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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

So you’ve heard about it on Youtube or from a friend,.. or you watched an 80’s period show like Stranger Things and were intrigued by the idea of Old School Dungeons & Dragons. After a few Google searches you were stymied in answering the question, “How can I learn to play AD&D First Edition?”. If […]