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Gregorius21778

#SPRAWLVEMBER – Day 09 – African Coast Anti Piracy Campaigns - SPRAWLVEMBER: 30 Days of Cyberpunk ttrpg creativity for Sprawl Goons:Upgraded, or any other Cyberpunk RPG. Care to join? 😉 The release for the previous da...
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No Foes, No Traps

Dead Bothan Spy’s Star Wars Universe: Captain Vogel - I love this one! And my take:
1 hour ago
Twenty Sided

DM of the Rings Remastered CXXXVIII: Another Cunning Gambit - -Shamus, Wednesday Aug 22, 2007
2 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Kickstarter -"Surviving the Apocalypse" (a print-and-play boardgame) - Quick note - I've known Heruca (the man behind this project) for well over a decade. He simply does "good stuff" in the gaming industry, and he truly d...
4 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Gnome Muderdomes - So while plotting gnome eco domes possibilities, i came across this terrible idea. I did play a session where players where given ...
5 hours ago
Methods & Madness

More minimalist weapons, armor and some numbers - Another random idea for B/X D&D weapons. I've tried this before, but I like this version better. Since maces/axes deal 1d6 damage and swords deal 1d8, we c...
8 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Caution & Chicanery - Rogues, thieves, con artists, burglars, pirates, fences, pickpockets, plunders, muggers, thugs, spies, ninja, let alone scouts and rangers. All use guile,...
13 hours ago
Monstrous Matters

Geeky SKAturday: Ghostbusters! - Relative to the amount of time I spend actually sharing things on here, I spend way too much time considering whether or not I should blog about random s...
14 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Magic Item] Ring of Bells - Ring of Bells Thoz handed the large brass ring to Arakam.‘I will find them, bang this against something metal tomorrow, at dusk listen for this,’ Thoz said...
15 hours ago
Age of Dusk

On Enemy Design - Playing AD&D weekly and often using modules by authors both obscure and famous, you get the delight of experiencing the party as they go up against enemies...
18 hours ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[BLOG] Year Nine: An Off Year - The Hall of Mirrors Extends, Slightly This blog started on 5 August 2016, making August a good time to take stock and reflect. It is now November, so take ...
19 hours ago
These Old Games

The Keep on the Borderlands 2025 - Sessions 12 - Out of Options - This is the third scenario that I played out with the party. The other scenarios ended in a TPK and a few survivors running for their lives after making ...
19 hours ago
tenfootpole.org

Hubert’s Hole - By Nicholas LemlerSelf PublishedOSRLevels 4-5 Hubert the Halfling was a successful adventurer before settling down and beginning a Shire of his own. After ...
19 hours ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Azzod's Temple: Map25.02 - Another work break map, a simple remote temple inside a mountain or hill. The hermit-like monks run the temple for dedicated followers on a pilgrimage to a...
19 hours ago
Hobgoblinry

Orcs in Frostgrave: some old roots replanted - I needed a Frostgrave warband in a hurry for Friday night, so I rapidly repainted bases of these old orcs to match the earthy tones on my current skirm...
20 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

Castles & Cruasades Codex Germania - The Witch & the Aftermath - Session One Report- Session Five - Under a hail of dragon's fire and worse we were pinned down! This action picks right up from the last session on October 31! We retreated and picked off ...
23 hours ago
ropeblogi

Teori-innblikk #239 - - Spelledarfärdigheter: entusiasmering av Simon Pettersson fortel korleis skapa engasjement i spelarar. https://www.urverkspel.com/artiklar/5...
23 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Campaign Updates: Fading Suns - It's been a while since I last wrote a post about the three campaigns I'm currently refereeing and, while I will in due course have more information about...
1 day ago
Traverse Fantasy

Anti-Gnosticism: Inside & Outside - Previously, I submitted a working definition for gnosticism, an infamously vague category which typically serves to mark various doctrines as heterodox. ...
1 day ago
What a horrible night to have a curse...

Arrangements - It's happening. After years of me considering whether to do something like this or not, Justin and I, with help from Scott and Rowan, are finally hosting...
1 day ago
The Engine of Oracles

This is the Last Weekend for Ghastly Affair on the Bundle of Holding! - The iron power of Destiny has decreed that these are the last days for the Ghastly Affair Collection on the … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Rindis.com

The British Army on Campaign (3): 1856-1881 - In 1988, Osprey did a four-part series on the Nineteenth Century British Army by Michael Barthorp. I’ve only read part three, but I can say that it does st...
1 day ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

"Deat JB" Mailbag #46 - *This one is just so, soooo...aaaargGH!* *Dear JB:* *My DM won't run combat.* *I know, I know. "Just talk to your DM or get a new one"* *But how odd is ...
1 day ago
Tower of Zenopus

Valiant Swords of Greyhawk - The Temple Campaign - Finished! - I know I'm still catching up on the session recaps - I will get back to those next week - but last weekend we finished playing through the Goodman Gam...
1 day 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...
1 day ago
A character for every game

The Serpent Lands – Hex Map 2 - The Serpent Lands are immediately south of the Autumn Lands. There’s no set scale for these maps, and the items … Continue reading →
1 day ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Let’s Convert the Monster Manual: Naga and Neo-Otyugh - There are some monsters that stray a bit from their sources when they were translated into the *Monster Manual*, and in some cases it is worthwhile to br...
1 day ago
DIY RPG Productions

Punk Song of the Day- Skate Hate- Working Class Stiffs - Skate Hate- Working Class Stiffs #PunkSongOfTheDay Whole playlist here: Amazon Music/Spotify What is PSotD Punk Song of…
1 day ago
Kobold Press

Game Changer | Make a GOOD bad guy for your next villain – November 7, 2025 - Time for the Kobold Press advice column! Here's part 2 of 2 about making villains work in your game! The post Game Changer | Make a GOOD bad guy for your...
1 day ago
Kill It With Fire!

What happens when you end the session in the Mega Dungeon - Staying in any megadungeon when playing a drop-in game is a risky enterprise (cuz sheeeet, I dunno if you are gonna show to play in a week or three month...
1 day ago
Alex Schroeder: Diary

2025-11-07 Switzerland and the climate - 2025-11-07 Switzerland and the climate Switzerland is slowly about to find out that you can’t buy the climate with money. Commissioned by the Swiss feder...
1 day ago
The Vanishing Tower

Our Traveller Universe (OTU) - A continued description of this sci-fi campaign. Mongoose’s interpretation of the rules for today’s audience is very old school. When you are playing Mo...
2 days ago
The Tao of D&D

Dungeons & Dragons White Box 17 - Sadly, there are 11 pages left of spells to do. And I have done... two. Sigh. *Continual Light: This spell creates a light wherever the caster desires. ...
2 days ago
Fabled Lands

"The Tower of Demons" (a Questworld scenario for RuneQuest and Dragon Warriors) - In the early 1980s, Oliver Johnson and I were hired to work on Games Workshop's Questworld book. This was to be a non-Gloranthan setting for Runequest. I...
2 days ago
Octopus Carnival

Let's Read the 4e Dark Sun Creature Catalog: Tarek - A tarek raider. He's a large, muscular, blue-skinned humanoid with a bald head, large pointy ears, and large pointy teeth. This post is part of a series!...
2 days ago
GRUBB STREET

Game: All's Well - * The Well* by Peter Schaefer, Shoeless Pete Games, 122-page softbound, 2021, Kickstarter So folks by now know that I regularly post recent game arrivals...
2 days ago
Monsters and Manuals

The Wikipedia Trawl as Campaign Generation Device - One of my favourite lunchtime activities is to trawl wikipedia looking at obscure geographic locations. This is not a complicated task. What one does is ...
2 days ago
False Machine

A Review of 'All Tomorrows' by C.M. Kosemen - C.M. Kosemen; as he might say; "kind of a (lip smack) weeeiird guy.... kind of a dream cormorant.” ‘All Tomorrows’ is an artbook super-scaled in time; mu...
2 days ago
The Githyanki Diaspora

Forgotten Cairns: Shadow Thief background - I have always liked the idea of being able to play a magical thief in the midst of a fantasy crime epic...
2 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest 2025 - Last year I did a "Krevborna Theatre Halloween Film Fest," streaming a bunch of movies for the folks on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Disco...
3 days ago
Follow Me And Die!

Final Art Complete, Paid For, and Received! - Follow Me, And Die! The Card Game now on Kickstarter! Final Art Received! I just finished reviewing the export from our Artist Michael of the final update ...
3 days ago
Full Moon Storytelling

Ferments, Sessions three & four: Mud mephit slide, wake, fey chwinga - In session three the focus was on Keesrah. A duet session handled on Discord due to let turnout, session three was a fine example of the intent behind The ...
3 days ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Watch the Skies - That which is not dead can eternal lie...
3 days ago
Underworld Kingdom

November Nastiness! Random NPCs! - Is it November already? Please, enjoy this little random table that may help you create some lovely NPCs for your game.
3 days ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #19 - Welcome back faithful followers! While most of you Greyhawkers have been going about your normal old school campaigns, the Cultists have quietly been exp...
3 days ago
The Other Side blog

Witchcraft Wednesday: Witches, Warlocks, and The Wicce - I have been spending a lot of time going back to my roots and re-evaluating and even re-writing things I have done in the past. Case in point, my first ...
3 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Frogtober Reribbited! Sawbone Frog - Rounding off the revisited frogs, I’ve got one that was appropriate for Halloween, but works fine for a Wednesday in November. The sawbone frog turned out ...
3 days ago
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Dark Future Ahead 47 – News from the ‘Net of a Cyberpunk bent - What will the world of tomorrow look like? What new technologies await? What cultural shifts will rewrite our cognitive landscapes? Perhaps some of the art...
3 days ago
Gnome Stew

Gnomecast 224 – Tabletop Safety Toolkit Interview - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GC_224_Safety-toolkit-list-Final.mp3 Join Jared as he interviews Kienna Shaw and Lauren Bryant-Monk, the fo...
3 days ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1985 (week 2) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I read the comics released the week of November 8, 1984. *Tales of t...
3 days ago
The Silver Key

Stephen King's Cujo, a review - I believe that, whenever he pens his last novel and his complete literary corpus can be properly appraised, Stephen King will go down as more than just a...
3 days ago
Eldritch Fields

[Actual Play] The World of Tomorrow, Session 11: Seriously, who needs a SIXTH ziggurat? - We’re back in the World of Tomorrow, baby! Can’t stop the science fantasying. - Psamtek, the psionic Grey pilot (Halfling 4) - Keteus, the dark p...
3 days ago
Into the Odd

Life as Crew - Ships large enough to travel between the stars are a big investment, so most interstellar travellers get around as part of a captain’s crew. A standard s...
3 days ago
Realms of Chirak

Realizing how Weird has been Diluted in this Era; A Rant and a Brainstorming Exercise - So when I set the idea on the weekend that I could expand my creative writing exercises by picking a new theme, I picked the idea of "weird" because it ...
4 days ago
Gothridge Manor

Using the Silver Standard - I use a silver standard in my game. I prefer to make gold valuable. Making gold the currency of nobles, merchants, and temples. Most game systems use...
4 days 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...
4 days ago
Cross Planes

Starbarian: The Scarlet Citadel for Dragonbane - Starbarian is the working title of a Dragonbane setting inspired by Thundarr the Barbarian, Jack Kirby's work on DC Comics' Kamandi, the Last Boy on Eart...
4 days ago
Adventures In Mapping

Browser Hack: Gigantic Screenshots - Ever feel like your beautiful web map is trapped in the confines of your monitor? Do you wish its bounty could spill out beyond the stifling domain of 1920...
4 days ago
Library of Attnam

Parma Magica - Magic is life and life is magic. Every soul radiates energy, forming an aura around itself that prevents astral intrusion and repels parasitic spirits. Wiz...
4 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Tim's Outlanders: Mansion of Illusions, Session 1 - March 18 to 26, 18 IC - *[No indication as to when this session happened in the real world, but it is likely still in 1999.]* *Player Characters* *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dw...
4 days ago
Halls of the Nephilim

G.I. Robot Was Right - I found this while scrolling yesterday. I love GI and just ordered a “GI Robot Was Right” shirt yesterday. I think it might be time for another Punch A Naz...
4 days ago
The Furtive Goblin's Burrow

An Alternate Universe of Dwarvish Art & Architecture as Glimpsed in MERP's Mines of Moria - *Or, a Manifestation of Furt's Guilt Over not Doing More with the Art History Courses He Took in College* I've tangled with *Rolemaster*'s little sibling...
5 days ago
Shouting Into The Void

Aid to DMing Laziness - There aren't any random encounter tables in the AD&D2e core books, as there once were in, for example, the AD&D1e Monster Manual II. However somebody, ...
5 days ago
Cirsova

Cirsova 2026 Lineup Announced! - We are finally ready to announce the 2026 lineup! As of right now, we are looking at 3 issues, a Spring and Fall issue as well as a Summer Special. As you ...
5 days ago
The Sundaland RPG Setting

Sundaland 24 Mile Hex Map - A map of Sundaland at the height of the last Ice Age overlaid with a 24 mile hex-grid. The image is 5260 by 4754 pixels and was created with Wonderdraft....
5 days ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Blogwagon Announcement: Merry Hexmas - A new blog bandwagon where everyone writes a hex for a winter wonderland hexcrawl and posts it on their blog, linking to blogs that have adjacent hexes. Th...
5 days ago
Campaign Mastery

Traits of Exotic d20 Substitutes pt 3: The Really Weird - Lots of die configurations can substitute for a d20, or for 3d6. This article looks at some of the most unusual. Part 3 of 3. There’s something indescribab...
5 days ago
Doomslakers!

Ink Talk Too - Update to my constant preaching about how much I love Sailor Kiwaguro ink. My second bottle of the stuff went gray. I don't know how or why, but it just ...
5 days ago
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Rolling Coast - 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...
5 days ago
Sly Flourish

Three Alternative Initiative Options - Initiative is one of those strange mechanics that can suck all the excitement out of a situation. As soon as a battle is about to begin, we all sit down an...
6 days ago
ars ludi

I Made A Game About Laws - Remember how I said summerlab meant you were going to get games sooner? I was not kidding. I’m putting the finishing touches on a new game right now. Rules...
6 days ago
Dungeon Fantastic

Norkers & Thorkers - Norker (n). 1. One who norks. 2. A Fiend Folio monster I use a lot. (Warning - stats are AD&D, and I've made them different for GURPS.) One thing I love a...
6 days ago
The Mule Abides

Glantri Reunion III: Timeskip Tables After-Action Report - We had our first Glantri reunion session, and it was largely successful! After 10 years of war and political shenanigans, the Company of Crossed Swords (ou...
6 days ago
Frugal GM

Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App - [image: Free GM Resource: HexLands Web App] I haven't done a Free GM Resource in a while, and I almost missed this one (*despite several emails on the sub...
6 days ago
Quest for Fun!

The Quiet Mind and the Cracked Pot - I was looking at my LinkedIn profile the other day, something I hadn’t done in years. Dear god, I thought, who is this guy? I scrolled through my work re...
6 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

October '25 in Review - What a month! I'm honestly not entirely sure how I managed it all! Between all the various things the kid had going on, getting ready for Halloween, watchi...
6 days ago
Applied Phantasticality

Negatory NOvember - Oh, hello. It is *No*vember the 1st, and I am in a negative mood. Here are some highlights that are on topic. I am an*no*yed by licensed role-playing ga...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

Negatory NOvember - Oh, hello. It is *No*vember the 1st, and I am in a negative mood. Here are some highlights that are on topic. I am an*no*yed by licensed role-playing ga...
1 week ago
I Cast Light!

GAMEHOLE CON 12: A Reflection Of My October Gaming With Shadowdark And More! - This past week I went to the GameHole Con in Madison, Wisconsin. For the 12th iteration of the convention, it was me, along with 8,000 other gamers, plus...
1 week ago
Akratic Wizardry

Mystery surge of blog visits in August 2025 - Over the course of this blog’s sixteen years of life, it typically has received in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 page visits per month. A handful of times ...
1 week ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

Resources Recommendation for Greyhawk's and Dave Arneson's Blackmoor - Over in /r/osr/, user *acathiadm* asked a question about the Egg of Coot: I am doing a take on the Egg of Coot, in Blackmore, Northern Greyhawk. If you ...
1 week ago
Break!!

Blazing Garden Items (Freebie, Gear) - *Those wandering the Blazing Garden have to contend with the unique dangers of the region, including extreme heat, massive monsters, or the occasional ov...
1 week ago
Throne of Salt

The Polyps - Khannea Sun Szu Agent Gilliland bursts from the treeline in a shower of broken twigs, a slick silver canister tucked under her arm like a football. Sh...
1 week ago
Northport

Happy Halloween! - Another Quarter day has come, Blessed Samhain to all. I have been dealing with some rough news at the house. I am not going to go into that here, but only ...
1 week ago
Leicester's Ramble

They Met at a Tavern 17: Visiting the Zombraire's Estate - Happy Halloween! It's been about three years since I ran The Zombraire's Estate, so time to dust it off again, this time for a Shadowdark crew.... -...
1 week ago
Daemons & Deathrays

THE MISTS HAVE PARTED! - The Broken Cog Cluster resurfaces, along with countless incredible creations from the Fraternity of Shadows community! Please check out Quoth the Raven #32...
1 week ago
Zadmar's Savage Stuff

Arcane Resurrection (Tricube Tales & Tactics) - I've recently been reading a lot of fantasy novels about a "displaced protagonist" who finds themselves sent to the past, the future, or another world en...
1 week ago
Save vs. Worm

Half-Sunk Chateau of the Vampire Squid (A Small Dungeon for HALLOWEEN) - FUCK IT DOUBLE TRACK DRIFTING, BACK TO BACK HALLOWEEN POSTS, HALLOWEEN FOREVER HAPPY HALLOWEEN This is a little dungeon that I originally started writing...
1 week ago
The Alexandrian

Advanced Gamemastery: How to Run Horror RPGs - You can be absolutely terrified and still live to scream another day. Ennie Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author Justin Alexander breaks down the...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Metal Minis based on the Holmes Basic Set Cover are Forthcoming - *"Computer-generated" mockup from the Sirius Miniatures website.* Enworld reports that a set of metal miniatures based on *David Sutherland*'s cover for t...
1 week ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

Review: UMBROS - Review: UMBROSI'm not dead, I was busy. Busy writing some stuff to make GURPS playable on all scales, but also busy thinking about running a strategic-leve...
1 week 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...
1 week ago
d20 Pirates

Treasure Hunter Adventures at Con of the North 2026! - I am excited to once again be running *Treasure Hunter Adventures* at Con of the North in 2026. The scenario for 2026 is called "The Thule Ultimatum." It...
1 week ago
Welcome to the Deathtrap

Solo Gaming Fiction: Bad Medicine (pt.1) - One of the things I make a point of doing any time I am reviewing a TTRPG is to play a couple of sessions of it in solo mode so that I can get a feel for...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Community Greyhawk – The Bright Wyvern - Today we take a look at Greyhawk’s Dungeons Volume 4: The Bright Wyvern by Davide Quatrini. This is a 4 page pdf, but that includes a public domain cover a...
1 week ago
Valianttheywere

Short Fiction: A matfer 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...
1 week ago
stefan poag

Color Art for Goodman Games - Featured work published by Goodman Games over the last decade or so.
1 week ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Endless Retcons in your game world - In the long history of my game world (that I started as a kid) I always tried to maintain some consistency in setting, personages, and timelines. Very...
1 week ago
I Don't Remember That Move

STRANGE AEONS - SYDNEY - It turns out the last one was actually not the final set of Strange Aeons adventures, at all. The inestimable Dr. Crabbe. Curator of Palaeontology at th...
1 week ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Treasure Curves & Generation Procedures - Work continues on the Treasure Overhaul, and that means math. Part 1: Gem and Jewellery Generation The book will include treasure tables, so I've spent quit...
1 week ago
Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository

To Touch An Annulus - (Matrox Lusch and Sick Rick bookend newcomers' viewing "The Annulus") I finally dug into the "End of the Multiverse" scenario which was where our New Old ...
2 weeks ago
Clerics Wear Ringmail

The Black Cauldron - What Is *The Black Cauldron*? *The Black Cauldron* is a troubled film - a dark animation aimed at both children and adults - based on a series of novels...
2 weeks ago
Red Dice Diaries ��

Rough Nights Hard Days session 17 - 🌿VISIONS OF THE WILD 🌿
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Graphite Prime

The White Dwarf Necromancer - White Dwarf 35, November 1982... No wonder the Satanic Panic happened. I was introduced to D&D in 1983 at age 10 and wasn't introduced to White Dwarf u...
2 weeks 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...
2 weeks ago
The Lost Fort

The Zoo by the Sea in Bremerhaven – History - I’ve not much experience photographing animals since I seldom have the chance, but when I was in Bremerhaven (on the way to Norway), the local zoo was clos...
2 weeks ago
News from Bree

New Router - I had an elderly Chinese router, gets hot but worked fine. My ISP is under orders from the government to switch to digital phones, so a new Hub arrived....
2 weeks ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

Superheroes pt.4: Spacers - The Spacers are a lost tribe of indeterminately ancient humans who journeyed into the Noösphere, the realm of the unconscious mind. After being driven near...
2 weeks ago
DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER

Mythic Denizens: A Mythic Bastionland Supplement - A world odd and wayward characters! An unofficial supplement for the RPG sensation Mythic Bastionland featuring a dozen Denizens to thicken the delightful ...
2 weeks ago
World Building and Woolgathering

Faufreluches: The World of Menchero - On the borders of the Thousand Day Regency there is a small world - *not the smallest* - orbiting a distant star - *not the most distant* - another stout...
3 weeks ago
Den of the Lizard King

Working on Sorcerous Nomad - Art by Edna www.fotosearch.com One of my main current projects is Sorcerous Nomad. This is a new fantasy TTRPG ruleset based on my Faster Than Light: Nom...
3 weeks ago
Numbers Aren't Real

The Peerless Country of Yland (GLOG Setting) - Oh trouble, oh char the tree, my dear, my lover, oh kiss me on the lips my lover, Apollo, my lover, oh G_d, destroy me. Oh eternity, I have burned my f...
3 weeks ago
In My Campaign

Other Worlds: Trapping Construction - My last post identified several traits I will define trappings for: accord, order, magic, and so on. Each trait can have more than one trapping. I was abou...
3 weeks ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

What is Even Happening - For Mothership Month—a crowdfunding campaign extravaganza—Sean decided to spend some of his marketing budget funding a crazy giant digital LARP. Sam Sore...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Hack & Slash

On Bounty, Questions worth asking. - Well? Will we? Available Now! https://sinlessrpg.com ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 ...
3 weeks ago
d4 Caltrops

Wilderness Stocking - Expanded - Here is the Outdoor Companion for my Dungeon Stocking – Expanded Resource that provides similar Links and Prompts to assist with Overland Hex Stocking. A...
3 weeks ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

Gems III: Assessments - In this series on gems (four years in the making!) I’ve talked about how to set up gem types for a dungeon and how to assign gems to treasure. But how do ...
3 weeks ago
Blood of Prokopius

Fr. Peter Heers and the Satanic Panic - A reader of my blog recently reached out to me. He shared a video of Fr. Peter Heers, an influential Orthodox Christian YouTuber, answering the question ...
3 weeks ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

ArneCon 2025 is a success organiseres say - ArneCon 3 is a big success say organizers! The convention honoring the legacy of Dave Arneson took place this weekend in St. Paul Minnesota. Special ...
3 weeks ago
Ultanya

Six Hundred Fire Bolts an Hour - Combat cantrips are one of the strangest design choices in modern Dungeons & Dragons. They were meant to give spellcasters something to do once their rea...
3 weeks ago
Bat in the Attic

What is the point of the OSR? - Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes his post with some questions. So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
4 weeks ago
Shuttered Room

Secrets of the Plague Doctors - The Pharmacopeia. - A medicinal miscellany suggested by the Plague Doctor class, or that turned up in the research. Gary Chalk/ *Flight from the Dark/* 1984 No price tags a...
4 weeks ago
The Acorn Afloat

You may have played MÖRK BORG, but have you ever played... - *BJÖRN BORG* is a monochrome fantasy RPG about lost sets (and balls) and fools seeking fame, sponsorship, and rematches. The game takes place in a bleak...
4 weeks ago
Intelligence Check

Third-Party Support: The Eldritch Sphinx - I recently realized, to my surprise, just how little dedicated support the sphinx has received in the d20 community. To be clear, the operative word in the...
4 weeks ago
Goblin's Henchman

Pre-rolled Random Tables | so you don’t have to - The OSR/NSR (and splinter movements thereof) fly high the flag and associated benefits of random tables and procedurally led outcomes. I’m fully behind thi...
4 weeks 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
5 weeks ago
Whose Measure God Could Not Take

Open Call: Cataphracts (Romance of the Hegemons) - Hi folks. I'm going to be running a game of Cataphracts, set in a region somewhat like the latter Han Dynasty. If you're interesting in being a commande...
5 weeks ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

An Annotated GODS OF PEGANA - *So, yesterday I came across a new edition of Dunsany's first book, THE GODS OF PEGANA (original edition 1905, this edition 2012). What I cd put togethe...
5 weeks ago
Metal Earth

Samson of Mars now available - My novel Samson of mars is now available on Amazon. You can buy a copy or you can read it for free if you have Kindle Unlimited account. Next week I ...
5 weeks ago
Lord Matteus' Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items

Martial Arts in Gods of the Forbidden North - Hello, Dear Readers! I’ve been working on my Gods of the Forbidden North Campaign a bit this weekend, and I wanted to share with you what I drafted. One of...
5 weeks 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...
5 weeks ago
Vague Countries

Planet Karus – Session 33 - This play report is from a game that happened two weeks ago. It’s a rare occasion that I actually manage to get the party to run for their lives. It took a...
1 month ago
A Knight at the Opera

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: the Adventure Game: A Scathingly Positive Review - [NOTE: I originally wrote this review back in 2023 as a guest post for Bones of Contention, a critic collective comprised of many of the best RPG bloggers...
1 month ago
Farsight Blogger

FREE TTRPG games! - Every one of my D12-based TTRPG releases are now Pay What You Want over at DrivethruRPG - from space to horror to post-apocalypse to fantasy to mystery t...
1 month ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

An Appendix N(VLG) - A few days / weeks / units of time ago I saw Prismatic Wasteland’s round-up of people’s appendix Ns. Well, thought I unto mine self, I have just such a one...
1 month ago
Brave Halfling Publishing

KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya Dengan Permainan Mudah Maxwin - Agar bisa menemukan KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Mudah Maxwin, banyak bettors yang rela melakukan berbagai cara. Karena salah dalam memilih bandar pada game ...
1 month ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...
1 month ago
LotFP: RPG

New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.
1 month ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

How I Use Henchmen and Hirelings - In early Dungeons & Dragons, adventurers usually didn’t go into dungeons alone. They brought torchbearers, treasure-carriers, mercenaries, and loyal lieu...
1 month ago
Archon's Court

Behind the Times (GLOG Class - Libra Mundane) - Your friends might be psychic, or wizards, or cultists of strange gods, but you're the only one with a driver's license. Godspeed. *A: *Hurt People, Back...
1 month 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...
1 month ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

[RPGPOTA] Planet of the Apes Hexcrawl Map in Progress - I love the new *Planet of the Apes RPG*. It is awesome! As I posted elsewhere: The game design is a modified version of the *West End Games D6 System* u...
1 month ago
Spriggan's Den

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

Pergamino Barocco Kickstarter! - Uncountably many years ago, I was kicking around a selection of weird old woodcuts from alchemical manuscripts, and got the idea to write up a Baroque (i...
1 month ago
Dreams in the Lich House

B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
1 month ago
Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker

Another Hommlet Podcast - A Hommcast? Anyway, the latest is from the folks over at Mighty Deeds, which is, I believe, a DCC actual play podcast. Season 3 of which sees our heroes ...
1 month ago
Sham's Grog 'n Blog

Rolling Dice - Greetings from the Edge! That's right, been rolling a lot of dice, as in running my homebrew on a fairly regular basis since February of this year. It's d...
1 month ago
Swords & Dorkery

Pergamino Barocco - Great news! The Lost Pages just launched a Kickstarter to release a hardcover edition of Pergamino Barocco, Roger G.S.‘s weird scroll of new spells for D&D...
1 month 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....
2 months ago
Postmortem Studios

GRIMATHON: Raising money for a IPV survivor - You can donate via https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JDesboroughOr: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/grimathon A very dear friend of mine was recently...
2 months ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – April to August 2025 - Authorial Highlights No fiction was written. The Fantasy Trip Quick Quest “The Gallery of Hands” has been shopped around to some TFT zines. Haptic rema...
2 months ago
Xeno's Ramblings

We Were Never Meant to Survive (GLOG Class: Ranger) - I love coyotes, as you can see. All images via Wikipedia. Tinen is a wild land. Its huddled villages and towns of mud brick fed by intricate irrigation are...
2 months ago
The Mystical Trash Heap

Zock Bock Radio return engagement - German AD&D superfan and podcast host Settembrini (who already had me on his show a couple-three years back) recently completed a two-year-long run thro...
2 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...
2 months ago
Less Dice, More Decisions: Houserules in OSR and D&D (Part 4) – Ominosity

The d20 is stupider than you think, and that’s great. - So the d20 is boring, swingy and un-opinionated, but these are not only useful features of the dice, but actually critical to the continued success of D&D.
2 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

Holmes1to3 [general guidelines] - Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st...
2 months ago
yog-blogsoth

COLOURED GAS BEING - COLOURED GAS BEING "He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space, especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...
2 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...
2 months ago
Jeffs Gameblog

Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...
2 months ago
From the Pilgrim's Temple

How to Win the Dawn War: 20 Wanderers - From Etrian OdysseyNever much been good at NPCs. Trying to change that. 1. *Kayven *Race, class, level: Human Commoner 0 Description: Balding...
2 months ago
Blog of Holding

where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...
2 months ago
Lloyd of Gamebooks

Roll on Adventure - Immortal Reckoning review - Hello gamebookers. I don't normally do reviews here, but my lovely tutor group bought me this book, so I thought I would review it. The Roll on Adve...
2 months ago
The Cosmic Orrery

An Offering For The Goat-Mother - Play Report - Per Weird Writers "Just Run It" advice, I decided to run a little horror-investigation scenario I had written up a while back. CW: abuse, suicide WW pla...
2 months ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

Cloak-and-Sword Économiste - Économiste A cloak-and-sword class. Any early modern French milieu needs its John Law, or its John Blunt, or perhaps an enterprising florist. Begin with a...
2 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Everlasting Summer - The Lighthouse - Underneath System, Insight Resolution System, Campaign Intro, Encounters, GM Forward. Introduction / Marquette Venture - Part 1 Venture - Part 2 Venture ...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

WWII Aviation Industry Part 4 - This article has been more of a whopper after having had a look at French and British wartime industries (click here for *France* or *Britain*). I posted...
2 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...
3 months ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

WFRP-like RPGs - *Disclaimer: Note that some of the links below are affiliate links (meaning I get a small percentage of the sale without extra cost to you or the publish...
3 months ago
Fleur du mal

Great article, and resource for my Chicago CoC setting - https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/the-talented-mr-sheridan-bruseaux-chicago-granady-assassination-thompson-capone
3 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...
3 months ago
The Manse

TF2 Mercenary Generator - In this episode of "I thought I wrote this blogpost like 5 times over the past decade this blog has been around", I could have sworn I made this before. ...
3 months ago
DMDavid

5 Tropes that Make Exciting Stories But Ruin D&D Games - Stories like those in movies and books thrive on setbacks. Everyone relishes a tale where disaster complicates the heroes’ predicament, leaving them facing...
3 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...
3 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part II - Today detailed reports from game sessions are common. Until recently, some of the oldest I knew of were to be found in Alarums & Excursions, but only ra...
3 months ago
SAVE OR DIE!

Filling in the OD&D Gaps: Another Take on Initiative - As I mentioned in my last post, I've scrapped the OD&D/Chainmail hybrid I was working on, and I'm filling in the OD&D gaps with my own rules. To be hone...
3 months ago
Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform

Barrier March, Session 124 (Back to the Redoubt) - On July 31st, having offloaded the treasures from their last visit to the the redoubt of Kalibad the Theurgist, the adventurers at Wetdell calling themselv...
3 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...
3 months ago
Chaos Magick-User

Dungeon Crawling Basics: How does combat work? - This is how the order of combat actions is explained in D&D, Labyrinth Lord, and similar games: In practice, this means an intense action scene. Here’s an ...
3 months ago
Martin Ralya

Quietly reading and playing - One of the joys of having no posting schedule and, let’s be honest, a very small audience, is that I don’t feel any pressure to post. Usually when Yore is ...
3 months ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Ashes Without Number!! - Happy I backed the latest Kevin Crawford release: Ashes Without Number! Those who have followed my blog for a while know that I am a big fan...
3 months ago
Spes Magna Games

Bayou of Feathers 6: What’s Where? - Earlier this week, I whipped out Atelier Clandestin‘s Sandbox Generator and went hex-by-hex to determine the main feature in each hex. (Nota Bene: That pro...
4 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...
4 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....
4 months ago
Ravenous Ambience

Namesakes: A Setting (Part 1) - There are six Namesakes on The Continent. Namesakes are the physical titanic creatures that resemble animals and warp the land and societies around them....
4 months ago
2 Hour Blog

Kickstarter Has Launched and ... - Already hit our 1st Stretch goal! Luck of the Draw
4 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...
4 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...
4 months ago
Stargazer's World

How (Not) To Play D&D 4th Edition in 2025 - In the last few months I really got excited about D&D 4th Edition again. I actually wrote a post about this a couple of weeks ago. After not having run any...
4 months ago
DMiurgy

Curses - Curses are a thing I haven't have a proper table for, for some time. So I came up with some, stole others from across the internet, and here we go. Each ...
4 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...
5 months 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...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
DIY & Dragons

A Second Summer LEGO RPG Jam! - Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adv...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
A Distant Chime

Brief Thoughts on Fantasy Monotheism - It had not been my intention to leave the blog fallow for almost six months after its five year anniversary. However, heading into my graduate degree, job ...
5 months ago
"It's okay; Gary sent us."

A new and improved OSRIC is on the way! Here's why that matters. - The long-awaited third version of OSRIC, the premier Advanced Dungeons & Dragons retro-clone game, is currently being crowdfunded by the fine folks at My...
5 months 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 ...
5 months ago
Damn Elf Press

Mydwanderings, Session 11 - Day 1, 3rd week of early spring, in the town of Bree. Beck and Lugan spend the day resting their wounds. Felix avails himself of the refreshments at the De...
5 months 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...
6 months ago
Ice and Ruin

All Work and No D&D Makes Homer Something Something - I have a problem. I haven't played an RPG in about a year. Circumstances in my life are such that I have precious little free time. Now that I've written...
6 months 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 ...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
Lithyscaphe

NOT TODAY, ASTAROTH - Negative thought patterns, expectations, comparisons, self-doubt & self-criticism… You will overcome them eventually, so *any time or energy spent on the...
6 months 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...
6 months 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 ...
6 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun! - Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the unfathoma...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

Chatbot and the Demiurge for Solo Play - I have been playing around with my solo protocols, the d6 demiurge ( https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/347048/the-d6-demiurge-protocols-for-solo-pl...
7 months ago
Alone in the Labyrinth

City of 100 Gods 4/10: The Last Ladders - These are the final wards of The Ladders, the City of a Hundred Gods' warren of slums lying beyond its perimeter walls. Movement through the district is ...
7 months 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 ...
7 months 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 ...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
7 months ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition, Year Two - Some years ago, I read through all of Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition. I covered the products from 1991 in a pair of posts and then kept up the posting...
8 months 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.
8 months 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,...
8 months ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Another Underclock - I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog post dropped. It's great! Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Servitor Ludi

The New Game: Completed - With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...
8 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...
8 months 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...
8 months 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,...
8 months 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 ...
8 months ago
The Hapless Henchman

Digital Art Practice - So every winter, my brain goes haywire trying to get relief from the awful cold.I picked up a legit copy of Clip Studio Paint (I think it's like 55$) and ...
8 months ago
The Wandering Gamist

Against 2d6 - The players from my Classic Traveller one-shot last week started asking whether there would be more adventures for those characters. I felt a certain un...
9 months ago
The Walls of Uruk

Appendix Probi of the OSSR - Sandbox, not Any Box Roll Tables, not Story Beats Rumors, not Hooks Character Progression, not Character Development Scenario Generation, not Plot W...
9 months 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 ...
9 months 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...
9 months ago
The Disoriented Ranger

DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
9 months 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.
9 months 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...
10 months ago
Forgotten Runes

2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Strange Stones

Dicey Tales: A Rock & Roll Fable - Wherein your humble scribe uses Dicey Tales (with a smattering of Barbarians of Lemuria, Everywhen, and other related games) to stat up the main cast of 19...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
11 months 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,...
11 months 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 ...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Critical Hits

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

Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.
11 months 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 ...
11 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.
1 year ago
| Unlawful Games

D100+ Terrible Trolls - Trolls come in many shapes and sizes but are united by a ravenous hunger, exceptional healing capacities, a dislike of thunder/bells/fire, and a tendency t...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding - I'm not a fan of Wizards of the Coast dragons. I don't really feel like this should be that controversial. The organization of dragons based on the colo...
1 year ago
Of Slugs and Silver

The Sun Lich - This is a campaign setting idea I've had for years but never got to use. Perhaps you can have fun with it? Edge of Darkness by Ben J Long ago, a wor...
1 year ago
The Sword of Sorcery

The Time Bandits - Six boisterous dwarves, who, until recently, were employed by the *Supreme Being* to fix holes in the space-time continuum. Then they had a brainstorm: W...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
Power Score

D&D Risks, Evolution and Witchlight - Chris Perkins - I am continuing my somewhat exhaustive research of all things related to The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, as I've finished the guide to it (will be posted...
2 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!
2 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Foot of the Mountain Adventures

Beneath the Cliffs - part 4 - This week, I've finished up two more sections of the Ruined Monastery of St Amruss. I wrote the last descriptions of the kitchen area and wrote up the th...
2 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...
2 years ago
Lapidary Ossuary

- Give Me Hat Goblins & Beastlings
2 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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:...
3 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...
4 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. ...
4 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 ...
4 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." ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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. ...
4 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: ...
4 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.
4 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...
4 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

ボンズカジノの本人確認の方法 - ボンズカジノで本人確認する方法を解説します。本人確認が完了しないと出金することができません。また同時に入金不要＄40ボーナスも本人確認が完了したら、もらうことができます。では早速、本人確認していきましょう！右上のボタンをクリックです。プロフィールをクリック。メールアドレス認証は登録時に行ってますので、ここでは電話...
5 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....
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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,...
5 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 (...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Back to the Dungeon!

Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life - CAUTION LANGUAGE! *After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR* Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started to suck and make it n...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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.
5 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 ...
5 years ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

What the hell have you done to Stonehell? - I thought I'd increase the difficulty of running Stonehell slightly by reconfiguring the maps slightly. This is the test layout of the first level of the...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
5 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...
5 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
Legacy of the Bieth

Awlad-i-Dimagh (Child of the Mind): Troika Background - Axes + Orcs has been tirelessly diving into the Troika design space, creating oodles of backgrounds. He got me inspired to write this up and submit it to t...
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
Wishful Gaming

2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast - Vast The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races, classes, gen...
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
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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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, ...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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...
6 years ago
GIBLET BLIZZARD

FLINTLOCK FANTASY: Episode II Play Report! - The second session kicked off with the aftermath of the Machetza showdown and monstrous attack at the Welcome Arms *(which you can read about HERE)*. The p...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 years ago
Unofficial Games

So long and thanks for all the fish - If you want to find me someday check here
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Castle Triskelion

MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.
6 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...
6 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...
6 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
What Would Conan Do?

Make your own days - How about you make some backgrounds? Call it a competition. I'll send whichever one or ones makes me go "*fuck, I wish wrote that and now I have to conscio...
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

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

TAG @ Ten Sales - In case you hadn't heard, Triple Ace Games turned 10 years old, and they are celebrating with a pair of "Greatest Hits" style bundles for Savage Worlds and...
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...
7 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*.
7 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...
7 years ago
Harvester

Game Pitch Outline: Night Train - *Game Pitch Outline: Night Train* *High Concept:* Ravenloft modern with undertones of Kult’s Metropolis meets *Mission Impossible* *The Pitch* What ...
7 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...
7 years ago
sword +1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 years ago
Subterranean Design

https://instagram.com/p/BcGwbSOAShr/ -
7 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...
7 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
The City of Iron

Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far - Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in *Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about it. Fi...
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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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'...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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. ...
8 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

Don Cossacks and Muscovite Boyars in 1/72 scale -
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
The Restenford Project

Notes from the Nystul campaign - In pursuit of further knowledge of the Restenford realm, I was wandering around over at the Dragonsfoot Archives the other day and found this old issue of ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
(BHP) Confessions of a RPG Publisher

Commercial Auto Insurance Vs. Medical Health Insurance -
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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! ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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
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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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 ...
11 years ago
Coffee swillin' analog gamer

The Dungeon Dozen -
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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 ...
12 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...
12 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
12 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...
12 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*
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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...
12 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.
12 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... -
13 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...
13 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...
13 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 ...
13 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...
13 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 ...
13 years ago
Axe & Hammer

Closed - Nothing to see here. Move along.
13 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...
14 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...
14 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...
14 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...
14 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,...
14 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.
14 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...
14 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...
14 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...
14 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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