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Category Archives: D&d

Back To B/X?

July 17, 2018 7:49 pm / 3 Comments / UbiquitousRat

Back in the 1980’s, when I was the kid hanging out around my mate’s house and roleplaying, we used to play Dungeons & Dragons. My edition was the 1983 Red Box but my buddy owned the 1981 B/X edition. At the time, we had no idea that they weren’t just different printings of the same … Read More →

Posted in: D&D, Fantasy, Musings / Tagged: b/x, experience, old school, OSR, play

On Origins & Influences

October 15, 2017 7:03 am / 1 Comment / UbiquitousRat

As my gaming friends know, I have been roleplaying for something like 30 or more years. The roots of my hobby have been documented elsewhere, but over the past two or three years I have been revisiting those roots. It began with a trip into the Red Box of Dungeons & Dragons (1981) and led … Read More →

Posted in: D&D, Musings, News, Roleplaying / Tagged: assumptions, gaming, history, learning, reflections

Hargrave’s Old School

August 1, 2017 9:23 pm / 3 Comments / UbiquitousRat

Reflecting on my re-reading of David Hargrave’s Arduin material, I realise that the “Old School” was never as homogeneous as many in the community would have us believe today. Hargrave was, perhaps, an outlying force in the hobby – contentious and loathed by some – but he was also a force for creativity and variety. … Read More →

Posted in: Arduin, D&D, Fantasy, GMing, Musings / Tagged: assumptions, gaming, house rules, old school, reflections

Dungeon Mastery as Generative Learning

July 30, 2017 2:26 pm / 1 Comment / UbiquitousRat

In their seminal book on learning, “Make It Stick“, the authors outline the importance of failure in facilitating the process of generative learning. That is to say that, as we screw up in an endeavor, we learn from our mistakes. Difficulties are to be embraced because true mastery is on the path which embraces such … Read More →

Posted in: D&D, Fantasy, GMing, Mirador / Tagged: adventure, learning, old school, prep, Realm Works

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