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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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Playing AD&D

Henchmen & Hirelings

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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Campaign Manager

Randomized Daily Weather

Cold Mountains

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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Playing AD&D

A Fact-Based Mechanics Approach to Climbing and Stealth for Non-Thieves

Climbing and Hiding

Roleplaying games typically do an excellent job of defining exactly what game skills and specific abilities can accomplish. However, a common dilemma arises at the table: what happens when characters who lack these applicable skills or abilities attempt something that reasonably ought to have a chance of success?. Various RPGs define this default probability in […]

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AD&D Toolkit

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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Campaign Manager

Module – Custom Spell Research

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 […]

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AD&D Toolkit

AD&D Toolkit

AD&D Toolkit

What is ? is a variety of Dungeon Master tools that integrate with digital Character Sheets. It greatly enhances in-person and online play by speeding up and automating the more interesting, yet cumbersome mechanics of AD&D. supports First Edition(1e), Unearthed Arcana(1e), Second Edition(2e), and some Homebrew elements that can be toggled on or off by […]

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Playing AD&D

What Expansions Does Toolkit Support?

Editions and Expansions

In the Beginning was developed singularly for me and my family in our regular campaign play. We’ve been playing a homebrew campaign of my own design that most closely adheres to core 1e. We wanted to make use of Encumbrance, its limitations, and how it impacts movement; character disease contraction and parasitic infection; and many […]

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Campaign Manager

Module – Manage Cities and Shops

Market

Each city you submit into your campaign can be managed via this module. Only one can be active at a time so activating one will deactivate all others. This usually represents the city nearest to where the party is adventuring. Only the active city will have its attributes effect the campaign. From here you can […]

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Campaign Manager

Module – Create City

Village

Why Create a City? Cities are created in as a means-to-an-end. You create cities(or villages or towns) to represent those on your kingdom or regional campaign map. These cities should each have their own population-size, climate and terrain as determined by you. These attributes factor into other systems and calculations made by the . Creating […]