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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.

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Funnel Character Sheet – Click to Download

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

blank inventory sheet
blank inventory sheet

Try This Inventory Slot System for Dungeons & Dragons Today

09/17/2021 / / 0 Comments

It’s been a long time since I posted anything to this website, but if you follow me on social I’ve been tied up with two things (gaming related, anyway): creating a customized version of the FASERIP system by way of the OGL, used in the MCU-inspired actual play podcast Let’s Start Over, Shall We?, and gearing up for a megadungeon crawling 5th edition D&D campaign with some old friends to introduce (at least one of) their children to roleplaying games!

It’s that second one that influences today’s post. I’ll be providing a fully detailed — but not yet playtested — inventory slot management system for adventurers. It also takes into account porters/quartermasters, draft animals, and towed storage like wagons and carts. It’s based on 5th Edition for some numbers (like a draft horse’s Strength score, for example), but can be pretty easily ported to any D&D-adjacent or OSR game.

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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X
DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X

A New House of Horrors Adventure Has Arrived: DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for OSR Games

03/23/2021 / / 0 Comments

Out now on DriveThruRPG and itch.io is the long-awaited sequel to DD-01: a brand new house-of-horrors style adventure for OSR games in the vein of OD&D and AD&D 1st edition.

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor

This standalone adventure features the manor house of a noble spellcaster, corrupted by a mysterious influence. The Brightwell family goes insane, subjugating or killing their mercenary guards and servants, and performing all manner of horrific ooze-related experiments. Their ultimate goal: to eventually build an army of slime-infused monstrosities to threaten the nearby settlements!

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DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X
DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for 1st Edition and B/X

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor for OSR Games Out Tuesday

03/18/2021 / / 0 Comments

The 5th Edition version of DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor has been out for a hot minute, and right on its heels is the OSR version compatible with B/X and AD&D-style OSR games!

DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor

Subscribe for an email update here at the site, or check itch.io and DriveThruRPG early on Tuesday morning, March 23rd, as the new version drops! Built for compatibility with Old School Essentials, Swords & Wizardry, OSRIC, and all your favorite retro-clones!

Adventure Features

  • An adventure for 4-6 adventurers of levels 10-14 in your favorite OSR system of choice.
  • An easy reference layout, with each dungeon on just a couple page spreads, and concise descriptive text to make it easier to run on game day!
  • Monsters, magic items, NPCs, and preparation lists are all in a separate, printer-friendly appendix PDF to make your life easier! You can even cut up the magic items into individual reference cards for the players.
  • SRD links throughout the text so you can reference spells, monsters, items, and more. Don’t like our layout? Snag the SRD stats and do with them what you will!
  • Monsters and magic items pulled from a huge variety of OGL sources, as well as some newly created ones. Don’t like the adventure? Steal the monsters and magic items and make your own!
  • All the stats you need to run the adventure are provided; no need to hunt down other books.
  • Cartography by Dyson Logos, but with some artful Photoshopping to give each a floor of the manor a unique layout.
  • Separate PDF with all keyed and unkeyed maps, so you can print them or extract them for virtual tabletop play.

Coming Tuesday 3/23 to both itch.io and DriveThruRPG!

If you like DD-02 The Darkness Beneath Brightwell Manor, check out the start of this storyline in DD-01 The Darkness Beneath Dalentown. You can also pick up the setting — including not one but three settlements full of plot hooks, NPCs, new monsters, and more — in Adventures in Dalentown. Both can be found at DTRPG and itch.io; links are in our shop!

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