Author: Noah Lloyd

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Noah Lloyd

After being eaten by a dragon in his first AD&D session at eight years old, Noah took an almost twenty-year hiatus from RPGs. Now heâ€™s back, co-founding ReckoningOfTheDead.com, a website for Call of Cthulhu and other horror games, and freelancing as much as possible, while also working on a PhD in literature. Most recently he worked on the upcoming second edition of Harlem Unbound.

Climbing The Dice Chain

Posted by Noah Lloyd | Apr 5, 2019 | Game Mastering, GMing Ideas, Guest Posts

In the old school-flavored Dungeon Crawl...

Magician’s Choice: Using an Age-Old Conjurer’s Trick at the Table

Posted by Noah Lloyd | Feb 26, 2018 | General

Today’s guest article, by Noah Lloyd, is...

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