tl;dr Grellcon was a full success! London is expensive but please do not sleep at NX hostel . Disclaimer: Write to me if you want your name removed, changed or added to my report. Sorry for not writing down all the names of the players! There are some mild spoilers for the played modules. For context: Grellcon is a small OSR / fantasy adventure gaming convention in London , with a pre-event at a pub on Friday (3rd of July) evening (maybe 30ish people) and the main day on Saturday (4th of July) at Stanley Arts with around 70 attendees. Prologue It started for me with a conversation about C. A. Smith and his weird sculptures at Cauldron 25 (as far as I know the biggest European OSR / fantasy adventure gaming con, near Frankfurt, then in its 3rd year). Andrew came up with the idea of hosting Grellcon while talking to Mitch and shortly afterwards invited me. Cauldron was in October 25, Grellcon on the 4th of July 26, so I was hyped for months. During this time, Andre...
What is this and why are we here? A few days ago, on the official Northwind Adventures Discord server , there was a request for dungeon encounter tables for Hyperborea 3e. There are currently brilliant regional encounter tables on the official Hyperborea website by Ben Ball. The very great and sweet Len presented the idea to use the "Dungeon random Monster Level Determination Matrix" from AD&D's DMG (p.174). I am attempting here to present a solution that doesn't get me in trouble with any lawyers, so I am going to use the "Monster Sub-Table Matrix" from OSRIC 2e (p. 168) and I am not going to copy over any monster stats from the Hyperborea books. Regarding the encounter matrizes, OSRIC does it with a d12 instead of a d20, groups together levels 1-2 instead of 2-3, but overall seems to achieve pretty similar results. Procedure (ripped from OSRIC and AD&D) Choose the dungeon level (e.g. distance to the surface or just make it up, I am not your bos...