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There isn't a 1.2 deal. What happened is that Wizards said they are no longer mucking around with the OGL 1.0a by trying to reauthorize it. And they released the SRD 5.1 under the Creative Commons license specifically CC-BY. The only requirement for using its content is putting Wizard's credit...

Since this topic has come up again. I will say that I disagree with this assertion by @bryce0lynch My alternative for gold for XP, is a form of milestone awards. The difference I have from traditional milestone award systems is that the goals are set by what the players do and focus on. There...

Thanks and let me know how it goes. Just remember nothing exists in a vacuum. Specifically that the folks living in Badabaskor are aware of many things about the current state of affairs. Information that explains why Duke Cragen just doesn't go tearing through the lower levels despite the...

Apologize for being a bit snarky but yes they would be easier in AD&D as Badabaskor is a OD&D module. Even characters made with OD&D + Supplements would have an easier time of it than 3 LBBs character. However in my experience with running Swords & Wizardry and Majestic Fantasy RPG (which is...

I didn't work on that one so I can't say. Sorry. But the old Necromancer Games forums are still up so you may be able to search the Judges Guild section for a review. As it was still active an a hot spot for Judges Guild talk at the time. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/necromancergames/

The good news is that it is a major idiot when it comes to anything else other than pattern recognition and creation. Think of it as the ultimate random table. But what can do is learn the patterns you feed it and spot inter-connections that even you are not aware of.

Jimmy Cricket! How do I get a private instance of this that doesn't lose its memory? I could feed it all my setting information and it would spot patterns and interconnections that I have forgotten about or failed to spot. (sigh). I plotted out the outline of a ridiculously large map for my...

Conclusion it was useful although I would never use the result 'as is'. They were too verbose and generic. But they often contain a kernel of an idea that I found as a useful prompt for what I will ultimately write. It is also a bit time-consuming to use as I have to think about the correct...

Me: Settlement 1234 Rob's Note:This was a mistake but it was interesting to see Chat GPT make use of it. On the southern slope of the Burning Tors live a group of Mages from the Order of Thoth studying the Burning Tors and the Fire Elemental that live in around the mountain range. Create a...

Next there are two locales, a lair at 0836 and a settlement at 1234 ======================================================== Me: Using the Dungeons and Dragons monster manual, create for me a lair of monsters in the Burning Tors. (discard) Using the Dungeons and Dragons monster manual, create...

Me: The Burning Tors are a desert mountain range in the middle of the Forsaken Desert. To the north lies the deep canyon known as as Ironedge Chasm, and to the southern are the vast dunes of the Forsaken Deserts. Create a unique description of the Burning Tors based on the above description...

So in the midst of writing of my Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms there are a few entries I got stuck on and put off detailing them until had an idea. I have a small suite of random generators to act as idea generators and aides, but their results can get repetitive and thus fail to inspire me...

It is Citadel of Fire in name only. The author used the opportunity to publish his own original adventure speaking as somebody who was part of the development team. The 3.5 Dark Tower was a straight conversion of the original, while my effort, Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor was an extrapolation...

What I do to organize things is that only one thing has to be continually reworked and that is the actual plan. The personalities, motivations, and overall goals change much more slowly. When it comes to locales, I try to flesh the location out enough that it functions as a place within the...

By 1990, I learned that running a sandbox campaigns works fine with folks who want to do nothing more than roleplay a version of themselves with the abilities (and sometimes knowledge) of the character they play. The only hard and fast rule I found to make what I do work is that the player still...

I found participating in places that write stories about alternate history to be useful. The best ones make a single point of departure and the author is adept at making everything that follows a plausible outcome of that PoD. Learn how to do that well is but a hop and a skill from looking at...

Is it open on your phones or something?

True I had a lot practice going back to the 90s when I got a hold of a full size CAD Drawing tablet (absolute positioning) and traced out some of my Judges Guild Map into an old version of AutoCAD running under WIndows 3.1. The trick is not using free hand instead you use this tool. The...

Note I am not saying everybody should be using this. Just providing the info to explain what it actually entails. To use any map in a VTT is trival with fog of war. Just load the map, make it big enough to see, enable fog of war, and just expose what the players wind up see. The exposing part...

I don't have a Wizard's Tower but I do have a unpublished Wizard's cliff.