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Player Characters and Their Deities
Don’t Read the Dungeon Master’s Guide I often tell players, don’t read the manuals that go outside of the player’s direct purview like Dungeon Master’s Guide or Monster Manual. This bit of advice is mirrored in the First Edition DMG by the authors as well. Reducing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to numbers and tables detracts […]
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Module – Campaign Statistics
This Dungeon Master module offers basic, statistical metadata for your campaign. The following offers some insight as to what the information represents. Most of the data is silently triggered for updating upon using the Attendance Module. Until that is used for your campaign, this Statistics module will be largely devoid of data. Campaign Days This […]
You’ve discovered , seen how awesome-sauce it is and you’re excited. Like, really excited. It’s got you all amped up for playing Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. You’re the creative type, of course, or you wouldn’t be playing AD&D in the first place. Your brain is spinning out all kinds of raw ideas and you want […]
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Character Meta Tracker
This is an system that Dungeon Masters can employ to track the behavior of Characters within their campaign over time. It accomplishes this via subjective meta information. You can watch a short video showcasing the new system on our Youtube channel. What Does it Track? There is lots of information that would be helpful for […]
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NPC Generator on AD&D Toolkit
The has a built-in NPC Generator. It will help you quickly whip up an NPC for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons that adheres to the rulesets inherently enforced within the web application. Where Do I Find This Morsel of Goodness? If you navigate to Players >> My Characters, you will see a large, red button entitled […]
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Promoting Services Through AD&D Toolkit
If you are a service provider of some sort and wish to promote yourself to our community, we have a few rules and expectations that must be met. Particularly in regards to digital creatives, if you’re taking the time to read this, you likely already know discord is suffocating in automated bots, scammers, and plain […]
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Henchmen & Hirelings
An oft under-appreciated aspect of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventures are the many Henchmen and Hirelings that a player character can employ to perform a variety of tasks. The two are at times conflated or misunderstood. To make matters worse, there are both Standard and Expert subsets of Hirelings. The following quote from the AD&D […]
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Randomized Daily Weather
In the Campaign Manager, you can find a lot of information that is there for your convenience and use, but remains optional. One such feature is randomized weather. The data is presented but completely up to the DM to leverage or ignore. Adventure Data Under this heading, you will find the current Campaign Day, Month, […]
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Import New Character Via URL
Overview This is a simple feature that allows members to import character data via a URL. You can use any/all of the parameters noted below. You must use one of the corresponding values from the table below or the will ignore the parameter. The first parameter/value pair is required: x_3p=1 An Example /character-new/?x_3p=1&x_system=2&x_class=paladin&x_name=Strongheart The above […]
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Module – Custom Spell Research
Points to Emphasize This module very closely follows the 1e DMG as laid out on pages 115 – 116. I would direct you there to get an understanding of how it works. There are a few things I would like to stress in regards to researching custom spells and the related module. I think they […]