The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

In this series on gems (four years in the making!) I’ve talked about how to set up gem types for a dungeon and how to assign gems to treasu...

In Part I of this series on gems, I talked about limiting the kinds of gems in each dungeon to just three, maybe four if you really want a ...

I ended the first post of my series on gems ( Gems Intro ,) with this paragraph: I plan on detailing each of these modified steps in a sep...

I’ve been meaning to do another movie review for a while, so obviously it’s time to start a series of posts discussing dungeon treasure stoc...

I wanted to take a break from endless treasure codes posts, but they keep reeling me back in… I started a thread on the OD&D forums to...

So, I did all that stuff about mnemonic treasure codes, and then I decided there was a way to make the mnemonics much easier to read and mor...

I wrote a lot of posts over the past couple weeks about a new mnemonic way to mark treasure in monster descriptions: Part One: treasure co...

This is Part Five in an ongoing series re-examining treasure types in OD&D and discussing a possible mnemonic replacement. Part One: t...

This is Part Four of in a series re-examining treasure types in OD&D and discussing a possible mnemonic replacement. Part One: treasur...

Topic Two in a series of explainer follow-ups for the treasure codes post is gems and jewelry. The original treasure table specified that g...

At some point, I plan to do a conversion table for OD&D treasure types to the treasure codes I wrote about last week. But that’s going ...

One thing I may not have made clear in the treasure codes article is that I’ve thought a lot about treasure types and written about them in...

The treasure types table in OD&D’s Monsters & Treasure booklet has slightly obscure design goals, which carry over into B/X, BECM, ...