These Old Games

I was going to call this post, "When the players change the rules" but it isn't that at the end of the day.  I used to play in...

Facial hair is impressive,  but does not  contribute to defenses I have thrown a bunch of ad hoc rules at D&D over the years. And my fav...

Ah, the dreaded Variable Damage "option" from B/X. Variable damage mucks with so much, but I can't see any other way of having...

I'm working on revamping my offerings on DriverhruRPG . What I noticed is I don't list my house rules which change a fair bit of how...

To the left is one of my favorite colognes, called Perversion. My other favorite is called Villain. However, at the game table, I hate being...

Magic swords and other weapons are special in my campaigns. In my last post on magic swords, I wrote about allowing silver weapons to count ...

Magic swords are special in my campaigns. In the various rule sets +1 swords are denoted as special, but aren't the first magic weapon t...

I love my characters, but a lot of times they come up with some odd choices. Backpacks are one of my favorite sources of amusement. I real...

When I created 3 new ships, I did so without access to e036. I was working from memory. So, let's rewrite the whole scenario using my ho...

In AD&D, movement is not real clear. On page 39, of the PHB distance is covered. 1" is 10 yards outside or 10 feet inside. Ah, easy...

The other day, I had a game session that featured an awful lot of archery. Bow fire in this campaign turns out to be very deadly. It probabl...

I never let my characters have a skill called "horsemanship", "swimming" or "first aid". Know why? Killing ...

Lately, I have listening to a bunch of different podcasts, new and old stuff. One 'cast that stands out to me is The Red Dice Diaries ...

For years, I battled my players on Magic Users and Illusionist. No one would play them because at low level, they can't survive combat...

Rules Cyclopedia is on sale at DriveThruRPG. This game was published back in 1991, long after I had abandoned my Basic D&D campaign. ...