Doodle Temple and Gormand’s Larder: illustrated DIY dungeon generators

Old school, Tabletop RPGs / /

Doodle Temple and Gormand’s Larder, both illustrated by Cédric Plante, are two of the coolest gaming books I’ve bought in recent memory. They’re both dungeon generators, but instead of random tables, they consist entirely of Cédric’s beautiful illustrations. And they’re weird. I love weird! Mundane dungeons are boring, and neither of these books will turn […]

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Rerolling hit points, OD&D, and Empire of the Petal Throne

D&D, OD&D, Tabletop RPGs / /

I love hit points. They’re a brilliant abstraction, though often misunderstood, and they work beautifully in play. I double-super-love that in OD&D (paid link), how you roll them for your character is completely open to interpretation. I don’t think that’s been true since the late 1970s, as each edition since has spelled things out much more

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