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Issue 51 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one is all about an area of my own campaign you can include into your campaign world.
Issue 51 is the Bounded Hills issue. It features articles on:
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One of the biggest challenges in solo roleplaying – especially in an old-school Dungeons & Dragons style game – is deciding what your sessions are about.
Without a GM guiding the flow, you, as the lone player, get to decide which aspects of the game world deserve the spotlight.
This is one of the great strengths of solo roleplaying: you get to decide what you want to do.
And while this freedom is powerful, it can also feel overwhelming as you end up having too much to choose from.
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After having reached 50 issues (51 actually, as I started with issue 0) of my d12 Monthly Dungeons & Dragons zine, I thought it might be a good idea to let gamers know a few ways they can use them.
When I started my zine project, I never really thought about getting to 50 issues – I just kept writing and publishing them. Before I knew it, I had released 10, then 20, and then 40 – and all of a sudden I was thinking about what to put into issue 50.
Issue 50 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This one goes back to my roleplaying roots, back to when I didn’t have anyone I knew who played TTRPGs.
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Over the last few weeks I have been running a 2-player Dungeons & Dragons campaign using Old School Essentials (OSE) as the rule set.
I wasn’t sure if so few players would have an impact on the campaign – I mean, most D&D campaigns have 4-6 players.
But it’s been a blast!
The first article in Issue 49 of d12 Monthly (Beyond All That Glitters) is all about what sorts of treasure various monster types (giants, beasts, aberrations, etc) would realistically have.
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Issue 49 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This is the third and final of a 3-part series on treasure. Don’t miss Issue 47 (Treasure & Loot), and Issue 48 (Magical Treasure).
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Attacks of Opportunity (or Opportunity Attacks in the more modern parlance) is a rule that was introduced in D&D 3.0, and has been part of Dungeons & Dragons ever since.
Older versions of the game – like Old School Essentials (OSE) and B/X – never had a rule that covered this as it was left completely up to the GM, never even considered, or handled in a different way (long weapons going first in melee combat, is an example in AD&D).
Issue 48 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This is the second of a 3-part series on treasure. Don’t miss Issue 47 (Treasure & Loot), and Issue 49 (Beyond All That Glitters) – the latter due in July 2025.
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Issue 47 of my Dungeons and Dragons zine, d12 Monthly, is out! This is the first of a 3-part series on treasure. Don’t miss Issues 48 (Magical Treasure), and Issue 49 (Beyond All That Glitters) – both coming soon.
Continue reading “d12 Monthly – Issue 47 – Treasure And Loot”