Spells and Steel

Development blog for Spells and Steel, an RPG system for simulating a low-magic 14th-century Europe, as well as general D&D, OSR, and RPG thoughts

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8 June 2017

Dungeon Design: Shortcuts in the Souls Games

One of the things that drew me into the *Souls video games (Demon Souls, Dark Souls) was their use of shortcuts. For those not familiar wi...

26 December 2015

Forest Excursion - Night-time

I walked some of the same path as the previous post in the dark. Conditions were clear, starlight for illumination. The moon was half full a...

23 December 2015

Forest Excursion - Daytime

A year ago I took a hike over the family lands and took some pictures and recorded some notes in the interest of writing some D&D-relat...

21 December 2015

Alignments that Aren't Stupid

While alignments as proposed by Gygax are thoroughly stupid, the concept of alignment could perhaps be a useful one, albeit in a manner fai...

19 October 2014

Alignments are still stupid

Just in case anyone had forgotten, alignments are still stupid and valueless. We get along in daily life just fine without alignments. We ...

10 October 2014

More about Poleaxes

I am happy to see that my old post about my favourite medieval weapon, the poleaxe, has been generating some discussion lately. It is a wea...

5 October 2014

Things I'm Thinking About

Mostly just posting for my own benefit. These are the things I'm thinking about these days. Mostly things that have come up during play....

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About Me

Charles A: Game-master, history buff, focused on 14th/early 15th century.

Started gaming at 9 years old with the Mentzer Basic set, and over the years, have played BECMI D&D, 2E AD&D, Pathfinder, and any number of homebrew wargames, story games, and RPGs.

I'm a strong believer in the OSR, the kind of gaming it represents, and the DIY/hobby-gamer mentality.

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