Tomorrow (Saturday, June 7th), Flynn and I are headed up to Daegu for their One-Shot Extravaganza TTRPG event. It actually starts this even...

I realized I should go back and edit a bit of my dungeon creation advice to new DMs or those trying old school style play from newer school ...

 It took me longer than I thought to finally proof and edit the TS&R Ruby Bestiary & Treasury, but I got it done last night. This mo...

 I was musing on the fact that when we were young, playing D&D, some of the iconic magic items of the game seemed a lot more common than...

Starting in on the Immortals Set (no, haven't really read much past the last post, I've been busy) got me thinking about how to impl...

Finished up running another session of West Marches. The players finally defeated the substitute boss of the Caves of Chaos, Daggertooth the...

It's time for me to start paying better attention to encumbrance rules. Ever since the beginnings of my D&D play with the Basic Set,...

Yesterday I ran West Marches again. Having just secured five magic weapons in the previous session, they set out to gather up some extra fer...

Last October, I threw my West Marches players into Castle Ravenloft for fun (they weren't trapped by the mists, they were transported ho...

People these days seem to misunderstand cursed items in D&D. Players find some magic items and divvy them up. Then one player finds out ...

This section starts with a paragraph on how to identify magic items: by experimenting with them. In other words, you need to risk exposing y...

For the magic item subtables in the Basic Set, first you should roll a percentage die to determine the type of item, and then a d20 on the p...

[rolls dice] like goat piss and cinnamon. I've been planning to do something like this for a while now.  Here's a short list of so...

Are there any magic items that are unique to one version of D&D (only appeared in one of the following: OD&D, Holmes, AD&D 1E, B...