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The gang leads their brave NPC villagers to attack the goblins in the dungeon but immediately hits some lore-related complications.
Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/247.
Highlights: stealthing, hellmark, surprise attacks, improvised grappling hooks.
Meta: Hornless session 9 (10260124@1120—1026-01-25@0900).

The fellas continue their delve into the goblin lair in my Hornless campaign. With only 4 players this time, they make the most of their numbers, focusing on scouting the dungeon and expanding the map—until they encounter an NPC. This sends the session sideways and lays the groundwork for the next episode. I also find my current pathcrawl travel procedure unsatisfactory—look for a separate post on that later.
Highlights: pathcrawling, dungeon mapping, dungeon scouting, NPC interaction, dungeon raid planning, rallying NPC allies.
Meta: Hornless session 8 (1026-01-24 @ 1 a.m. - 1026-01-24 @ 11:20 a.m.). (Note that most of the Hornless sessions were done online and not recorded.)
Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/246.

The ggnore crew is back with the classic lightning-round opinion panel, ROLL TIDE or NAW? Topics discussed:
Random public ttrpg gaming
Neat whiskey rodeo cool
Solo TTRPGs
Official IP-based TTRPG (such as Star Wars, Alien, etc)
TTRPG where characters are mice or other animals (mouseguard, mausritter, maus borg)
bad or wild things happening on natural 1 (weapon breaks, trip and fall, spell hits another PC and turns his head into a chicken)
80s D&D cartoon
The dungeon is really a crashed space ship!
Human only PCs
Carousing for XP
Boxed text
Boxed text poetry
Video game "romance options"
strict time records
Roll play (eg, persuasion rolls)
Level 0 funnels
Funhouse dungeons
Sanity/stress mechanics
Apparatus of Kwalish
Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/245.
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Pathcrawling, dungeon delving, and stealth houserules in the second actual play episode of our homebrew D&D campaign, Hornless.
Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/244.
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Our tabletop RPG advice column, Dear Gary, returns with these questions:
- Dear Listener writes: Dear Gary, I run games (often one shots) that are made accessible to a rather wide pool of players, and sometimes get an unexpectedly large group. How do I keep everyone consistently engaged in the session and off their phones at higher player counts?
- Brian writes: Dear Gary, could you discuss the main house rules you use for your 5e/D&D games? Have you been inspired to add any rules from other game systems to your D&D games?
- Brian writes: Dear Gary, what are your thoughts on game systems that use species (or race) as class, such as basic/expert D&D (from 80s), Dungeon Crawl Classics, or others?
- Brian writes: Dear Gary, what is a game you have been eager to play but not gotten to the table?
Show notes page: https://ggnorecast.com/243.