A thought occurred to me that D&D could be understood as a series of interlocking mini-games arranged horizontally and/or vertically relative to one another, and that these mini-games could be broken up into four general cate...

Foreboding is a difficult emotion to evoke, but amplifies the enjoyment of having wandering monsters in adventure games. This is a procedure for using them in old school D&D. I used a variant of this procedure in Emern, but t...