A Better Monster Manual

And that, is an Aarokocra.  The first creature in a standard monster manual, sorted alphabetically. No I’m not doing some silly alphabet book or even planning on posting about random monsters. Although that would certainly alleviate some of the lack of activity going on here. There are certain occasions where I have a bolt of…

Another Quicksheet!

I must be in the mood for staring at spreadsheets for some reason. Well, it’s linked on the Campaign Resources page, or here I guess. There’s quite a few differences in pulling all of the Divine spells into a quicksheet vs doing the Arcane spells. First off, I condensed a bunch of the domains a…

2e Arcane Spells Quicksheet

Two posts in a week, I must be feeling generous or something. Maybe it’s just my annual hibernation through the winter months. This is of course just one of the many things I’ve been silently working on in the background, and now that it’s more-or-less finished I can share it with random wanderers of the…

D&D Classic PHB

Run a game long enough, and the list of house rules becomes terribly unwieldy. A good DM will know better and try to categorize a vast number of things onto quicksheets so they can make common rulings instead of trying to remember that odd ruling from weeks/months ago. Over the years I’ve watched the game…

Removing THAC0

If there were one thing in particular that I could say is keeping people from joining my game, it would be the general combat system revolving around THAC0. When 3rd edition hit more years ago that I want to count, it killed THAC0, and the people rejoiced. Although I think in general the spirit of…

Class Overview

I’ve been doing some work on the Campaign Resources page as more of the classes are being specifically defined, but I wanted to get something out today that gives a brief 2-3 sentence overview of them. Several of the classes have been added as links to the google drive, and eventually I’ll get around to…

Determining Starting Spells

How do? Personally I’ve had several different ways to do this over the years. I’ve run games where I just gave players full access to the spells in the PHB, a long time ago when I was younger an silly. It did help us all to learn the spells however, so that was nice. In…

Changing The Way You Crit

This is one of the recent changes that I’ve made to my campaign that just plain works well and makes sense. The way we used to crit in D&D was based on the natural 20 roll, and dealt double damage. That’s just how we’ve always done it. 20 hits anything, always does double damage. It…

2e Priest Spells by Sphere

I’ve been spending a lot of time getting the magic in my system working in a manner that makes your choices of spells matter and influence your future actions. I did have a little rant about this quite a while ago, and I think I’ve finalized the last of the major changes I wanted to…

Cleric of Tyr Domain Based Spell List

Excellent. This is the example of what I’ve been looking for as far as getting a full list of spells using specific domains or spheres for a Cleric. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for, and I wish there were an easier way to get things formatted into place when I find other spell…