Friday Flashback

This is a Friday Flashback and commentary.

If your OD&D games don't feel like this, you might be playing the game the wrong way.



You see, D&D should be from the heart. It should be free-form. The players should be experiencing something for the first time. The game should be pushing the envelope, it should be taking players out of their everyday doldrums and depositing them into a world that might at first be uncomfortable, but one that shall become uniquely their own once engaged and understood.

Welcome to the do it yourself spirit of original D&D. I hope you enjoy your stay. Now go and grab pencil and paper (much as these great rock visionaries did decades ago) and craft your own version of this concept. Go and make this game your own.

Never, ever forget that NO ONE can tell you how to play D&D. Ever.

~Sham, Quixotic Referee

In case you missed it...

I've added a handy link over to the right there under the "Sham's OD&D Stuff" section for all of the PDFs I've loaded to Orbit Files for The Dismal Depths. I'm planning to share some more of the files as I work on the megadungeon, but the grand plan is to make a complete 10 level (42+ map) dungeon crawl adventure suitable for campaign play with enough creative space for referee's to make it their own. At my current work pace this will take some time, but I feel this might be a project which is a more reasonable undertaking than the much wordier, involved Ulin-Uthor, The Dim Expanse megadungeon. Hang in there! I'll be adding some information to the project in the near future after completing some other more pressing creative efforts.

Anyway, there's the link I promised but forget to announce properly.

~Sham, Quixotic Referee

Whimsical Wednesday

Every Wednesday, I’ll roll on the table below, and then on the indicated Whimsey Table, and share the exact wording found in my very crude often ridiculous 25 year old handwritten notes from the early 80’s.

Random Whimsey Determination Table (2d6)

2-4 Basic Whimsey Chart (d00)
5-7 New Whimsey Chart (d00)
8-10 Nyark Ripplesnap’s Whimsey Channel (d00)
11 Gorfaxio Gondoro’s Whimsey Table #1 (d20)
12 Gorfaxio Gondoro’s Whimsey Table #2 (d20)

Today’s Roll: 3, 79.

“Target floats uncontrollably for 1 day.”

Have a Whimsical Wednesday.

~Sham, Quixotic Referee