One of the joys of having no posting schedule and, let’s be honest, a very small audience, is that I don’t feel any pressure to post. Usually when Yore is quiet I’m up to a bunch of stuff and just don’t have anything to say. How about a quick round-up of the Yore-adjacent stuff? Reading
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I’ve been logging RPG sessions on RPGGeek since 2008, and last night’s Basement Game session — AD&D 1st Edition, running the module “Citadel by the Sea” from Dragon #78, in my Godsbarrow setting — was my 1,000th logged session. We ended on a cliffhanger, with the party having attacked a group of large spiders and
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Back in 2012, as my interest in old-school D&D was returning and flourishing, I started a project to read all of Gary Gygax’s famous Appendix N. I came up with a detailed plan, researched and assembled a 100-book Appendix N reading list that included recommendations for those authors whose works Gary didn’t note by title
Returning to Appendix N (vewy vewy quietly) Read More »
July 2026 update: I’m still plugging away, and having a great time with Appendix N. I’ve tweaked my approach and list a bit; it’s now 90 listed titles plus another 34 read-what-you-feel-like books. I’m 55 books in now. October 2024 update: After burning myself out taking this project too seriously back in 2013, I
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