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Past Posts

• ▼ 2013 (15)
  • ► March (6)
  • • Inspiration
    • Just Make a Game
    • Best Panel Ever
    • TotalCon
    • Announcing Road of Kings
    • Total Confusion? More Like Total Exhaustion
  • ► February (3)
  • • Dilemma Solved
    • Developer's Dilemma
    • Tricks Up Your Sleeve
  • ► January (6)
  • • Hints of Things to Come
    • TotalCon: Last Minute
    • A Little D&D News
    • 401, k?
    • Audible
    • Happy New Year
• ► 2012 (42)
  • ► August (7)
  • • Convention Attendance Continues to Increase
    • GenCon Saturday
    • GenCon Friday
    • GenCon Thursday
    • GenCon Report
    • GenCon Sunday
    • Eldritch Entertainment
  • ► July (2)
  • • GenCon Game: Back to Basics
    • Gaming Post-38
  • ► June (1)
  • • My Last Day
  • ► May (3)
  • • News Worth Reporting
    • GenCon Game
    • Sandbox Win
  • ► April (5)
  • • Rivers in the Barbarian Prince
    • HelgaCon Saturday
    • Hex Crawl Follow-Up
    • Hex Crawlin'
    • HelgaCon 5
  • ► March (3)
  • • Less Stuff
    • D&D At the Movies
    • GenCon Games
  • ► February (6)
  • • Thoughts on the Slave Lords
    • You Win This Round TotalCon
    • Pre-Con Thoughts
    • My New Valet
    • AD&D Open - 1980
    • OSR Products You Should Own
  • ► January (15)
  • • GenCon Hotels
    • A1 Sewers in Pictures
    • Fighting Shoulder to Shoulder
    • Increased Complexity in D&D
    • More Good News from Wizards
    • Frank Mentzer is Reading My Mind
    • Convention Games Follow-up
    • Gateway to Adventure
    • Gamer Culture
    • Convention Games
    • AD&D 1e Reprint
    • The Siege of Bridgefaire
    • Number 5 is Not Alive
    • Book of War
    • Limb Loss
• ► 2011 (91)
  • ► December (6)
  • • My New Book
    • Oozes through the Ages: Gray Ooze
    • Physical Artifacts
    • Mysterious Magic and Monsters
    • Spells Through The Ages: Clairvoyance
    • My Personal Gaming History
  • ► November (10)
  • • Turning Through the Ages
    • B/X Changelist
    • Improvisational DMing
    • Crazy Gaming Week
    • Scores of the Slave Lords
    • Take That, Slavers
    • B/X vs. Labyrinth Lord: Weapons
    • Game Room Nears Completion
    • Hidden Chambers
    • On Learning New Spells
  • ► October (5)
  • • 10' Poles Through the Ages
    • Kidnapped by the Barbarian Prince
    • Module Review - WG4: The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun
    • Gygaxian Naturalism
    • Tournament Modules - S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
  • ► September (13)
  • • Editorials by Gygax
    • Book of War
    • Modules from Amazon
    • Dungeon D'enouement
    • Elfin Chain Follow-Up
    • Elfin Chain
    • Tournament Modules - A4: In the Dungeons of the Slave Lords
    • Gygax on Improv
    • Tournament Modules - A3: Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords
    • Tournament Modules - A2: Secret of the Slaver's Stockade
    • Play by Internet
    • Noobs
    • Set Dressing and Random Rolls
  • ► August (16)
  • • Of Trees And Servers
    • Piercer, I hardly even knew her
    • More on Cleric Spells
    • Clerical Spell Progression
    • Spells Through the Ages: Spell Progression
    • Tournament Modules - A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity
    • More Gygaxian Wisdom
    • Cheers Gary
    • GenCon Auction
    • GenCon Numbers
    • GenCon Wrap-Up
    • GenCon Report - Part 3
    • GenCon Report - Part 2
    • GenCon Report - Part 1
    • GenCon Rumors
    • GenCon Eve
  • ► June (3)
  • • More Convention Details from The Dragon
    • The Ghost of GenCon Past
    • The Dragon
  • ► May (3)
  • • My Campaign Goes High-Tech
    • Rebirth of my Campaign
    • On Themes of Exploration
  • ► April (11)
  • • Condolences
    • Treasure Hall
    • Into the Silver Age
    • HelgaCon: Into the Forgotten Realms
    • HelgaCon: The Fallen Obelisk
    • HelgaCon: Warhammer FRPG
    • Improved Website
    • HelgaCon: Book of War
    • HelgaCon - G2 The Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl
    • Medieval Mice
    • HelgaCon Highlights
  • ► March (10)
  • • HelgaCon, Here We Come
    • DungeonMorph Dice
    • Happy Birthday Eric
    • Getting Ready to Sell
    • Warhammer RPGs
    • More Polls
    • Polls from WotC
    • Spells Through the Ages: Neutralize Poison
    • Co-opting Player Ideas
    • Mr. Jokey and the Interesting Guy
  • ► February (8)
  • • Home Again, Home Again
    • TPK 2 - Poking the Tiger
    • TPK
    • Who Needs Sleep?
    • TotalCon
    • Expanded B/X Encumbrance Chart
    • Encumberance in B/X
    • The Thaw
  • ► January (6)
  • • Change
    • Two Bits of News
    • I don't scratch my ear like this
    • I Search for...
    • Conventions in 2011
    • Collectorism
• ► 2010 (96)
  • ► December (2)
  • • High Speed D&D
    • Dwarven Forge
  • ► November (11)
  • • Stocking the Dungeon
    • Spell Interruption By the Book
    • Spells Through the Ages: Cure Light Wounds
    • Zombie Apocalypse Game
    • Palace of the Vampire Queen
    • Casting in Combat
    • Goldilocks Syndrome
    • Oxford
    • Skipton Castle
    • City of York
    • Cawood Castle
  • ► October (7)
  • • OSR Presence Grows at Conventions
    • Tower of London
    • Harrod's
    • English Churches
    • British Museum
    • And We're Back
    • Guess Where I Am
  • ► September (10)
  • • I'm a Traveling Man
    • B/X Character Sheets
    • The Digital DM
    • The Smell of D&D
    • Battle Board and Magnetism
    • More Little Men, 10mm to be precise
    • Patchwork Campaign Settings
    • Introductions
    • Book of War: The Battle of Restenford
    • Little Men
  • ► August (17)
  • • Gaming Lit
    • How Important is XP?
    • Oldschool Outside the Box
    • Convention Games
    • Bring Out Your Dead
    • Miniature Madness
    • GenCon: D12 Fantasy and Sunday Wrap-up
    • GenCon: Auction
    • GenCon: Costume Parade
    • GenCon: Tunnels and Trolls
    • GenCon: The Other Labyrinth Lord Game
    • GenCon: The Exhibit Hall
    • GenCon: Warhammer FRPG
    • GenCon: My Game
    • GenCon - Speed Painting
    • GenCon AD&D Tournament
    • Doubly Old School
  • ► July (8)
  • • Making Magic Items Magic
    • Group Initiative and Interrupted Spellcasting
    • GenCon 2010 Schedule
    • GenCon 2010: the Anticipation
    • Thinking Like a Monster
    • Run Away!
    • Time-travelingest Weekend Ever
    • Thank God for Facebook
  • ► June (2)
  • • On Improv...
    • About Fudging...
  • ► May (6)
  • • I'll Take Pleasure in Guttin You, Boy
    • He's an Egyptian!
    • Helga's Heroes: a History, Part II
    • Helga's Heroes: a History
    • Observations from the Front
    • Save vs. Secret Doors
  • ► April (11)
  • • Money Conversion
    • The Joy of DMing
    • Little Red Books
    • Spells Through the Ages: Detect Evil
    • I May Already be a Winner!
    • To the Rescue!
    • Silence
    • HelgaCon III
    • PA and the Old School
    • GenCon Scheduling Sucks
    • GenCon D&D Breakdown
  • ► March (6)
  • • Geomorphs
    • Organic Character Creation
    • Lead-Ups
    • I Can Just Barely See You
    • Other People's Material
    • Technology in My Game
  • ► February (13)
  • • D&D and Technology
    • One Page Dungeon Contest
    • Melchior the Mad
    • Old School Play
    • Frank's Games
    • Con-fusion
    • Little Men
    • Awesome Session
    • TempleCon
    • Reducing the Deadliness of D&D
    • Other D&D Boxed Sets
    • A New Red Box
    • Labyrinth Lord Campaign 2010
  • ► January (3)
  • • Almost There
    • Christmas Photos
    • ...and in with the New