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Tim Bannock (@timbannock on most social media) is a roleplaying game developer and e-commerce product manager. He's been playing D&D since 1985, and has been a best selling DMsGuild developer and indie RPG publisher since 2016.

Treasures Just Beyond Character Sheet
Treasures Just Beyond Character Sheet

Enter The Nerdom Plays D&D: Treasures Just Beyond Character Sheets

06/12/2023 / / 0 Comments

The continuing adventures of the Enter The Nerdom crew should be posted to your favorite podcast listening service soon! In celebration, here are some character sheets I created for these sessions.

These character sheets are perfect for Knave and most of its hacks, and can probably do in a pinch for any ability score-based D&D retroclone or remix. The particular hack we are using is my current playtest draft of a Knave hack I call Treasures Just Beyond. It adds very basic dungeon and wilderness procedures, provides a slightly more robust social mechanic based on reaction rolls and attitude, and modifies the magic system to mix in elements of the original edition of Dungeons & Dragons and GLOG (perhaps better explained and shown in the Cairn SRD “GLOG Magic Hack“). Don’t worry, I’ll be posting that entire playtest document very soon!

Without further ado, here are the character sheets for Treasures Just Beyond (Enter The Nerdom Variant):

Player Character sheet

NPC Hireling sheet

Editable version of both via Google Slides. You’ll need to click File > Make a Copy and save it to your Drive somewhere, then you can edit it.

Enjoy!

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The first frightening rooms of Puzzle Dungeon: The Seers Sanctum

Enter The Nerdom Actual Play: Adventuring in the The Seers Sanctum with Knave and Dungeons & Dragons

06/01/2023 / / 0 Comments

It’s here! Enter The Nerdom and special guest Dan Mason have ventured into The Seers Sanctum!

The adventuring party is Madmartigan the Greatest Swordmaster in all of the Realms, Pockets the Dragonborn, Krondor the Wild Elf, and Mable the Elf Wizard. And nothing will prepare you for this puzzle-heavy romp with loads of old-school spirit, using Ben Milton’s brilliant Knave alongside B/X-era Dungeons & Dragons spells, magic items, and monsters. (Get Knave 1st edition here, and support Knave 2nd edition in its final hours here!)

This is just part 1 of the quest! Listen to the full episode here or wherever you listen to podcasts. Check out some behind-the-scenes photos over on their Instagram (@enterthenerdom) and stay tuned here for character sheets, rules references, and more.

Huge thank you to the hosts of Enter The Nerdom and Dan for this wonderful gaming opportunity. Looking forward to part 2 in just over a week!

I'm back on Enter The Nerdom
I'm back on Enter The Nerdom

Enter The Nerdom Plays Dungeons & Dragons…by Way of Ben Milton’s Knave

05/31/2023 / / 0 Comments

I recently joined the Enter The Nerdom podcast to discuss Dungeons & Dragons, the movie Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and all things tabletop roleplaying games (listen to the episode here or at your favorite podcast service).

This week, I’m back on, running them through an “old-school” style dungeon crawl using two fantastic resources:

  • Ben Milton’s Knave
  • Directsun Games’ Puzzle Dungeon: The Seers Sanctum

Hosts Chad Cook, Stan Moroncini, and Watson Bradshaw are joined by Dan Mason, with yours truly as the Dungeon Master! Here’s a little teaser about the session.

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Enter The Nerdom

Discussing Dungeons & Dragons and RPGs with Enter The Nerdom Podcast

05/30/2023 / / 0 Comments

Quick update, and hopefully the first of many new ones to come!

On May 17th I had the amazing opportunity to join Chad Cook, Stan Moroncini, and Watson Bradshaw on the Enter The Nerdom podcast to discuss all things Dungeons & Dragons, and even a bit about the broader tabletop roleplaying game industry. We discussed Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, the different editions of D&D from both a mechanics and historical perspective, White Wolf and their World of Darkness games, and much more!

Click to check out Enter The Nerdom Episode 12 – Rolling for Initiative or listen at all of your favorite podcast services!

Make sure to subscribe and rate to hear more about various facets of nerd cultural from this crew and their amazing guests, including subjects as far ranging as how to join the Star Wars-themed 501st Legion charity group, recent wrestling events, anime fandom, and much, much more!

Actual Play Incoming!

Stay tuned to Enter The Nerdom, because this week we’ll be doing a Dungeons & Dragons actual play! We’ll be joined Dan Mason, their go-to-guy for wrestling, anime, and more, as well as our fearless leader in a comic book discussion group known as the Reading Rainbros!

Funnel Character Sheet

Using Simple DND to Create a Knave-based Funnel Character Sheet

12/06/2022 / / 0 Comments

A friend of mine reached out about doing a one-shot “training scenario” style introduction to Dungeons & Dragons for a small group, and I hit on the idea of using Portal Under the Stars, one of the most popular funnel-style adventures for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG. Ever the tinkerer – and looking to get my money and time’s worth from a bunch of Knave purchases and hacking – I decided I’d convert Portal to Knave, further simplifying the player-facing side of things. Don’t get me wrong, I love DCC RPG! But it’s got a few (albeit minor) barriers to entry that seemed worth removing for this exercise.

The conversion work has been a breeze – I could probably do it on the fly, but I suspect I’ll re-use this setup again and again – but I wanted to make certain I had a cool character sheet to go with it. There’s a ton of great hand-drawn ones out there, even by the likes of map-maker extraordinaire Dyson, but when I stumbled upon Simple DND, I knew I was just a 5-minute Photoshop job away from perfection.

So here you go: my Knave-based funnel-optimized character sheet, tweaked only slightly from Simple DND‘s Mini Character Sheet (usage license here). You can fit four characters on here, you’ve got 20 inventory slots, and I tailored it to include Ancestry and Occupation sections. This could easily serve as an NPC or monster tracking sheet in just about any version of D&D: just use the inventory slots as a notes section! Similarly, you could use it to track familiars, pets, or hirelings in everything from OD&D up through 5th Edition.

Funnel Character Sheet snip

Funnel Character Sheet – Click to Download

Let me know how you use it at your gaming table in the comments!

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