• Home
  • About
    • Contact
    • Copyright
  • Characters
  • Downloads
    • A Flask Full of Gasoline
    • Character Sheets
    • deadEarth Resources
    • Geodesic Gnomes
  • House Rules
    • Random Tables
  • Maps
    • All Maps
    • Commercial Maps
    • Tutorials & Help
    • Adventures
    • Cities & Towns
    • Inns and Taverns
    • Multi-Page Dungeons
      • Return to the Barrier Peaks
      • The Dyson MegaDelve
      • My Private Jakalla
      • Heart of Darkling
    • Geomorphs
    • Vertical Morphology
    • Kevin Campbell
  • ZERO/Barrier
    • 2014 Review
    • 2015 Review
    • 2016 Review
    • Dyson’s Delves
    • Dodecahedron
    • Magical Theorems & Dark Pacts

Dyson's Dodecahedron

~ Award Winning Dungeon Design

Dyson's Dodecahedron

Category Archives: Advice

Old School “Non-Repro Blue” Maps

October 20, 2020

There is a cargo-cultish love for “old school blue” maps within the OSR. Personally I can’t stand them because my …

Continue reading →

Magic Item Certificates

September 11, 2017

Two years ago when we launched our twice-monthly Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign I came up with a standard certificate for …

Continue reading →

Dice Shaming?

August 9, 2014

I’ve been seeing a lot of “Dice Shaming” posts lately on Reddit and a few blogs. The thing is, dice …

Continue reading →

Losing my Dungeon Crawl Classics virginity

October 27, 2013

So it is 90% settled. Tonight’s game will be short one player (my girlfriend got the shaft from her employers …

Continue reading →

The Dreaded Boxed Text

September 29, 2013

I’m enjoying the new wave of old school adventures, but the reality is that we’ve learned a lot about adventure …

Continue reading →

To grid, or not to grid, that is the question!

June 8, 2013

I’m working on a commission for a pretty damn cool adventure, and we’ve been talking about the use or non-use …

Continue reading →

RPGSpeak: Dice

May 15, 2013

– Credit to John M. Ford, Oc.D.

Rockets & Ruins!

May 2, 2013

So, I know I could just go to google+ and ask there, or actually load up a forum or something, …

Continue reading →

My 2D Dungeons Gone 3D!

February 10, 2013

Green Pilgrim over on the Cartographer’s Guild site has taken a pair of my smaller maps and made them into …

Continue reading →

Why collect when you can awesomize your books?

February 6, 2013

Seriously, I wouldn’t tell you to do something that I wouldn’t do myself. Don’t collect RPG books – use them. …

Continue reading →

Tucker’s Kobolds, Redux

April 4, 2012

Many moons ago, I ranted about my hatred for Tucker’s Kobolds, along with an excerpt from the classic Tucker’s Kobolds …

Continue reading →

Setting the scene and using my maps

January 5, 2012

Sorry if my prose is a bit terse or below par this post, I’m writing it while on painkillers from …

Continue reading →

Dungeon Doodles & a CrossHatching Tutorial

September 3, 2011

I was scanning pages out of my notebook (most are non-RPG related doodlings, so they won’t make it up here), …

Continue reading →

← Older posts
Books in print at LuLu
Books in PDF format at RPGnow
 

Navigation

  • About
    • Contact
    • Copyright
  • Characters
  • Downloads
    • A Flask Full of Gasoline
    • Character Sheets
    • deadEarth Resources
    • Geodesic Gnomes
  • House Rules
    • Random Tables
  • Maps
    • Adventures
    • Cities & Towns
    • Commercial Maps
    • Dyson’s Delve
    • Erdea Manor
    • Geomorphs
    • Inns and Taverns
    • Kevin Campbell
    • Multi-Page Dungeons
      • Baraloba and Environs
      • Heart of Darkling
      • Return to the Barrier Peaks
    • My Private Jakalla
    • Sewers
    • The Dyson MegaDelve
    • Tutorials & Help
    • Vertical Morphology
  • Shadows of the Ruinous Powers
  • ZERO/Barrier
    • 2014 Cartographic Review
    • 2015 Cartographic Review
    • 2016 Cartographic Review
    • Dodecahedron
    • Dyson’s Delves
    • Dyson’s Delves Books
    • Dyson’s Delves II
    • Magical Theorems & Dark Pacts

Post Categories

Enter your email address to subscribe to the Dodecahedron and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,882 other followers

Lost in the depths?

Archives

Blog Stats

  • 10,586,293 hits

Actual Play Adventure B/X Basic Books Building Cave Cavern Caverns Caves City Commercial Maps Contest Crypt Crypts DnD5e Doodles Dungeon Dungeons & Dragons Dyson Mega Delve Empire of the Petal Throne Fantasy Fortress Free Future Gamma World geomorph Geomorph Mapping Challenge Geomorphs Hex Map House Rules Isometric Keep Kudos Labyrinth Lord Magic Items Map mapping challenge Maps Megadungeon Modern Mutant Future Old School Essentials OSE OSR Patreon postaday2011 Post Apocalyptic Random Tables Random Thursday Regional Release the Kraken River RPG Ruins Science Fiction Shadows of the Ruinous Powers Shrine Swordtember Tavern Tekumel Temple The Enemy Within Tomb Tombs Tower Town TSR Underdark Urban Village Warhammer Fantasy Weird WHFRP WHFRP1e

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • Dyson's Dodecahedron
    • Join 1,882 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Dyson's Dodecahedron
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...