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No Foes, No Traps

POKÉMON BX III Day 13-Dragonair - I love the secondary evolution wings, just like my boy, Wartortle. The weird bell/ball thing is a sort of bizarre design choice, but tbh, it kinda works.
40 minutes ago
The Grand Tapestry

- Meow 😻
8 hours ago
d4 Caltrops

d100 – What Happens When I Drink The Goo? - Came up with a quick one for all those intensely interesting situations where a Brave or Foolish Player decides they are *really willing* to interact wit...
10 hours ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: d4 Caltrops - [image: Free GM Resource: d4 Caltrops] This week's Free GM Resource is a blog with, at the time of this post, 319 random tables. Now d4 Caltrops has more ...
10 hours ago
Age of Dusk

[OSR] Optimized Character Sheets + The Retarded Fighter Test - One thing I did notice via Cauldron and playing again in Todd’s game was his use of optimized character sheets. These sheets made everyone else’s look reta...
11 hours ago
Daemons & Deathrays

Curious Glimpses from Planes Beyond and Stars Above - “Curious blood, you find this little pamphlet, didn’t you? Well, that’s good! Let me scribe you a thing or two on the dark of the planes, maybe something d...
11 hours ago
Shouting Into The Void

Fokker D-VI - I thought that since I'd already done a Fokker Dr1 triplane, converting it into a Fokker D-VI wouldn't be all that much trouble. And for once I was rig...
12 hours ago
Cross Planes

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...
12 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

OSR Commentary & Review White Box: Pirate Adventures From Barrel Rider Games For White Box Rpg & OSR Style Rpg - White Box: Pirate Adventures, authored by James M. Spahn and published by Barrel Rider Games, is a standalone role-playing game and supplement designed to...
13 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Jonstown Jottings #108: The Tax Collector’s Oxen - Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content, but for ma...
15 hours ago
Gregorius21778

TTRPG Bingo Day 1 // I-5 - I joined the Discord server of GilaRPG for TTRPG BINGO. As I like to share (and to make it easier to present what I write in a proper fashion to those in t...
16 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

October Horror Challenge - Ticks (1993) - SynopsisA group of trouble teens head to the woods for a weekend with a couple of social workers, unaware that mutated ticks have infested the area. R...
17 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Spell] Coffin Lodger - Coffin Lodger Ejected unceremoniously from the wardrobe, Dhiv picked himself up off of the floor and dusted himself off.‘They were here, looking for you, J...
17 hours ago
Ultanya

Next Stop: Castle Ravenloft - For this year's Halloween game I'm doing something a little different with the original I6: Ravenloft. I've run it many times, and what I like most is ho...
17 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Mirror Mondays: When the Mirror Becomes a Door - Back in May, when I put out the first of my Mirror Monday pieces, I was preoccupied with two projects: *Advanced Witches & Warlocks* and *Jackson, IL*. ...
18 hours ago
INSTADEATH

LITERARY ITERATION / SUPEREGO AI - Prompting back and forth with AI makes writing more conversational. But the outcomes aren't just oral practice, easier revision, and a more robotic voice...
18 hours ago
Campaign Mastery

Carnival Roundup: The Color Of Money - After posing the question, “What’s the backstory behind money in your campaign?” this post links and evaluates the answers. The September 2026 carnival is ...
19 hours ago
Tower of the Archmage

Warriors of the Dead Games Workshop Minis - I got a box of the old metal warriors of the dead for more than I'd have paid for the plastic kit... but it came with the king of the dead. I haven't pa...
19 hours ago
DIY RPG Productions

Punk Song of the Day- Oh No- Wet Leg - Oh No- Wet Leg #PunkSongOfTheDay Whole playlist here: Amazon Music/Spotify What is PSotD Punk Song of the…
20 hours ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Countdown to Campaign - 5 Weeks - *[This refers to The Bold and The Determined and was originally posted 9 August 2009 on Obsidian Portal.]* The starting date for the campaign has been s...
20 hours ago
tenfootpole.org

The Baby in the Briar - By ShanklimbSelf PublishedDomenwoodLevels 2-3 A desperate mother, Brala, approaches the PCs – in a tavern, on the road, etc. When she awoke this morning, h...
21 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Not Tired...Exhausted - It's 4:30am, German time. I've been up roughly two hours. *Cauldron* wrapped up yesterday afternoon around 2pm. As per usual procedure, I spent the evening...
23 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Simple Transit Tables & Rates - Just some tables for land and sea trips *Coach Rates* -cross a city ward 1cp 10-30 minutes -cross a city ward in a posh ...
1 day ago
Lloyd of Gamebooks

One of the greatest treasures in Gamebook Mechanics was always hidden in plain sight - Ever since I started researching and posting my findings on gamebook mechanics, I was looking for a way to fix the problem that "Narrative is not a game ...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Fifth Submission - Our series of Halloween one-shots over at the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server continued with a session of my own *AG3NTS OF CRVCIB...
1 day ago
Hobgoblinry

"A shattered visage lies ..." - This is an objective or piece of scatter terrain for Mutants and Death Ray Guns, made from a cheap plastic Halloween skull from Hobbycraft. It could ...
1 day ago
The Wandering Gamist

Chinook Jargon and the Limits of Common - I stumbled recently into reading about the Chinook Jargon, a pidgin language formerly widely used for trade in the Pacific Northwest, which drew vocabula...
2 days ago
Kobold Press

Enter the Dark Halls: Kobold Press + Shadowdark RPG - Kobold Press is heading back to its third-party publishing roots with something new for 2027: Dark Halls for Shadowdark RPG. Our first 2027 Kickstarter c...
2 days ago
Methods & Madness

100 days of B/X (part III - B11 to B14) - alignment, costs, language - Continued from here. B11 - Alignment. Too much time has been spent on the subject. Here, the "cosmic forces" are not even mentioned, and alignment is ju...
2 days ago
Rindis.com

The Khazars - I don’t follow Osprey Publishing very closely, but it seems evident that they went out of their way to get some experts in regions you don’t hear much abou...
2 days ago
Twenty Sided

Every Guide “Article” on the Top of Google’s Search Results - So, you want to find all the Bobblehead items in Fallout 4, huh? Well, in short order, we’ll make sure that you’re on your way to becoming a true conqueror...
2 days ago
ropeblogi

Theory review #285 - Zufallsziele by Johann Mitland argues for randomized targets for attacks in melee in D&D/OSR-type games. https://imreichdernibelungen.blogspot.com/2022/04/...
2 days ago
Doomslakers!

Where U At, B/X? - This is a meandering TTRPG design post mostly pondering why I haven't been making D&D stuff lately. I just thought this was funny. I don't know. Yeah, so...
2 days ago
What a horrible night to have a curse...

Hairfoot Jousting - Yesterday, I got together with some friends to try Hairfoot Jousting, a tactical (sort of) miniatures game. It was a lot of fun. My son Flynn and I were a ...
2 days ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met at a Tavern 37: Sandstorm Interlude - A bit of a bust on attendance: - Dan: Kiara, elf Ras Godai - Seana: Zanegar, 1/2 orc Sea Wolf - Wayne: Pharan, dwarf Sea Wolf Multiple no-shows....
3 days ago
The Tao of D&D

Funny Music Part 1 - https://www.patreon.com/u3015466/posts/funny-music-part-171935785?pr=true
3 days ago
Throne of Salt

MSF: The Farm (+ Unicorn Meat: the OST) - Joseph Rusling Meeker Spend enough time in the speakeasies and watering holes of the Low Country, and you’ll hear a certain haint-story. It’s never the f...
3 days ago
tengoldpiecegems

Memento Mori -
3 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Connector Goop - Hello and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! I apologize for missing last week, but I’m back on schedule (and I’ll be adding some monsters at the ...
3 days ago
Break!!

Random Circumstances for Outer World Settlements (Freebie) - Outer World is a pretty lively place. The settlements from the previous entry all already have something going on, but what if you want to further compli...
3 days ago
ars ludi

“Ninety percent of the time the right answer is taking something out” - I haven’t talked to Dave Pruner in years, but you would never guess it listening to us chatting up a storm. We get into the new Microscope, West Marches, T...
3 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

Get Busy Writing or Get Busy Dying - I have never read David Gemmell - his oeuvre somehow passed me by. But I have been inspired to do so by a recent article in the *Telegraph* which caught ...
3 days ago
The Githyanki Diaspora

Thursday Night AWBO S14: Ghost Season, Fire & Steel - #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG
4 days ago
Full Moon Storytelling

Ritual casting Cantrips in D&D - Converting Druidcraft, Elementalism, Prestidigitation and Thaumaturgy to Rituals helps build commoners who are hedge wizards, folk witches and knacked ones...
4 days ago
Fabled Lands

"The Best Laid Plans" (a RuneQuest tactical battle scenario for Questworld) - This was a scenario I wrote in 1983 to accompany a boxed set of metal miniatures that were based on the lesser demons from my "Dealing with Demons" serie...
4 days ago
The Silver Key

Horror Hunters, a review - The 70s paperback tour continues with *Horror Hunters*, a 1971 anthology edited by Roger Elwood and Vic Ghidalia. I own the 1975 Manor Books reissue. Las...
4 days ago
Library of Attnam

GLOG: Familiars - A magic-user may persuade any creature to perform a ritual with them and enter into a contract of familiarhood. This replaces one class ability of the cast...
4 days ago
Save vs. Worm

Fiend Factory Freaks that Failed to Fill the Fiend Folio - Over a year ago, I finished up my series of posts reviewing monsters from the FIEND FOLIO! And YET, something is missing! The Fiend Folio gathered together...
4 days ago
Whose Measure God Could Not Take

Opposition - The Nazis Brash enactors of violent action, brutes who wield the strength of one powerful, perverse idea— that what’s evil is actually good. They’re so ...
4 days ago
Stargazer's World

How WoW dragged me back to D&D - Long-time readers might have noticed that I am not blogging as often as before. There are numerous reasons for this, but mostly that a) I don’t have as muc...
4 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Obsolete Healing Spells? - *Healer* © Ludvik Skopalik, DeviantArtHopefully, I won’t be thought blasphemous if I say that perhaps most cleric healing spells should be replaced with ...
4 days ago
Dungeon Fantastic

DF Felltower - Caps & Limits Draft II - Further Reflections - I'm still noodling around with my ideas in this last post. *Absolute Base Skill Cap* Skills are capped at 30. Skills above 30 can be purchased, or you can...
5 days ago
Realms of Chirak

I'm Getting Old: Why I am finding Old-School Essentials more fun than Pathfinder 2E (and it's mostly not nostalgia) - Actually, to be clear, I do enjoy Pathfinder 2E in the moment. But I had a real breaking point the other day when I was contrasting my PF2E campaign aga...
5 days ago
Tower of Zenopus

Pre-Gen Characters - Paizo puts their iconic characters out as free pregen downloads Last week I talked about crowdfunding stretch goals seeming diminished these days and o...
5 days ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #56 - Well met Greyhawk enthusiasts! This comic marks the end of a long "adventure path" by the *Cultists of Tharizdun*. Interestingly, in *2e *we got a timeli...
5 days ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

Revised Magic Swords in MyD&D - In MyD&D the bonus of a magic sword was generally used to indicates the Grade of the weapon. So a +5 weapon was Grade A (or First Rank), a +4 weapon was ...
5 days ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 247 – Problem Proofing One-Shots - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/GC_247_Problem-proofing-One-Shots.mp3 Join Ang along with friends of the show Andy Jaksetic and Carl Lehman...
5 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, January 1986 (week 2) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on October 10, 19...
5 days ago
Into the Odd

Terms of Conduct - Independent ships rely on the six great institutions in order to operate, so all captains pledge to an agreed set of terms, sworn by each new crewmember ...
6 days ago
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Tuesday Magic Item – Lantern of Shadow Spirits - Gollaon studied the lantern intently and then stepped back, eyes wide. “I have heard of these, I did not know that any had survived.” Voddick was suddenly ...
6 days ago
Adventures In Mapping

How to make illuminated (Tanaka) contours in ArcGIS Pro - Contour lines show you the overall terrain of a place by connecting equal elevation (or whatever data you happen to be mapping). They do a lot of things we...
6 days ago
Cirsova

New Interview with Matthew Pungitore - Bonds Political, Artistic, and Human; or, an Interview with P. Alexander, Ed. of Cirsova Publishing
1 week ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Aersalus B-Team: Season 2, Session 1 – In Sprite Of - Dramatis Personae Keel-Breaker (played by Emily): TBA. Capabilities: TBA. Occupation: TBA. Race: Life-Forged Tauron. Tagline: “TBA.” Rhum Kaldalsson (Pla...
1 week ago
A Book of Creatures

Dragon doodles - Some dragon doodles I’ve made to pass the time. No real intent behind any of these, just trying to get out of art slump.
1 week ago
Sly Flourish

Two Minute Session Zeros for Single Session Adventures - Session zeros help you and your players get on track to play a great adventure or campaign together. They help your players understand the specific game th...
1 week ago
GRUBB STREET

Theatre: Cringe - * Eureka Day* by Jonathan Spector, Directed by Matthew Leavitt, Seattle Rep, through November 15 I'll admit, I'm not a fan of cringe humor. That's embarr...
1 week ago
Traverse Fantasy

D20 Magic - There have been a lot of really thoughtful takes on magic lately, centering on significant ritualistic interactions (or even/especially transactions) wit...
1 week ago
World Building and Woolgathering

Magical Mesopotamiae - Six Strange Rivers cross a great plain, flowing from some mysterious source to the great churning ocean. Settlements cling to the banks of these rivers; ...
1 week ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Money in Mutants & Wizards - Money and wealth is always an issue in Post-apoc gaming. Mutants & Wizards uses precious metals with the expectation of bartering occurring where that's ...
1 week ago
Monstrous Matters

Geeky SKAturday: The Family Business Ltd. - Life is wild. Sometimes I'll have a stretch of time where I feel like I'm truly in a groove accomplishing the things I was presumably put upon this planet...
1 week ago
Northport

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...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Crypts and Things: Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG - I thought that I would mention that my favourite OSR ("Old School Renaissance") RPG -- *Crypts and Things* -- is currently on sale (60% off the PDF!) at ...
1 week ago
DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER

what if you gave your kids a digital moral education? (in 79 entries with lots of pictures) - What would be on your list? We’re talking about movies and TV shows here. And if you already wanna know if your movie/show made my list, just jump down a ...
1 week ago
GROGNARDIA

One Year Gone - While yesterday marked the commemoration of the birth of one of the hobby's founders, today marks a rather different milestone: *one year since the conclu...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

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...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Wanting to Be the Very Best Pokémon: Playable Pokémon for Into the Oddish - Guidelines for creating playable Pokemon (essentially classes) for Into the Oddish.
1 week ago
I Cast Light!

SHADE AS A CLASS: Or Things To Do When You Are Dead - Not Dead...Yet... *Related to this very long ago post, but demonstrates why blogging is peak when its just half-scribbled notes to yourself. Maybe als...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Marvel RPG in Haven - more and more prepared to Wing It in sessions - Both my Marvel and DnD campaigns are on the weekends. Doing Friday and Saturday sessions is recipe for missing players here and there. My "Haven" ca...
1 week ago
Zadmar's Savage Stuff

The R’lyeh-Team (Tricube Tales) - I didn't release a one-page RPG last month, as I hit writer's block with the one I was working on (Dead of Winter) and needed to switch to something else...
1 week ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[NEWS] Arrival - "The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and ...
1 week ago
The Alexandrian

Chaos Lorebook – Book of the Elder Brood: Belugon - And they took the gifts that Nature left for them and turned those gifts to their own ends, shaping them through rites of chaos to become a teeming legion ...
1 week ago
A character for every game

Isle of the Abbey - This series of releases is new to my Patreon – these are adventure locations based on maps I’ve drawn for … Continue reading →
1 week ago
The Restenford Project

Priestly Secrets: Restenford 2.0 - *Dungeon Mag* #71 has a nice little adventure in it called *Priestly Secrets*, written by W. Jason Peck, which is set in Restenford some five years after...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

Hello-ween, Goodbye Blogging Challenge - I am disappointed but unsurprised that I have received no suggestions in answer to my request for October blogging challenges. Once again, my aspirations...
2 weeks ago
Applied Phantasticality

Hello-ween, Goodbye Blogging Challenge - I am disappointed but unsurprised that I have received no suggestions in answer to my request for October blogging challenges. Once again, my aspirations...
2 weeks ago
Archon's Court

The Villa of the Fallen Star, Floor 3 (Not My Destination) - *Floor 2: Venus - Not My Destination Index - Floor 4: Jupiter* *Random Encounters* 1. 1d4 Star-Spirit Servants. 2. Ice Elemental, 4 HD, 5 AC, mo...
2 weeks ago
The Cosmic Orrery

Living Apocolypse Esoterica - #1 - I'm a week late on this (and Weird Writer beat me too it) but here we go. The Cast : - The Referee, played by Wendi. - Amina "The Hack" Kandinsky, a...
2 weeks ago
The Vanishing Tower

Abstract Art is All the Rage - For me these days. started in June. Cat died, couldn't process the grief until I painted her tribute painting. It blew the doors back open and right now...
2 weeks ago
d20 Pirates

People, Plots and Places of the Wild West: The Railroad - "People, Plots and Places of the Wild West: The Railroad" is now available from DrivethruRPG.com. This supplement, for use with the *Savage Worlds* R...
2 weeks ago
Save Vs. Dragon

BX DMG Table: Cart & Wagon Encumbrance - The other day, I saw that Erik Tenkar shared a video post about how many mules it would take to haul away the average dragon's hoard (Treasure Type H). I...
2 weeks ago
The Furtive Goblin's Burrow

A Brief Overview of the Goblin Auntie - I've alluded to them more times than I can count, assured you that I'm not yours, and even designed a GLOG class dedicated to them, but I don't think I'v...
2 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

The Rattle of the Taxis - I was recently successful in convincing my Gen-Z son to watch a few episodes of the critically acclaimed 1970s sitcom *TAXI.* My goal was to compile a s...
3 weeks ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Dark Provinces: Personality Traits vs. Ability Scores - For more than twenty years I’ve wanted to design a role-playing game, where role-playing itself was the primary mechanic. That sounds obvious. Of cour...
3 weeks ago
The Lost Fort

Cliffs, Waterfalls, and Hidden Caves – The Lysefjord in Norway - As mentioned in my post about Iceland, we crossed the northern Atlantic ahead of a nasty storm upon return (there was a fair bit of wind nevertheless, but ...
3 weeks ago
These Old Games

X2 - Castle Amber 2026 - Session 8.1 - There are Rules - I have a pretty strict rule. Don't throw dice unless you can risk Random. The gist of this is that if a player has agency or the DM needs agency, don't l...
3 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

Why is the Ogre there? - Joe's post on the Quantum Ogre raises an old question about sandbox play: when does moving an encounter around interfere with players' freedom to decide...
3 weeks ago
Dungeonskull Mountain

GRIDSHOCK Comes to Gamefound - GRIDSHOCK Zero Edition is LIVE and open for backers on Gamefound. A new, standalone TTRPG of superpowered resistance on the run, powered by Free League P...
3 weeks ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Spare Bits of the Sunset Palace of the Starry Sultan (d23 leftovers) - So my Dungeon 23 project was predictably short lived. You can find my most recent post and links to all posts here. The basic idea is this: in the city ...
3 weeks ago
Chaos Magick-User

SAMOSBOR - YOU’RE IN YOUR BROTHER’S APARTMENT @ IT’S EMPTY @ THE FLICKERING LIGHT ON HIS COMPUTER CATCHES YOUR EYE @ YOU OPEN THE LATEST ENTRY @ THE ALARM WENT OFF @ ...
3 weeks ago
Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform

Barrier March, Sessions 154 and 155 (Rescuing Arenthall) - On November 9th, 852nd Year of Asterneth, having reunited in Larksbridge after training, the Ravens prevail upon Silbern to return to Arenthall’s tower: Th...
3 weeks ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Dragonne #2 now available - The second issue of Dragonne is now available! BRW Games’ occasional journal of old-school gaming is back with two new features; To subscribe for free, and...
4 weeks ago
The Sundaland RPG Setting

Real History: Ancient teeth reveal the Ice Age origins of the world’s 4th most common addictive drug - I've used Areca / Betel nut smuggling as a plot hook in my solo game and this article points to how the use of it goes back thousands of years. The real ...
4 weeks ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

DnD Tourism: Goblin Caves of Cappadocia - Do you want to know what dungeon tunnels should look like? Go visit the underground cities of Kaymakli and Derinkuyu, in Cappadocia, Turkiye (or Turkey if ...
4 weeks ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

DnD Tourism: Goblin Caves of Cappadocia - Do you want to know what dungeon tunnels should look like? Go visit the underground cities of Kaymakli and Derinkuyu, in Cappadocia, Turkiye (or Turkey if ...
4 weeks ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Never forget. -
4 weeks ago
Playful Void

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...
4 weeks ago
Bernie the Flumph

So What Had Happened Was... - Well into my middle-age, I finally got a real grownup job.While I am aware of my privilege in this dying world, and I should really be more thankful that I...
4 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Socialism - If you want to understand socialism, read this. If you want to have an argument about why socialism is bad, using some other definition, sure...what you ...
4 weeks ago
The Wasted Lands

Can I Use NIGHT SHIFT for an SCP Tabletop RPG? - *Guest posting by Tim Brannan* My kids got me into SCP. Or, more accurately, they told me all about it, pointed me toward the Wiki, and then left me st...
4 weeks ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

Death of a Hobby - I am sure many of have fallen into the same spiral Elmcat describes in Death of a Hobby. I’m of the opinion that talking about RPGs online is its own hob...
5 weeks ago
From the Pilgrim's Temple

Black was the Root, but Milky White the Flower (Pharmakeia for M&M) - The people have been clamoring (clamoring!) for more overwrought Mazes and Minotaurs houserules. And who am I to deny them? Indeed, who am I? When you w...
5 weeks ago
Underworld Kingdom

As you can see... - ...my stuff is still available on Lulu / Drivethru. It will be removed - but for now my endeavors regarding RPG stuff are delayed. And even if my shit ...
5 weeks ago
Numbers Aren't Real

Grimoire, Decorated with Martigora - This post is a response to friend-of-the-blog *Phlox'* prompt "*Spells of the Evil King*". Here are a set of spells you might find in a grimoire once ...
1 month ago
Gundobad Games

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...
1 month ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A3, Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords - Dungeon Module A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords by Allen Hammack Hey, we finally get to fight these guys ... right? Right?? *Imagine you had to ...
1 month ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

Upper Chest - Upper ChestLow-Tech splits torso (9-11) into chest (9-10) and abdomen (11), which are not sublocations of torso, but are two separate hit locations, with c...
1 month ago
Goblin's Henchman

D100 Medieval surnames that are now extinct or critically endangered for your (N)PC - I recently pondered the idea that surnames must at some point merge into one single name. A bit of digging suggest that this (in theory) will happen under ...
1 month ago
Kill It With Fire!

Macros for running Delian Tomb in roll20 - Delian Tomb has a bunch of little issues that I am shocked weren't playtested out, so you might as well make it easier on yourself if you are the direct...
1 month ago
Legacy of the Bieth

One Year before the Comms Array - I just realized that it's been almost a month since the one-year anniversary of running Operation Lamplighter. I think this is the longest I've been runnin...
1 month ago
Spes Magna Games

The Giant Alligator of False Welcome - It’s been quite a while since I featured any of Fernando Salvaterra’s wonderful art (which, of course, is used with permission, and all rights related to t...
1 month ago
Harvester

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...
1 month ago
Red Dice Diaries ��

Timeline of Altherra - A SUPPOSED HISTORY OF THE WORLD
1 month ago
Ten Foot Polemic

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....
1 month ago
Follow Me And Die!

Vanishing Blogs From The Old Days - There are so many RPG related blogs on every genre and category of RPG. Periodically I discover that another blog is no more when an app on my blog reports...
1 month ago
textgolem

some knights i stay up - Seb McKinnon Played some Mythic Bastionland a little while back (fun! Weird! Typically easy to internalize lite rules from C McD!) and then watching t...
1 month ago
Postmortem Studios

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...
1 month ago
DMDavid

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
Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker

Bandits of Fort Emridy: Turning classic modules into outlaw PC settings - Having lived several months on the outside of civil society, my perspective on running adventuring parties has changed somewhat. As two or three of you m...
2 months ago
The Acorn Afloat

Kajsas Kokbok: deriving fantasy village names from Swedish meals - I had palak paneer for dinner the other night, ordered online. Browsing the list of takeaways it occurred to me that most of the names - of which I have ...
2 months ago
The Realm of Zhu

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Quest for Fun!

The $139 Board Game - Among the many misconceptions about game stores is the amount of money they make on a sale. I wrote a post like this years ago. A decade has gone by, so ...
2 months ago
yog-blogsoth

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2 months ago
Graphite Prime

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2 months ago
Beyond the Black Gate

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2 months ago
Lord Matteus' Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items

Downtime Table for Gods of the Forbidden North - Hello, Dear Readers! Following my recent Gods of the Forbidden North video, a viewer asked if I would post the downtime table I use for lazy players who do...
2 months ago
The 3 Toadstools

Murder mystery - The local adventurers guild named "fernleaf and associates" is basically a sleuthing agency. The patron is an older elf named Flynn fernleaf. He pays wel...
2 months ago
Clerics Wear Ringmail

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2 months ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

The Cat Room - So, today we were back with our volunteer two-hour weekly stint in the car room. This time it was just four cats in three cage: one bonded pair and two sol...
2 months ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

Superheroes: Lady Suprema - *Lady Suprema (Silver Age)* A cephalopodic alien refugee from the planet Xenon that crash lands into the Pacific Ocean as a baby after the devastation of th...
2 months ago
The Manse

The BIG Spell Table - Roll 1d100. *The BIG Spell Table[1]* Not a spell- but a spell failure! This arcane formula is incomplete or intentionally flawed. Whatever you thought t...
2 months ago
Of Slugs and Silver

Poisoning the Monster - This is not a entry about how sneaky PCs could use poison to defeat powerful monsters, and all the varied shenanigans associated with the idea. You alr...
2 months ago
False Machine

The Common Store of Monsters - I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth. As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’ monsters ...
2 months ago
Critical Hits

The Fractured Authority Gambit: A 13th Age Game - The cleric fell. Tension was rising. Players got worried and antsy.
2 months ago
Newest Critical Hits – Critical Hits

The Fractured Authority Gambit: A 13th Age Game - The cleric fell. Tension was rising. Players got worried and antsy.
2 months ago
Foot of the Mountain Adventures

The Ash Haint for Dungeon World Tables - Fell Beasts & Foul Lairs is an OSE zine series, but I run a Dungeon World game on Mondays. The Ash Haint kept translating itself in my head while I wrote...
2 months ago
A Knight at the Opera

Why I closed up shop - Feel free to dismiss everything I say here as just the mad ramblings of a man in the middle of a meltdown. If you want a quick explanation, you can always ...
2 months ago
Martin Ralya

Doing a comprehensive survey of Appendix N - I’ve been chipping away at Appendix N since 2012 (although I’d read a number of Appendix N works prior to that, just not as Appendix N works), and my think...
2 months ago
"It's okay; Gary sent us."

Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised errata (official) - With my errate document for the previous version of Swords & Wizardry Complete now being obsolete due to the release of the Revised update in 2023, I sou...
2 months ago
Iron & Ink

Blog Migration: BearBlog - PSA: I'm in the process of migrating this blog over to BearBlog. Find me at: https://ironandink.bearblog.dev/. No further updates will be posted here. H...
2 months ago
News from Bree

Wooburn update - We added a new region, countryside with hills. Both regions are now fully occupied, separated by a stretch of water connected by a long bridge for the ...
3 months ago
Den of the Lizard King

A Future Direction for Stellagama Publishing - 2026 was a rough year so far for me, Omer Golan-Joel, owner of *Stellagama Publishing*. Apart from obvious horrible political events I prefer not to disc...
3 months ago
Dragons Gonna Drag

Justin's Random House Rule Generator - Oh no, Justin insists on using house rules for D&D again! Roll some dice to see what he ruins changes this time. Level Limit - *50% chance* of a limit, t...
3 months ago
Coins and Scrolls

Film Notes: A Selection of Recent(ish) Obscure(ish) Horror Films - Horror has a (well-earned) reputation as a wastebin genre. Here are a few horror-adjacent films, largely without jumpscares, musical stings, and cheap tr...
3 months ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Happy Birthday America! -
3 months ago
The Blog That Time Forgot

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...
3 months ago
In My Campaign

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...
3 months ago
Xeno's Ramblings

Repetutler - Repetutler
3 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Generating the Megastructure - You can pre-generate your structure as part of your prep or you can generate it on the go as you explore it node by node. Both methods are valid but some f...
3 months ago
Eldritch Fields

[Dungeon] The Shining Hexahedron - This is a small dungeon mapped to the outer and inner surface of a cube. I made this for the EXTREMELY BYZANTINE 5-ROOM DUNGEON jam. Have fun! *Download t...
3 months ago
Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

The Halls of Tizun Thane Remaster - Albie Fiore was best known in life as a cunning crafter of crosswords for The Guardian, who published a fine obituary for him when...
3 months ago
Hill Cantons

The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance - Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are. For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of Marlinko, Kezmaro...
3 months ago
Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository

Have Folks Forgot T$R??? - There is much wringing of hands, clucking of tongues, and vapours regarding statements by Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks planning to move D&D to a live service m...
4 months ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

I am Dr Rotwang! - I am NOT the fella who goes by "Doktor Rotwang" on Substack. I've never met him. I'm not a Navy veteran. We are not the same guy, no matter what Google AI ...
4 months ago
The Hapless Henchman

The Backrooms: Terrifying Dungeon Crawl - SO I had an early cancellation this morning, and lots of errands to do but like a wide spot between when I had to do stuff and pick up my kiddo, and then a...
4 months ago
DIY & Dragons

My 2025 in Review - Continuing my annual tradition, here are some of my favorite things from the last year. I think this is the first year where I've had to decide not to shou...
4 months ago
Welcome to the Deathtrap

What I'm Up To - I'm sure it has been missed by no one that I have been having trouble finding time for this blog. And it's anniversary has just rolled past. So I wanted...
4 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

A Different Way to Look at the AD&D Hardcovers - Yesterday on my *YouTube Channel*, I published a video about the *"Mid-1980s Shift" in Advanced D&D* 1st Edition. Its received a lot of great and insight...
4 months ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

al-Alam al-Wasat Classes - The classes detailed below represent a series of editorial choices. Some options are unused (or to be precise, sometimes shunted to the "foreign classes"...
4 months ago
SAVE OR DIE!

Paralysis Analysis - We all know how paralysis works in early *Dungeons & Dragons*, right? You get hit with an attack that causes paralysis, you make a saving throw, and if ...
4 months ago
Gothridge Manor

Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
4 months ago
Farsight Blogger

THANK YOU! THIS BLOG IS NOW CLOSED - A heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported Farsight Blogger since June 2009, through the streams of conciousness, articles, reviews, interviews and gam...
5 months ago
Intelligence Check

D&D Did You Know’s: Sitting and Kneeling in Third Edition - Being prone is a fairly common condition in D&D 3.5, as well as related iterations of the d20 System such as Pathfinder 1E or d20 Modern. From martial char...
5 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Immersion is not what you think, player - *Here we go, another post on the Substack. I think I can claim that I'm back at it. There are already two new essays lined up, and I'm aiming at one a we...
5 months ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

Adventure Game on Cardboard - Here is the game I have been running most recently, that was written on cardboard, in scanned PDF format: https://mraston.itch.io/adventure-game-on-ca...
5 months ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

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...
5 months ago
Ice and Ruin

Abstraction in My Liege, - I think the aspect of *My Liege,* that could potentially put off the most people is its lack of accounting granularity. It does not track Court wealth in...
5 months ago
Blog of Holding

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...
5 months ago
Shuttered Room

Resurrecting the PSEUDO-UNDEAD - Part Four: Mummies - Afflicted! The Leper from *Darkest Dungeon. *Of course. A *Pseudo-Mummy *is *Afflicted* with *a horrible rotting disease*. The common characteristics of ...
5 months ago
Wishful Gaming

Something old...something renewed? - Finally getting around to doing what I meant to start doing back in January... As some may recall, I had a long spate of self-publishing, both fiction a...
5 months ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

Castle Greyhawk Four New Dungeon Level Maps Revealed - CZ Act 1 "Alpha Preview" Map TLG published a Castle Zagyg "Alpha Preview" to CZ1 backers on 2 April 2026, showing one-quarter of The Cellars, level 2 of C...
5 months ago
Blood of Prokopius

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...
6 months ago
Vague Countries

Cthulhu Dark: The Watcher in the Valley – Session 3 - Our fourth and final session of Cthulhu Dark, continuing from session zero, session one, and session two, running through the classic Call of Cthulhu modul...
6 months ago
Alone in the Labyrinth

Campaign ‘26, Session #09-10: Exiles of a Thousand Islands - THE CRUELLEST MONTH IS UPON US! Cruel, but by no means less loved: all this fecund florabundance and accompanying cloying scent is energising, no matter...
6 months ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

26.Q1 Hobby Update - Despite being rather busy with work, the first few months of 2026 ended up being surprisingly fruitful on the hobby front. Role-playing games - I r...
6 months ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

Mothership: Alternative Trauma Responses - My current weekly drop-in game of Mothership: Gradient Descent is now twelve sessions and thirteen characters deep. The extant four (or six, if you count...
6 months ago
The Mystical Trash Heap

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
| Unlawful Games

One Guard Always Speaks - One Guard Always Speaks: In Harsh Truths In Pretty Lies In Convoluted Charades In Obscure Riddles In Interpretive Dance In Long Winded Soliloquies In Morse...
6 months ago
The Walls of Uruk

Cabinet of Curiosities, my old school module (anniversary repost) - I wrote an 87-page module and it is for sale! (CLICK HERE to check it out on DriveThruRpg) WHAT THIS MODULE HAS: - Two urban heist adventures (*Cabin...
6 months ago
What Would Conan Do?

What WOULD Conan Do? - I can finally answer that question. He would move his blog to DSell.me. Reasons! 1. Google is both generally evil and liable to suddenly cut se...
6 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

Still Alive... really. - Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices a...
6 months ago
DMiurgy

Thoughts on Autocrats of Night & AD&D Dungeon Guidelines - My Autocrats of Night campaign, wherein the players were to delve the enemy megadungion and steal a Dragon Orb to break the power of the nasty dragon-ri...
6 months ago
Swords & Dorkery

Wheel…of…fortunes! - Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book (published by Dick & Fitzgerald, in 1862 and 1866) claims to reproduce a list of 100 fortunes associ...
6 months ago
Papers and Pencils

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...
6 months ago
The Sword of Sorcery

The Company Bloodhound - *The Hunter * Hendrick “Bloodhound” Van Daalen works indirectly for the Dutch West India Company. He is not technically an employee of the company, rather ...
6 months ago
Lithyscaphe

D6 State of Orc & Goblin Clan Relations - Roll every day, keep if higher, resetting on a 1. 1. Orcs kill Goblins on sight because one looked at the clan chief wrong, Goblins fled into warr...
6 months ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

The Dungeon Hates You! - The Dungeon is *alive*. The Dungeon considers the monsters that reside in it to be its children – if they are not, in fact, its “children” via some eldrit...
6 months ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
7 months ago
Goblin Punch

Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
7 months ago
Less Dice, More Decisions: Houserules in OSR and D&D (Part 4) – Ominosity

A funny thing happened on the way to the Roach God… - The last few sessions of my Reach of the Roach God campaign have been a great example of why I choose to run games this way.
7 months ago
Alex Schroeder: Diary

2026-02-26 Clone a virtual machine from inside it - 2026-02-26 Clone a virtual machine from inside it I want to move my virtual machine from hoster edis.at to hoster hosting.de. I’m using Debian stable/13/T...
7 months ago
stefan poag

Bad Unicorns and 2026 - Hello all – it is the second month of 2026 and I haven’t yet posted anything here – so here is at least something. We have been struggling with S.A.D. and ...
7 months ago
Strange Stones

Cepheus/Traveller: Blake’Dicey Tales: A Rock &s 7 Crew 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...
7 months ago
Ravenous Ambience

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...
7 months ago
Octopus Carnival

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...
7 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
7 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
8 months ago
GIBLET BLIZZARD

Nordheim: Runes as Dice in D&D - [image: Black dice and runes with gold lettering] Chessex polyhedral dice and rune set by Arcturus Publishing I've been digging in some old rpg sandpits I ...
8 months ago
I Don't Remember That Move

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...
8 months ago
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
8 months ago
2 Hour Blog

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://...
8 months ago
Damn Elf Press

Arneson Gaming Solo ~ The Village of Aberford - Here are notes on my solo game using Matt Jackson’s Arneson Gaming. I’ll be using Mythic GME and other oracles for the game. I’ve created my PC, Sir Mathia...
8 months ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

The Reassembulation Will Be Messy - I’m reassembulating wizardthieffighter.com on a different platform, in a different format and style. This reassembulation will be messy. Most links will di...
9 months ago
A Distant Chime

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
Forgotten Runes

2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...
9 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

2025 Gaming Summary and 2026 Plans - I didn't blog at all in 2025 because I was too busy gaming. I was playing in two weekly 5e (2014) campaigns and running a weekly Imperium Maledictum camp...
9 months ago
Hack & Slash

On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
9 months ago
sword +1

I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
9 months ago
Metal Earth

Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...
9 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...
9 months ago
Jeffs Gameblog

jimbo update -
9 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Under Gallax Hall - Level 4 - Monastery - *"I'm challenging myself to try and write at least 1-3 rooms per day to crank this thing out in like... 3 months, maybe?"* -Me, about 5 years ago. Been ...
10 months ago
Power Score

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...
10 months ago
Back to the Dungeon!

1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...
10 months ago
The Engine of Oracles

A New Review of “The Uncanny Highway” - [Review] The Uncanny Highway: Blue-Plate Special Edition
11 months ago
paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog

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
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
11 months ago
My Terrible Sorcery Is Without Equal In The West

Cauldron Con AAR: Day 3 & Final Thoughts - Hello Blogland. The spine-tingling conclusion to my European adventure at Cauldron Con is here!! *DAY 3* I awoke feeling not too worse for wear consideri...
11 months ago
Roll Sanity

Discovering Mausritter: OSR Adventures for Brave Little Mice - Mausritter stands out in the crowded landscape of old-school revival games by shrinking the scale of heroism down to something delightfully intimate. Rel...
11 months ago
Valianttheywere

Short Fiction: A matter of priority - A M A T T E R O F P R I O R I T Y CAPTAINS LOG STARDATE 2093.5 The Marie Curie is the first of the Warp 2 Colonial Medical Frigates. A week i...
11 months ago
Gorgon Bones

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 ...
11 months ago
Known World, Old World

Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
11 months ago
They Might Be Gazebos!

I’m Moving! - I did a lot of soul searching and talked to a lot of people. The blog will be going away but I’m not. I’m moving my posting over to Substack. If you are em...
1 year ago
Brave Halfling Publishing

KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya Dengan Permainan Mudah Maxwin - Agar bisa menemukan KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Mudah Maxwin, banyak bettors yang rela melakukan berbagai cara. Karena salah dalam memilih bandar pada game ...
1 year ago
LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
1 year ago
Spriggan's Den

How do you do piracy… in SPACE!? - Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one for...
1 year ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
1 year ago
Sham's Grog 'n Blog

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
Ostensible Cat

Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
1 year ago
Aaron The Pedantic

Fantasy RPG Video Game Project - Long time, no blog! Life treated me poorly, and life treated me well. I went dark on YouTube and most certainly here due to the fact that, put simply, I...
1 year ago
Samwise7RPG

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...
1 year ago
1d30

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
Save vs. Player Agency

Alma Mater / OSR Mash-Up - I recently ran a one-shot games day for a group of friends I rarely get to game with in person anymore. After a friend’s initial suggestion I’ve been think...
1 year ago
Lost Papers of Tsojcanth

A Wraithblade to Bind a Murderer’s Soul - Wraiths are the restless souls of brutal murderers. They cannot find rest in death, and keep on tormenting the living, leaving behind a long trail of pain....
1 year ago
The RPGPundit

Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time - The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people have missed...
1 year ago
The Mad Queen's Court

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...
1 year ago
Questing Beast

Roll Windows - These days I mostly post on my Substack, but I thought I’d share this one here. Three months ago I ran a poll over at Questing Beast looking how GMs actu...
1 year ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

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
TrollBones

Worlds Funsome and Free: Understanding Open Role-Play Adventures - *The following is mainly available in various pdf and text formats on my itch.io page, but some folks also like having it available in blog form, so here t...
1 year ago
Remixes and Revelations

OSR: Spectacle Fighter - This is a new variant of my Fighting Man class. It is designed to be the anarchic sister to the Free-Form Wizard, to lend that same air of gleeful unpredi...
1 year ago
The Man With A Hammer

Observations on Onboarding - The few chances I had to crack open the dusty ol' tomes and partake in adventure gaming has been on the refereeing side of the table. Normally with some ...
1 year ago
Playing at the World

Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...
1 year ago
In Places Deep

Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
1 year ago
Merric's Musings

I Want Magic Weapons to Matter - There’s part of me that wants to put monsters that can only be hit by +1, +2 or even +3 weapons back into the game. And you’re wondering, “Why do you hat...
1 year ago
evil baboons or perhaps mandrills

THE WOUND LOGIC - THE WOUND LOGIC These are not commandments. They are fault lines. Pressure responses. Sacred malfunctions. Each one is a site of tension, and some are ...
1 year ago
Box Full of Boxes

Trench Crusade Warband: Sisters of the Sable Geisslerlieder - So I have become absolutely *fixated* upon Trench Crusade. Maybe it is the aesthetics, maybe it is the fact that I'm a huge WWI fan (Second Yrpes ...
1 year ago
Pulsipher Game Design

A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...
1 year ago
Profane Ape

Three Things Other Than the Things Previously Listed - Amphitheres Most people believe that amphitheres are a type of feathered dragon. This is incorrect; amphitheres and dragons are completely unrelated taxono...
1 year ago
Trollsmyth

Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
1 year ago
Nature Kills: A Hexcrawl for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

Thoughts on conworld calendars - Yes, we’re still playing and yes, I have to get a lot of logs up. Those are as much for me to have a reference as anything else, and I feel lazy. But th...
1 year ago
Trollish Delver

Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.
1 year ago
...and the sky full of dust.

Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...
1 year ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

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...
1 year ago
The OSR Library

STILL ALIVE BITCHES - Well. Here we are again. It's been a while of sickness, needing a wheelchair, and being mostly bed-ridden. SO I do have time for games when I'm not too ...
1 year ago
Swamp of Monsters!

Nate Hack - Here's the basic idea for Nate Hack: Base rules are AD&D Ability scores, classes, advancement, spells, and experience gain are AD&D, except classes go ...
1 year ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...
1 year ago
Elf Lair Games

Reminder: We have MOVED! - Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be found...
1 year ago
Wine and Savages

??? - 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
Liche's Libram

Irkalla (Hex25 week one) - Oops! All big hexes. Hexmap and nice internal links via Alex Schroeder's Hex Describe. 01.02 01.03 01.04 02.01 02.02 02.03 02.04 03.01 03.02 03.03 03.04 0...
1 year ago
I'll See It When I Believe It

The Tarot of Pips - Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a secr...
1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...
1 year ago
devilghost

Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement - Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement (I started thinking about this as a way to make XP awards in 5e come from all three “Pillars of Adventure” r...
1 year ago
Don't Split the Party

Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...
1 year ago
Places to Go, People to Be

Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...
1 year ago
Quarterling’s Corner

Four facts a wizard might tell you - *Most of this is me trying to take this old post and rewrite it as in-world lore, but Fact #1 is an all-new idea.* *I.* Everyone knows that magic spells ...
1 year ago
Signs in the Wilderness

Oracles; or, letting a Surprising Future derail your Story and Confound the Players - *At last the ragged wanderers found themselves at the sacred grove. There they sought an audience with the Oracle of the Broken Stone, to ask the one qu...
1 year ago
Fictive Fantasies

Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...
1 year ago
An Abominable Fancy

Knave 2e Alternate Attributes - Sometimes, I'm exactly in the mood for the classic simplicity of defining characters entirely by D&D's six attributes, as Knave does. But sometimes, I want...
2 years ago
Game in the Brain

Broke my Previous Wordpress Site, New Wordpress Site. - https://blog.gi7b.org/ slowly migrating to this blog. Whats so special about it: Now I can put all the pictures relevant to the Product in its page as part...
2 years ago
Alesmiter

Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs - *More solo play with post background after the jump. Next time they should be at the tomb.* Vineyard’s Bounty, 8th Rising. On the Old South Road in the ...
2 years ago
The Things We Do for XP

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...
2 years ago
UNTITLED DUNGEON

Mob of Frogmen - via Runehammer
2 years ago
Slight Adjustments

Consequence - *Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina* This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed to create one *Apprentice* character, ...
2 years ago
Cyclopeatron

When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...
2 years ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
2 years ago
ChicagoWiz's Games

Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...
2 years ago
HeroPress

Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
2 years ago
Axes and Orcs

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
Playing Dice with the Universe

On Play-Style - Welcome to the third post wherein I lay the groundwork for this blog's future direction. Today, I want to discuss the concept of *play-style* as it perta...
2 years ago
d66 Classless Kobolds

d66 Classless Kobolds Linktree (of sorts) - Hello! As of Summer this year, I have changed jobs to work as a middle- and high-school Humanities teacher for a classical Christian school. As such, I ...
2 years ago
Caput Caprae

This Blog Has Moved! - The new blog: samsorensen.blot.im! Hello! This blog, Caput Caprae, is old and deprecated. If you're looking for the latest, freshest, hottest, coolest new...
2 years ago
THAC0 BLOG

Falkrest Abbey Review - Hello All – It has been quite some time since we talked. There was this little pandemic that happened, and life got all crazy. I played a hell of a lot o...
3 years ago
Land of Nod

Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...
3 years ago
The Amateur Dungeoneers

I used 'Satan' to generate illustrations for someone's setting! - It is a known fact that Noism consider AI to be SATAN. I've got my own intensely mixed feelings on the matter, especially when it come to who control the...
3 years ago
The Bottomless Sarcophagus

SORCERER (Afterword) - Hi there. I'm sure you, astute reader, have noticed that this blog isn't very active anymore. That's because I don't quite have the inspiration for it. N...
3 years ago
The Immaterial Plane

Eberron for Savage Worlds Revised! - Eberron for Savage Worlds has been republished with updates and expanded content and is now available in print and PDF through DriveThruRPG.com!
3 years ago
Save Vs. Poison

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
The Geek Flag

Mad Max custom figure - This amazing custom was posted on ebay at the beginning of 2023. The seller's account was listed as Old Colony Hobbies. It looks like there are a lo...
3 years ago
The Benign Brown Beast

Moving to Markdown - In one sense, it's a no-brainer to move away from Blogger. The interface is archaic and unpredictable, the platform is limited in capability, and as a fr...
3 years ago
Captain Ahab's Leg

The Magic Ladder: A Tarot Card Map Generator (part one of three) - Part 1: The part where I go on for a bit I’ve written before about using tarot cards to generate dungeons and tarot cards to generate hexcraws. This tar...
3 years ago
Lapidary Ossuary

- Give Me Hat Goblins & Beastlings
3 years ago
Against The Wicked City

Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...
4 years ago
Union of Hirelings, Henchmen, & Hangers-on

Wild Dwarves (race-class for Old-School Essentials) - This is the first of a handful of race-classes I've made for my Wengemerlin campaign. Dwarves feature heavily within the first part of the setting, the H...
4 years ago
Lord Kilgore

2e Character Sheet - One of the most popular posts on this site over the years has been the 2nd Edition AD&D character sheet I cooked up for our game in the early 90s. I cleane...
4 years ago
BRINEHOUSE

Knock! Issue 3 - Knock! Issue 3 Hey all! I'm a contributor to the OSR zine Knock! I wrote up 12 Sword Saint techniques specifically for your Fighter character! Click the ...
4 years ago
Rolang's Creeping Doom

What’s in the Wizard’s Mug? - Mmmm smells good! Just a sip… 1d8 1- A potent shrinking potion. You are now swimming in the cup alongside a drenched wizard. 2- Hot Green Slime. That’s w...
4 years ago
Middle Finger of Vecna

Announcing: Book of Extinction - We're working with a good friend of ours, Lucas Zellers (@SparkOtter), to craft a new book that gives life to extinct animals through Dungeons and Dragons:...
4 years ago
Telecanter's Receding Rules

Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...
4 years ago
Necropraxis

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
Thoul's Paradise

It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
5 years ago
THOUGHT EATER

My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!! - I hope everyone is well. I am very excited to be able to share a little game I have been working on for a while. 12v12 is a D12-based multi-genre RPG, an...
5 years ago
Uncaring Cosmos

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
The Bogeyman's Cave

"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
5 years ago
Perplexing Ruins

Short Shelf of Picks - Vol. III - Blood in the Roots This is a packed little half fold pamphlet. Evocative in a way that I appreciate. I am aware of Trollish Delver Games (Scott Malthous...
5 years ago
Shattered Vale

The Visitor Royal Telepath - I have taken a little break from blogging to set up the Ravens Purge campaign for Forbidden Lands for my friends on Discord for a bit of a change of pace. ...
5 years ago
Swords Against the Outer Dark

The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
5 years ago
Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings

Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...
5 years ago
Enthusiastic Skeleton Boys

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...
5 years ago
The Dragon's Flagon

A new beginning - I've been blogging here for a while now, but I think it's time to move on to a new blog with a new title. There's a lot of dragons and flagons and flago...
5 years ago
The Mad Cartographer

Context-Sensitive Encounter Tables - The goal of these encounter tables is to provide dynamic, context-dependent encounters with as little additional work as possible pushed onto the referee. ...
5 years ago
Take On Rules

The Why of a Blog? - Because Writing Helps You Learn Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing. — Erling Kagge, Walking: ...
5 years ago
Necrotic Gnome Productions

- This blog is no longer maintained. For news on Necrotic Gnome please visit our official website: necroticgnome.com/blogs/news.
5 years ago
OSR News and Reviews

New OSR Products at DTRPG — November 26th, 2020 - This is the first Thanksgiving in years that I have not worked. Kinda strange. Adventures A Misplaced Prince - Featuring "piranhakeets", which I thin...
5 years ago
Tinkerings & Tumblers

In Search of OD&D Part 3: The Northern Shores of Tamerthya - In part 1 and part 2 of this search for OD&D, I asked the question: does my old friend Mike McDowell's 1992 game style, the one that has for years haunted ...
5 years ago
Letra Impressa

City of Heroes / City of Villains roster - Mid September I’ve returned to a game I’ve played for a while a long time ago. At the time, I didn’t focus on the mechanics, or the story: I just wanted to...
5 years ago
Dust_Pan_Games

Finished. - This blog is closing as of 7/12/2020.
6 years ago
Dwarven Automata

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
Hall of the Mountain King

Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#75200
6 years ago
The Bone Scroll

ボンズカジノの本人確認の方法 - ボンズカジノで本人確認する方法を解説します。本人確認が完了しないと出金することができません。また同時に入金不要＄40ボーナスも本人確認が完了したら、もらうことができます。では早速、本人確認していきましょう！右上のボタンをクリックです。プロフィールをクリック。メールアドレス認証は登録時に行ってますので、ここでは電話...
6 years ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

Owl Con Live Blog 2.2 - Who knew that in the bowels of the Humanities building... ...Professor Norm offered a course on the Caves of Chaos??? Meanwhile, behind the screen... And....
6 years ago
Ode to Black Dougal

Nightmoor Abbey Level 1 Saturday Night Specials - Using the Megadungeon - Random Area Name Generator, the area names from the Diablo games, and game reports from In Places Deep as inspiration below are the...
6 years ago
Superhero Necromancer

Using the Rainy City with Risus: The Anything RPG - S. John Ross's *Risus: The Anything RPG* can do anything. It says so right on the tin. And, if it is anything, the Rainy City is certainly something! But ...
6 years ago
Tomb Of The Wandering Millennial

eXPerience - The following are some alternative ways I want to try out in my home LotFP game. I already use Session Attendance & Carousing but I want to try the othe...
6 years ago
dredged from the gyoll: GFC's Table Scraps

Session Report 2/21/2020: The Tower of Florymonde - *Oolong, a Troglodyte, the Tower, a charred corpse, a tiger beetle, the butler.* Persons mentioned in the text: - KYLE, a level 4 Halfling - GRACE,...
6 years ago
The Sign of the Frothing Mug

Skalag's Secret Sight - Level: 3 School/sphere: Divination Range: Caster Components: V, S Duration: Inst. Casting Time: 1 minute Area of Effect: 10 foot radius Saving Throw: Yes (...
6 years ago
STUFFER SHACK

The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the p...
6 years ago
Troll and Flame

Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD - My 2nd favorite incarnation, OSE, of my favorite D&D rule set, B/X. [My 1st favorite is Necrotic Gnome's previous, B/X Essentials, cause it was soft backe...
6 years ago
OgreCave

Ptolus returning in new Kickstarter campaign - Sometimes, you spot an impressive gamebook on a friend’s shelf, and wish you could take it home with you because it’s out of print, and you’ll never get yo...
6 years ago
Bugbear Slug

Four GLoG Houserules - *Four Houserules* *This is based on Skerple's hack of GLoG.* *1. Fleeing* To run from combat you need to roll under 8 + your amount of unoccupied item slot...
6 years ago
Goatman's Goblet

Spoils of the Gorgon Coast: The Degenerate Heir - As the kickstarter for the Zinequest Quartet winds down, I find myself in awe of the amount of folks who seem interested in my project; especially given t...
6 years ago
Buildings Are People

Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019 - System: B/BX. Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) and Emily (Bagira.) *If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may reque...
6 years ago
Words for Yellow

Blank space and mechanical fluff - Perhaps my favorite part of any character sheet is the 'appearance' section, especially if it has an area for drawing a character portrait. People should b...
6 years ago
Rogues' Repast

Review: Cockamania! - Cockamania! is a 30-page mini-setting based in Filipino culture and folklore. Cockfighting is the main theme of the text, but it also includes mythologic...
6 years ago
Back to the Keep

Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...
6 years ago
Unlawful Games

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
Lord Archaon's Grimoire

Carwyn & The Revelthanes Of The Feywild - I - "ARGH!" - The cry of Carwyn was not of pleasure anymore, but it went unheard, absorbed by the densely misty night as if the Feywild itself would have want...
6 years ago
Henchman Abuse

session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...
6 years ago
Meandering Banter

Finders Keepers - Background and Sources - Credit Konstantin Vavilov For the rules and character generator, see here. This is likely to be a long and boring post, go make some funky weirdos instead...
6 years ago
Neradia

Winter's Daughter Play Report and Review - *"Delve into the **fairy-haunted **forest of **Dolmenwood"* *"The tomb of an ancient hero, lost in the tangled depths of the woods. A ring of standing ston...
6 years ago
To Distant Lands

Graded success for roll-under d20 - This is a sort of half-baked add-on inspired by Call of Cthulhu 7e's graded difficulty system for roll-under d100 resolution. It assumes 3d6-based ability ...
6 years ago
Oubliette Magazine

Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...
6 years ago
MegaDungeon

Wednesday Map Strikes Back! (Dwarven Hill Fort) - Here’s a nice little dwarven hill fort for plundering, defending, assaulting, or for simply relaxing therein with a brew.
6 years ago
Dreams and Fevers

Garm Bays Loudly - I'm happy to announce the release of a new scenario for my old Norse magic trpg: Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave. Garm Bays Loudly focuses on a Norse ...
6 years ago
Red Box Vancouver's Blog

The Nightmares Underneath 2nd Edition - I don’t use this blog much anymore, but since I don’t have a new website set up yet, I should announce this here: The second edition revision of The Nightm...
6 years ago
daimon games

Encumbrance rules - If buying equipment at char-gen is often a waste of time, keeping track of the weight of each item is often too much even for the fanatic OSR player. Numbe...
6 years ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
6 years ago
By Odin's Beard

The Howling Caverns (5e) - The hunched beast prowls the forest, sniffing at the still air. The roiling sky flashes and thunder breaks the silence. The time is near and the beast sens...
6 years ago
Old Skulling

The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition - Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customiz...
6 years ago
ANXIETY WIZARD

City Map System & Making a Spooky City - This is a system to quickly and easily create unique cities that are detailed during play, using randomization and simple procedures. Content is provided b...
6 years ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

Wargaming Wednesday: We're Back (for the Motherland!) - Well...it's been a loooooong time since we've posted on the old blog. Too long, in fact. Something like almost three years since a serious post, not merel...
6 years ago
Occultesque

Someone Has Been Here - It is rare that a group of adventurers are the first to have plumbed the depths of a perilous dungeon. Others have doubtless tried, possibly succeeded. Wic...
7 years ago
Inspiration Strikes!

Nuts & Bolts #161 - Gotta Get Away - *So, last week over on his blog Andrew posited some ideas for GMs looking into introduce a big bad and enable their escape from the players. (you'll wan...
7 years ago
Cruel & Unusual Punishment

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...
7 years ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1 - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1: I am now an author for EN World with a monthly column. Six lead columns have been submitted to...
7 years ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
7 years ago
Gamers & Grognards

Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
7 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
7 years ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

- *In this installment, we learn that you can make a percentile system really complicated if you keep adding special results and that DQ doesn't stand for "D...
7 years ago
sword peddler

TFH&P Release Notification Signup - Dear Friends, This game is very near to completion, and there has been a flattering amount of interest in the game since the kickstarter campaign ended. So...
7 years ago
Sorcery & Skulduggery

Knights and their Towers - Knight's towers were fortified self-standing buildings, several-stories high, most often erected on a plan similar to a square. They contained both livi...
7 years ago
D&D Doodle

- I'm posting a little more regularly over on my Twitter account: @owlbearmaps Please come join me!
7 years ago
The Plundering Time

Echoes of Prohibition - Prohibition is a nearly forgotten time in Maryland history, despite the still-visible paint on the side of a Fell’s Point building urging residents to “Vot...
7 years ago
Journey Into the Weird

Elsai Overview - Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar scum—E...
7 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
7 years ago
Lawful Indifferent

Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...
7 years ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
7 years ago
Tarsos Theorem

New Website! - Sorry I haven't been posting, have been adjusting to a new job and dealing with personal things. Now I get to show you one of the things I've been working...
7 years ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Spire: The City Must Fall, or, “Menzoberranzan Writes Back” - I am probably late to the party on this, but just this past week I discovered the game Spire: The City Must Fall. It looked absolutely fascinating, so I th...
7 years ago
Das Boots of Haste

Friendly Advice: Finding Inspiration - This past week I spent my days in the verdant mountains of Pennsylvania near a small town called Bedford. It was a farm that went by Fort Royal where a mus...
7 years ago
Teach Game Design

Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...
7 years ago
AL0 Lair of the Megagorgon

100 curious thing for a setting. - As your genial host let me welcome to lovely "insert place holder name" world. It is a wonderful place to have a vacation during this part of the aeon. As ...
7 years ago
The Savage Sword of Scadgrad

The Mythology of Moog - *Mythology of Moog* *The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...
7 years ago
Age of Ravens

Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other chara...
7 years ago
SWORD & SHIELD

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...
7 years ago
The Brookmere Chronicles

Two Thieves - Jeff Easley's BECMI Thief I’ve recently decided to run an OD&D game. This, of course, brings with it the age-old question of which version of OD&D (3LBBs...
7 years ago
Advanced Dungeons and Parenting

STAR EAGLES: Reflections on Kickstarter Project Expectations - When Kickstarter launched a decade ago, on April 28th, 2009, it helped to create a new kind of business model that allowed businesses and individuals to ra...
7 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...
7 years ago
helsmuth

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...
7 years ago
Gathox Vertical Slum

The Mutant Insurrectionist: Talking about zines - Okay, here's an awesome new thing I made for Gathox - it's a zine. I'm gonna post the link first, so you can go get a copy, and then I'm going to talk abou...
7 years ago
At the Mountains of Weirdness

Thoughts on (#1): Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition - I played Warhammer 1st edition for many years. I loved everything about it: the setting, the amazing artwork, the simple rules, the euro-renaissance look, ...
7 years ago
Maximum Rock & Role Playing

Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talen...
7 years ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
7 years ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

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
Dungeons and Digressions

Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...
7 years ago
Joeskythedungeonbrawler's Blog

BACK AT IT AGAIN - OKAY………….. WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!? AGOOD QUESTION FOR ANSWERING BUT I WILL ONLY SAY THIS: THE MOVIE TRON IS A TRUE STROY AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TOO!! ANYW...
7 years ago
Blessings of the Dice Gods

Removing Support from Zak Smith - [UPDATE February 14th, 2019: Zak has issued a statement responding here. I am not convinced to change my position below, but it introduces some doubt. I m...
7 years ago
PLANET ALGOL

Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
7 years ago
Unofficial Games

So long and thanks for all the fish - If you want to find me someday check here
7 years ago
Middenmurk

A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria - This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the fantas...
7 years ago
AnarchyDice

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
Dead Cyclops

Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome DCC Conversion - *This is a DCC conversion for Jeff Call's excellent one-page dungeon Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome! Get it here: gelatinousdome.tumblr.com (direct link...
7 years ago
Accursed RPG

SWADE Update! - The Adventure Edition Update for Accursed is now freely available for download from DriveThruRPG. This is just a bare-bones document, to help players who w...
7 years ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Opportunistic Griffons - Hello and welcome back to the first post of 2019. I hope the new year has started well for you. I'm making up for lost time with five monsters for you this...
7 years ago
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
7 years ago
Mythmere's Blog

Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...
7 years ago
Accio Inspirante

Designing an OSR Game, Part Three: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests - This is part three in a series of posts about designing a new OSR game. You can find the previous two here: - Designing a new OSR game - Designin...
7 years ago
Greyhawk Grognard

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...
7 years ago
Weapon versus Armor Class

Changes to the d20 mechanic to fit the Moldvay Basic style - This is Part 1 of an ongoing series - the introduction and table of contents can be found here. In order to bend the D&D Third Edition rules into the tiny ...
7 years ago
Stocking The Dungeon

Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe! - I never did a lot of RPG stuff on Google+, for some reason the interface and spam I'd run into there just kept me from getting that into it. I was a bit sa...
7 years ago
Spells and Steel

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
wizardshaw

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...
8 years ago
White Box

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
The Dungeon Dozen

How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
8 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
8 years ago
The Furthest Lands

Ordinary Starting Item / “I Search the Body” Table (d00) - A table of one hundred starting items for character creation or searching bodies. Each item is worth 1d6 x 10gp to an appropriately interested person, and...
8 years ago
Dice in the Corner

Some musings about the complaints in Adventurers League - I have been away from blogging for a long time. I did not have much to say that I did not say on Facebook. However I recently started working on a D&D 5e...
8 years ago
Appendix N

The West is Dying: Book 1 Fall of the First World - The West is Dying Book 1 Fall of the First World Written by David C. Smith $2,99 Kindle $19.99 Paperback I read a few of David C. Smith's books back in...
8 years ago
Build A Dungeon From Me

Photo -
8 years ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

TAG @ Ten Sales - In case you hadn't heard, Triple Ace Games turned 10 years old, and they are celebrating with a pair of "Greatest Hits" style bundles for Savage Worlds and...
8 years ago
Dungeon of Signs

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...
8 years ago
A Journey Round My Skull

Crouching and Screaming - Wonderful 1978 illustrations by Outi Markkanen (Finland, b.1951) on Kuriosas. Visit the link for many more illustrations from *Kurnau ja Kamaluu*.
8 years ago
Dark Fate RPG Blog

New blog - Ok, people, time to update your bookmarks. I'm moving this blog to another domain, so this is my last post here. You may find the new blog at http://letra...
8 years ago
Dungeon Smashing Empire

the MOONS of KOS - Kos has five moons. 1. the White Huntress Largest of the moons. Unwavering and constant, crowding the horizon. She lightens the seaward prow, bathes t...
8 years ago
Built by Gods Long Forgotten

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
Redwald RPG

Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...
8 years ago
The Book of Worlds

Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...
8 years ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

Vaults of Vyzor: Post-species Integration and Education Society - *The Vaults of Vyzor is an on-going, epic, multi-player dungeoncrawl run by Jeff Rients of the Broodmother Skyfortress.* My character there is a lotfp spec...
8 years ago
The Nth Decree

On Absolute Evil - When Henry James wrote *The Turn of the Screw*, he was careful to leave the actions of the ghosts Quint and Jessel unspoken. Their relation to young Miles ...
8 years ago
Held Action

Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...
8 years ago
The Goblinburg Notebook

How to Make Goon Master Character in Macchiato Monsters - [image: http://chaudronchromatique.blogspot.ie/2014/10/goblin-enchantress-with-shaman-and.html] *Some time ago,+Samuel Guillon's character managed to convi...
8 years ago
Too Much Johnson

2018: I Yam What I Yam And I Don't Give A Damn - Time for another year-end beatdown.Time to roll another one out. This past holiday season I resolved to be more mellow than previous years, which I met w...
8 years ago
Melancholies and Mirth

DUNGEON#3:TOTALT JAVLA MORKER - PDF here It's a simple 13 room dungeon I've ran for new players to figure out how OSR is played. The dungeon can be easily adapted for your purposes b...
8 years ago
Unvisible Citadel

New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex Zisch, a...
8 years ago
Redbeard's Ravings

Random Encounters Shaping Campaign Choices: Emergent Story - This is what you get when you open your game up and have no expectations; what happens when you present a problem to the player characters that can’t be ...
8 years ago
Subterranean Design

https://instagram.com/p/BcGwbSOAShr/ -
8 years ago
Living 4 Crits

Numenera - The Devil's Spine - Session 12 - Once Upon a Time in the Ninth World Welcome to our group's campaign log for *The Devil's Spine*, a mega-adventure by +Monte Cook for the *Numenera* cam...
8 years ago
Sorcerer Under Mountain

Behold Beyond Dread Portals now has a cover! - Our upcoming release of Paul Mitchener's Dimension Hopping Fantasy Adventure game, Beyond Dread Portals, now has a cover courtesy of Jon Hodgson. Continue ...
8 years ago
Rule of the Dice

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...
8 years ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
9 years ago
A Sword for Hire

Here Be Monsters 4: Out of the Primal World voting booth - The Top 5 have been revealed and now it's time to vote for your favorite monster! For those who need one last look to make their decision, the finalists...
9 years ago
Adventures and Shopping

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 ...
9 years ago
Tales from the Tower

More Kesmai Corporation Isle of Kesmai images - Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged here guys. Here's some more fun Isle of Kesmai images showing the various stages of creating the Isle of Kesmai...
9 years ago
The Dwarven Stronghold

- Three days left and it's getting close! C'mon, gamer friends...jump aboard! Even if you're Old School, there's still a lot of great inspiration here...cr...
9 years ago
Aeternal Realm of Sylvaeon

Goblins of Mount Shadow - a low-level adventure for C&C - Next Sunday, I run the Castles & Crusades adventure: *Goblins of Mount Shadow *for my new roleplaying group :) While the basic plot isn't too bad, there ...
9 years ago
Fists of Cinder and Stone

(Video) Game Review: Crawl - So my gaming group all hang out together and one of us had this new video game, Crawl from Powerhoof We got so distracted we didn't even play out sched...
9 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
9 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
9 years ago
Anamnesis of the Mystic Scholar

A Book Review: Jean Lafitte, The Pirate Who Saved America - As a cousin of Jean Lafitte, I'm always interested in publications that detail his life and I thought I might find this book interesting. Alas, neither the...
9 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
9 years ago
The Rambling Roleplayer

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
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...
9 years ago
Daayan Songs Translated

A Goblin Wedding - *Sometimes*, goblin weddings. (Lots of inspiration from Arnold K and Zak S, shhh) Yes, I have a Goblin King. I guess he's David Bowie. *The wedding takes...
9 years ago
Sword and Board

It's hard to do horror in D&D - I love the Ravenloft setting, but I have to admit that it is really hard to pull off horror games with Dungeons & Dragons. The biggest issue is clerics. Th...
9 years ago
Design Notes

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
Old School Heretic

The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber - The Big Time was originally serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1958 (A two-parter featured in the March and April issues). Gutenberg link: http://www.gutenbe...
9 years ago
The Gibbering Gamer

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
Crypt Of Rabies

[Patreon] Dwarven Stronghold + Bandits + Wizard Tower of Toerd + Alia(k) of Wizard Tower - Thanks to my Patrons, here is new content for you to enjoy! If you like stuff like this, you can support me to create more, and more, and more! *DWARVEN S...
9 years ago
Greywulf's Lair

The King Arthur Pendragon RPG is free to download - Hop on over to the nice people at DriveThruRPG and you’ll find the classic 1st Edition of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG by Greg Stafford available as a fre...
9 years ago
Battleaxes & Beasties

- I'm very pleased to announce that I've received the outline and readied the cover for the first Battleaxes & Beasties adventure that is not written by me. ...
9 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

Don Cossacks and Muscovite Boyars in 1/72 scale -
9 years ago
In the Mind of a Mad Man!!!

[LPJ Design] Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super Powered by M&M Now available FOR FREE for a limited time!!! - Louis Porter Jr. Design, has released Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super-Powered by M&M at LPJDesign.com. Here is information on this product: In c...
9 years ago
Prime Requisite Games™

I Missed the LL Box Set News - Now I know I’ve been out of the RPG circles for quite some time, but how did I not hear of a freakin’ *Labyrinth Lord BOX SET*…and when can I *get* one (m...
9 years ago
The Rusty Dagger

Daily Monster Art- Anhkheg - Again, I don`t think I`ve ever used these in a game.They are pretty gross gribbly beasts. Spitting acid and chomping and such. They kind of make me think...
9 years ago
Renovating the Temple

Mapping doors - Doors are driving me a bit batty. I should explain. Architecturally, one of the things old-school dungeon mapping has gotten right, I tend to think almost...
9 years ago
(BHP) Confessions of a RPG Publisher

Commercial Auto Insurance Vs. Medical Health Insurance -
9 years ago
ROFL Initiative

How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
9 years ago
5 Stone Games

Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...
9 years ago
Over the Misty Mountains

DM Lessons: Mea Culpa - I play a fairly house-ruled version of D&D 5e with lots of more old-school elements to it. One of the most noticeable elements is my Modified XP and Levell...
9 years ago
Gaming Ronin

Grammaton training (Savage worlds) - The character is trained in quickly calculating shooting angles and committing rigorous gun kata to muscle memory. The character is an expert in snap shoo...
10 years ago
OSR Today

OSRToday Winding Down - OSRToday is winding down. Thanks for your support.
10 years ago
Savage Swords of Athanor

- Oh, for crap's sake, it's been nearly a year and a half since my last post. In the meantime, my wife and I bought a house, I had a huge pile of projects at...
10 years ago
Like Being Read To From Dictionaries

D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...
10 years ago
My Blog

6 Years - Today, August 10th, marks the 6th year anniversary of Purple Duck Games and our 6th year at the OBS (Rpgnow/DTRPG) set of stores. Starting off with a sub...
10 years ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
10 years ago
Back Screen Pass - A DM's Secrets

Giambattista's Megadungeon - Doing some organizing in my D&D folder on my computer today I came across this incredible megadungeon map drawn by Giambattista Nolli in 1748. I think I c...
10 years ago
James Games

Dog Food Coupons and Promo Codes - Over the years it seems as if Pet Food have been get more expensive. There has definitely been an increase in people looking for Dog Food Coupons, probably...
10 years ago
The Frothy Friar

Encounter Inspiration #16 - Beware the Back Alleys - Be cautious at night traveler, for the darkness brings a life of its own. Murderers and thieves prowl the inky black alleys of Ravendale seeking victims...
10 years ago
The Omnipotent Eye

The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...
10 years ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...
10 years ago
The Concierge

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
Three-Headed Troll Art Wurks

AD&D Troll Sculpt WIP - Troll sculpt nearing completion, I've done some more detail work since taking these photo's. He just needs his right arm/hand completed. 50mm to top of...
10 years ago
The Free RPG Blog

Delicious, exploratory campaigns in Mythosa by Bruce Gulke - Mythosa is a system agnostic game setting with a consistency and depth that comes with years of honing. It has recently made the welcome transition from w...
10 years ago
People them with Monsters

Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...
10 years ago
Crawdads and Dragons

Two years before the dice. - * GROGNARD SPEAKS TO YOU !!!* So, I've been gone for a while, and while it's traditional to make...
10 years ago
Curmudgeons & Dragons

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
MISKA FREDMAN

[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
Carto Cacography

The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...
10 years ago
Swords of Minaria

Review: Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish - Since the untimely demise this year of the Warhammer Fantasy setting, and thus the three decades of games that it spawned, one might have expected the edi...
10 years ago
Rocket-Propelled Game

The Horus Supremacy - *It is the 41st Millenium. For ten thousand years, the Emperor has led his grear war-fleets from the Silver Throne of Luna. He is the master of mankind by...
10 years ago
Oaths and Fates

In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers - [image: B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland] B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland In a classic D&D adventure, characters in search of adventur...
10 years ago
My Realms

A Hi-Res Copy of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Map - Thanks to Extra Life, this hi-res version of the map from SCAG has been posted online and I thought I might share it here for convenience. While I like t...
10 years ago
The Sandbox of Doom

Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...
10 years ago
The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
10 years ago
aldeboran

MOVED - I've moved everything to www.stefanpoag.com. Thank you, blogger.com, for the years of hosting; please visit my new site.
10 years ago
games with others

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 ...
10 years ago
The Rusty Edge of Knight

Poker Tables For Sale - Last night, March 15, on an all new "Comic Book Men" on AMC, "Star Wars" actor Billy Dee Williams of The Stash with the rest of the crew and they take a ...
11 years ago
Cogito, ergo ludo.

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
Huth - Art and Illustration

Current Portfolio - If you’re looking my current portfolio, please head over to www.chrishuth.com. If you’re looking for gaming-related writing or updates on some other gaming...
11 years ago
Fleur du mal

Khoisa Family of Languages - Overview of Language Mechanics The Khoisa Family: An ancient language of poets, warriors, and mages, the languages of the Khoisa family are uniformly beaut...
11 years ago
Dungeon Mastering 101

Back from the Dead! - Yet Again! - I have never stopped playing RPGs but I have been extremely slack about updating this blog. No posts for over three years? Uggh... I am running a campaign ...
11 years ago
Uncle Matt's Place

Giant squid + giant squid - So much is happening that it's hard to write about any of it. My drafts folder is littered with abandoned proto-ideas, each dropped when the next came into...
11 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

Mage the Awakening: No Mean City - Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start DMing a...
11 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...
11 years ago
Drawings & Dragons

setetes info - http://goo.gl/H4qGNi http://goo.gl/zzWiKL http://goo.gl/39DUWK http://goo.gl/UCWyHF http://goo.gl/oBN1OG http://goo.gl/4pboks http://goo.gl/kYn86p http://g...
11 years ago
FightingFantasist

- Not going to be maintaining the FF blog on Google anymore. Mainly because of this which seems to be the thin end of the wedge. http://www.theguardian.co...
11 years ago
ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog

Fin. With an update - *Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge life project come upon me, it was time to put my energy into something else. I ...
11 years ago
The Iron Tavern

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
SANDBOX EMPIRE

Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land - This is pretty accurate... http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw *CATEGORY* Adventure *WHAT* The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...
11 years ago
BigDungeon

Exploring the BigDungeon - I haven't been making much use of this blog lately. Plans come and go. I've been playing with programming some of my own tools lately as I mentioned a whil...
11 years ago
malevolent & benign

Mad Wizards and Demented Godlings - *Achaierai:* "Though the foul motives which caused these loathsome birds to be first summoned from the infernal depths are now lost from memory, remnants ...
11 years ago
FiveMeninNormandy

New supplement plus thinking out loud. - Go get it Tons of options for your characters and scenarios in FiveCore games. Balancing on ledges, pick pocketing and taming wild animals, we got you cove...
11 years ago
The Lone Delver

TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You! - [image: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137077/TrollsZine-8?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2238] *TrollsZine!* #8 is waiting for you! The eighth issue o...
12 years ago
20 Sided Woman

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
World of Onn

New Campaign 2014 Update - We've been playing 11 session now into the new campaign. The players had some hairy encounters with Proud, Spider-eye Goblins and Quill Wolves (along with ...
12 years ago
Daddy Grognard

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
Castle Dragonscar

Support My Friend's Patreon Page Cause He's Awesome - Hey guys, if you like supporting independent artists / musicians and creative types then please check out my friend Mike TV of the band Get Set Go's Patreo...
12 years ago
1d8

Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e) - Figure out the point buy value of your character for the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition role playing game with this calculator. STR 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...
12 years ago
Coffee swillin' analog gamer

The Dungeon Dozen -
12 years ago
Risus Monkey

DC Gameday XIV: Casino Karnstein - DC Gameday XIV is coming up on the weekend of March 29th-March 30th and player registration is already open. After a grueling couple of months of real-worl...
12 years ago
"The Troll Ate My Homework"

North Texas RPG Con 2014 Lineup - Well it's time for the 6th Annual North Texas RPG Convention! The NTRPG Con focuses on old-school Dungeons & Dragons gaming (mainly OD&D, 1E, 2E, or Bas...
12 years ago
The Keep on the Gaming Lands

Prepping for Success - Last week, I wrote about working with success. By leaning into the players' success, you make your campaign more engaging and exciting. When you put your g...
12 years ago
Have dice, will travel...

Happy New Year! - First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Mine was okay, and I'm kind of glad it's all finally over. T...
12 years ago
The Yaqqothl Grimoire

Still alive and more useless crap - I wonder if anyone still reads this blog. Anyway, things have been changing at the speed of light in the last few months so I feel like a little update is ...
12 years ago
The RPG Corner

[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
12 years ago
Mythellaneous Conjurings

Check It Out... - And speaking of building new worlds...I've been a regular reader of Rob Conley's Bat In the Attic blog for a while now. He's a dedicated gamer with an ext...
13 years ago
Gaming on the Precipice

Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...
13 years ago
elves ate my homework

Meet the Party - I'm back in Poland for a few days. Which means it's time to move my D&D campaign a bit. I have little time left to the session, so just take a look at the...
13 years ago
Gibbering Mouther

The Perfect Answer to All the Financial Problems - Today loans are playing an integral part in the normal lives of people. Gone were the days where availing loan of any kind was considered to be a taboo. ...
13 years ago
Silver Blade Adventures

[Article] Dwarves - A notably prominent demi-human race in *Dungeons & Dragons*, dwarves no doubt owe their popularity to the success and mythology of Middle Earth. Whilst ...
13 years ago
Year of the Dungeon

Other than the vanished empires, ancient manuscripts, and armed rebellion, this post has nothing to do with gaming - Last month, this article showed up in The New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda . It describes how a team of librarians, archivist...
13 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
13 years ago
3d6

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
Swashbuckler's Hideout

Palace of the Wind Sultan, Part 1 - Maps for Wednesday's heist game. 2 more maps coming tomorrow afternoon. *Outside* * Level 1* *Level 2-3*
13 years ago
Vaults of Nagoh

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...
13 years ago
Chainmail Bikini

RIP Druid - Back in late autumn I began running a Dungeon World game with some friends. They've been ever so patient with me over the past two years - we played Labyrin...
13 years ago
In a Dark Cell

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
Project Hoverstead

The Wilderlands - Four Dwarves seeking adventure and excitement crawled from there hole into the grander world. There first two days away from the humble mines that there fo...
13 years ago
Crowbar And Brick

ACKS Half Value Spellcasting - The Strategic Review and 1E Ranger (I don't recall a Basic DND Ranger?) would gain spellcasting in later levels as both a Cleric and a Magic User (Druid an...
13 years ago
Rogues & Reavers: A Game Design Blog

Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...
13 years ago
A Wizard in a bottle

Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
13 years ago
E.V.T.S.

Guest Post: Setting Out for the Lost City - Originally posted on Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog: Earlburt is my closest gaming friend, and has done more than any other person to help bring the games I’ve...
13 years ago
ADnD Grognard

New Website & Blog Live - Finally the pieces start to come together. The new website is up (not much on the front page to look at yet) and the blog is located on the second tab at t...
14 years ago
Greyhawk City

Rental Equipment As a Business Strategy - During stock tracking, you might normally want to sell off rarely used and even underused equipment. Turn these obligations into resources instead. Create ...
14 years ago
The Chapel Perilous

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
Old School Psionics

Gnomes, Svirfneblin and the family of illusionist trickster Wee Folk - Gnomes are the only demi-human race in 1e who can become illusionists. Gnomes are remarked as being cousins of the dwarfs, but just as equally, they appea...
14 years ago
Blowing smoke

Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...
14 years ago
VAULTS OF THE MAD ARCHMAGE

Perhaps my PCs should be worried... -
14 years ago
Haque in Black

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...
14 years ago
Black Hole Diaries

Review: John Carter - This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was announced some...
14 years ago
Rustfoot

The End - ...and so, we arrive at the last page in this story! Ironic as it may be, it will also be the first personal post. And last, of course. I've been thinking ...
14 years ago
Terminal Space

- Terminal Space blog is closed. Time has showed that I am unable to maintain two blogs at the same time, so I decided to move all creative content from here...
14 years ago
The Underdark Gazette

Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...
14 years ago
Axe & Hammer

Closed - Nothing to see here. Move along.
14 years ago
Headless Horse Archer

The Iron Court - So, to celebrate the TPK-related end of the first (shortish) Zu campaign, here's the map AND the key to the Iron Courts, the place where the party has met ...
14 years ago
RPG Diehard

After-action report: Tomorrow's War - After a supply ship was brought down by Neo-Soviet recon elements on the desert world Fornacis V, the decision was made to send in a retrieval squad from ...
15 years ago
Dark Dungeons

Dark Dungeons has Moved! - Dark Dungeons is no longer alone. It now has a sister game – Darker Dungeons – and another one on the way. Because of this expansion, I’m moving from this ...
15 years ago
Eiglophian Press

eiglophian -
15 years ago
Pervasive Games: Theory and Design

Review #14: Farman - Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, who has used Pervasive Games as material on his courses. He has published an academic rev...
15 years ago
kendleoria

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
The Geek Gazette

Quick comic recommendations and reviews - There are a lot of really great comics out there and with the changes at Marvel & DC there is a lot to be excited about for comic book fans. Here are a few ...
15 years ago
Retro RPG » Poster #8

Blog Has Moved ! - I have reboot and moved my blog. In all reality it is a new blog, but I will explain that shortly. The new address is: http://sylvaeon.blogspot.com/ The ...
15 years ago
Confessions of Not a Grognard

Kingdoms of Kalamar Play Report: Session III - Mopping up Bandits - Last night's session went off well for the most part, though there was a disagreement as to the procedure for treasure division amongst the players. All sh...
15 years ago
Initiative Or What?

Elminster's Jock - Yeah, this will drive traffic to the site. Well, you can blame Brian, the creative genius over at d20monkey for this one. He posted THIS COMIC, and I could...
15 years ago
Sickly Purple Death Ray

Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...
15 years ago
Mailed Fist

THAC© - *THAC0* is an acronym for "to-hit armor class zero" in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, published in 1989. It represents the minimum target numbe...
15 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...
15 years ago
Where'd my Vorpal Sword Go?

Dungeon Magazine Indexes - So the other day I was thinking to myself about how it would be good to have the various Dungeon Adventures organized not only by level, but also by topic,...
15 years ago
Plastic Polyhedra

Monday Mini: Widowmaker Kapitan - This week's mini - the very characterful Khadoran Widowmaker Kapitan, in this case painted by an ex-Rackham pro painter, from Privateer Press' Warmachine....
15 years ago
RPG dumping ground

New Blog - As promised, here's a link to my new blog. It's rather bare at the moment, but I'm planning to ramp up content over the next few weeks.
15 years ago
Back to (Role-Playing Game) Basics

Finding My Way - As mentioned in my last post I will continue blogging and I'll expand the scope to include other facets to my life and interests. So it is with great pleas...
15 years ago
Game Design is about Structure

Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...
15 years ago
Game Design is about Structure

Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...
15 years ago
ERIDU

[LOCATIONS] Some of the City-States, Settlements and Ruins of Sumer and Akkad - Ur: (pop. c. 15,000) here dwells Nanna-Sin in his shrine E-kishnugal; ruled by the undying ensi Shulgi, who seeks by recording all things to become a god. ...
16 years ago
Valley of Blue Snails

Pallas Cat - I am fascinated with the Pallas cat. If you notice, the pupil of their eyes are round, not slit-like other cats. Since it is Monday, here is a random beh...
16 years ago
3d6

New Game and System - I've recently discovered Microlite20, a "stripped down" version of 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons. To give an idea, the core rules- including character creatio...
17 years ago
The Grumblin' Grognard

D&D was a Wargame - I have been giving this one some thought recently. I was first introduced to wargames, and it was only afterwards that I started into D&D. The concept of t...
17 years ago
The Geek Emporium

This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Well folks, this is the very last post on this particular web address. Everything...
18 years ago
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