August 28

August 2014 Blog Carnival – Devious Dungeons

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This months carnival is being hosted by Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform and they want to know about dungeons.

A confession.

In all my years of gaming the groups I have played in haven’t really done much in the way of dungeon crawling, our fantasy adventures tend to be wilderness or urban themed with the usual mixture of combat, problem solving, barge burning  and diplomacy.  That’s not to say we haven’t done them, they’re just a rarity.

The one dungeon that I do love more than all the others is the first one I ever ran in module B1: In Search of the Unknown; the Caverns of Quasqueton .

The great thing about the dungeon is that is had advice for a novice DM as well as letting you stock it yourself from the charts and tables in the back of the book.  These charts had treasures; both magical and mundane plus monsters appropriate to the level of the characters.  This ensured that although the general layout remained the same, you could never be sure what lurked in the next room.  On top of this there are several unexplained events so that the dungeon retains a magical quantity.

I found it the ideal starter dungeon and this is why I will come back to it time and again for the nostalgia and the happy memories of me running it.

 

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August 27

#RPGaDAY Day 5: Most Old School RPG owned

The classic red box D&D is the most old school game I have.  This is the one that I really got to read and make my decisions about gaming.  Sure I had the AD&D players handbook but there were all sorts of other books required whereas the red box had it all in one package.

I even have the stub of crayon and dice that came in the box 🙂

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August 22

#RPGaDAY Day 2: First RPG Gamemastered

The first game I ever decided to run was the red box edition of DND with a group of friends who got me involved with gaming in the first place.

I sat down with them and ran them through the classic dungeon module B1, In Search of the unknown. I can’t really recall if it was a success or a failure but I know that I made a fair few mistakes that day and endeavoured to learn from them.

Funnily enough, when I started gaming again on Skype, I decided to use this very module as an introduction for them as well as using some of the classic names for the example player characters 🙂

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