Category: AD&D Blog
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How to beat Gary Gygax
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This post will likely be the first of a few post-mortem reflections on T1: The Village of Hommlet, as my local gaming group just completed our tenth and final session…
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How to not ruin your RPG session
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You know what ruins an RPG session? When the rulebooks get opened up. You know what ruins it the most? When the GM is the one opening the book. While…
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Breathe life into that boring dungeon crawl!
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They call it a dungeon grind. Not a dungeon frolic, a dungeon jaunt, or even a dungeon struggle. It’s a grind. It’s a slog. An encounter-by-encounter, gear-grinding endeavor that makes…
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Secrets Soon to Be Revealed
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The holidays are upon us here in the United States, which means family visits, time off work, and…you guessed it…gaming! But there’s something more going on beneath the surface. A…
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How gamers can become readers…which they should!
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Reading is an absolute necessity for creators. And that applies to Game Masters and game players as much as it does to any other creative! But if you’re like me,…
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Should game masters threaten player characters?
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It appears that I struck a real chord with Tuesday’s article on player character death. Why did so many GMs and players respond so passionately to my post? Because players sometimes…
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Should player character death be a possibility?
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Many of you have been writing and tweeting, asking how the Chasing the Dragon project is going. Well, we’re five sessions into The Village of Hommlet and we’ve got two…
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Learning from Gary Gygax: Consistency
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Reading is one of the best things any gamer can do. Especially GMs. It’s hard to be creative in output, when you’re not taking in creative input. Every night when…
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Get your game on the table!
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What’s that over there on your shelf? You know, the dusty game you bought a while back that never seems to make it onto the table! Wait, what’s that? Nobody…
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The DMs Guide to Session Planning
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DMs, do your players always take the path of most resistance? Or are they content to sit in the local tavern for four solid hours, roleplaying and digging up so…
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Your PCs Need a Mr. Miyagi
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If you’re looking for a new game, you’ve got a problem on your hands. And the problem isn’t scarcity–no, quite the opposite! The number of tabletop games available in 2016…
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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?…