Against The Wicked City

Second in a series of three 1d10 encounter tables, one for each of the three biomes that my PCs have been most active in recently. This post...

 A year ago I posted tables of  72 encounters from the City of Spires , as a convenient means of recycling material from my ongoing campaign...

In yesterday's game, one PC was rescued from captivity by the party, but not before undergoing some pretty severe torture. This presente...

You know what makes for good drama? Unequal power relations! You know what makes for even better drama? Power relations that are not what th...

I've been running OSR D&D more-or-less weekly for over five years, now, with a heavy focus on exploration, problem-solving, and dipl...

I've always thought that Aeolus's bag of wind from The Odyssey would be a great item for a D&D campaign. It's a bag with a w...

There's a legend about the Battle of Brunanburh, at which King Aethelstan confronted the allied kings of Scotland, Dublin, and Strathcly...

I've written before about the dangers of simply doubling down on the same ideas  ad infinitum,  leading to extremely one-note characters...