An Example Of Creative Spell Use
Back in college, one of my room mates was DM for an established group. I was allowed to play and run a “version” of my character from my Brother Robert’s game. I couldn’t take the XP from his game and...
View ArticleMetamorphosis Alpha at UCon
I just submitted an event to run a session of Metamorphosis Alpha at UCon in November. If you don’t plan to attend UCon, I am trying to get some play testers to make sure my planned content flows and...
View ArticleWednesday Night AD&D on Roll20- Session Write Ups
John, the DM of the Wednesday night AD&D game I play in on Roll20 has added the first of the players session write-ups with DM commentary. As the player who wrote the first session, I am surprised...
View ArticlePrepping and Running Games Saves Money
I have found that in the last few weeks as I prepare a Metamorphosis Alpha scenario to run at UCon, play test it online with two different groups, and end up with a weekly Saturday game and bi-weekly...
View ArticleUCON – Day 0
+Tim Snider of Savage Afterworld uses the nomenclature of Day 0, Day 1, etc when he writes about his attendance at conventions. So in the spirit of the OSR, I’ll use that idea too! After only going to...
View ArticlePage Number Notation For Spells
I read somewhere a good suggestion to not the page number of spells for each spell a spell casting character uses. In AD&D, to save space, the magic-user spells refer to the earlier cleric or druid...
View ArticleAD&D With A First Time DM
I have mentioned a few times on this blog that I play in a weekly Wednesday night AD&D game on Roll20. We played session 96 last week, and session 97 next week. The 2nd anniversary of the campaign...
View ArticleJohn Carlson – An Email Interview – 100 Sessions DMing AD&D on Roll20
I play in a weekly AD&D online game on Roll20. I have mentioned this before, most recently a couple of weeks ago when we hit session 100 and two years of play. Our DM, +John Carlson writes the...
View ArticleMini Review – Automata Run Amok by John Carlson
As I have mentioned multiple times here on the blog, I am in a weekly Wednesday night AD&D [Aff] campaign, Graveyard of Empires, on Roll20. We hit session 132 on November 23rd. John Carlson, our...
View Article147 Consecutive Sessions
Tonight is session 147 of the Wednesday night AD&D game I play in on Roll20. We’re into our third year on the calendar too! This will be the last game in my streak of not missing a game, as I will...
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