The Avengers and Recent Editions of D&D

I saw The Avengers last night. I'm not going to provide any spoilers, but I did want to say how much I enjoyed the balance between seriousness and comedy in the movie. I like the movie didn't take itself too seriously. I find self-deprecating humour very funny. When I flip through the books of more recent editions of D&D, I miss the humour. That's probably why I like images of adventurers getting their asses handed to them or depictions of characters in situations beyond their control.

Barrowmaze Podcast

Tomorrow, instead of our normal gaming session, we've decided to create podcast. We have a rough outline, but I'd like to have a segment where we answer questions about the dungeon, or our game, or sandboxing, or old school play. It's completely up to you! You can leave your thoughts in the comments or send to kilted dot yaksman at yahoo dot ca

MEATSHIELDS! Now with War Dogs!

Cr0m and I have been slowly pecking away at some revisions to Meatshields! The Classic Fantasy Hireling and Henchman Generator.

The first was moving it to the www.barrowmaze.com site. The second was the inclusion of war dogs.

If you don't use war dogs you can just ignore the result, and if you do them it can be a nice way to vary the hirelings/henchmen in your campaign. They are uncommon, so don't expect them to appear on the first roll - unless the gods of the percentages deem it so.

Enjoy.

Yikes; or Balls! To the Rule of Three Article

[Nice. My Ipad hates blogger and just ate my post. I'll sum it below to give context to the comments.]

First, read this tired crap about using DCs as role-play resolution in 5e.

Then remind yourself how tavern role-play should happen and the originality, creativity, and fun that emerges from these situations. Why kill it?

People play role-playing games for that reason - to role-play.

If all I wanted to do was roll dice I'd play a board-game (or a WotC version of D&D).

The Many Deaths of Dirk the Daring

I've been thinking quite a bit about the game Dragon's Lair.

I see an Xbox game was made of it in 2002. Anybody recall that?

I also found this sweet video on youtube that is just Dirk the Daring biting it over and over again.

Enjoy.

Custom Dice for Barrowmaze II Indiegogo Campaign

Hi all,

I've created some unique custom dice as a perk for the Barrowmaze II Indiegogo Campaign.

The art was done by Zhu Bajie.

The die on the right is a Random Monster Die with the skeleton head in place of the number 1.

The die on the left is a Monster Initiative Die with the wraith and the word Barrowmaze in place of the number 6.

I'm throwing these in for all those who contribute at the level of Crypt Knight or higher. Please consider pledging and pass the word.

Cheers. Greg

Monte is Out!

So Monte Cook is out at WotC. This is likely good for those of us that prefer D&D as a non-bean-counting exercise. Of course, time will tell the tale. Speaking of 5e the public playtest is set to begin on May, 24 weekend - most Canadians are out partying and celebrating the Queen's Birthday with fireworks.

New OSR blog!

Hi all, I wanted to point out a new OSR blog. Cory Hamel's The Diary of Dirk Swordman Cory is a wonderful artist and a fellow Canadian. He has done a bunch of illustrations for Barrowmaze II including a really awesome golem illo I can't wait to reveal. Please go over and take a look and follow his blog. I know the old school eye candy will be 100% worth it. Plus anything that that has an homage to Dirk, should be supported strongly :)

Barrowmaze Session Report and Notes

The most recent session report is now up, if you haven't seen it already.

It's entitled And in the Darkness...Cromwell Touches Himself which was a quote from the game session lol

We are playing again tonight.

Also, Sean at Tales from the Flaming Faggot has a great post on OSR publishing. Check it out.

Launched: Barrowmaze II on Indiegogo!!!

Hi everyone,

The campaign for Barrowmaze II just went live on Indiegogo.

Please go over and check it out! Secrets of the maze revealed!

http://www.indiegogo.com/Barrowmaze?c=home&a=533405