In the earliest versions of D&D, the playable humanoid races of elf, halfling and dwarf didn't have a race+class categorization. There wasn't an option to play a dwarf cleric or a halfling magic user. You played a dwarf (fighter), an elf (fighter/magic user) or halfling (fighter sort of?). In AD&D the humanoid races had limitations …
Author: Travis Miller
Travis writes, games and blogs.
Bone, Stone & Obsidian Podcast
I've been listening to some of the interviews on the Bone, Stone & Obsidian podcast about the Dark Sun setting. The most interesting of those has been the interview with Troy Denning. He was one of the designers who built the original setting and wrote the Prism Pentad novels shaped the setting to a great degree. What …
Solstice in My Campaign
Happy Litha, Beltane... solstice. The mead has me thinking about how I've been doing a more "realistic" paganism in my game. One of the things is sacrifice. In my setting sacrifice matters. There are various cycles of sacrifice that the are required to appease the gods and ancestral spirits. If they are not performed properly...bad …
I Don’t Know. I Don’t Care.
Here's how I run my Swords and Wizardry campaign. I don't know how any of it turns out. I don't care what direction the players decide to go. In practical terms, here's how that works. I created a map. I created a rough history of the setting, a Yes/No list of what was in it, …
Dark Ambient Music
One of the great things about the internet is that I've learned about music genres that are niche and very interesting. Back in the olden days... we had to go to the music store and get recommendations from the clerk, hear something new on a mix tape a friend made or read about it in …
How The Internet Works
A click bait title. I know. Here's my thesis. If you get this next bit then you can skip the rest of the post. The internet does an amazing job of making a small group of people seem far more influential and important than they really are off the internet. The enthusiast is a very …
In a World…
I went about half way through a creative writing BFA program. It was wasted on me. It was not wholly a waste of money and time, I learned some important lessons. I learned that I loath literary fiction. The professors who teach it and the people who read only literary fiction will tell you that …
Grumpy Wizard 
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