Blog of Forlorn Encystment

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox.

We played the twenty-second session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox.

We played the twenty-first session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

We played the twentieth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

We played the nineteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

We played the eighteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

I recently went through the laborious and frankly insane process of statting out all 151 original (Kanto region) Pokémon for Into the Oddish, complete with default movesets for each.

We played the seventeenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

Yeah, I'm committing to the bit.

Hey, I haven't created a sandbox on the blog in a while.

We played the sixteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

KEY TO THE LOWER LEVEL The lower level of the complex is rough and unfinished.

We played the fifteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

Many years ago, rumor has it, two noted Pokémon trainers in the area, Rogahn the Blackbelt (a Fighting-type trainer of renown) and Zelligar the Psychic (a Psychic-type trainer of mystery and power) pooled their Pokédollars and Pokémon to construct a home…

While I have discussed the AD&D DMG in great length on this blog, my interest has largely been in interpreting the general feel of the game: I mostly unpack the implications of specific rules, worldbuilding conceits, and explicit playstyle intentions.

We played the fourteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

The setup for Dungeon Module B4: The Lost City is as follows: The player characters are traveling with a desert caravan when a sandstorm separates them and causes them to become lost.

We played the thirteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

This is a touchy subject, and I'll try my best to discuss it with care, but I want to talk about children in D&D - human children, halfling children, orc children, giant children, beaver children, and everything in between.

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox.

We played the twelfth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

My goblin post was fun, and it gave me a hankering to do something similar with halflings.

If you've been following along with the play reports for my B1 campaign, you probably know all about the goblins of Quasqueton with which the player characters have allied themselves.

We played the eleventh session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

This post is part of my series on developing the sandbox.

We played the tenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.

No NPC embodies the Gygaxian maxim that dealing with NPCs "should be expensive and irritating" quite like the sage.

We played the ninth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night.