I have sent in proposals to run two games at DexCon in July. I proposed running the gatehouse from Stonehell and my own mini-sandbox city. Both using Labyrinth Lord
Those of you who have been reading this blog know that I have never run a megadungeon before. I have always used more realistic dungeon settings, keeping all underground areas to a minimum and keeping the over all size of castles and the like fairly small. There is another style of gaming I have never indulged in: the hex crawl. I have never seen hexes as discrete chunks of the map. I always just used them as a guide to find distance if they were present and not worrying about themif they were not. I have always taken a more continuous view of overland maps. This is another streak that will be ending with my upcoming OSRIC game. I will be using James M's Outdoor Map as a starting pont in my campaign. I will be heavily modifying it for my purposes but most of the features will stay the same. I will be adding my own versions of Castles Blackmoor and Greyhawk to the map. I have been struggling with how a hex crawl works. How do I know if they find features in the hex and isn't 5 m
Good to hear you'll be running some old school games there, Rich. I'll be in NJ a couple of weeks afterward, so I'll be missing the fun.
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Still out there Rich? :D
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Yeah, the last two months have been killer. Oral arguments, trying to get my paper published, final exams, moving from NJ to SC, moving from SC to NJ, moving from NJ to DC for the summer, starting work. But all of that is behind me now. One thing I have been doing is gaming and reading gaming stuff. I have a bunch of session recaps to type up and some reviews, including Knockspell. I am probably going to be doing it for the blog Ideology of Madness though. This will give me a chance to write new reviews for some stuff (Knockspell and Fight On!) and have them published for a larger audience. I will make an announcement here very soon.
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Cool, good to hear things are going well, if somewhat hectic :D
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Rich: any news?
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Just posted here to trigger. Posted my new blog info
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