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Thursday, May 1, 2025

B/X House Rules - Updated

Dead Lords by Brom

In February of 2023 I kicked off a B/X campaign with some friends of mine using B4 The Lost City by Tom Moldvay. Over two years later, with a hiatus here and a break there, we still meet and deal with the ancient secrets of Cynidicea on game nights. 

Below is the simple list of house rules we use to run the game. A few items added we added earlier have fallen off, some things we've tried haven't stuck. These ones have seen a fare bit of use so far and have stuck around.

Thursday, July 14, 2022

B/X House Rules

Spectre by Erol Otus

Recently I started a 1:1 campaign of B/X with my partner. Going to be doing a 'Stonehell on the Borderlands' style setup building on the skeletal version of the Grand Duchy of Karameikos presented in the back of the Expert book. The goal is short one or two-hour sessions of good ol' vanilla fantasy with extremely minimal prep and a megadungeon focus.

We'll be using the classic 1981 Basic/Expert Dungeons & Dragons set by Moldvay and Cook with the following small addendums and alterations: