Dyson’s Delve - Session 18 August 4, 2024 OD&D & Dyson's Delve & Swords & Wizardry & Downtime in Zyan & Tome of Adventure Design & The Monster Overhaul The last session was a tremendous success, if a real nail-biter. The party not only regained some of its honor by bringing back the petrified Dyson’s Delve - Session 17 August 3, 2024 OD&D & Dyson's Delve & Swords & Wizardry & Downtime in Zyan & The Monster Overhaul & D30 Sandbox Companion Every time I play this game, I get a better sense of how much it differs from modern editions of D&D. The game has a different focus in many ways, Dyson’s Delve: Session 16 August 1, 2024 OD&D & Dyson's Delve & Swords & Wizardry & Downtime in Zyan & The Monster Overhaul Making a slightly shorter delve and taking less risk paid off last time for the new adventurers. Let’s see how that approach works again. Last time, Dyson’s Delve - Session 15 July 31, 2024 OD&D & Dyson's Delve & Swords & Wizardry & Downtime in Zyan & The Monster Overhaul The group has been depleted and it’s time to roll up a few new characters, in the hopes that they can survive long enough to level up rapidly from Dyson’s Delve - Session 13 July 28, 2024 OD&D & Dyson's Delve & Swords & Wizardry & Downtime in Zyan & The Monster Overhaul After a near-TPK, I have been making a lot of notes about making sure I’m a better player when on that side of the game. Solo RPGing means I am Sacretta Carnifexa - Part 3 April 8, 2024 Krevborna & OD&D & The Monster Overhaul & Swords & Wizardry The newest members of the Sacretta Carnifexa prepare to return to the Blackened Tower, steeling their resolve and replenishing their ranks. Having Undead Without Number - Session 3 March 24, 2024 Krevborna & Worlds Without Number & Mythic GME & The Monster Overhaul Brother Erlan, a militant priest who fights the undead, is in Oakside investigating a series of attacks by undead. After uncovering the local Cinderheim - Session 4 March 2, 2024 Cinderheim & Scarlet Heroes & Searchers of the Unknown & Mythic GME & The Monster Overhaul In what I expect will be the final session of this mini-campaign, Nammah the Butcher has allied herself with Thornscale the dracolich in part to Cinderheim - Session 3 March 1, 2024 Cinderheim & Scarlet Heroes & Searchers of the Unknown & Mythic GME & The Monster Overhaul Continuing to experiment in Cinderheim means I’m going to give Mythic GME a spin here for some questing by Nammah the Butcher, a first-level mage. Cinderheim - Session 2 February 29, 2024 Cinderheim & Scarlet Heroes & Trilemma & The Monster Overhaul & Searchers of the Unknown The first session in Cinderheim turned out to be something of a funnel, with only one member of a 3-person party surviving: Nammah the Butcher, a Cinderheim - Session 1 February 22, 2024 Cinderheim & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul & Searchers of the Unknown I’d like to dig into some dungeons again. I’ve done this a few times without blogging it because sometimes writing out descriptions is more work Return to Latter Earth - Part 2 March 18, 2023 Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul Amina’s out lost in the desert with not enough food for herself, much less for the folks she hired for the expedition. Let’s see if she can deal Return to Latter Earth - Part 1 March 17, 2023 Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul & Worlds Without Number Lately I dug back into Scarlet Heroes (SH) by Kevin Crawford. Before I write a longer piece about how well it holds up, I thought I’d document a Solo Gothic - Part 8 March 1, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul Our group is entering an ancient ruin that used to be some sort of airship hangar. The airships are long gone, but a senior leader in the Incendiary Solo Gothic - Part 6 February 26, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Tome of Adventure Design & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul The group has just finished burying one of their own in the Silent Forest outside the entrance to the Sleeping Vault. They didn’t get farther than Solo Gothic - Part 5 February 25, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul Things took a pretty significant turn in the last session. I’m going to sit with the current situation first and figure out what’s happening, what Solo Gothic - Part 4 February 22, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul Diving right back into the narrative from where I left off after the rules discussion in the previous post. And as you’ll see, nothing goes as Solo Gothic - Part 3 February 21, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Into the Odd & Worlds Without Number & The Monster Overhaul & A Place Underground & Perilous Wilds Still in the Monastery of St. Othric, our three members of the Labyrinth Dredgers (Ataulf, Melisanda, and Cethegus), plus a temporary companion Solo Gothic - Part 2 February 20, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul Our explorers (Ataulf, Cethegus, and Melisanda) have travelled to northwest Krevborna on a mission from the Labyrinth Dredgers to explore one of the Solo Gothic - Part 1 February 19, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Cthulhu Dark & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul Most of the previous post dealt with setting things up, although we did set up a starting situation. The explorers entered a Grail Tomb looking for Solo Gothic - Part 0 February 17, 2023 Searchers of the Unknown & Cthulhu Dark & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul I’m going ultralight this time. Searchers of the Unknown (SotU) is a game that takes the D&D B/X stat block for monsters and assumes PCs don’t