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Wolverine vs The Hand - This short from Blunt Brothers Productions is pretty dope. It's based on Logan's fight with the Hand from Frank Miller's Wolverine miniseries.
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POKÉMON BX III Day 31…HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!! IT’S GOLBAT! - I don’t think I’ve done this one before. I hope not! Happy H’o’Ween, From Me to You and Yours! This is probably the last year for Pokémon BX, but I do full...2 days ago
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Sumerian Astrology and the Zodiac Birth Augur - Who needs another zodiac-based Birth Augur and Lucky Roll table for *Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG*? You, waving at me from the top of that ziggurat! I knew...2 days ago
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Playing Beyond Gaming - Gee, it sure is boring around here— *DISCLAIMER* The author wrote this article out of her interest in this hobby, and also to synthesize this with her ot...4 days ago
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Art You're Scared to Look At Directly - I have recently been going through a bit of a Fighting Fantasy trip, having found some old books in my attic roughly six months ago. I have all of the *So...4 days ago
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A Confluence of Ideas - Yesterday, I was watching Mike Mearls' YouTube channel. If you don't know who that is, he was a designer for WotC, working on 4E and 5E before Hasbro/Wot...5 days ago
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Unboxing and Testing the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ - So first off, no blog post will be worth the sort of exposure a Youtube unboxing and testing can offer, but a blog post with no sponsorship and just an ...
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Greyhawk Quiz: Populations Point Clicker - Surprise! It's another post before the end of October. I decided to do another *Greyhawk* themed quiz to test your knowledge of the setting. If you haven...
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THIS IS WHY WE PRAY: So This City Will Stand By The Gods' Will - I saw a Reddit post where a DM tried to figure out how a city in their campaign could exist and feed itself. But in the end, after many hours with Excel ...
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Morphic Masks (Freebie, Gear) - Masks can be found throughout Outer World for a number of reasons. There is the obvious utility of hiding one's identity, but they have other, more fr...
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Dark Conspiracy: Intruder Dark Minion - I've been a fan of Dark Conspiracy since it was first published by Game Designer's Workshop and I went all in on Mongoose's Backerkit campaign for the...
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More Miniatures, More Problems, - I recently started painting miniatures again. This is a very good thing, because I bought a lot of them. A lot. Not only did I buy the Reaper Dungeon Dwell...4 weeks ago
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New Blackmoor World Map: A Dave Arneson Game Day Present - Happy Dave Arneson Game Day everybody! My present to the community is a world map that I have made for Dave Arneson's Blackmoor. This map is based...4 weeks ago
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Bathtub Review: Wages of Sin - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...1 month ago
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Back from the Void: "Where ya been, Gundobad?" - redux! - Well: hello again. It's been a year and a half since my last post, from February 2025. Meanwhile, any reports of my demise have been exaggerated (and hop...
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Liminal Cordon Authority After Acton Approval Case File #: JGV51874-08232012.C - Now, here's the After Action Approval. Also known as an exit interview with internal affairs. If you want to refer to them as infernal affairs, I won't b...2 months ago
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Special Attacks when you hit exact AC - Special Attacks Attack an enemy and if you *exactly* hit their AC, you do a special attack! The special attack depends on the type of weapon you're wielding....
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Pride, Kink, and the Right to Be Left Alone - It is Pride Month. Or Pride season, really, since in Britain these things tend to smear themselves across most of the summer according to local council sch...
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Wizards of the Coast Announces More D&D for Everyone, but Not All of It’s for You - At Gen Con, Dungeons & Dragons franchise head Dan Ayoub joined various D&D team members and stars connected with D&D to reveal future plans for the game an...2 months ago
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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - N-Spiration - Frieren: Beyond Journey's End About Frieren The saga that is *Frieren* started (and continues) as a serialized manga written by Kanehito Y...
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The Fractured Authority Gambit: A 13th Age Game - The cleric fell. Tension was rising. Players got worried and antsy.3 months ago
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King Conan, Conan the Barbarian: Queen of the Black Coast, and the Fidelity Paradox - Only took 16 years. “What was that you started telling me the other day about a monkey’s paw or something, Morris?” “Nothing,” said the soldier, hastily...
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My New Campaign: Low Fantasy Gaming - One of the earliest decisions I made with this campaign was to use the Fantasy AGE system. Last night I realized… with the direction I’m going in the natur...4 months ago
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Moldvay Basic finally available in Print on Demand - Great news: The "B" of "*B/X*", the rulebook of *the 1981 D&D Basic Set*, commonly known as the *Moldvay Basic*, is finally available in print-on-demand...
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Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...6 months ago
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Christ is Risen! - *Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen. O Death, where...
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Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List - Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up compiling a chart of AD&D weapon characteristics, adding some "missing" entries an...6 months ago
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Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...7 months ago
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Cepheus/Traveller: BlakeDicey Ta Roll Fable - Wherein your humble scribe presents stats in Cepheus Universal (which isn’t Classic Traveller, but is close enough for a BBC budget) for some universally c...8 months ago
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Sunset Realms Diss Track - Thanks, Wizzz I am currently playing in my *9th* campaign of the illustrious Wizzzargh of the DMiurgy blog since joining their server in 2018. I wanted to...
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Review: GURPS Gun Stats - Imagine the following situation: you want to feature a certain gun in your campaign, but you want to do it “properly”. You’re not the kind of GM who woul...8 months ago
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STRANGE AEONS - LIMA - Alright I'm doing this and the next one and then I'm going to stop. Poetess Magda Portal is secret agent for revolutionary party. Sits in corner of Lima...9 months ago
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THW Football on Wargames Vault Deal of the Day - 50% off for tomorrow's Deal of the Day at Wargames Vault. Just in time for the playoffs. 😀 Scroll down the Vault page to see the how to video. https://...9 months ago
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The Road to Splashdown - Earlier today, I read Patrick Stuart's newest post 'Spider is a Mushroom Now', and immediately found I had to write something about it. I recommend you rea...9 months ago
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Soul in Shadows (The A.I. D&D Campaign) Session 4 - *SESSION 4 — ENTERING THE CENTRAL PASSAGE* *Dane finds the last soul shard. Art prompt by ChatGPT, Art by Krea AI. * Time for more solo D&D run by ChatGP...
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1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...11 months ago
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The Sky Scions: Part 2 - The Sky Scions: Part 2 Friday, November 7, 2025 Are you ready for our 40th Paizo blog report across the past ten years? Here it is, with the newest rele...11 months ago
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Pack it up, we're moving! - I have been side eyeing blogger for about a year now. While nothing is inherently broken right now, the website feels like it is abandonware. I've been ...1 year ago
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Rolling Dice - Greetings from the Edge! That's right, been rolling a lot of dice, as in running my homebrew on a fairly regular basis since February of this year. It's d...1 year ago
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Angstone: A Magical Substance - I came up with this magical substance for one of my homebrewed settings, and maybe you can use it in a game. Angstone Recipe: Every cubic yard of the s...
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Defiance Of Darkness Campaign Journal I - DEFIANCE OF DARKNESS SESSION 17/12/25 @ Mythic Games Santa Cruz Our Heroes:Sylvia, Half-Elf Female CLR-1 / RNG-1 (Brandon)Kale, Human Male MNK-1 (Brandon)T...1 year ago
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Unto The Cruel (campaign setting, GLOG classes, gamerunning musing) - This is information for a semi-successful, semi-abortive campaign I ran off and on for a handful of denizens of the double-concealed exclusive invite-onl...
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Deep Space & Derelicts: Basic/Xenotech version, an idea for a game - here's a little idea for a game that's been floating around my head for a while. what if early D&D had been based around classic scifi rather than cl...1 year ago
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Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
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??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.1 year ago
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Delta Green #5 — Project Anthropocene / An Item of Mutual Interest - Part six of a series of reviews and notes on the scenarios I ran for my Delta Green group. Project Anthropocene (shotgun contest 2016, Ethan Cordray) tur...
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Of Urbanity in Troika! - This was sparked by someone asking about Orbital Intelligence's crapland. which is about crappy suburbian.I jokingly call it a crappy suburb of Troika! (t...2 years ago
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There Were Dice - I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but I *was ...3 years ago
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The Worm Ouroboros - The Worm Ouroboros is a proto-fantasy (the in the genre sense) novel by E. R. Eddison, originally published in 1922. It is an amalgam of mythological tradi...5 years ago
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Cultural Influences on early British Role-Playing Games - If you’re interested in early British tabletop role-playing games (particularly from the 1970s and ’80s), I recommend keeping an eye on the #BOSR (British ...5 years ago
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Troubleshooting Detachments and Forts - I'm running custom Detachment rules which are a mash-up of *Into the Odd's* company rules and *Apocalypse World's* gang-sizes so that ship crews in my pi...
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Time Management and the Role of Caller - Last week was the first session of my Wednesday night Roll20/Discord group’s new B/X campaign (a continuation of a long-running AD&D campaign that went o...6 years ago
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Prinny Dood! - Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to reincarnate...6 years ago
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Them Bones of Adventuring - XXV: Stealth Revisited - *An ongoing exposition on table procedures for common exploration feats and rules, which began here with part one*. *Introduction* Though for the most tr...
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FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
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2017 and 2018 Anime - If you haven't watched the 1997 series of Berserk, do yourself a favour and check it out. The most 90's anime ever, from the grunge soundtrack to the ultra...
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The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...7 years ago
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Profane and Profound Prep Part 2 - This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release, along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a Saint 8000...7 years ago
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...8 years ago
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Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...8 years ago
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Worldbuilding Through Shops - 'Arms Dealer in Cairo' by Jean-Leon Gerome In the classic module B2: Keep on the Borderlands, Gary Gygax suggests allowing the players to begin interacti...
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Total Sales for WB:FMAG - Hi Folks, It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. *LULU* Print: 396 PDF: 433 *OBS*...8 years ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
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Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...8 years ago
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10 More Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios - Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC Funnel b...
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Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
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Moving Day! - I’ve decided to start blogging on Blogger. I’ve written a more detailed post over there. For now everything I have previously written will be archived here...9 years ago
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New Adventure for AZ on the Way - So, Adventure Locale #1: White Star Trailer Park is coming soon! It's a location based adventure for my zombie apocalypse game, AZ: After Zombies. When it'...9 years ago
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And thus, the Gibbering Gamer passes into obscurity... - I mentioned a while ago that I was probably going to get rid of this blog. Turns out, I'm not a very good blogger. The "identity" never stuck, probably b...9 years ago
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House Rule Updates for my OD&D Game - Back in February, I presented my players with some updates to my house rules. I handed them a paper at the start of a session and asked everyone to read ...10 years ago
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In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen...10 years ago
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[DIY] Faux-parchment - Have you ever thought about doing old looking paper for fancy handouts or for kids’ scavenger hunts, for example, but felt like its too much work? Me too! ...10 years ago
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MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS - IN THE WOODS In The Woods is a Monsterparts adventure. The PDF is for sale here. It has all the rules you'll need to run the game. Is designed to make ...
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A new rpg blog - https://ropeblogi.wordpress.com/ This one is old and feels cluttered. Rather than try resurrecting this I decided to start a new rpg blog. Some content is ...11 years ago
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Episode 30: The Conclusion - ‘The Conclusion’ is the 30th episode of a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG actual play podcast. Additional information can be found at http://irontavern.com/po...11 years ago
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Fiction: A Disruption - *Another fiction post everyone. Same character as before.* I lay on the chaise in my long formal dress I wore to a few events in the late '20s. I have no...12 years ago
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Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...12 years ago
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I should call this blog 2d6 h-town - Just got dungeon world.Liquid awesome on a stick. Waiting to play before making any final conclusions but this what I have been waiting for. I still dig me...13 years ago
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Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a C...
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Charging Wands in Dungeons & Dragons - Looking through the rules in original D&D, wands and staves can apparently only be made by Wizards (Magic-Users of 11th level) or higher. It also says that...13 years ago
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New Site - I won't be using my Livejournal much more, I'm afraid. All of my new blog posts can now be found at montecook.com. Hope to see you there! Thanks!14 years ago
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Significance of Beginning Child years Health care and Education - According to developing psycho therapist Jean Piaget, he indicates that the sense of kids is absolutely different from that of grownups. He considered tha...
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Infinite Stars - Well, it’s here. I’m sorry but I haven’t gotten the time before now. http://www.burrowwolf.com/infinitestars/15 years ago
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