Author: Jason D. Wood
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AD&D: Embrace the Imbalance
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AD&D is imbalanced. There, I said it. The classes are imbalanced. The races are imbalanced. Many of the monsters feel imbalanced. Everything about the game reeks of imbalance. But is…
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Budget-Friendly Nostalgia: Miniatures
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This is the third post in a series on responsible and affordable AD&D shopping. It was one of the scenes with the greatest foreshadowing in “Stranger Things”: when Mike slammed down the…
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The Mad Cleric Needs Your Help!
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This blog is for you. I write and podcast week-in and week-out to benefit your gaming and, thereby, your life. So I want to know how I can help you…
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Do Not Read This Blog!
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Seriously, don’t do it! Well, OK, you can read this particular post. But I’m getting at a much larger issue, which is: for whic readers is MadCleric.com, this blog, intended?…
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Satanic Panic
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The topic has come up in almost every Chasing the Dragon podcast we’ve had: Satanic panic. That period in the eighties when good, virtuous mothers and churchgoers were warned against…
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CtD Podcast, Episode 6: Murder Hobos
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Subscribe to the CtD podcast on iTunes! For our sixth episode, I sat down with gamer and industry insider, T.R. Knight to talk about the rules for XP in AD&D. …
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Budget-Friendly Nostalgia: AD&D Books
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This is the second post in a series on responsible and affordable AD&D shopping. So we’ve talked about the nostalgia of tactile gaming. You’ve got your new dice on the…
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Seeking a Quest in Hommlet
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And we’re off! Session 1 of Chasing the Dragon is on the books. My home group began playing T1 – The Village of Hommlet. As I’ve said about the module…
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Budget-Friendly Nostalgia: DM Screen and Dice
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If you haven’t figured it out already, I’m really trying to experience the nostalgia of playing AD&D. But as you know, nostalgia ain’t always cheap. There are whole industries rooted…
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Gygax’s AD&D Modules
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So we all know who Gary Gygax was. We know that he wrote the core rulebooks for 1e AD&D. But what about the modules? After all, that’s the goal of…