For those who know the dark places to look for such things, there are a couple of versions of the OD&D booklets combined into a single letter-sized volume. I recently reacquired the particular ve...
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Late to jump on the bandwagon here, but this seemed like a fun exercise to help nail down some concepts and background for my campaign... Without further ado, my answers to Random Wizard's "Ten...
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I've rambled on in the past about my waffling on the OGL. I don't play Labyrinth Lord or Swords & Wizardry for the most part. I own the real D&D books - B/X, Rules Cyclopedia, OD&D - and prim...
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Happy Swords & Wizardry Appreciation Day everyone! I know you've all got a lot of blogs to get through today, so I'll try not to keep you here too long. Anyway, I'm sure there are plenty o...
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THIS one... Having a 13 year old daughter, it should come as no surprise to anyone in a similar position to know that she wanted to go see The Host this past weekend. Based on a novel by Ste...
So, James over at Grognardia does his thing, and we all follow along like good little lemmings. That said, it's pretty cool to see everyone's RPG collections, so I'm game as well... Top She...
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Even before I starting working on the Caldera map, I was struggling a bit with the question of scale. If one looks to the gold standard of hex mapping - the Mystara/Known World maps from the Gaze...
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The creation process can be a difficult one for me. I have ideas that I want to integrate into my game, but find that I struggle to put them on paper in a way that satisfies me. My creativity u...
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I'm not sure if I've touched on this in the blog or not - maybe back in one of the first posts. I've played D&D in one form or another since '81. Moldvay ==> 1E ==> 2e from middle school throu...
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JB over at B/X Blackrazor has put together a little survey in an effort to gather some information on just who is playing D&D, or has in the past. Not really a marketing survey, but more of a w...
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One of the ideas I've seen around the boards is to use "Equipment Packs" at character generation to speed up that process. It seems as if picking out all your gear is what slows down chargen, a...
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This past summer, while visiting Cleveland, I was able to take the time to visit the fantastic Cleveland Museum of Art, and tour it's utterly amazing Armor Court. While full of an impressive ...
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The Iconic Moldvay Box Set In 1981, TSR published it's D&D Basic box set, edited by Tom Moldvay. That famous box with it's dragon adorned cover by Erol Otus was my introduction to the game...
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I'm currently mulling over how I want to share my work. Do I go the legal route and release under the OGL? I should, yes, but it's a lot more work to create new OGL translations of things in TS...
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Dan Wheldon 1978 - 2011 The racing world lost a good man today. Dan Wheldon died while competing in the IndyCar season finale in Las Vegas. I met Dan at a couple of races and he was alwa...
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Begone foul demon! For the past 5-6 months I have been running a game of Swords & Wizardry:WhiteBox for my kids and some friends. Sadly, they made some poor decisions last night - their th...
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Below are some mock-up front and back covers for a supplement booklet compiling all my house rules and additions for S&W:WB that I use in my game. Apologies to Mark Allan for ripping his artwo...
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Any gaming content that I post here on the blog will be free to use under the terms of the OGL. I've added a tab at the top of the blog detailing the "core" OGL statement which covers anything ...
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©STEVE WILLHITE. ELFWOOD.COM I began my gaming career on Christmas Day 1981 when I received the Moldvay Basic box set. My view of D&D has, therefore, been forever colored by the expectatio...
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Being a gamer is an odd hobby. Most of us don't really talk about it too much, or at least go into detail about it. In today's internet age with World of Warcraft and the multitude of other rpg...
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So, I haven't been very active here on the ol' blog, you may have noticed. Not that I ever was. :-) I've always had a fairly severe case of Gamer ADD and seem to flit from project to project,...
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Ok, so technically she's a leopard woman I think, but still. Seeing this picture, I've got a great idea for an African savanna style culture where the leopard people and hyena people (gnolls ...
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So, for something a little different and fun this weekend, we took a day-trip to NYC to get in a little shopping and culture. It was a great little get-away from the day to day here in Central ...
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This is simply a graphic response to the question posed >here <. I see 3 images in my head... I started with Tom Moldvay's Basic set. I love Erol Otus, but this Willingham pic is still my fav...
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I've stayed away from RPG.net's forums section for the most part, since there is rarely anything on Classic D&D. Lot's of 3e and 4e, but that doesn't help me much. I do check in once in a wh...
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