Tag Archives: Chris Kutalik
May 31, 2016 M.A.R. Barker sometimes ran Tekumel games with just a d100 roll
Thanks to a G+ share, I found myself checking out a 2010 post on Hill Cantons about one of the ways that M.A.R. Barker ran his Tekumel campaign: M.A.R. Barker on Rules Lite. The post is primarily a quote, so I won’t repost the whole thing here. Instead, here’s the business end, an excerpt of […]
Tags: Chris Kutalik, Dave Arneson, Empire of the Petal Throne, fantasy, Hill Cantons, M.A.R. Barker, old school, roleplaying games, RPGs, story games, Tékumel
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April 8, 2016 Chance Cards in Blackmoor
I was poking through Dave Arneson‘s The First Fantasy Campaign[1] the other day and happened across a section I’d never looked at before: Gypsy Sayings & Chance Cards. The sayings don’t mesh well with my GMing style (they remind me of Ravenloft’s Tarrokka Deck, a 2e product revived for 5e), but the Chance Cards certainly […]
Tags: Avalon Hill, Blackmoor, Chris Kutalik, D&D, Dave Arneson, Dungeons & Dragons, events, hexcrawl, Jeff Rients, Jon Peterson, old school, Oriental Adventures, Outdoor Survival, Playing at the World, roleplaying games, RPGs, Tarrokka Deck, The First Fantasy Campaign
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March 4, 2016 Debauchery & Dragons: Carousing for XP, 1977 to 2015
It’s 1977. D&D is wild and wonderful and everyone’s doing their own thing. So much so, in fact, that in that same year two people published alternate versions of one of the core mechanics of old-school D&D: earning XP for treasure. In 1977, Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D, and Jon Pickens, who later became an […]
Tags: Appendix N, Chris Kutalik, Claytonian JP, D&D, Dave Anreson, Dave Trampier, DCC RPG, Dragon Magazine, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, First Fantasy Campaign, Fritz Leiber, Humza Kazmi, Jeff Rients, Jon Pickens, old school, Robert E. Howard, roleplaying games, RPGs
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March 2, 2016 Slumbering Ursine Dunes and Fever-Dreaming Marlinko
While reading Chris Kutalik’s excellent blog, Hill Cantons, I found myself thinking, “Why the hell don’t I own any of his books?” So I ordered three of them in print: Slumbering Ursine Dunes, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, and the Hill Cantons Compendium. (While I was waiting for them to arrive, I also blogged about his killer series […]
Tags: Chris Kutalik, D&D, David Lewis Johnson, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, hexcrawl, Hill Cantons, Hill Cantons Compendium, Labyrinth Lord, Luka Rejec, old school, pointcrawl, roleplaying games, RPGs, sandbox, Slumbering Ursine Dunes
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February 15, 2016 Hill Cantons and Building Dynamic Sandboxes
Chris Kutalik has been running his marvelous-sounding Hill Cantons campaign for seven years, and blogging — with clarity and vigor — about his experiences along the way. I love reading about sandbox and hexcrawl games, and Chris knows his stuff. (He’s also published several books, three of which — Slumbering Ursine Dunes, Fever-Dreaming Marlinko, and […]
Tags: Chris Kutalik, fantasy, hexcrawl, Hill Cantons, old school, roleplaying games, RPGs, sandbox
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