Holmesian bits spotted on the internet.. good to see a couple of names from Mike Carr's module B1, which came with some of the Holmes sets, appear on the Hill Cantons blog - Kracki the Hooded One and Mohag the Wanderer, still going strong after all these years : )
http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hill-cantons-wilderness-crawl.html
(see http://grognardia.blogspot.com/2010/07/characters-of-b1.html for handy scans of those sample character names from B1)
http://hillcantons.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-hill-cantons-wilderness-crawl.html
I wish there were more "classic D&D" players & especially DMs where I'm at so I could talk one of them into running something like this so I can be a Player. ;)
ReplyDeleteI've started the 5th edition version of Into the Borderlands, and I'mma throwing in all the NPCs from B1 in there for the PCs to meet eventually. I want to develop an XP system for NPCs met & dealt with, and then create a report on how well received each NPC was by the players.
MAR Barker the creator of Tekumel used colored index cards to track NPCs.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, Ebon Dark - if memory serves Tony Bath did the same for characters in his Hyboria wargaming campaign in the 1960s (as well as using a rack of matchboxes as storage drawers to track what was encountered in / happening in grid squares on the wargame campaign map, which ws a pretty cool way to track that back in the day).
ReplyDeleteI've tried 3x5's for NPCs in my last campaign, and it was a bit of a management headache, but not any more than typing everything up in Word & scrolling through it during a game. lol.
ReplyDeleteI was tracking magic items by writing them on 3x5's to hand to players when they discover them, but, as time went by, this practice also went by the wayside. However, we've started at 1st level again, and I am seriously contemplating implementing this practice again.
It was far too confusing when players would announce using a magic item that I didn't recall every handing out. It turns out that half of those items were handed out during my absence when another player took the DM reins for a night.
Chirine ba Kal wrote about Barkrrs use of index cards in detail I believe.
ReplyDeleteEbon Dark , do you have a link to that post by Chirine?
ReplyDeleteAsk Chirine himself. He is here on google Plus and on his blog chirinesworkbench.blogspot.com - chirine's workbench
ReplyDeleteI could not find it. It could be buried over at DRAGONSFOOT or ODD74. Chirine will know.
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