a thing even Possible? I stuck the Scarlet Citadel under Ptolus (because, again, it says there’s a megadungeon down there …
Emergency Blogpost: A Response to the Response
Like many others, I enjoy listening to the podcast Between Two Cairns. Their analysis of adventure design is fairly astute and their camaraderie is a comfort among the onslaught of other more edgy, false-outrage content. I send in questions now and then that are inspired by the show, and one of them was answered on …
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Proving Grounds of Folkvangr 
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