The Mystical Trash Heap

Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up compiling a chart of AD&D weapon characteristics, adding some "missing" entries and modifying (and in some cases combining) all of the canonical weapons.

The players in my D&D campaign will soon be headed into the Yatil Mountains in search of the lost treasure hoard of the Archmage Iggwilv (see module S4: The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth).

German AD&D superfan and podcast host Settembrini (who already had me on his show a couple-three years back) recently completed a two-year-long run through the famous/infamous Temple of Elemental Evil module and in celebration of that invited me back onto…

Hi all, Quick note to let everybody know that Brink of Calamity is going to be the DriveThruRPG “Deal of the Day” on Thursday June 12th.

Not big Kickstarter-type numbers or anything but still pretty personally gratifying to me, because 1) it'a more copies than the first book sold on its first day, 2) it was enough to get me at least briefly into the Top 20 at DriveThruRPG, and 3) this earn…

As of about 15 minutes ago Brink of Calamity is finally live for sale at DriveThruRPG in both (softcover) print and pdf versions.

Hello, blog family.

Firstly, I wanted to let everybody know that Adventure Sites I by Coldlight Press is now available as a free download on DriveThruRPG.

I stopped posting session summaries for my games a few months ago because it seemed like nobody was reading them, but I recently heard from a couple of people who mentioned that they had been following them, and although scheduling conflicts since the hol…

Hi everybody.

Although the players from the main group were all busy with Thanksgiving festivities, I had visitors from out of town who wanted to play, so we had a game on Saturday.

Another action-heavy session as the party continued the Gopine Holocaust.

The party was short-handed again today (as Elden the magic-user wasn’t able to make it), but with almost everybody at 2nd level (and Kronk the cleric at 3rd) they were feeling confident enough to carry on, and had a dramatic but successful expedition: Cast

Action-packed session today, which was nice after two kind of flat ones in a row.

The group was down two players this session compared to last one so they decided to proceed cautiously.

Playtest session #3 was held today, very eventful and fun but not too rewarding.

Keeping it short and sweet: Session #1 (8/13/23): Two brave novice adventurers - a half-elf magic-user/cleric of the Far Wanderer and a gnome fighter/cleric of Boreon - came to the town of Warnell seeking fame and fortune.

Hey y’all, The Heroic Legendarium is the “deal of the day” today (Monday August 7th) at DriveThruRPG.com - heavily discounted (effectively $10 off both the pdf and hardcopy versions) and featured on their front page for 24 hours (of which there are about…

A couple years ago when I converted my bootleg "AD&D Companion" compilation into the legitimate/OGL-licensed Heroic Legendarium, one section I was sorry to have to remove was the summary of the World of Greyhawk deities and the characteristics of their cl…

Yesterday, a bit over two years after work-in-earnest began (though the original outline was actually done back in 2017), I finally finished writing up the last encounter area for my D&D adventure/campaign book (working title Brink of Calamity), officially

Today, almost exactly two years to the day after its release, The Heroic Legendarium has officially become an Electrum bestseller at DriveThruRPG, which puts it among the top 13% of all paid products on the site.

Received this thing in the mail a couple days ago, purchased as part of the recent Kickstarter.

[This was originally posted as a comment on a Reddit post but, knowing that will disappear down the memory within a few hours, figured it was worth preserving here as well] In Original D&D (1974) the advice and procedures for creating dungeons were very s…

As mentioned in my last post, I decided to compile the various little house rule and addition tidbits that have accumulated over the last two years since The Heroic Legendarium manuscript was completed into a 20 page pdf which is now officially available…

As a way of procrastinating from doing more work on the adventure-campaign book I've been working on seemingly forever I decided to collect my miscellaneous "OSRIC" house rules and additions that weren't included in The Heroic Legendarium, either because I