Having played Dragons At Dawn, I decided to dig out my copy of The First Fantasy Campaign, published by Judges Guild.

Man, is that book dense and filled with throwaway "wtf!" moments!

Dave Arneson was not very verbose at describing how he played his games. But, good with weird hints.

#DragonsAtDawn #DaveArneson #ttrpg #ttrpgArcheology

I ran Dragons At Dawn last night in Tonisborg. That baby is *deadly*.

We had some issues with the combat system, which felt quite clunky. Adjusting the combat values by the Dex and level differential was brutal!

I think that rolling your stats with 2d6-2 can generate some quite brittle characters if you roll badly on Dex.

Interesting though to have to roll morale for the combatants, including the PCs.

One PC dead, two NPC wizards fried.

#ttrpg #Tonisborg #DragonsAtDawn #D@D #Blackmoor

I really feel like the proverbial squirrel when it comes choosing a game to run.

I had planned to run *Dragons at Dawn*, but after a week at a big medieval festival with people all around me in costumes, I feel all giddy to play *WHFRP* instead. Then we have that *Blood and Bronze* game I have planned in a week or two...

*focus*

#OhShiny #whfrp #BloodAndBronze #DragonsAtDawn #ttrpg

I just re+read my own notes about how combat works in *Dragons at Dawn*, and I am really confused. Involved gaming procedures really doesn't get stuck in my mind just from reading.

#DragonsAtDawn #Blackmoor #Tonisborg #ttrpg #OldSchool

I decided to try to stat the monsters on the first level of *The Lost Dungeon of Tonisborg*, for *Dragons At Dawn*, as the most old school Blackmoor thing possible.

Maybe it might be an interesting comparison point for that rare individual out there who knows about this niche old school gaming niche.

I'm pretty sure actual play will show the numbers to be way off.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xcq5ffjqXeFI9TUsmKMhVFLmD0pYY4NN4QmMQfdnUgk/edit?usp=sharing

#OSR #Blackmoor #OldSchoolGaming #DragonsAtDawn #DaveArneson #GregSvenson #Tonisborg

Having read a bit more in *Dragons at Dawn* I realized that I don't think I ever saw mention of it back in the day, or now for that matter. Are there anyone around who have tried to play it?

#Blackmoor #OSR #DragonsAtDawn #DaveArneson #Dungeons #ttrpg

I am reading the Blackmoor "inspired recreation" *Dragons at Dawn* by D.H. Boggs and it amazes me how much it reminds me of T&T.

#TunnelsAndTrolls #DragonsAtDawn #Blackmoor

As *The Lost Dungeon of Tonisborg* (Greg Svenson's old dungeon) showed up in the mail yesterday, I'm now preoccupied with the idea of running a old school dungeon crawl, in the very roots of the hobby.

I took out Dan Boggs Blackmoor recreation game, *Dragons at Dawn*, thinking that it can't be any more Blackmoor than that, can it?

#Blackmoor #Tonisborg #TheGreatSvenny #DragonsAtDawn #ttrpg