House Rules: Advancement in World of Dungeons

Gaining Experience

These below can be combined with XP for silver or replace it.

Blog Scraps 4

In this issue: Tunnels & Trolls in World of Dungeons, MUs using the Cleric framework, World of Dungeons’ Cantrips, and season-based campaign framework.

Turning Undead Without Clerics

Here’s something from it that may be useful for others. I exclude Clerics whenever possible, partially to make the undead threatening as they should be. But there’s a way that I found interesting to deal with them anyway, a bit more involved than giving any character the change to turn them if they have an occult implement in hands. The framework follows:

Thinking Disability in Adventure Gaming

Cosmic posted this in the expectation of further discussion. I did discuss with her a few minutes after the publishing (the added footnotes at the end were influenced by that), but I think it is better for me to just tackle in a full text to add to it. I have already shared thoughts about mental health in horror games, and will get back to it eventually.

Musings on Non-Variable Damage Stunts

Someone better than me might use this as springboard. This presumes non-variable damage (which is also standard in B/X but most people go to the variable damage alternative) and uses the implied x-in-6 skill system in old D&D:

Three Campaign Settings From the Drawer

Bit of a slush post. This is a list of a few campaign settings that, like so many, linger on the hidden drawer, expecting for the kiss of life or for me to just face them solo, without a group to see me pratfall on the street. So it goes.

World of Dungeons – A Few Rules

Taking a Risk

When you attempt something risky, roll 2d6 + bonus. 6- is a miss; things don’t go well and the risk turns out badly. 7-9 is success with some cost or harm. 10+ is success without complications.

Critical success is excluded. So is the original use of skills, that create a partial-partial success that I could never quite grok. Skills only inform the reasonable impact and consequences from a roll. I often codify exactly what are the standard costs for a campaign, such as units of time, losing an item or getting a negative tag.

Ability Resistance Rolls

(Blog will hopefully return with a lot of content, but a bit of theorycraft first. My thanks to John Bell for entertaining my rambling)