Negative Space: Judges Guild
- Final Game Junky: The Spineless
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I don’t look at the spineless games as much because they don’t have spine: I can’t just glance over them and see their names. But these are the backbone adventures of any good D&D-style campaign.
- Island Book 1 and old-school tables
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Judges Guild Island Book 1 is a fascinating playground on which to place a sea-going adventure or campaign. It’s also a great example of the usefulness and wildness of old-school encounter tables.
- Knee deep in monster frogs: A Judges Guild history
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Bill Owen, one of the early members/employees of Judges Guild, has created an amazing color collection of old Judges Guild artifacts: maps, designs, and more from the early days of JG.
- Old school spell: Disbelieve Reality
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If reality is about to harm you, disbelieve it! A trip back to 1983 and the Judges Guild zine, Pegasus.
- Quick-and-dirty old-school island script
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Here’s a Python-based island generator using the tables from the Judges Guild Island Book 1.
- Skin a module 3: Thracia to The Lost City
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The Judges Guild module Caverns of Thracia is one of the classics of the old-school. It’s also eminently reskinnable by changing the names of gods and expanding on some of the magic items hidden inside.
More Information
- The Acaeum
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A complete listing of TSR Dungeons & Dragons products through Advanced Dungeons & Dragons with detailed histories and edition listings. Also, a complete listing of Judges Guild products. If you enjoy old school, you won’t want to miss this site.
- Judges Guild’s Bob & Bill
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“Background of Bill Owen as an early wargamer in the 60’s & 70’s—Meeting Bob Bledsaw, our D&D campaign days—false start with the forgotten roleplaying game system that was out of this world—Personal pictures and scans of one-of-a-kind play aids—wild ride on the JG tiger particularly from 76-78… updating with more text, photos and multi-page full-scale maps of the original color Tegel Manor drawn by Bob in ’75 & the oldest remaining blueprint draft of City State.”
Note: the PDF version is not a real PDF. It requires special software to view. Which isn’t the end of the suck. The Adobe Digital Edition e-reader is the same…
- Bill Owen Q&A
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“As a very occasional lurker here, I wanted to fill some blanks because I was there at the beginning… and I thought JG fans might enjoy the context of the time.”
- Judges Guild
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No friggin’ way! Judges’ Guild is back! Rat on a Stick! Pegasus adventures for download!
