Caulkhead's OSR/D&D/RPG blog

In world pamphlet of info for my players, I'll use this to explain some rulings of my games at times but generally want to keep to void of that if possible and just use this to give a bit of advice to them from time to time. Welcome ye to Ganister's Guide to Adventuring #1. Me aim is to provide assistance to those choosing a life of adventure. In side ye shall find information most useful when facing danger in the depths of dungeons and beyond. Doors Come in all shapes and sizes, locked and unlocked.  Doors are typically not trapped unless maybe an intruder is expected.  Does the door have gaps and holes? Peek an eye through or use a mirror under the gap for an extra look! Knowing which way a door opens is important, if the door swings towards ye then at least one person can usually hide in the hinge side corner for a sneaky approach. Doors can be braced, pinned, and trapped. I've also seen wizardry used to heat up the door handle. Doors are a common place for combat to o...

 I am currently running Into the Borderlands for my main group. Were using TaleSpire this time to shake things up a bit, and we are using OSE ruleset with a few tweaks here and there. The party made their way to the Caves of Chaos and we ended the session just before they venture into cave D. Cave D is full of Goblins but in the spirit of hacking things up I'd like to make Goblins a little more boisterous, icky and downright disgusting. These Goblins want nothing more than to strip you of your fingernails and toenails. They want to urinate in your porridge with their disgusting steaming streams of acidic piss. They wear clothes made from a random mishmash of trash and objects pilfered from the corpses of men. In short they are little bastards who have no qualms about sneezing rotsnot in your face and stabbing your loved ones in the back. I will be using reaction rolls on the night so none of this will probably go in any direction I am expecting! The Rooms 17 - 21 The Goblin section...