I play make believe

DMG grappling, in brief  Most of the grappling and overbearing systems presented in early D&D (namely, those found in Strategic Review Vol. 1, No. 2 and Unearthed Arcana) use a conventional attack roll, while the AD&D DMG (pp. 72-73) infamously uses a separate system using percentile dice. To make sense of the DMG system in my own mind, I converted the grappling system to a more conventional looking system with an attack roll vs AC. The DMG system actually has two percentile rolls, first a "Base Score to Grapple" roll (which I have converted to an attack roll vs AC) and second a "Hold Determination" roll (which is similar to the damage roll). Interestingly, the DMG system differs fundamentally from a normal attack roll in many ways: - armour worsens, rather than improves, the AC of the defender (ie, it increases the Base Score to Grapple) - the AC of the defender is not affected by having a shield or having any sort of magical armour or protection - there is...

"The Absorbing Eye" I submitted an adventure called " The Absorbing Eye " to the 2024 One-Page Dungeon Contest. One of 112 entries.  The bones of the adventure were developed using the random dungeon generator in the 1e DMG and certain random tables from Shadowdark, so I have Mr. Gygax and Ms. Dionne to thank. This is my first time submitting anything for publication in any form, so I obsessed a bit about it, wordsmithing, deciding what to cut, what to add. Please read (link above), enjoy and let me know what you think. Playtest I got to run the adventure this past weekend, using 5e, with my two kids, a friend and the friend's dad (who plays in my regular S&W game).  There is a "goal" to the adventure, in the sense of a main treasure to find, but it could take several sessions. My hope was the faction would play make it interesting even in a one-shot, irrespective of the outcome.  In play, I was particularly impressed with a creative use of  thunde...