The Kompanions explore the tower of the Chatelaine of Hablok. In the cellars below the tower, they find great treasures and great dangers.
A Technique for Avoiding Cliche
Here's a simple technique that may help you to avoid cliche and create stories with interesting details.
Great Game Masters Don’t Tell the Player Character’s Story
As a game master, you don't have to be a highly skilled story teller to get a good story out of your game.
Lesson Learned: Strict Time Records are Crucial In High Level Original D&D
YOU CAN NOT HAVE A MEANINGFUL CAMPAIGN IF STRICT TIME RECORDS ARE NOT KEPT.” Advanced Dungeon Master’s Guide Gary Gygax Recently, I have become horribly disorganized and aware of time passage of my campaign in a only a coarse way. I think, we are 3 1/2 years from the beginning of the campaign, somewhere close to …
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Evil Is An Option
In my last few campaigns, I've either eliminated alignment or used the Law-Neutral-Chaos spectrum rather than nine fold alignment system. I began creating my current campaign with a quote from Joseph Brodsky firmly planted in my mind, "“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse.” Thus, …
The Ruins of Hablok:Game Report #25
While Akbar continued his studies within his tower, Stilgar and Rexor took Einar on a trip to Hablok to check on some information they had heard. Hablok had been destroyed by a Chaos storm* that had absolutely nothing to do with the reforging of the Shadow Staff. The fact that the storm came within moments …
That Old Thing?: Game Report #24
The Kompanions of Kalador, determined to loot the massive pile of treasure at the center of Nightside decided to spend some time looking through the tomes they had acquired from Laski. Laski was the the keeper of the records of The Porters of Gideon. The Porters were a knightly order formed to protect the realm …
