Monthly Archives: March 2015

Denizens of Dinosaur Island: the Haunted Jungle

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Matt Wedel

The Haunted Jungle is basically tropical Mirkwood. The jungles have been corrupted by the dark magic of the Yuan-ti, who want to raise the Serpentine Continent – of which Dinosaur Island is the last exposed remnant – reestablish the Ophidian Dominion, … Continue reading →

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One possible Infernal Machine

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Matt Wedel

I participated in Scott Taylor’s Folio 1E relaunch Kickstarter, and got my hardcopy of the module in the mail a few weeks ago. It’s a nice piece of kit – you can read a more thorough review here. But it … Continue reading →

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Epic sandboxery, remixed

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Matt Wedel

Sources Part of the OSR/DIY ethos is building on what others have built, and I’ve taken that to heart here – almost everything in this post is borrowed from somewhere else. The basic framework is from Jeff Rients’s Epic sandboxery, … Continue reading →

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Getting some distance from Star Wars

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Matt Wedel

I read this article on io9 and passed it on to Mike, and then we had this exchange via email. Mike: I can’t help wondering what else Lucas might have achieved in the last few decades if he’d not pithered away so … Continue reading →

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There’s a new sheriff in town

Posted on March 8, 2015 by Matt Wedel

Something new happened last night – London ran his first session of D&D. Since we’re midway through the Dinosaur Island campaign with our original characters, we rolled up new ones for this second thing, which we’re calling the Evergreen campaign. … Continue reading →

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The Battle for Minatou, Part 2 – Actual play report

Posted on March 7, 2015 by Matt Wedel

The last post was about setting up the Battle of Minatou. This one is about how it all went down. Day 1: The day after we captured the Diplodocobra for Vrenn Larr, one of her teratorn-mounted scouts reported a huge … Continue reading →

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The Battle for Minatou, Part 1 – Battle encounter table

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Matt Wedel

In the last Dinosaur Island post, I mentioned that the Neanderthal queen, Vrenn Larr, needed a Diplodocobra, but I didn’t say what she needed it for. As they travel around the archipelago, the party is getting closer to an inevitable … Continue reading →

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