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Spreading Yuletide Fear: A Dark Holiday-themed Adventure

November 24, 2020 by mgarcia Leave a Comment

The following is a stand-alone holiday-themed 1st edition AD&D adventure for five to six characters level 5-6. Because this is an entire adventure module, it’s substantially longer than our usual fare. A small group of adventurers stumble through a portal and find themselves in a snow-blanketed land of forested mountains. They find shelter in a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Modules, Northumbria Tagged: AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, adventure, curse, dark elves, elves, holiday, krampus, play, undead, wild hunt, yule, yuletide

RPG-ology #36: Phionics

November 17, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #36:  Phionics, for November 2020. I was conversing with someone via messaging and he misspelled a word.  I recognized what he meant, so I overlooked it—but it got me thinking. The word he wanted was psionics, which had just been mentioned in our conversation, but he misspelled it phionics, which is probably … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: advanced dungeons & dragons, contortionist, D. C. Comics, iron fist, kick-ass, lethal weapon 2, magic, martin riggs, psionics, psychic, straitjacket, super-elastic plastic man, superheroes

Faith in Play #32: Zealots

July 7, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #32:  Zealots, for July 2020. Some years back in one of my games an important local military official was murdered, and under the authority of their cavalier the party took over investigating the crime.  They had out-of-character reason to believe that a certain local cleric and his two acolytes were … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: acolytes, AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, adventure grades, alignment, belief, cavalier, chaos, chaotic, characters, cleric, corner alignment, D&D, dungeons & dragons, evil, good, investigation, law, lawful, murder, neutral, neutrality, order, players, religion, rights, selfish, side alignment, simon the zealot, wickedness

Faith in Play #27: Believing Balance

February 4, 2020 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #27:  Believing Balance, for February 2020. Over a year ago we began a series on the notion that in the Original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons® game system alignment was the True Religion, what characters actually believed.  We have since examined those beliefs in Goodness, Wickedness, Order, and Individualism, the four … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, alignment, chaos, chaotic, characters, cleric, cross-principled, druid, druidic, druidism, druids, evil, faith, good and evil, killing, law, lawful, legal, liberty, neutral, neutrality, nuclear bomb, order, pragmatic, religion, selfish, selfishness

Faith in Play #25: Impact

December 3, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #25:  Impact, for December 2019. Back in maybe 1981 when I first started explaining on contemporary Christian radio station WNNN-FM that Dungeons & Dragons™ was not some evil cult activity but a very Christian game, I was as a lone voice crying in the wilderness.  In 1997 when I first … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, Faith in Play Tagged: 1980's, AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, c.s. lewis, carpg, carpga, cgg, chaplain, committee for the advancement of role playing games, CS Lewis, defense, guidance, ministries, paul cardwell, Tracy Hickman

RPG-ology #24: An Amusing Dungeon

November 19, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #24:  An Amusing Dungeon, for November 2019. On June 1, 2001, Gaming Outpost began publishing Game Ideas Unlimited with an introduction to the author and the series plan.  The following week this article appeared, only slightly edited for republication here, under the title Game Ideas Unlimited:  An Amusing Dungeon.   Some years … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, adventure design, amusement park, betting, creativity, D&D, dnd, dragons, dungeon design, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, funhouse, Game Ideas Unlimited, Gaming Outpost, gryphon, hippogriff, labyrinth, maze, merry-go-round, pegasus, roller coaster, shooting gallery, tilt-a-whirl, trap, traps, world building, worldbuilding

Faith in Play #22: Individualism

September 3, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is Faith in Play #22:  Individualism, for September 2019. Quite a few years ago now I was playing a character in an experimental Attorney class in a game largely based on original Advanced Dungeons and Dragons™.  I had just successfully defended a player character (an Antipaladin) on a murder and robbery charge, and the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faith in Play Tagged: ACLU, AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, alignment, anarchy, attorney, belief, bill of rights, c.s. lewis, chaos, chaotic, character, CS Lewis, D&D, democracy, dnd, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, evil, good, good and evil, goodness, greed, individual, law, lawful, lawyer, libertarian, liberty, order, religion, role-playing game, roleplaying game, selfish, selfishness, society, wickedness

RPG-ology #19: Treasure Auction

June 18, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #19:  Treasure Auction, for June 2019. A recent article by Michael Garcia, Treasure Division:  A Case Study From Northumbria, got me remembering treasure division from the past.  I was in quite a few games, and we had quite a few ways of doing it.  In more than one group, the party leader … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: AD&D, advanced dungeons & dragons, auction, dnd, dungeons & dragons, dungeons and dragons, treasure, wizard, wizards

RPG-ology #17: With the Odds

April 16, 2019 by M. J. Young, Chaplain Leave a Comment

This is RPG-ology #17:  With the Odds, for April 2019. A few years ago I launched the mark Joseph “young” web log with post #1:  Probabilities and Solitaire, which talked about how to improve your success at that and other card games by considering the odds of any particular lay of the cards.  I do … [Read more…]

Posted in: Chaplain's Corner, RPG-ology Tagged: ADR's and Surv's, advanced dungeons & dragons, betting, damon runyon, games, gaming, mathematics, odds, probability, solitaire, statistics
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