Using Chainmail with OD&D

In this post I want to do my best to thoroughly cover using the Chainmail rules to handle combat in Original Dungeons and Dragons. At least, to cover the necessary rules to get a handle on the basics. Resources that I referenced while making this post: Dungeons and Dragons by Gary Gygax and Dave ArnesonChainmail by …

Miniature Sculpting — Giant

I've been brainstorming on a new campaign setting recently and part of that is my plan to include the use of miniatures for combat situations with the Chainmail rules. As an experiment, I wanted to give sculpting my own miniature a shot. The sculpt I wanted to try first was my own take on the …

The Gygax 75 Challenge – Progress Report

This is a follow-up to a reddit post of my week 2 progress on the Gygax 75 challenge. I was inspired to go through the workbook created by Ray Otus which is free to download on itch.io. Ben from Questing Beast posted a video detailing what the challenge entailed, which is when I began. Please …

Through the Valley of the Manticore – Announcement

I'm very excited to announce my follow-up adventure module zine for Old-School Essentials. This time around I will be launching the Kickstarter campaign as part of the first ever Side Quest event, specifically designed for indie zine creators to get there work out there and seen by a larger audience. I made a post earlier …

SideQuest, a creator-led funding drive, launches November 2021!

On the 8th of September 2021, the Zine Creators Workshop announce SideQuest 2021. This event is modelled after the popular ZineQuest promotion on Kickstarter. Designers will crowdfund games over the course of November. By pooling resources, they will shine a light on all their projects.The thinking behind SideQuest is simple. ZineQuest is so successful that …

Dungeon Goons//Shrine of the Scorpion Lords

Taking a quick break between emptying my bank account to pledge the overwhelming amount of rad projects for Zine Quest 3 and wrapping up the art for my own project, I wanted to share a tiny project I have up on my itch.io page. My head is usually in the clouds so I often miss …

In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe – Announcement

We're a little less than two weeks out from the kickoff of the Zinequest 3 event through kickstarter and I'm wrapping up the bulk of the production work for my upcoming adventure module: In the Shadow of Tower Silveraxe. The prelaunch page is live and now begins the rush to get the word out. In …

On Weather and Travel in Wilderness Adventure

To add to the adventure atmosphere (ba-dum-tiss!) and help bring the campaign setting and overland travel to life for your players, the weather should be somewhat unpredictable for the Player Characters. However, in some instances, the weather forecast can, and should, be more accurately predictable based on observation and common knowledge.

A Good Time to Paint Orcs

Since I started GMing back in 2015, I've never run with miniatures. Though, I've painted them for other games. Since there has been time to spare, the desire, but not equally so with cash, I needed to find some options on the cheap side. Like real cheap - Enter Dark Alliance. The quality of these …

I’ve Made a Huge Mistake.

Why oh why didn't I pick the old one... Earlier this year I had begun planting the seeds of a future D&D group. With not too much convincing I was able to wrangle five of our friends here in town to get real nerdy and roll up some characters. Most of them had literally never …