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Hyadic Ghat Review
If you’re map gets drenched and you continue to your destination anyway, you will find yourself in the Hyades, a world-between-worlds where it is constantly raining. It remains me of The Gardens of Yinn by Dying Stylishly Games. It’s just a little demi-plane you can plop into your D&D campaign, heck, it’s essentially a random…
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A Tithe of Sheep and Lamb
A common perception of dragons come’s from Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.” They are depicted as sleepy, gold-hoarders that reside in mountains. However, this is not the impression of dragons given in the ancient tale of St. George and the Dragon!
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Why Traps Belong on Random Encounter Tables
“Trap” has two meanings in OSR culture: #1 A Big Dangerous Puzzle, #2 A Sudden Punch in the Face Both the complicated puzzle traps and random-gotcha traps are fun (don’t let anyone tell you otherwise), but they can’t be used in the same way without causing frustration.
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2nd Edition Brief
All the pieces are in place. The manuscript is fully written. The itch page is built. The Kickstarter is assembled (although backerkit may be smarter, I’ll have to dig a little deeper into that). All that is left are three things in order:
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Revisiting Ranged Weapons
9/16/2022 Welcome back, Adventurers! Hey adventurers! During my stay at AIT, some fellow Riggers and I are playing Crowns. One of these soldiers mentioned that using your character’s Vitality when using a firearm (we’re testing out the black powder rules) doesn’t make a ton of sense. So, I decided to take another crack at how…
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Review: “Legend” by David Gemmell
9/16/2022 Welcome back, Adventurers! I wanted to start a new thing on the blog. I call it: OSI (Old School Inspiration). Since joining the military I’ve had a lot of time to read. Some of them are non-fictional historical epics, others are classic fantasy novels that have been really inspirational to my games recently. I’ll…
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Making New Monsters
Hey Adventurers, some people have been asking me “what are the rules for making monsters in Crowns?” So, I’m writing up this post to try to lay out a foundation for the future!
Ward Against Evil 