Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog . I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I like the idea of static site generators,...

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UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel bad for not taking the opportunity to...

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Wizards has made the OD&D booklets available as PDF's. Buy yours now!

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One of the questioned that troubled me in my youth: if only magic-users can create magic swords, and the creation of magic items is vastly expensive in terms of time and coin, why would there be...

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The long-awaited second volume of Stonehell dungeon is on sale now . I've played Stonehell and run it. It's a good time. It was also the first megadungeon to adapt the one page dungeon format...

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This is just a quick session recap, notable because we started a new campaign, playing fifth edition for the first time. Beth was supposed to join us, but had to cancel for baby-related reaso...

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2015/09/hidden-treasure-of-lost-ahklop-session.html

A quick lunch hour doodle. I'm trying to spend more time drawing.

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In case any of you missed it, Scott, formerly of Huge Ruined Pile, has again take up blogging again .

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2015/06/welcome-back-huge-ruined-scott.html

One appeal for me of old-school D&D is that the rules are loosely coupled. This is less true of encumbrance, movement, and wandering monster checks. The relatively tight coupling of these systems...

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2015/04/simplified-encumbrance-movement-and.html

It's not far fetched to imagine D&D might have started with a different artistic direction when we look at book covers of the period, including those from the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, Pe...

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-road-not-taken-in-d-art.html

It's been a long time since I last ran Stonehell , but on December 21st the party finally returned to those night-haunted halls. Back in 2012, I was a bit lackadaisical about campaign reports, s...

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2015/01/stonehell-risen.html

Somebody fed Puppet documentation and H.P. Lovecraft stories into a Markov chain generator to produce The Doom that Came to Puppet . This particular type of nonsense really tickles my fancy. ...

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The Lamentations of the Flame Princess store has new books available, including Zak S.'s Red & Pleasant Land . I hear it's selling quickly, so you should order soon if want one. I found that th...

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Until the middle of the sixteenth century, English church bells, like other European bells, had a variety of uses: some sacred, some secular, and many that were both. Bells called congregations ...

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Blobogix the Invasive Alien Impostor God Only a couple of players showed up for this Sunday's game, so we tried an idea I've been considering for a while. Each of us took a half hour to w...

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2014/08/blobogix.html

I haven't had a regular game in a few months, but that hasn't stopped me from tinkering with my house rules. This is an attempt to give 0e fighting-men a bit more oomph. What do you think? ...

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Check out this excellent group of infographics on death in the Iliad . I've long maintained that spears need a more prominent place in D&D.

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2014/07/death-in-iliad.html

Someone on G+ asked : "Mechanically, why were players expected to role play 'finding traps' but the X in 6 chance to find secret/hidden doors has been there since the get go?" We need to dist...

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I made some Judges Guild style numbered hex paper , broken up into four US letter size pages. The zip file includes editable Inkscape SVG's and PDF's.

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John at Dreams in the Lich House nicely articulates a framework for D&D horror . It sounds like a good plan, and I look forward to hearing more details.

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2014/07/bookmark-framework-for-d-horror.html

I combined and expanded the indices for Moldvay Basic and Marsh/Cook Expert. Here's the B/X Index PDF (and the LaTeX file ).

http://quicklyquietlycarefully.blogspot.com/2014/06/bx-combined-and-expanded-index.html

(This is a follow-up to my previous post on the topic. To see all the examples in a slightly more readable format, click here .) MAGIC ITEM TYPE EXAMPLE Here we have the classic Magic Item Ty...

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(If you want to read this post with a slightly more readable presentation, go here .) JDJarvis over at Aeons & Augauries inspired me to write this with his little generators like the Foul Tome...

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This is a test. d20

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