Adept Play

Adept Play

Tag: Castles & Crusades

A fantasy game by Stephen Chenault, Davis Chenault, Mac Golden, Robert Doyel, Mark Sandy, Todd Gray, and James M. Ward, published by Troll Lord Games in 2004.

Monday Lab 2: Kittybox

Monday Labs, Preparing for play, Situations, Trouble during play

April 9, 2018

Ron Edwards

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, Against the Cult of the Reptile God, Castles & Crusades, RuneQuest sensu lato, Stars Without Number, The Secret of Bone Hill, Trollbabe

“Everyone knows” what sandbox means. Except that it was a term ‘ported into table-top role-playing from another medium and adopted as fashion rather than substance, so no, I don’t. Talk is cheap, whiskey costs money, and let’s see if this is a thing, and if so, how many things, and if so in a given…
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Finding D&D: The Fundamentals

Fantasy Heartbreakers, Finding D&D, Hobby culture, OSR

March 16, 2018

Ron Edwards

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition, Adventurer Conqueror King, Adventures Dark and Deep, Basic Fantasy, Blueholme, Carcosa, Castles & Crusades, Dark Dungeons RPG, Dawnfire, Deathstalkers, Delving Deeper, Demon’s Lair, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Dungeons & Dragons 1974, Dungeons & Dragons 1977 Holmes, Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition, Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition, Dungeons & Dragons B/X, Dungeons & Dragons BECMI, Dwimmermount, Fantasy Earth, For Gold & Glory, Forge: Out of Chaos, Hackmaster, Labyrinth Lord, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Mazes and Perils, Monsters & Minions, Renegade, Rules Cyclopedia, Spellcraft and Sorcery, Swords and Wizardry, The Black Hack, The White Hack, Undiscovered

Here, hop into this handbasket with me. We’re goin’ for a ride! It’s part of “Finding D&D,” focusing this time on fundamentalist belief and practice, including but not limited to the OSR. I thought about waiting until part 4 was done, as these two parts only make full sense relative to one another. But whatever;…
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