Dreaming Amon-Gorloth

Three Daggers for Protection

After sharing “A Dagger for Protection” in the D&D Basic Set (Holmes) Facebook group, an exchange of ideas with old-school […]

This is a follow-up article to “Progressive Dice for Effects Durations,” in which I propose a method to roll each

“Magic-users — humans who elect to become magic-users must not wear armor and can carry only a dagger for protection”

In the first foray into the Deep Halls, Melqart is stunned by the defensive explosions of scarab beetles. The effect

Watching one of Dyson Logos’s time-lapse videos is mesmerizing. Finger tips squeeze close to nib. Black ink trails as the

Urgent cries in distant dark. Dying echoes, fading into empty space. A spark—a flash of light, flickering orange. Columns rise

Not the film, we’re still talking about the game show. Sometimes experienced players grow weary of the low-level slog. We’d

Wandering monsters are a DM’s best friend. They are indispensable to old-school D&D game play. By draining the party’s resources

In “Vertical Scale,” we consider stairs which incline at angles greater than 45 degrees. At the DM’s disgression, such steepness

Grand Entry Hall — Front Elevation. In “Channeling Amon-Gorloth,” we defined a “hall” as “any space two or more squares