Tim Kask
“Old school” (a term I despise) was all about “guidelines not rules” and
thinking outside of the box. I’d like to share just one example, of many, where this trait proved to be the difference between life and death.
This incident goes back a couple of years to an adventure I was running at a con. This was when I was still running prepared, written-out-in advance adventures. On this occasion, I was using mid-level PC pregens and told the party (as a private test of my own) that they could each have one magic item that might be considered likely to have been acquired in their relatively short careers. I told them that anything foolish or extravagant, i.e., not something a 5th–7th level was likely to have obtained, would be disallowed and they would get NO magic
item. Only one did not get the gist of my warning; I disallowed his Staff (it was either …of Power or …of the Magi). He carped about the “unfairness” and I told him that greed kills, at least in my worlds. Another player asked for a Ring of Speak with Animals. I said sure,
knowing that I had no animal “monsters” in the upcoming adventure. I also gave my standard “you’re ordinarily equipped as seasoned adventurers” speech and stated that if they were taking something unusual to just write it on their sheet before we started. He noted that he
was taking a pound of hard, dry cheese and a bag of twenty mice. Can you see where this might go? I didn’t. He sent those damned mice into every room and down every dark
corridor ahead of himself and the party. There were no surprises for the party if you don’t count the time he lost three mice to a firetrap. He finished with 17 mice, a hell of a treasure haul won much more easily than I had anticipated, and one chastened DM.

The box be damned.

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Tonight I managed to get a website store setup with Square as a pay portal so everything is nice and secure.

I’ve added in all the most recent zine products. I have shelves of old modules and extras kicking around I will be adding those as I move along.

I am re-inventing this whole site form the ground up as I work through getting the Dragon Wagon Food Cart up and running for the 2026 season and prep for a trip to Texas, a TV show, new writing, new art, and a bunch of ambitions.

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