Game Gadgets & Goodies
Goodies and gadgets for running games. First up is a countdown app for "Decagone." More to come, eventually.
Infocom: A Family Trip from A to Zork
Sesame Street taught me the alphabet; Scholastic taught me to read; Infocom taught me how to play with words. Through shared and solo play, interactive fiction shaped how I read, my sense of humor, and my appreciation for imagined spaces in ways that still inform my approach to OSR play.
Solo Play, Part 1 of X
Wherein I take stock and mentally prepare to take the Solo Play plunge with a crawl through Stonehell, with the help of DM Yourself.
Under Construction?
Remember those old animated gifs that used to exist on every Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod and FortuneCity (my personal preference) sites? That's what this post is, minus the epilepsy trigger.
The Art of the Dungeons & Dragons Fantasy Game
My introduction to Dungeons & Dragons was found tucked away among my dad’s back issues of "Heavy Metal," some Rifts books, and Frazetta art books.
Orphans
I coaxed my group onto the Mothership last week for a run-through of Luke Gearing's "Orphans." It was by far the softest landing we've had in a new system, and the most fun.
Appendix N
Each of these was either foundational to my interest in the hobby, or it's something I return to often for inspiration. In short, it's stuff that I love, and with luck this list will keep growing.
The Accursed Armory
This is an ongoing list of cursed magical items, weapons and armor which players will hopefully find intriguing, and be tempted to use, despite their downsides. Magical creations gone awry, or intentional products of malign influence.