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Month: August 2011
Piercer, I hardly even knew her
Let’s talk about a classic D&D monster: the piercer. For those who don’t know (c’mon, go get your monster manual out), this is a monster
More on Cleric Spells
Based on yesterday’s poll, I decided to actually compare side-by-side the OD&D magic-user spell progression and the Labyrinth Lord cleric spell progression up to level
Clerical Spell Progression
Earlier in the week I looked at the spell progression for magic-users across OD&D (O), B/X D&D (B), and AD&D 1e (A). Today, I thought
Spells Through the Ages: Spell Progression
OK, this isn’t really a normal Spells Through the Ages. I was looking at the pre-generated characters in the A-series modules and thinking about how
Tournament Modules – A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity
As mentioned in my first GenCon post, I got to play a session of A1: Slave Pits of the Undercity this year, and later A4:
More Gygaxian Wisdom
Here’s a nice bit I discovered in Cheers Gary which I wanted to expound upon: [I] have observed the coddled state of many new gamers
Cheers Gary
While at GenCon this year, I made a donation to the Gygax Memorial Fund, and received a copy of a Cheers, Gary, a book that
GenCon Auction
OK, finally the promised auction post. I spent a lot of time at the auction this year. I only really discovered how great it is
GenCon Numbers
The wikipedia article on GenCon includes the following chart showing growth of attendance over time: This year is not plotted on that chart, but assuming