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Thoughts & Things

Collection of tools, ideas, rules, research and other fun stuff we thought we share.

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Building a town for your game

One of the first things that I did a long time ago was build a small village for my players. This was after we had played keep on the borderlands. It was rather simple with a few families. In the ...
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The Big Gamble – Adding gambling to an RPG

I’ve been playing a lot of Texas Hold ‘Em Poker lately, and wanting to add some casino games into a D&D campaign that I am running. I know there are guides out there for this and started doing research, and ...
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HeroQuest 2.0

Hasbro has been teasing us with a countdown for HeroQuest for a while now. So the news was released, and we are shown a crowd-funding effort with a $1M USD goal. It took a little time (less than a day), ...
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Questions with Some Answers

On today’s thoughts & things; I’m going to reach into the old question basket and draw out a few of those D&D questions, put on my Dungeon Master’s hat, and off-the-cuff, try to answer them. So here goes nothing. Oh. ...
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Betrayal at Mystery Mansion – Avalon Hill Games

I really do love the Betrayal of House on the Hill game, and we have had a lot of them come out recently: Betrayal Legacy, Betrayal at Baulder’s Gate, Betrayal expansion Widow’s Walk. All of these games are all sitting ...
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Star Frontiers / D&D 5e Conversion Complete

Many many years ago, I put these articles together for running Star Frontiers, and now I want to brush the dust them off and put them back into play. There were 6 parts in total that I had published here.  ...
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New Year’s Eve – 2018

It is New Year’s Eve, and I am playing games with my family today in Florida. This year is about to close very quickly, and I sit and reflect on the year, and what next year will bring. I am ...
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Betrayal Legacy – Avalon Hill Games

Avalon Hill with the Rob Daviau as the game designer have an upcoming Betrayal Legacy based on the best selling Betrayal of House on the Hill. The game is coming out in November, you can preorder here at Amazon: https://amzn.to/2q8H05U ...
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The Cursed Cavern of Time – the adventure that I ...

So… I have this adventure that I’ve been working on. Like a long time. It just sits in my google drive, and I’ve even played through it once. Everyone had fun. I think. It’s a wild west D&D 5th edition ...
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Dungeon Masters Guild – Jungle Treks by Teos Abadía & ...

I had the great pleasure of reading through a new offering on DMsGuild.com. It is written by Teos Abadía & Eric Menge and is six short adventures each of them being able to support player characters Level 1 to 10. ...