Sharon L. Daugherty

Writer, artist, sometimes researcher: chiefly in history, science fiction, and fantasy. Dabbler in too many handicrafts, avid reader, eclectic gamer.

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

💕🐈‍⬛ Exhausted after playing with my toys this #jellybellyfriday 😹 Have a great day furiends, love Nancy 😻

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

Happy #tongueouttuesday furiends - have a wonderful day, love Nancy #PickleAndNancy 💕🐈‍⬛

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

Happy #throwbackthursday everyone, love Nancy and Angel Pickle ❤️

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

Going to be hot today so getting ready to air the floof! Have a great #jellybellyfriday furiends 😻

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

💕Happy #catboxsunday furiends! We are having a heatwave in the UK this weekend and this box is keeping me nice and cool. Have a great day everyone, love Nancy 😻

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

💕Hope furiends in the UK are managing to stay cool! 💦 Happy #tuxietuesday everyone - some cuddles with catdad before I start my first doze of the day 😻

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

Happy #whiskerswednesday furiends! Hope you are all managing to stay cool in the heatwave. Have a great day, love Nancy 💕🐈‍⬛

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

Airing the floof this #jellybellyfriday 😻Have a great day furiends, love Nancy 🐈‍⬛💕

[SemiBakedWife @SemiBakedWife]

Day 24: yes there are still some struggling issues but also a few great ones too! Removing the amydagala has me settling into no anxiety or weird/bad feelings that thing delivers for everyone from that piece. It's great without it! I have had 2-3 seizures but they haven't been normal. They might not be epilepsy related. It might still be cured of epilepsy. Also, my brain went from not sleeping properly to sleeping with no problems at all. Four hours at best has flipped to 12 easily.

It's a lot of not knowing how this will end, but good things are happening. I love the good things.

[SemiBakedWife @SemiBakedWife]

One of the reasons I stopped on X back in March was because all the political bullshit suddenly didn't matter to me. Again, I can't appreciate them tearing that amygdala out of my brain enough.

Now that I'm removing anything politically involved? Birds, gardens, parks and ad&d I finally get to see for once 😍

[SemiBakedWife @SemiBakedWife]

I have some homework to do.

[SemiBakedWife @SemiBakedWife]

He has been so committed and doing an amazing job getting this done.

It is so good I am ridiculously close to pulling the trigger on a brand new computer just so I can have one too. I miss some games and I won't see them for awhile 🤣

[Badger Games @BadgerGamesLLC]

Classic AD&D inspired Goblins are coming from HND Miniatures to terrorize your next Dungeon Crawl. Much more expected. Watch this space! #DND #Dungeonsanddragons

[Worlds Within @xWorldsWithinx]

WW Roots
This black‑spine AD&D Player’s Handbook was a later TSR reprint. These books were workhorses: scuffed, shared, loaned, and played with for years while editions shifted around them. Like the orange‑spine PHB, it is a reminder that games persist through use, not eras.
#DnD

[Old School Gamer @LibertyForAll19]

AD&D I like it when I played with people that played the game not bitched about the rules. All the chiding and lectures about complexity were dismissed as silly and annoying. We played a game we did not tell a story. Nobody seems to do that now. So I move on from it.

[Law Dog. TTRPG Guru. @LawDogStrikes]

#dnd #RPGstuffdaily

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks (S3) — AD&D 1e Classic That Still Kicks Ass

Folks, if you’ve never run Gary Gygax’s 1980 sci-fi fever dream dropped into your straight-up fantasy campaign, you’re missing one of the greatest “what the hell is this?” moments in old-school D&D history. A crashed spaceship full of malfunctioning robots, vegepygmies, a deadly fungus plague, and enough laser pistols to make your fighter weep with joy. I’ve dragged parties through it multiple times over the decades, and it never fails to deliver pure gonzo chaos.
One run in particular still gets brought up at the table whenever we’re swapping war stories. We were deep in the Activity Deck — you know, the recreation level where the ship’s crew used to blow off steam. The party had already survived the medical bay horrors and the vegepygmy ambush, so we were feeling pretty cocky. We had a solid mix of 1e murderhobos: a half-orc fighter named Grimgor (played by my buddy Denis, always the first to charge in), a sneaky thief, a magic-user who was hoarding every power cell he could find (mine) , and the usual supporting cast. We stumble into this gym-like chamber lined with exercise equipment that looks straight out of a 1970s sci-fi film. In the middle is a hulking “boxing and wrestling trainer” robot — one of those specialized sports models the module describes. It’s still powered up, lights blinking, waiting for someone to step into the ring like it’s business as usual. Denis's Grimgor, being Grimgor with his 18/seventy something strength, decides this is the perfect time to show off. He struts in, flexes, and basically challenges the damn thing to a sparring match. “I got this, it’s just a training dummy with arms,” he says. The robot politely asks for his authorization code (which he doesn’t have). Then it goes straight into training mode… except the safety protocols are long gone. It grabs him in a wrestling hold that would make a hill giant blush, slams him into the mat hard enough to trigger system shock, then follows up with a brutal series of mechanical jabs that crit right through his plate mail. Denis rolls the save… and fails spectacularly. The robot doesn’t stop until the rest of the party starts unloading crossbow bolts and spells. By the time they pry Grimgor loose, he’s got a shattered leg, crushed ribs, and a permanent limp that the local clerics can’t fully fix without some serious quest-level magic courtesy of some critical tables grafted on out of either Rolemaster or the Arduin Grimiore. Old-school AD&D at its finest: no plot armor, no fudging the dice, just a training robot doing exactly what it was programmed to do — train you to death. Denis played that crippled half-orc for the rest of the campaign, hobbling around the spaceship corridors with a crutch made from a laser rifle stock, cursing every malfunctioning servo he passed. The whole group still laughs about “the day Grimgor got owned by gym class.” It turned a throwaway encounter into pure table legend. That’s why Expedition to the Barrier Peaks remains one of my all-time favorite modules. It blends high-lethality old-school danger with enough weird tech to keep even jaded players on their toes. If you’re running 1e (or any OSR clone that can handle a little gonzo), grab it, drop it into your world, and watch your party learn the hard way that sometimes the training robot doesn’t know when to quit.

[Queenie Rose @QueenieBelfast]

I waited until CatDad had finished vacuuming and then I started again 😹. I’m very popular on #CatBoxSunday.
#CatsOfX #AdoptDontShop

[Pickle and Nancy @PickleAndNancy]

😻💕🐈‍⬛ Happy #catboxsunday furiends! Hope you have a good day, love Nancy #PickleAndNancy 😻💕🐈‍⬛

[SemiBakedWife @SemiBakedWife]

I need some help AD&D friends!

Losing part of the brain was great - tons less seizures already. However it caused some killing up there to do it and that included AD&D.

I played a lot before. Now? Can't remember a thing. I need to re-learn EVERYTHING.

That pic is just a start. I have all the books available, but where do I start? Which one first? Combine some? Don't need all of one book? What do you think is the best way to teach a new player so they can get playing fast yet actually know what they are doing?

[YoDanno #DragonlanceDragonlance @YoDanno]

Got to play a few hours of AD&D today, such a great time. Our amazing DM @Jesswhitecomic has us around Perrenland and others where all four S series modules are on the table, but he has truly made everything his own.

Currently we’re in the realm of Tsojcanth.

Any S series fans?