Cave of the Dice Chucker

After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed ...

I've gone on record as an XP for GP maligner and, while I've come to accept that the principle has its merits, I still don't s...

So with all the furor over Random Wizards Troll questionnaire , I got to thinking about race as class a bit.  I'm an AD&D (and ADD) ...

So the last thing I read before I went away on a camping trip last week was 9n30's post about universal first level characters  (WARNIN...

Elves are weird.  Weirder than most players realize when they first sign up for a character of the pointy-eared persuasion.  Here are a fe...

Over the weekend I ran 10 consecutive 6-hour sessions of Horror in Emridy --my bizarro-Hommlet mega-doom adventure--at Marathon-Dice-Chuck-a...

Hopping on the ol' starting equipment bandwagon kicked off by Zenopolis Archives the other day, I decided to toss my two cents on the h...

Here's what I'm contemplating for my new, improved* parrying rules. If a player wants to parry an attacker's blow, the defender ...

In my eternal quest to eliminate bookkeeping from the gaming table, I will now turn my attention to magic wands and such. Here's the d...

Susan Richards goes unnoticed while on the prowl. So there's been a lot of discussion of dissociative rules and all that Crap lat...

How much will it cost to make me smarter? In my AD&D-ish game, characters roll 3d6 seven times in order for their abilities, the 7th...

It has always bothered me that the level title for a first level fighter is “Veteran” considering that this is exactly what a 1 st level f...

Read Magic you say? Try reading this.  Everyone who's seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer or read the Harry Potter books knows that you...