Cave of the Dice Chucker

Jack, circa 1953. Thanks to Claw Carver --just hired on as the casting director of "Shakeshaft: the Series"--for pointing out ...

I haven't had much time for blogging lately because I've been working on a script for a tv series based on the adventures of Ned Sha...

So the gang was rolling up new characters the other day--quite probably several months ago by the time I finally get around to posting this-...

I'm guessing it's the weather--the gloom and rain have chased the sun far, far away leaving the denizens of this fair burg wondering...

Sorry New Hampshire, your craggly old man is still absent from his mountaintop perch.  I'm talking, of course, about the "old man...

All right, I'm going to skip over levels 10-14 until such time as I can find a reason to chat about the terms Expert, Senior, Chief, Pri...

So the inspiration of this here string of posts on the AD&D Assassin class level titles is finally at hand; we've reached the eponym...

It's been more than 2 weeks now since my last entry on the assassin level titles, and--despite the fact that at least one person has con...

Despite the fact that no one gives a rat's ass, I continue to nibble away at the AD&D Assassin class level titles one by one, week b...

So we're up to Level 5: Thug.  To research today's post, rather than read up on the cult of Thuggee that plagued travelers in India ...

"Congratulations my son, your latest accomplishment has merited advancement to the 4th level of assassinry," says the Guildmaster,...

Waghalter: one likely to be hanged (obs.)  As in they will wag (like a dogs tail) from a halter (noose).  Kinda' grisly, eh? Actually,...

Devoid of the context of D&D, I might have guessed that a rutterkin is either the object or the outcome of hillbilly love.  It seems hig...

Herein I shall, in serial fashion, scatter random thoughts on the level titles of the Lethalist class. Assassin Level 1--Bravo. As we al...