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December 31, 2015

The Abandoned Dwarvish Mine

We played an adventure from Basic Fantasy and I was inspired to expand it and make it my own. The adventure is going to be overhauled and is coming shortly. This is the new map:

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December 30, 2015

General Info

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 90,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see…

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December 29, 2015

General Info

Reducing the Risk of Total Party Kill

The party of brave low level adventurers are exploring a dungeon, the problem is the dungeon is stocked organically and there is nothing to ensure that the encounters are at a level that the party can handle. Maybe they'll run into some first level goblin fodder, or maybe they'll stumble on a pack of gnolls…

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December 23, 2015

Adventure / Encounter

Adventure: Santa Situation

Someone has kidnapped the jolly leader of the elves, Nicolas. Can your brave adventurers track and recover him before it's too late? The Stand Situation is a Cresthaven RPG Adventure for a party of 3-5 midlevel characters. It is compatible with most OSR games and can be easily adapted to other d20 type RPG system.…

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December 19, 2015

Adventure / Gameplay

Playing Dungeons and Dragons with Kids

I was recently invited to my kid's 3rd grade classroom to demonstrate Dungeons and Dragons. I knew that 5th edition was not going to be a good option, as I only had about an hour to teach and run the game, and I needed to rethink how I was going to present the information to the…

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December 15, 2015

General Info

10 More Things to Say When a PC Makes a Perception Check and Finds Nothing | Raging Swan Press

http://www.ragingswan.com/10-more-things-to-say-when-a-pc-makes-a-perception-check-and-finds-nothing/

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December 4, 2015

General Info

Going into 2016

Next year is going to be a key year for the Cresthaven RPG project. As some of you may know, I've been swamped with work and the Lovecraft Fate Project. I'm nearly completed with that project, then I can focus my time on Cresthaven RPG. The plan for next year includes: Updated rules, taking all…

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November 20, 2015

Mechanics / Rules

Combat – Expanded

Additional combat rules to add to your Cresthaven RPG games.

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November 10, 2015

Bestiary / Encounter / Monsters

Bestiary: Ruins of Castle Mistamere

This is a list of monsters you will encounter when you play through the starter adventure, Ruins of Castle Mistamere.

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November 9, 2015

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