Notes From Under the Kyak: Update

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Twenty Sided

Wednesday Action Log 06-10-26 - This week I’ve been all over the place. I played a bit more BALL x PIT. It’s a good game, I had fun, but I wasn’t really in the mood to hunt down a bunch o...
1 hour ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Terror in Tepest - Tonight I ran the second session of the Season of Horror at Dungeon Dwellers in Portsmouth, Ohio. After saving townsfolk from the graveyard, the party made...
3 hours ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

GACKS AAR: Session 4 - GACKS AAR: Session 4Due to health reasons, there were no sessions the next two weeks. However, the game world wasn’t standing still. Isn’t that wonderful? ...
3 hours ago
A character for every game

the Mound on the Silent Road - The Silent Road leads from the city’s necropolis out into the hinterlands, a broken and erratic trail of cobblestones left … Continue reading →
5 hours ago
Leicester's Ramble

D66 Lost Cities - First of all, Prismatic Wasteland's current Blogwagon topic is "Randomness" - which means I'm posting sumthin' random... According to the randomly assign...
5 hours ago
The Vanishing Tower

Dor Stryker, Official Mascot of Deluxe USR Sword & Sorcery -
14 hours ago
Monsters and Manuals

Why, why, why, Delilah? - I recently recorded a podcast episode for higher-level backers of the Yoon-Suin 2nd edition kickstarter, in which I was subjected to some tough questions...
15 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Recent Gaming - *Anyone like any of the 12 dungeon zones in particular?* As I start a series of new tables for each type your suggestion...
15 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Mail Call Tuesday: Authentic Thaumaturgy - I picked this up on Facebook Marketplace. I had a copy in the past, but sold it when I was in grad school. I think I paid now what I sold it for back th...
15 hours ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Flight of the Yardbird, Session 15 – End of October to Early November, 18 IC - *[Retrieval of Keybreaker and the fight to keep it.]* *[This session took place in April, 2003. We were playing Champions 5th Edition with the Second Ed...
17 hours ago
DIY RPG Productions

Punk Song of the Day- Come On Down- Metz (w/ Joe Talbot) - Come On Down- Metz (w/ Joe Talbot) #PunkSongOfTheDay Whole playlist here: Amazon Music/Spotify What is PSotD…
17 hours ago
Foot of the Mountain Adventures

Beneath Ahknoor - Thu Group - The Sword of the Whojamajigs - Group 2 | Session 3: "The Sword of the Whojamajigs" Previously: Three strangers stood at the entrance of a buried library and went in three separate direct...
18 hours ago
Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository

"Siege the DM!" - A new screen I assembled for our B/X-AD&D retro-clone "Advanced Labyrinth Lord" game. Player facing art is all Steve Zeiser except that one piece, "Th...
23 hours ago
GRUBB STREET

Scams - We are awash in scams these days. Mysterious Docusign demands. Emails claiming to be from the Geek Squad or PayPal announcing that someone purchased a i...
1 day ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

Meditations on the classic In Search of the Unknown (Module B1, written by Mike Carr in 1978) module Adapted To OSR Rpg systems especially The Adventurer, Conqueror, King Second Edition - Part III - This skirmish event occurs in Room 19 (The Room of Pools), a large, central No-Man's-Land chamber that acts as a structural bottleneck between the West an...
1 day ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: The Homebrewery - [image: Free GM Resource: The Homebrewery] This week's Free GM Resource is an interesting website called The Homebrewery that is dedicated to helping the ...
1 day ago
Cirsova

Summer Issue Update: Cover Reveal, Taking Ads, Release Date TBA - I am so incredibly far behind in everything right now, I don’t even actually know when the Summer Special will come out, but it WILL come out in Summer! Ma...
1 day ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Spell] A Convenient Accident - A Convenient Accident Welter dropped his lantern again, oil spilled from the wreckage and caught on fire. Dhiv and the hireling managed to get the fire out...
1 day ago
Methods & Madness

It is time to ditch the "good GM" - The myth of the "good GM is required to play" is an old tale in our hobby. I thought the myth had been laid to rest, but it is often raised from the dead...
1 day ago
The Silver Key

Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Stories: A Review - Say one thing of H. Rider Haggard: Say he wrote with *range*. When we think of Haggard, we typically think of the man who gave us *King Solomon’s Mines, S...
1 day ago
Kobold Press

Run your best actual play | Take your supplements! – June 8, 2026 - Supplements, both big and small, can save you planning time for your actual play game and let you enjoy some network effects. The post Run your best actu...
1 day ago
Whose Measure God Could Not Take

Turf War (OSR Vampire: the Masquerade) - When I was first getting into Vampire: the Masquerade, it seemed like the perfect setting for an urban sandbox campaign, but as I learned more it seemed ...
1 day ago
tenfootpole.org

The Tower of the Standing Stones - By Marco G. FossatiSelf PublishedDragonbane/OSRI think this is a BRP system … hear the tale of Ardana, a mage who defied the Dragon Emperor and vanished wi...
1 day ago
Stargazer's World

Want to Roleplay Masters of the Universe? - You just watched the new Masters of the Universe (MotU) movie and are excited about the possibility of playing a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) set in t...
1 day ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Miskatonic Monday #437: The Light on the Hill - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of...
1 day ago
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Vileplume Mountain - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...
1 day ago
Sly Flourish

Announcing Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster! - For the past year I've been working on a new book. I've kept it somewhat quiet, only more recently showing chapters (and eventually the entire second draft...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Dinner and Delving - After the previous session's downtime, the group was resolved to take the Nokoviks up on their invitation to dinner, then head to the village of Goransta...
2 days ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - There isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Morale Che...
2 days ago
Red Dice Diaries ��

Session 0 AP video: Jungle of Death - A few people have asked if I’ll be broadcasting my #Shadowdark games, after checking with my players they’ve said they’re fine with it, so here is the firs...
2 days ago
Dungeon Fantastic

Felltower House Rules Examined - As promised in the comments, I decided to take a look at some house rules/ways we run the rules in Felltower. Our base rules set is DFRPG, but with specifi...
2 days ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

[Quick Review] Steadings & Followers - For those players and gamemasters interested in a quick and easy system for building settlements then I would take a look at Sibling Dex's *Steadings & F...
2 days ago
What a horrible night to have a curse...

All Systems are Go - I finished editing my *Missions & Mayhem* core rules draft, as well as *Cryptids & Conspiracy* and *Bughunts & Bedlam* modules based on the feedback I go...
2 days ago
Archon's Court

DEGRADER As Extraction Shooter - DEGRADER is a weird little play-by-post wargame by the wonderful Louis, who is great. It is stealth-based - player characters assemble webs of interlocki...
3 days ago
Of Slugs and Silver

The Dwarven Hoard, or how much is the Arkenstone worth? - I'm running a 2nd Yoon-Suin campaign, and my characters are about to get access to a dwarven vault in Upper Druk Yul. One of the PCs, a dwarven berzerk...
3 days ago
Rindis.com

Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1) - As a crusading force moving into hostile lands, castles were essential for the Teutonic Order’s survival in Prussia. Undeveloped and swampy, there was only...
3 days ago
Realms of Chirak

Increasing Appreciation for Old-School Essentials - Laat night I managed to get our Friday group to start a classic B/X D&D campaign using a blend of the Erol Otus edition Basic and Expert rulebooks, with...
3 days ago
Gregorius21778

Let A.I. do the rolling: Looks & Details: Space Pirates - Years ago I published „Looks & Details for Space Pirate“ a system neutral set of generator tables for scifi/space opera ttrpg. Space pirates are common NPC...
3 days ago
ropeblogi

Teori-inblick #269 - - *Concealed conscientization: A case study of a commercial Dungeons & dragons adventure* av Brian McKenzie, Bret Zawilski och James Beirne b...
3 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Clawbinger of Doom - Hello, and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! After a couple of weeks letting the votes tally, a winner barely emerged, so I am working downward f...
4 days ago
yog-blogsoth

CLAWING FIEND - CLAWING FIEND "Ghastly shades of bygone gladness, Clawing fiends of future sadness." H.P. Lovecraft, *Cycle Of Verse* This one is the same but I really w...
4 days ago
Numbers Aren't Real

How to Set Up Factions So They Can Be Toppled - I've been waffling on the intro to this post for a while. In the interest of ever actually getting it onto the blog, I'll hit you with a couple of bul...
4 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Stonehell B Team: Weird Water - Session 319 was played on 2/8/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kob...
4 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Journal of Eternian Studies - With the *Masters of the Universe* movie upon us, it seemed a good time to revisit my series of posts that take a pseudo-scholarly view of the MOTU myth...
4 days ago
Hobgoblinry

A space ettin! - I realise that I've had this fellow in the works for more than three years (!) now, but he's finally done. He's a converted ettin from the Descent board...
4 days 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 ...
5 days ago
The Githyanki Diaspora

Thursday Night AWBO S2: Otter’s Mess - We got to flesh out the Isles of the Fishwives a bit. Otter's player hit us with: "Blessed be the Dreamer, may the dreamers never wake," as a traditional g...
5 days ago
Shouting Into The Void

First paper figure from 1981 - Since I'm on a cardboard standee kick at the moment, I thought I would show you this — my very first hand-drawn paper AD&D character mini, from 1981. M...
5 days ago
Fabled Lands

A waste of a great concept - In 1975, *Empire of the Petal Throne* introduced roleplaying gamers to the world of Tekumel, a beautifully detailed fantasy setting that was the first of...
5 days ago
The Cosmic Orrery

Twenty Rival Adventurers - [image: https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/a5/44/aa/a544aa79639a9dbb83950fbf15a30745.jpg] Gage Lindsten *Created for a friend of mine's campaign, wherein various...
6 days ago
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

May/June Shadowrun Campaign News and a new Seattle Scream (#117) - I have decided to only do these reports when I will have something tangible to share, like a new Seattle Scream! So, they will be monthly or bimonthly as i...
6 days ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

John Blanche 1948–2026 - [image: Sister of Battle by Blanche] I am sad to learn about the passing of John Blanche. My friend Tim has written a nice article about him for Wargamer...
6 days ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Carpe Blogiem: Aeon Campaign 3.0, Postmortem - Often with the things I run there is a general theme that repeats. I like Atlantis. I like powerful figures working in the shadows. I like giving the PCs...
6 days ago
Cross Planes

Pocket Dark Sun: Dune Reaper & Gaj - * Dune Reaper:* *"The reaper prowls the sandy wastes in wild packs, leaping from dunes to ambush and impale its prey on its scythe like limbs."* *Combat ...
6 days ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #38 - Welcome Greyhawk enthusiasts! If you haven't figured out what classic mod the *Cultists of Tharizdun* are mired in, then you'll know now. The fun in writ...
6 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

The Alignment Octagram - For those who like the moral ambiguity of the Law-Neutrality-Chaos alignment system but pine for the complexity of the ninefold alignment system introduc...
6 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

The Alignment Octagram - For those who like the moral ambiguity of the Law-Neutrality-Chaos alignment system but pine for the complexity of the ninefold alignment system introduc...
6 days ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 238 – Teaching New Rules - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GC_238_teaching-new-rules_final.mp3 Join Ang, Josh, and JT as they talk about how to teach new rules to you...
6 days ago
Into the Odd

Space is for Fantasy, not Sci Fi - *Mythic* has a lot of blank spaces left open for improvisation. In my experience, this works well enough, granting many advantages too. Improvise a castl...
6 days ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"JB's Mailbag" Returns! - The "Q" post in my A to Z series is on the way, but it needs a bit of a re-write (it's just overlong and "over-meander-y"). So in the meantime, I thought I...
1 week ago
I Cast Light!

BEHOLD AND BE NOT AFRAID: The Mistaken Divinity Of The Beholder - The Eye from *The Baleful Gaze of Tabaldak's Geas* my 2025 Appendix N entry *This post by Gus L. over at *All Dead Generations* dovetails with a thou...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

Off to North Texas Con - So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three sand...
1 week 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...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Age of Dusk

[Actual Play] Stonehell Delve XI (AD&D 1e); The Breaking of the Withered - Year 1869 of the New Imperial Calendar, Senectus 4 It was in the month of Senectus, that month in which we both mourn the destruction of the ancient capit...
1 week ago
Break!!

The Chosen of the Script (SETTING) - *There is no single form of the Blasphemous Script. It can be a pamphlet fluttering in the wind, a sinister looking tome tucked away in the back of some ...
1 week ago
World Building and Woolgathering

Punth: City of Compartments II - * Following on from last time...* *Presence* As might be imagined, there are two major groups in the City of Compartments other than the Hydraulic Dwarv...
1 week ago
Zadmar's Savage Stuff

Curators of the Time Museum (PocketQuest 2026) - The PocketQuest game jam has been running on DriveThruRPG every year since 2022, and each year I submit a Tricube Tales one-page RPG for it: I published ...
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

I think Gilligan's Island helped inspire my Superhero Setting - I mentioned once or twice that my Futuristic supers/cyberpunk setting HAVEN was based in large part on the Pacific island techno nation described in ...
1 week ago
From the Pilgrim's Temple

Fifth Fantasy Revised Classes - I fiddled with these ones a while ago but they never got typed up. Not playtested but I like them better. Fighter Paladin Journeyman A Link type *Skil...
1 week ago
Throne of Salt

How I Do It (feat. The Great Lady) - I mentioned at the end of She Sings At the End that I had a half-written essay about how I did it. This is the refurbished version of that essay, merged ...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
Doomslakers!

Dead Wizards Ground Zero - Going on 10 years ago I got inspired by various sword and sorcery things to create a game called Dead Wizards. It's set in a sandy desert city. Very muc...
1 week ago
Follow Me And Die!

Inspiration From Bodyless Sea Slug - This popped up on my Facebook feed and rather than feed Meta’s algorithm, I found other sources to share this. Here is a link to a Wikipedia article and a ...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday: More Orks - Progress was slow this week but I have another Grey Knight Terminator squad *almost *ready to go in the case. I'm still fighting the stupidly fiddly na...
1 week ago
Lord Matteus' Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items

Shadowdark Carousing: Boosting Campaign Themes and Player Engagement - Welcome back, Dear Readers! I’ve been meditating on a feature of Shadowdark that I don’t think gets enough attention: the carousing tables and how they fun...
1 week ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Undead Programming and You! - The only thing an Undead will do of its own volition is defend itself from an aggressor. The spirit binding the corpse prefers to do nothing. The only hig...
1 week ago
The Alexandrian

Ex-RPGNet Review: Minions – The Fearsome Foes - A great third-party Monster Manual for D20. Minions is a little pricy for its content, but the quality is high. Recommended. Review Originally Published Ma...
1 week ago
DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER

How do we start in the Realm? (A Mythic Bastionland luck roll to unlock the open table) - I’ve been running Mythic Bastionland as an open table game. Each session, I put out a call for players from a pool of eight to see who has availability to ...
1 week ago
ars ludi

Wvyerdown vs Irontree: An Example of War (part 3) - The war between Wyverdown and Irontree continues! I know I said I was writing this to demonstrate the rules, and that mission is pretty much accomplished, ...
1 week ago
Full Moon Storytelling

Being able to microblog directly from the macroblog *feels* right -
1 week ago
False Machine

The DOOM approaches! - THE FINAL HOURS! THE COUNT-DOWN BEGINS! The Kickstarter for Doom of the Dark, the nightland adventure from Patrick Stuart (me) and Amanda Lee, is nearly o...
1 week ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

Patrick Stuart & Amanda Lee Franck Interview: The Doom of the Dark - This is my second interview with Patrick (and first with Amanda!), this time about his current Kickstarter The Doom of the Dark. Unlike my previous inte...
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

RANDOM BLOGWAGON - Issuing a challenge to all bloggers: blog about the topic of “randomness” on a random day in June. Additional random tables are provided to assist you in y...
1 week ago
Harvester

Corrupted Inventor for Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars - *A lawn mower thought turned into form. . .* Michael Grabowski: Corrupted Inventor, 10th level for *Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars* *Fi...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
The Furtive Goblin's Burrow

Hoo'z Dat Lot? A d100 Warhammer-Inspired Greenskin Tribe Name Generator - Dere'z some proppa ugly lookin' gitz comin' up da way, boss. I fink it'z da... It’z Da… d100 Furzt Part Zekund Part 1 ‘Ard Arrerz 2 ‘Arda-den-’Ar...
2 weeks 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"...
2 weeks ago
Quest for Fun!

The Expense Post - *The Expense Post (Or: Why I Stopped Posting My Numbers)* I was at a game convention yesterday, hanging out with industry friends, talking store numbers....
2 weeks ago
Kill It With Fire!

What if we Nimble-ified DCCRPG - Nimble has some good rules for interesting, speedy combat. It's still a skirmish-game that requires minis, but so is DCC, on paper. Attacks: - Melee ...
2 weeks ago
Traverse Fantasy

Attack on Titan: An Informal Review - Alright, my babies. We need to talk about *Attack on Titan*. I’m not an anime head but, in 2013, the same friends who showed me *Sword Art Online* also s...
2 weeks ago
Library of Attnam

Mythic Weapons - I love the idea of specialist weapons and how this is used in Mythic Bastionland. Here are d100 such weapons. by Wayne Reynolds *This weapon is...* ...
2 weeks ago
No Foes, No Traps

Maze Master Hank Chapter 3: “Unnormal Norman” - “Welcome to my DEAD TALK!” said Unnormal Norman. Unnormal Norman was a skeleton man, but instead of old rags like the rest of the Skeleton Boy Bonez Brigad...
2 weeks ago
Lloyd of Gamebooks

Submissions are now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition - Hello all! Submissions have now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition. We have had slightly more than 10 entries this year, so entries will be av...
2 weeks ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Pass of the Thorn Crowned - An ancient path from a forgotten age, the old stone path leads through a rocky pass. Barely intact, fallen old structures are scattered throughout ...
3 weeks ago
Adventures In Mapping

ArcGIS Pro Layout Redesign volume 2 - We geographers can dig pretty deep in the weeds of data collection and analysis, reveling in the fun of precision, process, statistics, even visualization....
3 weeks ago
Campaign Mastery

A Twist Of The Tongue: Accents and Foreign Languages - There can be huge benefits to undertaking measures that will improve the delivery of languages (real or alien) and accents at the game table. The article b...
3 weeks 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 ...
3 weeks ago
In My Campaign

My New Campaign: Jaded Prophets and Pesky Gods - Creating pantheons has always been an interest of mine, to the point I wrote a book about creating pantheons. I’ve got another one in the works about devel...
3 weeks ago
GROGNARDIA

My Own Cover Band - First, a couple of brief updates: I’m still hard at work on the first draft of the second edition of *Thousand Suns* and, while it’s going well, it’s not...
3 weeks ago
These Old Games

Pickpocketing 101 - One of the hard parts of being a DM is the characters doing random things, like pickpocketing a random person. Here is a list of 101 random things that c...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Postmortem Studios

5 Pillars Game Designer Profile* - James “Grim” Desborough There are tabletop designers who create systems. There are designers who create worlds. Then there are designers who leave behind a...
3 weeks ago
d4 Caltrops

d100 - Where Does That Lamp Oil Come From? - Sometimes, I like to confront a few of the curious questions that occasionally come up in various Settings. This time I decided to tackle that ubiquitous...
3 weeks ago
Eldritch Fields

Dirty door tricks - Doors, the lifeblood of the dungeon, or something. They show up all the time in our fantasy dungeon crawling games, yet are often underdescribed. Most of...
3 weeks ago
Xeno's Ramblings

In the Foothills - The wind was cold on Yurelalte's face, cold enough to numb her lips and sting her cheeks even with the golden sun shining down from a blue and glorious...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Servitor Ludi

Resonances and Dancing Babies - In *"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,"* Borges sets up a fascinating thought experiment. Can someone stretch their mind far enough to be able to re...
4 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

Lords of Chaos! Free League also producing a Stormbringer game? - Well this is a bit confusing. Just two days ago I mentioned that Goodman Games announced that they will be producing material based upon Michael Moorcock...
4 weeks 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...
4 weeks ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] News on the March! Episode XIV - This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and setup...
5 weeks 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 weeks 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...
1 month ago
Save Vs. Dragon

House Rule: Sharing Potions - Something my players have tried (off and on again) is splitting potions—particularly if many in the party are in need of healing. In furtherance of my...
1 month ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

DaveCon 2026 happening this Weekend - DaveCon 2026 takes place this weekend, April 24th-26th. Organised by its founder Victor Dorso, the list of special guests include Blackmoor alumni such...
1 month ago
The Wandering Gamist

The Corruption of Power - I read The Man Who Was Thursday recently. I'm still not sure what I think of its answer to the question of theodicy, but there was a bit that seemed ACK...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
"It's okay; Gary sent us."

OSRIC 2.0/2.2 versus 3.0: What's really changed? - Since the public release of OSRIC 3.0 in late 2025/early 2026, I've seen a great deal of interest online in the nitty-gritty details of what makes this n...
1 month ago
d20 Pirates

Artifacts & Enigmas of World War 2 - Now available on DrivethruRPG.com is *Artifacts & Enigmas of World War 2*. This supplement, for use with *Treasure Hunter Adventures* and the *Savage W...
1 month ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

White Box Dungeon Adventures is out! - Out now! Go grab your copy!https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/560236/white-box-dungeon-adventures
1 month ago
Graphite Prime

Spell Research - Been awhile... Cool way to mix random spell determination with choice... When you level up (or even at character creation) and are gaining new spells, y...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Goblin's Henchman

Flooding Dungeon Complex | Surprise Easter dungeon play report - I don’t usually do play reports, but what the heck … I discovered that the youngest Henchling had invited his friend over (his friend’s older brother decid...
1 month 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 ...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Blood of Prokopius

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Vague Countries

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Alone in the Labyrinth

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Northport

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Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform

Haven: Strange Magics and Animated Alembics - On December 18th, with Gobblebob otherwise occupied, the party returning to the dwarven ruins is no longer inclined to return to the many doors in the hall...
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Den of the Lizard King

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2 months ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

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A Knight at the Opera

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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...
2 months ago
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The Walls of Uruk

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Clerics Wear Ringmail

Alternative *Alternative* Combat System - What was the purpose of the original Alternative Combat System outlined in the first booklet of original Dungeons & Dragons? The common explanation by t...
2 months ago
The Sundaland RPG Setting

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2 months ago
What Would Conan Do?

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2 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

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2 months ago
Underworld Kingdom

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2 months ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Happy Tolkien Day - So, Happy Tolkien Day, for those who celebrate with a cup of tea, old books, and the good green things of the earth. --John R --current reading: MacDon...
2 months ago
Spes Magna Games

Guest Post! Monotheism & D&D (2 of 2) - In the first part of this thought experiment, I focused on how the setting’s true God would function within a monotheistic campaign setting. In this second...
2 months ago
DMiurgy

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2 months ago
Ultanya

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2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 months ago
Lithyscaphe

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2 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...
2 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...
2 months ago
Sheep and Sorcery

3d20 Fairytale Character Creation Tables - This was the original method of character creation that I was going to use for my Weird Wanderings game. I had initially envisioned this game as another ...
3 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...
3 months ago
Legacy of the Bieth

"I Share My Dreams with Ghosts" - Espionage Mechanics for Star Wars d6 - I've been running the Andor Game for nearly 20 sessions (19 as of this past Saturday), and I've been *really *happy with the results so far. I've been st...
3 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.
3 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...
3 months ago
The Manse

Alternates to Hit/Miss Defense for Dex-Based Characters in RPGs - Path of Exile does it, Diablo 2 does it, Torchlight does it, Last Epoch does it, Titan Quest does it, Grim Dawn doesn't do it but kinda but that's game w...
3 months ago
Save vs. Worm

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3 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 ...
3 months ago
The Tao of D&D

The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...
3 months ago
Strange Stones

Cepheus/Traveller: Blake’s 7 Crew - 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 months ago
Monstrous Matters

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3 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

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3 months ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Sickle & Torch - For many of us, 0-level play was our first experience with DCC RPG. Throw a bunch of nobodies into an awful situation, and see which ones come out alive....
3 months ago
Martin Ralya

GURPS Witch World - I had no idea SJG had done a licensed sourcebook for Andre Norton‘s excellent Witch World series. It feels awesome to crack open a book from 1989 — my sala...
4 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 ...
4 months ago
GIBLET BLIZZARD

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4 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...
4 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...
4 months ago
The Acorn Afloat

World-building using stuff I found in my bathroom - This is a foolproof and highly untested world-building exercise where you only need a bathroom and some imagination. The more people you share the househ...
4 months ago
Coins and Scrolls

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4 months ago
Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker

Classic Railroad Adventuring: How to Roll Dice on a Train - After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed to hop on a p...
4 months ago
Chaos Magick-User

How to Hexcrawl, The Easiest Way - There are many creators [1] [2] [3] [4] detailing in great detail or simplified form, their unique ways to play a hexcrawl, in terms of travel. I have dabb...
4 months ago
The Mule Abides

Addendum to the official policy of the Mule - [image: Hanging around with Benito.]
4 months ago
Daemons & Deathrays

Return to Returned Blackmoor - At the end of the prior year, Threshold Mystara released Issue 37. Within it, there are various articles about villages and settlements. And within is a “l...
4 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://...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 months ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Happy New Year! -
5 months ago
The Restenford Project

The Return of Fairwind - A while back devoted listener Snickersnax pointed out that Fairwind denied herself and her daughter the accompaniment of ladies-in-waiting and personal m...
5 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.
5 months ago
DMDavid

RPG Design: How a Roleplaying Game like D&D Could Make Rounds Play Better - Since D&D dropped the declaration phase in favor of cyclic initiative, it has let one round blur into the next without any phases that trigger between roun...
5 months ago
News from Bree

It just needed a thump! Or so I thought... - My power unit fan had been wobbly and noisy for a while. Then the other day a new Mod for a game caused a total panic crash and shut down on Turn 7. Since...
5 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...
5 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...
5 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

The Captive Cervantes and the problem of history - The recent Spanish film The Captive (trailer) is difficult to review because it tells a very streamlined story that is very deeply situated in a complex hi...
5 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

The Captive Cervantes and the problem of history - The recent Spanish film The Captive (trailer) is difficult to review because it tells a very streamlined story that is very deeply situated in a complex hi...
5 months ago
Jeffs Gameblog

jimbo update -
5 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 ...
5 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...
6 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...
6 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
6 months ago
The Engine of Oracles

A New Review of “The Uncanny Highway” - [Review] The Uncanny Highway: Blue-Plate Special Edition
6 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...
7 months ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 months ago
Hill Cantons

Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards - 10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons # Name Description 1 Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
7 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...
7 months ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Gormand's Larder is back - Hello, I made a 36 pages extended edition of my old zine Gormand's Larder. You get the digital version here: https://evlyn.itch.io/gormand-larder
8 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...
8 months ago
Brave Halfling Publishing

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8 months ago
LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
8 months ago
Dungeonskull Mountain

Escape, Engagement, and Eucatastrophe - Artwork from GRIDSHOCK 20XX by Grey Wizard A sentiment that I've been seeing often lately is wanting to avoid games that take place in post-apocalyptic...
8 months 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...
8 months 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....
8 months 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...
8 months ago
The Blog That Time Forgot

Cimmerian September 2025: A Scotalogue - In researching Conan of Caledonia, I scoured through my collections of Robert E. Howard's work for anything even vaguely related to Scotland & the Scots....
9 months ago
A Paladin In Citadel

Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

The AD&D Experience Point System - *Roger Moore battles to the death with the AD&D XP calculation rules, Dragon #89* *Update 20 July 2025 to fix va...
11 months 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....
11 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months 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
The Realm of Zhu

The Mygnskerö Unleashed! - Out latest set of paper minis - The Attack of the Mygnskerö - three fearsome Fungoid invaders, alongside three craft working defenders, hand-drawn in old s...
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
textgolem

Giants of the Middle West - When summer comes, and the heat hangs in the air, the giants appear low on the horizon matching ponderously from some distant sea. Chimes hang over man...
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
Bernie the Flumph

Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...
1 year ago
Gundobad Games

Fisher-Price toy turned GRIMDARK ADMINISTRATUM BUILDING!!! (Thrift-Store Terrain for 40k) - So: this thing cost $10 at a local thrift store. No doubt it was an antique secretly worth 85 Gabzillion bucks. Who cares? I had far more grimdark purpo...
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
Dragons Gonna Drag

Table This Discussion - Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on: Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure? 1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...
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
The Wasted Lands

Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
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
Necropraxis

Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...
1 year ago
A Book of Creatures

- Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year from ABC! What better than to mention a seasonal being? Below are a depiction of the Callicantzari by Ja...
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
Critical Hits

Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.
1 year ago
Newest Critical Hits – Critical Hits

Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
UNTITLED DUNGEON

Mob of Frogmen - via Runehammer
1 year 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, ...
1 year ago
The 3 Toadstools

It's been a bit - Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and other st...
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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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
The Lost Fort

Brick Architecture, Hall Houses, Monasteries and more – A Tour of Stralsund's Old Town - The town of Stralsund was one of the leading members of the Hanseatic League and thus one of the few German towns that still carry the denomination in offi...
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
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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
4 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...
4 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.
5 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...
5 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
5 years ago
The Bone Scroll

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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...
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
tengoldpiecegems

High INT Bonus - "Floating" Spell Slots - *Bonus Slots per Day* *INT 13-15 +1* *INT 16-17 +2* *INT 18 +3 * High INT Sorcerers gain “Floating” Spell Slot(s), each equivalent to One Spell Level. At...
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
INSTADEATH

death stranding review'd: to love supply - *Snaps and buckles, backpacks and belts.* The game ends in a signature Kojima-annoying fashion; two hour cutscene including two separate credit rolls, th...
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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
D&D Doodle

- I'm posting a little more regularly over on my Twitter account: @owlbearmaps Please come join me!
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
6 years ago
Iron & Ink

Tomb of the Serpent Kings: Session 1 - Finally got around to running a session using my in-development Yoon-Suin Lamentations of the Flame Princess hack. I decided on using Skerples' Tomb of the...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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*...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Build A Dungeon From Me

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7 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) ...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
8 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...
9 years ago
OSR Today

OSRToday Winding Down - OSRToday is winding down. Thanks for your support.
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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. ...
12 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 Ch...
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...
13 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 ...
13 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!
13 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...
13 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...
13 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 years ago
Eiglophian Press

eiglophian -
14 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...
14 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/
14 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 ...
14 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 ...
14 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...
14 years ago
Plastic Polyhedra

Khurasan down! Suggest a 15mm force for me?? - Image (cc) revoincubus Just heard that Khurasan minis has closed down until the autumn ... so much for the Vespulids for our homebrew wargaming rules then...
14 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
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. ...
15 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...
15 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...
16 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...
16 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...
17 years ago
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