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Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Querying the Stars (A to Z Challenge) - Many of the people of the Sea of Stars rely upon the stars and constellations to provide guidance both for day-to-day activities and major decisions, such ...
2 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Kickstarter - Swords & Wizardry: Expansions, Monsters, and More! - *Optional supplemental rules for S&W (and other OSR games), a book of new monsters, an adventure, and much more!* I'm a HUGE fan of *Swords & Wizardry*...
3 hours ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

Review: The Quintessential Dwarf - Review: The Quintessential DwarfMany times before, I said that I love GURPS because any RPG book is a GURPS book. Back in the D&D 3.0 days, when the OGL wa...
3 hours ago
The Grand Tapestry

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6 hours ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Ghostpuncher - Welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! It’s construct week, and I’ve got an incorporeal construct meant to defeat other incorporeal creatures. It’s st...
8 hours ago
paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog

Back to Sandpoint with Syrinscape! - Back to Sandpoint with Syrinscape! Friday, April 19, 2024 *Guest blog from Ben Loomes, Syrinscape CEO and Creative Director* Hello! Ben, the CEO and Cre...
10 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

Q is for Quartzite - Quartzite is a villain and member of Task Force X that's only made three appearances. She is recruited by Amanda Waller to replace Nightshade (who had left...
11 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

On Winning - For one, brief moment...in *this* moment...I feel like I'm on top of things. This is not a very common feeling for me; so much of the time I feel like I'...
12 hours ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Friday Fantasy: Grave Matters - *Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar #9: Grave Matters is a scenario for Goodman Games’ Dungeon Crawl Classics Role Playing Game and the ninth scenario for th...
12 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Kickstart Your Weekend: Witches and Wizardry - Ah. Two of my favorite topics. Let's see what this weekend has in store for us on the Kickstarter front. *The Witches of Oz #1 - A Mature Magical Queer ...
12 hours ago
Kobold Press

The Right Tools for the Job - [image: The Right Tools for the Job] For Campaign Builder: Dungeons & Ruins, Kobold Press wanted to return to the roots of TTRPG classic locales to ensur...
12 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Magic Item] Pipe of Many Mes - Pipe of Many Mes ‘Why are there three Thozzes climbing that tower?’ Krugi asked a fourth Thoz and Arakam. This nearby Thoz, smoking a pipe, only stared at ...
14 hours ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

The Law of Unintended Consequences: A Two Party Competitive Game - The Law of Unintended Consequences is a competitive game played between two parties, managed by a single GM. One team are The Heroes, and the other team ar...
14 hours ago
GRUBB STREET

Life in the Time of the Virus: The Great Forgetting - I probably should rethink the title of this series. It is now ALWAYS the time of the Virus, as we wait for it to mutate once more, or for something EVEN WO...
14 hours ago
A character for every game

Longboat Mountain: Silver Vale Cave - Today we explore the top level of the old silver mine that lends its name to Silver Vale (location A … Continue reading →
14 hours ago
Leicester's Ramble

D66 Things Found in a Wizard's Tower - More D66 wackiness, this time what's knocking around in the labs, closets, and/or junk drawers in the abode of one of those arcane miscreants: *D66 Thi...
15 hours ago
Methods & Madness

Special weapon maneuvers - Another quick idea on how to differentiate weapons. in old-school D&D - somewhat simpler than AD&D, but potentially more varied than B/X: Give each weapon ...
15 hours ago
In My Campaign

Divine Trappings: Quests and How to Define Them - There are so few words relevant to my purpose that start with ‘Q’, I wasn’t sure what I was going to talk about when I got here, but thankfully those rando...
16 hours ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Wednesday Comics: DC, July 1983 (week 3) - My mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at the comics at newsstands around April 21, 1983. ...
18 hours ago
What a horrible night to have a curse...

OD&D As a DM Instruction Manual - I've never really read through the OD&D books thoroughly. I only have them in PDF, and I've mostly just looked at sections here or there as a reference. ...
22 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

Violent Mechanisms of the Second American Civil War - Cities Without Number & Zozer Games Earth Sourcebook for The Hostile Rpg - What if the newest face of the American Civil War wasn't what everyone thinks it's about?! This is the question that I asked myself when I was reading thr...
23 hours ago
Twenty Sided

Some Unaesthetic Mental Health: The Plural They - There is a lot myself, my dad, and my family never brought up on this site. The closest this place got to ‘the real’ was when my dad and I each wrote books...
1 day ago
GROGNARDIA

Small is Beautiful - Like a lot of gamers, I've long had a bad case of *cartophilia. *Truth be told, my love of maps predates my involvement in the hobby of roleplaying. From...
1 day ago
Dungeon Fantastic

Limits on Targeting Hit Locations? - This post is thanks to Faodladh, who made a comment on my last post on this subject. In GURPS, it's very common to target specific hit locations. For skill...
1 day ago
Frugal GM

New Printable Scenery Campaign: Ramshackle & Ruin - [image: New Printable Scenery Campaign: Ramshackle & Ruin] I don't know how many of my peeps here are into 3d printing, but I'm always collecting the STL ...
1 day ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

My Newest Publication: DARK TOWER - *So, * So, one of the things I saw at GaryCon that interested me greatly was the new expanded edition of *DARK TOWER*, by the late great Jennnell Jaquay...
1 day ago
Monsters and Manuals

Play as Sculpture, Play as Prism - Watching my eldest child and friends engaging in imaginative play, I'm often struck by the fact that what seems to excite them is deciding who gets to be...
1 day ago
Rindis.com

Star Ventures - Had a FtF game of Space Corp on Sunday. Mark and Jason came over to join me and Dave to make a four-player day of it. We started out with the Planeteers er...
1 day ago
Alex Schroeder: Diary

2024-04-17 A map generator for solo play - 2024-04-17 A map generator for solo play Inspired by @enfors quest for a random map generator that would work for solo-gaming, where the exploration roll ...
1 day ago
Traverse Fantasy

SURVEY: Oracular D20 - This is a little silly, but: Often when I run little dragon games, I will ask people to roll D20 without a specific DC in mind. I feel like usually the r...
1 day ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

New monster for dungeons and debauchery - Ive never heard of a minotaur with a medusa headed nob - terrifying. At least you can always see him coming. So I made s...
1 day ago
Game in the Brain

FDM test prints our out, and for update - Xtian Tormes finished some prototypes of the FDM models of the ships. FDM is the most common 3D printer found in the market. Creality Ender 3 variants. Rig...
1 day ago
Welcome to the Deathtrap

Day Tripper, Analysis and Thoughts - This is part two of my discussion of my experience with the AI game master and role-playing game Day Tripper. See my previous article for a transcript of...
1 day ago
The RPGPundit

Wretched New Flesh 2e - The new Wretched New Flesh is massive with many great additions. Also, it's clearly the Red Room's favorite creation. #dnd #ttpg #osr
2 days ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

A House With Good Bones - T. Kingfisher's *A House With Good Bones* is not a novel I would recommend widely among my cohort; it has a lot going against it: I found the main cha...
2 days ago
Shouting Into The Void

Replacement Star Hero Books - The two *Star Hero* books I ordered to replace two that I thought I'd lost (but had merely misplaced) arrived this morning. I got the shipping notice ...
2 days ago
Age of Dusk

[Actual Play] Le Chateau du Sphinx, Session I & II - Being a chronicle of the assailment of the Castle of the Sphinxes in ye year of the Mottled Vulture… Listen now oh wanderer, to a tale of heroism, bloodshe...
2 days ago
Farsight Blogger

#26 - My experience with GMPCs in TTRPGs -
2 days ago
Monstrous Matters

Remembering Celery, 2010-2024 - I started 2024 with -- relative to my usual blogging output -- a bit of a bang. And then I fell off...for a variety of reasons, one of which I'm about to ...
2 days ago
Lost Papers of Tsojcanth

The Danger of Creative Inaction - I’m posting this as an a reminder to my future self, a word of warning, a selfish act of self care:
2 days ago
An Abominable Fancy

Unfathomable! Cultists of Nul, part 1 (5e Stats) - The Cult of Nul is a quickly-expanding Underworld religion, with its appealing promise of reliable delivery from the miseries of consciousness. It has m...
2 days ago
Graphite Prime

Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game Part Two: Cap vs Spidey -- Fight! - Fresh off my review of the *Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game* I'm testing the combat rules with a fight between Captain America and Spider-Man, both R...
2 days ago
Spes Magna Games

Wednesday Lore (Sort of) - I shall return to regular posts on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays aiming at a more-or-less complete goblin-spider lair. Work has begun. For example…. On t...
2 days ago
The Alexandrian

Ptolus: Running the Campaign – The Adventure Not Taken - DISCUSSING In the Shadow of the Spire – Session 37A: Dominic Departs They had an almost impossible number of possible courses to pursue. First, there were ...
2 days ago
tenfootpole.org

The Lost Universe - By Christina Mitchell NASA Generic/Universal/Fantasy Levels 7-10? A dark mystery has settled over the city of Aldastron on the rogue planet of Exlaris. Res...
2 days ago
Gnome Stew

Adventure Design: Mood, Tone, and Theme - When starting to design an adventure for your home group, the first things I always consider are the mood, tone, and theme of the adventure. This will dict...
2 days ago
Into the Odd

Making the Game Happen - My favourite RPG books do their work in three distinct stages: *GRAB*: Get the reader excited to play the game and make it an easy sell to players. *PRE...
2 days ago
ars ludi

“I’ve got the big wrenches out, I’m gonna go smash the machines” - I had a great time talking to Justin Gary on his Think Like A Game Designer podcast. Justin includes a great text outline of some of the big topics we hit ...
3 days ago
Gundobad Games

Dynamic, Lethal Fighter, Quadratic Wizard (feedback, please...) - I'm having some thoughts about a possible simple way to make Fighters exciting again without much rules bloat. Pray tell me whether you think it's worthw...
3 days ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

Working on a New Novel - I started working on a new novel and it is consuming most of my writing time right now. My goal is to get at least the first draft done as quickly as I ...
3 days ago
Fleur du mal

Two out of three wasn’t bad… - So the party managed two out of the three forks, ending up escaping White Plume Mountain with Whelm and Blackrazor. They only lost one character in the pro...
3 days ago
Tower of the Archmage

Stonehell: Hiring Mercenaries - Session 227 was played on 9/17/23 Morgana, Magic User (Rob) Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse) Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC) Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC) Jameth, Fighter 5...
3 days ago
Coins and Scrolls

OSR: Mirrors, Cubes, Rods, Staves, and the Deck of Motley Things - I've written another 10 pages of the Treasure Overhaul (title pending), a condensed magic item compendium for old-school games. Unlike the first two prev...
3 days ago
Jeffs Gameblog

I saved the timeline! - One of the other participants in the game jam I joined produced a Game Boy adventure called OuttaTime. You can try it yourself in your browser here: http...
3 days ago
Eldritch Fields

Medieval Cappadocian dungeon design! - Archaeology and real-world architecture is always super inspiring. But one of the problem is that real-world architecture, unlike fantasy dungeons, is ofte...
3 days ago
Swamp of Monsters!

The Keldwood - At the southern edges of Sardoom the Forgotten Curse, bordering the fetid lakes of Meregrave, Land of the Swollen Hand, sprawls a great forest which roam...
3 days ago
Cirsova

Cirsova Spring Sale Continues! - We have a new slate of books that are only 99 cents this week! Misha Burnett’s An Atlas of Bad Roads Weird tales from off the beaten path! Misha Burnett’s ...
4 days ago
The Furtive Goblin's Burrow

3E OdditE: Dvati (Dragon Compendium, 2005) - Click here to return to the OdditE archive. It's May, 2000. School's almost out, Diablo II is a month away from release, and the internet saw its first ...
4 days ago
False Machine

A Review of 'A Tale of Bali' by Vicky Baum - really liked this book but the five stars I give it are based on my experience, and that is influenced strongly by my recent reading of 'The Theatre State'...
4 days ago
I Cast Light!

WHAT'S IN A NAME? That Which We Call A D&D By Any Other Name Would Delve Just As Deep - *The OSW: Old-School Wizardry* Like the rest of the greater D&D collective, I too have been reading, and then watching, the very good *Delicious in Dung...
4 days ago
Dungeonskull Mountain

Dragonbane Kin: Woolly Neanderthal - Note: The woolly Neanderthal originally appeared in the *Operation Unfathomable Players' Guide* and was created by Jason Sholtis. Last week, I made an a...
4 days ago
Playful Void

Bathtub Review: Atop the Wailing Dunes - Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my o...
4 days ago
Vague Countries

Planet Karus – Session 21 - A short but sweet session on my birthday, in which I got to kill two characters, both run by the same player. My players really really know me so well. In ...
4 days ago
Sly Flourish

Running Combat-Focused Adventures - This article is one in a series where we look at types of adventures and examine how we prepare them. how we run them. what pitfalls we might run into. how...
4 days ago
DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER

A Way of Free Kriegsspiel Revolution - How can you add items to your inventory when it is full? You cannot. You must first empty it. Learning FKR is not added to your gaming tools. FKR is the to...
5 days ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

THE UNIVERSAL THING GENERATOR! - Need something?! Don't know quite what you need, but you know you need something? Is it an idea, a concept, a person, a group, a monster, a place? Whatev...
5 days ago
Fabled Lands

Great men can work miracles - A trope I enjoy in folktales is the one that recounts the deeds of great heroes as achieved by wizardry, because *of course* there's no other way they co...
5 days ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

Planet of the Apes RPG (a bit more info...) - I mentioned yesterday about the upcoming Planet of the Apes RPG, I have a bit more information today. "The game will use the *Magnetic Variant* system w...
5 days ago
Lord Matteus' Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items

Shadowdark on the Borderlands, Session 1: It’s dangerous out there, kid. - The Kings of the realm have tried to pacify the Borderlands many times. It is a wild region crawling with bandits, orcs, goblins, and other fell and nightm...
5 days ago
Nature Kills: A Hexcrawl for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

Game log 17 March 2024: Spikes and sacks - Personae dramatis *Tonfa Guy*, doesn't speak or have a name but has a tonfa *Felcanis*, elven cleric *Grignok*, handsome orc druid *Augustus*, human cleric *...
5 days ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

Maw of the Beholder - A New Magical Ring for the World of Greyhawk - *Maw of the Beholder* is my new magic item inspired by John Popson's wonderful commemorative GaryCon XVI ring. John runs Effincool Miniatures, and makes...
5 days ago
Doomslakers!

Artists I Like: Jaimie Hernandez - Yet another great artist I really like. And this one isn't trivial... Jaimie Hernandez is a giant of comics, a trend setter, a legend. Now, I didn't real...
5 days ago
Lloyd of Gamebooks

Voting is still ongoing for the Lindenbaum competition - Hello everyone! Here is a reminder that voting is still going on for the Lindenbaum competi...
5 days ago
Archon's Court

Through the Looking Glass (Class: Sharpshooter) - A draft trade with Locheil of the Nothic's Eye - a class (and Gonne Rules) for his interwar setting, Aclas. And the product of me realizing that I stoppe...
6 days ago
Break!!

Freebie: Jinxes! - The spells and powers wielded by adventurers are but a fraction of the magic on Outer World. Among the arcane arts both mighty and meager there are Jinxe...
6 days ago
Clerics Wear Ringmail

Maze of Moaning - Scale: 10 ft. For a PDF version of this adventure, click HERE. *Regarding doors:* • A door marked with the letter *S* is Secret. • A door marked with the ...
6 days ago
The Silver Key

Metal spring (and summer) kicking off, plus metal memoir update - This spring and summer I’ve got four bands/five shows on the docket. We get started this Friday with the legendary Judas Priest, touring in support of thei...
6 days ago
ropeblogi

Epätavallisten tilanteiden ratkaisu Legendoissa ja lohikäärmeissä sukulaispeleineen - Pelinä on Legendat ja lohikäärmeet (tai Luolien ja lohikäärmeiden laitokset 3+ ja sukulaispelit sekä raskaammat perinteiset pelit mennevät samoilla ajatuks...
6 days ago
d20 Pirates

People, Plots and Places of the Wild West: Poker Tournament - This six-page introduces a high-stakes poker tournament, with 25 competitors hoping to win it all, and others who want to claim the prize by unfair means...
6 days ago
The Mystical Trash Heap

Session #12 & Adventure Sites Compilation - Firstly, I wanted to let everybody know that Adventure Sites I by Coldlight Press is now available as a free download on DriveThruRPG. It includes my own...
1 week ago
2 Hour Blog

NUTS! weekend special. $7.99 for the PDF, print copy on sale too! - Check it out! https://www.wargamevault.com/product/221641/NUTS-4th-Edition?term=NUTS+4th
1 week ago
| Unlawful Games

More Stuff To Huff! - See first post of strange fantasy drugs Simurgh Spit Soup- The Simurgh, legendary and benevolent Bird of Birds, the size of a Roc and emblazoned with eye w...
1 week ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

The Evolution of Gaming, or Why My Thoughts on Gaming have Changed Drastically Over Time - I have been thinking about this for quite a long time and though I am not an eloquent man, I thought I should put these random and chaotic thoughts down in...
1 week ago
The Manse

8 Legendary Lockpicks (Magic Thieves Tools) - When it comes to fantasy roleplaying; the "cool" loot is not created equal. You have an absolute ton of magic weapons and armors for the fighters, barbar...
1 week ago
Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform

Play Report: KotB/Barrier March, Session 81 (The Yellow Pygmies) - On April 7th, meeting Gillican at the manor after returning the cured feral children to their homes, the Dragan Hall party decides to go to Hightower and c...
1 week ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Night's Dark Terror 14: Funny Things Happen on the Way to the Horse Market - *This is part of a series of posts with a scene-by-scene critique, appreciation, and improvement of the 1986 TSR module B10, Night's Dark Terror. * Afte...
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

The Release of How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and the Isle of Pyade - The Release With the successful conclusion and fulfillment of my Kickstarter, I am releasing How to Make a Fantasy Sandbox and The Isle of Pyade to the publ...
1 week ago
DIY RPG Productions

Hubris: God Eat God- The Lupine (Mörk Borg Edition) - It’s been quite a spell since I’ve written anything. In that post I talked about…
1 week ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Rehabilitating the To-Hit Roll - Musings on removing the damage roll and replacing it with the to-hit roll for use in games that are heavy on looting enemies.
1 week ago
Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository

Goodness Gracious, I've Gone to the Dark Side - What with the new 2024 revisions due to start being released this coming September, I am converting my online game to D&D 5th edition. I still have to en...
1 week ago
The Githyanki Diaspora

Dolmenwood: Unlikely Friends, Terrible Foes - tl:dr: Ebbi makes a skeleton friend and then the group runs into an old enemy and a mob of Crookhorns...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

Table: What Did the Mad Mage Create This Time? - The Mad Mage created what now? Let's roll and find out... This is the tenth table of the What Is This Table? Table. *What Did the Mad Mage Create This ...
1 week ago
Applied Phantasticality

Table: What Did the Mad Mage Create This Time? - The Mad Mage created what now? Let's roll and find out... This is the tenth table of the What Is This Table? Table. *What Did the Mad Mage Create This ...
1 week ago
Realms of Chirak

The Slow Roll Gaming Show of 2024 - Swords & Chaos, Comae Engine, and More - This is a remarkably quiet year for a D&D 50th Anniversary. Some stuff is coming out, which is cool, but the key new edition books are all delayed to th...
1 week ago
DIY & Dragons

Actual Play - Death by Dragon in The Incandescent Grottoes - My regular Friday night gaming group has been playing through Gavin Norman's *The Incandescent Grottoes*. It's a dungeon that's full of caverns of glowing ...
1 week ago
The Engine of Oracles

Random Generation of 1970s Boogie Vans - The fully-customized Boogie Van is perhaps the most iconic image of 1970s car culture. Such vans could be any color … Continue reading →
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Arts & Arcana on sale - get the original Tomb of Horrors - The Special Edition of the D&D artbook *Arts & Arcana* is currently selling for $69.99 on Amazon, plus when I look at the page I'm also seeing a coupo...
1 week ago
yog-blogsoth

NEW BOOK PREORDERS! - I know it's been a while since I posted but it's been a wild time. For the last year or so I've been quietly working on a book. Well I can now reveal w...
1 week ago
My Terrible Sorcery Is Without Equal In The West

How To Improve Workflow - Part II - Someone made this enormous 'connections map' of D&D blogs a while ago, with TRVE OLDSCHOOL bloggers in red and nuskool guys in green. For my sins, this p...
1 week ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Clerics of the Flanaess, Part 2 - Sorry it took so long to get to the next article in this series, but here we are! This continues the details of specialty clerics for the World of Greyhawk...
1 week ago
Adventures In Mapping

Illumination Cartography - Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its underlying basemap. There’s something satisfying about...
1 week ago
evil baboons or perhaps mandrills

dumping some stuff from abulafia - i used to use this wiki called abulafia what was up at random-generator.com, it was a cool resource because you could write generators sort of in plainte...
1 week ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – March 2024 - Authorial Highlights I have settled on what form of fiction I want to write. Outlining is mostly done. I keep going back to it and revising it though. ...
1 week ago
Red Dice Diaries ��

WHEN SEA IS CALLING - RPG REVIEW
1 week ago
Appendix N

Monkey Man for TRPGs - Monkey Man is a modern action film (2024) that brings a different perspective to the screen in that the action takes place in India. It engages in a...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

40K Friday - Blood Angel Additions - With the Crimson Fists progressing nicely I side-tracked for a bit into my Blood Angels. I picked up a semi-painted outrider bike force including a ch...
2 weeks ago
Hack & Slash

On the Sector Turn - It's very simple. There are many important things cybertechtronically enhanced secret agents need to do: Buy illegal tanks with railguns. "Convince" the...
2 weeks ago
Valianttheywere

Total Kill: why working together matters. - on the Burckoe impact map there is a larger impact predating it. Multiple shelf collapses, bay excavations, even erosion of mountainous landmass as in...
2 weeks ago
Northport

Solo Play and a journey into darkness - I had backed Douglas Cole’s KS a while back (I have backed many of Gaming Ballistic‘s Kickstarters -as the only 3rd party licensee for GURPS DFRPG I am alw...
2 weeks ago
Forgotten Runes

Your Verbobonc May Vary - Ran accross a map of Verbobonc on my facebook feed from this guy who is working on this map in world anvil https://www.worldanvil.com/w/verbobonc-campai...
2 weeks ago
In Places Deep

A (Hopefully) Unique Complaint About the 5e Ranger - *Jessica, from Accounting** I haven't talked about 5e much on the blog, even though I ran it for a few years. Still, I have some pretty strong feeling...
2 weeks ago
Trollsmyth

The Light Dawns - THIS!!! Yes, a thousand times, this! Back in the day, I referred to this as “neo-classicalgaming,” which is to say, the sorts of games that came ou...
2 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Update and Marchebranche is getting in print! - Well my desire to post weekly vanished after only one post. I guess there is a big different between blog journaling just for fun while you play games and...
2 weeks ago
I'll See It When I Believe It

Improvised Awful Lights Missions - Asking about The Awful Lights, a commenter asks: *I'd love to hear about how this is run - with the Handler determining mission location and objectives ...
2 weeks ago
DMDavid

Daggerheart vs. the MCDM RPG vs. D&D: A Playtest Comparison - If games to suit every play style and new games bringing fresh ideas makes a golden age, then the best time for gamers is now. In the past weeks, I’ve play...
2 weeks ago
A Knight at the Opera

G Monsters at the Opera (Part 2) - A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: *Le Pape Formose et Étienne VI* ("Pope Formosus and Stephen VI") by Jean-Pau...
2 weeks ago
Alone in the Labyrinth

Back in the One Hour Pariah Sandbox: City of Ghosts Session 4 Play Report - Following an extended break the City of Ghosts campaign is once again up and running. You can find more information about it in this series of posts, but...
2 weeks ago
Zadmar's Savage Stuff

Tales of the City Guard: A one-shot adventure - On Friday I decided to run *Tales of the City Guard* for my gaming group, and as it was just before Easter, I gave it an Easter/spring equinox theme. I s...
2 weeks ago
Playing at the World

Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland - Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very helpful to m...
2 weeks ago
Elf Lair Games

Unleashing Sci-Fi Adventures: Old-School Rules in Tabletop RPGs - In the realm of tabletop gaming, there's a timeless allure to the simplicity and flexibility of old-school rules. As avid gamers, we know the joy of ga...
2 weeks ago
Postmortem Studios

My Discord Account is Boned - New Discord account: Nick: Grimachud Channel: https://discord.gg/JUKWsU6tnW
3 weeks ago
Ravenous Ambience

Three Powers Behind The Gods - These are things within mortal ken worshipped oft as gods. Rather than the inscrutable mind-warping unrealities of the darkness-beyond-stars, these are T...
3 weeks ago
Throne of Salt

Dan Plays Video Games, Part 3 - Previous episodes: 1, 2 Balatro This game is fucking dangerous. Absolute chronophage. One-more-run taken to the extreme. Makes brain chemicals go brrrrrr...
3 weeks ago
Hobgoblinry

Rust Monster face reveal - The latest from my son ....
3 weeks ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Blackmoor Like Map Used for Runehammer's Crown & Skull RPG? - Crown & Skull is a new TTRPG created by Brandish Gilhelm, Hankerin Ferninale and Ingrid Burnall and published by Runehammer Games. The RPG looks gr...
3 weeks ago
"It's okay; Gary sent us."

Gary Con XVI: Where Dreams Came True - *Prelude* After putting it off and making excuses for so long, it was finally time to make my first ever pilgrimage to Lake Geneva and attend a Gary Con....
3 weeks ago
They Might Be Gazebos!

The Bastard Princess - It’s hard to find anything interesting any more. You know things that dare to color outside the lines even a bit. Enter The Bastard Princess. I admit that ...
3 weeks ago
Akratic Wizardry

It’s Tolkien Reading Day - I recently started rereading *The Silmarillion*. I had last read it over two decades ago. I liked it then but I’m really enjoying it this time! Despite b...
3 weeks ago
From the Pilgrim's Temple

Not RPG: Palm Sunday 2024 - When comes that happy end, O Lord our God! Your glory rains as blizzard-snow around! Those feet that on the palms and nails have trod shall tread the cryst...
3 weeks ago
d4 Caltrops

d100 - So You’ve Been Brought Back From The Dead... - Certain magnificent Magics and marvelous Miracles make it possible to return a dead Character to Play in these games. In some games, this process is pret...
3 weeks ago
Underworld Kingdom

Night Club! (new magic...item?) - *I know it's stupid. That's why I made it!* This carved club, made of polished walnut, possesses some peculiar magical abilities: - Club's all ma...
3 weeks ago
Full Moon Storytelling

Adapting Genoan revolutionary lunches to fantasy third places - In Daoud they have two third places. The ships they sail and the Daoudian Luncheon they hold when a ship returns.
3 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

Cyclopedia of Common Animals - I have completed through *Volume L* on my Patreon, and expect to have finished the alphabet before the year is out. I have compiled statistics for over 3...
3 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Pulsipher Game Design

Play Balance in Britannia and Duel Britannia - Play balance - that is, ensuring that each player has an equal chance of succeeding - is an ideal in games that it can be difficult to achieve when the gam...
4 weeks ago
Remixes and Revelations

OSR: Even More Schools of Magic - As usual, I'm very late to this trend, if it ever was one. Consider this post a companion piece to this one. by SeaofFireflies *The Imperial Model:* The...
4 weeks ago
Aeons & Augauries

Survey - Shadow Survey about D&D and WOTC: https://youtu.be/zSmslPWzzxs?si=T6mxxDl7BvHRCUSn
4 weeks ago
Daemons & Deathrays

Thanks for the adventures, Jim - A couple of days ago, we lost Jim Ward. He’s known for several things like the controversial but awesome Deities & Demigods for 1st ed AD&D, Metamorphosis ...
4 weeks ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Singing in the Wilderness: reconstructing Dune pt.3 - I thought I was done, but one more thing… The biggest of all Dune’s sinews is probably scarcity: the whole book is a paean to the power of lack. Water is s...
4 weeks ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Singing in the Wilderness: reconstructing Dune pt.3 - I thought I was done, but one more thing… The biggest of all Dune’s sinews is probably scarcity: the whole book is a paean to the power of lack. Water is s...
4 weeks ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

Smaller Games of 40K - [image: Necons] I’m enjoying the latest iteration of Warhammer 40,000. With the release of its 10th Edition, the designers created a smaller scale game m...
4 weeks ago
Whose Measure God Could Not Take

Prayers of Ways and Means (Shrine Procedure) - Sometimes, when I'm writing up a shrine or other location where PCs might encounter the image of a divine figure of some sort, I feel like I want a stan...
4 weeks ago
The 3 Toadstools

Osr anchorites? - It's been a long time since I listened to any osr podcasts. Anchor was a lot of fun. I'm not sure if the community is still going? I deleted the app ...
4 weeks ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

Lindenbaum 2021/22: The Eldritch Key (by Tiago Filipe Costa) - *This is part of a series where I briefly talk about the Lindenbaum Prize winners and runners-up. This is a friendly gamebook writing competition, organi...
4 weeks ago
Goblin's Henchman

Dice with a memory | … sort of [Markov dice?] - I’ve not been blogging much lately as I’ve been following the invasion of Ukraine by the genocidal regime in Russia. You can donate to a reputable aid char...
4 weeks ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

A Goblin in the Synthetic Dream Machine - A good human finally asked: “Are there any quick-and-dirty conversion guidelines for porting in B/X or OSE monsters into SDM? HD roughly equate to level, u...
4 weeks ago
Gorgon Bones

Temple of 1000 Swords, a Tunnels and Trolls Session Report - At my LGS’s monthly RPG event yesterday I ran a one shot using a modified version of the 5th edition Tunnels and Trolls system, running the OSE adventure T...
4 weeks ago
World Building and Woolgathering

Conquistadors of Tartarus - *There was a great wind, and darkness on the face of the sea. Then the proud ships vanished.* In 1571, the Holy League was fighting the Ottoman Empire. T...
5 weeks ago
The Disoriented Ranger

Protect your Gamemasters (and don't call it "fudging") - *November last year I went to check out X. I had heard lots of promissing things about the changes there, and the possibilities that come with them. Gott...
5 weeks ago
A Distant Chime

House of Pestilence Playtest 2 Session 2: The Daemon You Know - In the last session, five mighty masters of the universe met in the drow citadel of Erelhei-Cinlu, traversed the underworld, and finally arrived at the thr...
5 weeks ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

Thinkin' 'bout Dragonballs - The death of Dragonball and DragonballZ creator Akira Toriyama had me thinking about Dragonball. though I don't know that I am really touched by the p...
5 weeks ago
These Old Games

Spherical Hex Map - My last post generated two types of responses: "How did you wrap the hex map onto a globe?" "You actually can't. It's been a quest of the computer games...
5 weeks ago
Blood of Prokopius

Arneson’s version of Challenge Rating - One of the more fascinating bits of information to be gleaned from Tonisborg is a section which reveals Arneson’s methodology of stocking dungeons. For t...
5 weeks ago
Roll Sanity

Troika! character sheet - I made a simple horizontal Troika! character sheet and thought I’d share it here for free. Hopefully somebody will find it useful! 🙂 Download the charac...
1 month ago
The Hapless Henchman

The Sea Caves of Aubergiole - I found this file on my hard-drive a few days ago, and since I will never ever finish the project (and in fact I don't recall many of the ideas) I give it ...
1 month ago
Shuttered Room

ICE AGE MEGAFAUNA! - Back to Basic - It looks like all (and there weren't so many, really) the prehistoric mammals got wiped off the books along with the Dinosaurs. Apply one or more of the ...
1 month ago
Campaign Mastery

No new posts for a while - In a little less than ten hours from when I post this, I start moving house. Unfortunately, the new residence doesn’t have internet or telephone connecti...
1 month ago
Den of the Lizard King

What's New in the Second Edition of The Sword of Cepheus? - The *Second Edition* of *The Sword of Cepheus* refines and redefines the game, upgrading it for greater usability and playability by a wide variety of pl...
1 month 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 month ago
Dragons Gonna Drag

Elf Variant for Delving Deeper V4b - The following rules only apply to Player Character Elves. NPC Elves follow the default rules. Any special abilities of Elves not mentioned below (see pg....
1 month ago
Merric's Musings

The Shattered Obelisk, session 18 - We played our eighteenth session of The Shattered Obelisk on Monday, February 26, 2024. Everyone was in attendance – the DM (me) and all three players. I...
1 month ago
Gothridge Manor

ShadowDark Magic Items - The next campaign I run will use the ShadowDark RPG. I'm not sure when that'll be (I'm hoping a little later this year), but ShadowDark is my choice. I'v...
1 month ago
DMiurgy

Backgrounds + Starting Gear for Autocrats of Night - All subject to change before campaign starts. Also if this pitch sounds interesting feel free to join the discord, though this game is probably only goig...
1 month ago
Swords & Dorkery

Get ready for the shittification - If you haven’t heard, WordPress and Tumblr users are probably going to have their work sold to train “AI” — it’s all over the nerdy reportage (here, here, ...
1 month ago
Brave Halfling Publishing

3 Cara Mudah Memperoleh Jackpot Dari Situs Judi Slot BSO88 - Game slot memang identik dengan Jackpot, dan inilah yang menjadi daya tarik mengapa Situs Judi Slot BSO88 memiliki banyak member. Meskipun taruhan slot m...
1 month ago
Library of Attnam

The Many Schools of Magic - The Manse has recently published a very nice rant on categorisation of magic where they discuss several approaches to the classification of spells and deri...
1 month ago
The Cosmic Orrery

The Giant's Forge - A small, three page module describing the fortress-home of a giantish master smith, his children, and their slaves. All ready to run. "*Bromsag. *Beard...
1 month ago
Kill It With Fire!

Pregens are an art-form. Meet Bosclori - So, in an effort to get more interest in my achiest heartbreaker RPG, Crypts &amp Cryts, I have been working on pregens to get kids new to the system up an...
1 month ago
Martin Ralya

Two of my favorite practical mechanics in Delta Green - I started up a Delta Green [affiliate link] campaign last September, and it’s been a blast. It’s become one of my favorite RPGs, and with a few sessions un...
1 month ago
Quarterling’s Corner

Dead Theory Necromancy - *I. Introduction* GNS theory is dead, but this post on the history of the Forge contains an interesting tidbit: As originally conceived, the rec.games.f...
1 month ago
Samwise7RPG

Bestiary Project: Making a Monster Manual from Scratch - *Last Update 3/7/24* I had some old photo albums that I bought at estate sales and secondhand stores that had some sweet old paper in them. Those pages h...
2 months ago
Hidden in Shadows

Xandering, Jaquaysing, or Arneson-ing the Dungeon? - Yet another gamer firestorm arose shortly after the passing of Janelle Jaquays when it was noted that Justin Alexander had changed a rather well known p...
2 months ago
Questing Beast

The Dungeon of the Black Cauldron - I just saw The Black Cauldron for the first time and absolutely loved the dungeon architecture in the Horned King’s palace. Open them in a new tab to blo...
2 months ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

GλOG: Item Templates - Lambda templates are associated with items rather than a character class. *Gaining a λ template is simple: spend a downtime action* *training with the as...
2 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Bribery - How much is a typical bribe? Depends how rich the recipient is, and what sort of exacerbating circumstances exist. *Somebody will only take a bribe if they...
2 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

13 YEARS OF DADDY ROLLED A 1 (BLOG ANNIVERSARY) - Yesterday, February 9th 2024, was *the 13th Anniversary of my blog*. Sadly, I've rather neglected this space over the past 365 days while I prioritized ...
2 months ago
News from Bree

More gadgets - My Sony tablet has been running continuously for 11 years. It's still going strong. Batteries wearing out? Oh no they don't! However, it's OS is old and ...
2 months ago
Stargazer's World

Kickstarter: Dimday Red TTRPG – Nodus Zine 02 - A couple of days ago Spiros Drakatos reached out to me and let me know about Dimday Red, his post-apocalyptical TTRPG and the Kickstarter he’s currently ru...
2 months ago
The Realm of Zhu

Vlätkrig: Rangers of Myrkváld - The latest addition to the growing range of Vlätkrig Paper Minis - The Rangers of Myrkváld comprises nine outdoor adventuring characters of different ethni...
2 months ago
Fictive Fantasies

Teeth Among Shadows - Cyberpunk Red. January 2024 IRL, 1/20/2045 IG PART ONE (1/20/2045) Glitch, Smith, and Adams were on a rooftop in the Vintner Court Collective neighborhood,...
2 months ago
Bernie the Flumph

- So do I only post on this blog to promote Kickstarters anymore? It seems like that may be the case. Anyway… Fantastical Classes: Blobs vs. BladesNow on Ki...
2 months ago
Goblin Punch

GLOG Class: Bioweapon - I got this idea from mad gods on bear blog. Crab Evo from Kagaku Sentai Dynaman A thousand soldiers were slain. Too many to be tragic--this is just a fact...
2 months ago
Chaos Magick-User

Let’s make goblins unique - When a goblin is encountered (or a bunch of the nasty beasts), roll a set of 6 dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20) for each of a few of them, or at least thei...
2 months ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

Clothing Makes The Man (MyD&D) - Everything has a level in MyS^amp;D. This especially includes executive positions in the hierarchy. For example your typical bishop of a mostly rural bis...
2 months ago
Oubliette Magazine

Black Pudding 8 Print Edition Out Now! - The print edition of *Black Pudding Issue 8* is now available to order from the Squarehex site using the following link: https://www.squarehex.co.uk/coll...
2 months ago
Quest for Fun!

Anatomy of a Pre Order - *Wyrmspan* by Stonemaier Games has gone up for pre-order for both retailers and hobbyists. How do I go about figuring out how many copies to buy? This on...
2 months ago
Spriggan's Den

The Economy Engine, v0.2 - I made a thing. For D&D 3rd edition, so it might not be that interesting to a lot of people. But I made it and I think it’s cool. The 3rd edition Dungeon M...
2 months ago
Back to the Dungeon!

- Guess what? To those who have been following the Back to the Dungeon RPG, the BACK to the Dungeon RPG Deluxe Hardcover PDF is live for all to devour for ...
2 months ago
A Rust Monster Ate My Sword...

A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
2 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

Skyship Battle Playtest - I was exceedingly elated when I discovered a *blog article* Xaoseed wrote in 2021 about the game mechanics I posted back around that time. I didn't spot ...
2 months ago
Dreams in the Lich House

LOTFP Review: The Curious Conundrum of the Conflagrated Condottiero - This capsule review will have spoilers. Here's some boring facts about the book up front to avoid diving right into the spoilers. *The Curious Conundrum...
2 months ago
Octopus Carnival

The Great Tabletop Hackaton: Hard Wired Island - Hard Wired Island's cover. Hard Wired Island is a cyberpunk game published by Weird Age Games in 2020. It’s a beefy 400 page tome comparable in size to t...
2 months ago
Beyond Fomalhaut

[MODULE] The Webs of Past and Present & Cloister of the Frog-God (NOW AVAILABLE!) - Can you have enough frog-themed modules? I am pleased to announce the publication of two adventure modules, *The Webs of Past and Present *and *Cloister of...
2 months ago
The Man With A Hammer

OSR: Stonehell OSE Open Table 11-16 - Noticed that I never finished this one, was rotting in my drafts folder. This is a continuation to the general notes on sessions 1-10, about 6 additional...
2 months ago
The Acorn Afloat

Floating countryside -
2 months ago
The Blog That Time Forgot

Triangulation: The Land That Time Forgot at 100 - I was once again offered the opportunity to write for DMR Books - as this year marks a century since *The Land That Time Forgot* (or the novel fix-up for...
3 months ago
Ice and Ruin

What Else Have I Got in Me? - Brechewold's been done for a little while. Still incredibly pumped to have this labor of love out in the company of LotFP's marvelously creative body of ...
3 months ago
Papers and Pencils

Housekeeping 2024 - Coactus Illustration © Heather Gwinn. A gift she gave me in 2013 for an edition of Miscreated Creatures which I hope exists someday. Coloring by me. I am a...
3 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

The Tellian Sector: The Empty Synod - The Empty Synod looks around at the Imperium, at the galaxy, at its brutality and cruelty and waste and stupidity, and says "None of this is necessary. E...
3 months ago
Numbers Aren't Real

Random Encounters by Stephen Crane - Stephen Crane was an odd duck. A well-beloved writer, poet and Darwinist, you can read about him on Wikipedia as easily as I did; and his poems are al...
3 months ago
Less Dice, More Decisions: Houserules in OSR and D&D (Part 4) – Ominosity

Dice Set Sunday! - i mentioned to a friend that I was going to take a day off from my blog he mentioned an author who posts pet pictures when he doesn’t want to write that da...
3 months ago
The Lost Fort

Photo Parade 2023 - A bit of fun at the beginning of the new year. I’m following several German travel blogs, and that way came across the annual Photo Parade (Fotoparade) on ...
3 months ago
Liche's Libram

gaming goals 2024 - This is a year of cutting back - I anticipate further cuts to my time and there are other things I want to prioritize with the time left, so gaming gets ...
3 months ago
Legacy of the Bieth

Ave Atque Vale, Jennell - Jennell Jaquays passed away two days ago, and it's hitting me hard. I had a chance to meet Jennell at NTRPG 2016 (and '17), and even get into a playtes...
3 months ago
The Sundaland RPG Setting

Real History: Valley of lost cities that flourished 2,000 years ago found in Amazon - Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago. A series ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
The Wandering Gamist

AD&D 1e DMG: Combat - I've been thinking about initiative and combat maneuvers and decided to see what Gary had to say about them. But first: *Are crippling disabilities and ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Hill Cantons

Sex-Crazed Falling Stars, Free Weather Magic, and Adventures: News of the Hill Cantons - *Grandma Gaya, the Rav-Witch of High Kezmarok*, seeks the stout of limb and humble of mind in the *obtaining of fallen stars* from an upcoming prophesied ...
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Simulacrum: Exploring OSR Design

The Black Mage – Selling Your Soul for Fun and Profit - Part of writing my game has been trying to make it setting neutral, so that (for example) races don't do anything, because a GM may want to make their e...
3 months ago
No Foes, No Traps

NPC Profile-Geetha Greatstone - Geeta Greatstone
3 months ago
A Book of Creatures

- Happy New Year! Let’s make this the year of the dragon!
3 months 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...
3 months ago
Follow Me And Die!

Time Rolls On - Today is December 31, 2023, in the mid-afternoon. In less than ten hours it will be 2024. 2023 2023 was a good year. But all years are good years. Both goo...
3 months ago
Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker

Happy New Year from the Dice Mines! - "Do you think they have Holmes-made pumpkin pie?" A lot of you wrote in to inquire about yesterday's post* [Does anyone believe me when I imply that I'v...
3 months ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery #1067 - Happy Needfest! Good luck in 2024 Greyhawkers! I'll see you at *Gary Con, *on *Legends & Lore* or on *Canonfire* (mortellan) and *Discord *(greyhawkmike)...
3 months ago
Servitor Ludi

Dark Days? - Where has the year gone? Today is the winter solstice, and I thought I'd revamp a quote-post with some wise words (not mine!) from the first year of thi...
3 months ago
The Grumpy Old Troll

My Druid Adventure On Sale - Oakfell Vale, my adventure about mysterious druids in a secluded valley, is on sale now for 20% off - only $7.99. It is 64 pages, and is intended for use w...
3 months ago
The Vanishing Tower

OSR Wilderness Fundraiser Delivers, again (cont.) - Continued from this initial announcement, that is. Mission OSR II can be reported a success. This "ascent" is happening much later in the hiking season tha...
4 months ago
Profane Ape

GLOG Class: Prosthetic Shinobi - Has someone done a Sekiro class? I feel like someone has done a Sekiro class. But I can’t find it anywhere, so here we go, five years late. A: Prosthetic L...
4 months ago
Blog of Holding

Dungeon Delver’s Guide is one of Polygon’s “best TTRPG books of 2023” - You love to hear when people like your work, so I was thrilled to see my Dungeon Delver’s Guide on Polygon’s best-of-the-year list for TTRPG books. I’m par...
4 months ago
The Mad Queen's Court

Helldelvers (GLOG character options for a game) - I needed a little character creation ruleset to test a dungeon I'm writing and I guess I decided to do it here instead of google docs so now all of you can...
4 months ago
Cross Planes

Monster Monday: Ork City's Chupacabra for Shadowdark - Welcome to Ork City! In the middle of Ork City's Hatt Island is the Park, a wild and dangerous forest filled with all manner of nightmarish predators. On...
4 months 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 ...
4 months ago
Plastic Polyhedra

RPG Blog Carnival: Endings - Apologies for my lack of involvement over the last few months, real life gets in the way sometimes. I do have a post still in draft for the September Car...
4 months ago
Old School Psionics

Guardian Monsters - Listed and Considered - There are a great number of guardian monsters to help spice up the role playing. Guardian-type monsters are a regular feature in dramatic fantasy fiction...
4 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

Downtime: Home away from Home - I had some more thoughts on downtime I wanted to share. But first, speaking of downtime, it was just announced that my supplement, *Downtime in Zyan*, i...
4 months ago
What Would Conan Do?

Spider Bankers of the Bureau of Universal Exchange - I'll put in a picture when I have one. We're working on these a bit at a time. The Spider Bankers have been in Troika since the beginning and I've alway...
4 months ago
Slight Adjustments

The Horrors of Halfway - *I've played a lot of Monsterhearts, and certainly enjoyed it, even though I certainly was doing it wrong.* *But I've got no patience for games that reward...
4 months ago
stefan poag

Lost Luggage - Above is a recently completed illustration for an as-of-yet unannounced publication. Like most of my illustrations, it contains references and call-outs to...
5 months ago
Save vs. Worm

Wild Cats of the Eastern Satrapies - Its been a while! Uh, way too long in fact. I still haven't ran a session of KoK since my last post, but I figured the best thing to get me back into the...
5 months ago
Don't Split the Party

Play Report: Skull Mountain - At the end of the last Skull Mountain session the PCs had retreated to safety at Owen's redoubt, met with visiting elves, and recovered from injuries ...
5 months ago
Trollish Delver

Lantern Man (Romance of the Perilous Land) - A spirit related to the corpse candle, the lantern Man appears as a shadow figure carrying an ethereal lantern. He wanders the marshlands and swamps, en...
5 months 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...
5 months ago
Harvester

Escape from Manhattan (chapter 4) - *Escape from Manhattan *copyright 2023 Derek Stoelting Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 , via Wikimedia Commo...
5 months ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Worldbuilding for my Daughter: Onwards to Dreamland! - I've accidentally started a new world building project. I started babbling about where my daughter could visit in Dreamland while putting her down for a...
6 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Fearful Ends Now on Kickstarter - [image: Fearful Ends book & cards on Kickstarter] The long-time passion project of my Wandering DMs partner Paul Siegel is currently funding on Kickstarter!...
6 months 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...
6 months ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

- Heya folks, the 21st Salt Mine book, Import Export, has hit the digital shelves! In the 21st book we follow Aaron Haddock-codename Stigma-as he tries to ...
6 months ago
Damn Elf Press

Using Hex Kit for Thirty Years Reuel, 2nd Age - Here’s a sample of what I am working with to populate a hex map for my West Marches style game. I’m using the Cairn 2e playtest and running it on Owlbear R...
6 months ago
Troll and Flame

What to relate when the thief asks for lock description - Also provides me with inspiration of how/were to place some device traps. More tricksy boxses https://www.antiquebox.org/category/antique-locks-and-me...
6 months ago
Bugbear Slug

The Adventurer’s Dilemma, rolling in the open - *DMs are cheats and liars. Sometimes.* The anomaly at your tableWhen someone performs a death-defying stunt there’s a non-negligible chance they’ll ...
6 months ago
Cyclopeatron

My Weekly Game - My weekly game with the neighborhood kids. They just completed the good old Sunless Citadel. They limped out into the sunlight with their pockets full of...
7 months ago
Intelligence Check

D&D Did You Know’s: Disintegration vs. Regeneration in Third Edition - We’ve all been there at one time or another: at some point, the party finds themselves fighting a regenerating creature, and the wizard casts disintegrate ...
7 months ago
Built by Gods Long Forgotten

Open Table Gaming - Since February I have been running a monthly open table game at the local gamer pub. I run a simple house ruled version of BX dnd. Because it is a drop ...
7 months 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...
7 months 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...
8 months ago
1d30

5e XP Advancement Tables - This game design grease monkey has been under the hood of 5e tearing it apart to figure out how to get it to run like 1e, preferably with strictly DM-facin...
8 months ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

The End - In January of 2011 I launched a new blog, this blog, *Adventures in Gaming version 2*. I had had several blogs before this one, most notably of course, *...
8 months ago
D&D Doodle

The Unofficial Gen Con 2023 Character Sheet! - Only five days left until Gen Con 2023! Get your act together with the Unofficial Gen Con Character Sheet! See you there!!!
8 months ago
LotFP: RPG

Introducing the new LotFP releases, out at Ropecon and Gen Con! - Here is a video introducing the 10 new releases, 6 reprints, and one third-party book that we have for you! We'll have them on sale at Ropecon (July 28-...
8 months ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Bad Weather after Judgment Day - The world has ended and the weather is fucking terrible. Oh it's not as bad as a decade ago, when the poison storm of a Gas Front would sweep through and tu...
8 months ago
The Nine and Thirty Kingdoms

A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
9 months ago
The Wasted Lands

Wasted Lands - a Completely Customizable RPG - Here we go, folks! The final blog before the *Wasted Lands Kickstarter * launches! Stay tuned for more behind the curtain looks as the campaign progresses...
9 months ago
The Things We Do for XP

Exeunt - shuttering this blog (...for now?) - I just realized I haven't posted here in years and don't really have plans to start again. My writing itch is being scratched but good since I started ne...
9 months ago
Melancholies and Mirth

Horo-Dej Artifacts Generator - Generate
10 months ago
Save Vs. Dragon

Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
10 months ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

Moving On... - So, my D&D 5e experiment has blown up the lab in a puff of green smoke leaving my face blackened like Wile E. Coyote after a failed roadrunner Acme trap...
10 months ago
The OSR Library

GUARDIANS OSR Superhero RPG- DC Heroics House Rules - It's been a rough year with sickness. But here I am. Let's go. Guardians is a fun little game from Night Owl Workshop games. They have a lot of fun OS...
10 months 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...
10 months 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...
10 months ago
Henchman Abuse

3d printed minis - A question for all of you - I've been ignoring the OSR and blogs (which I assume are dead at this point) and forums (also guessing, dead) and reddits and...
11 months ago
People them with Monsters

Some Favorite Audiobooks - While I prefer reading actual books, I do enjoy to fall asleep to a good audiobook. Here are some of my favorites, and you might notice my bias for stuff...
11 months ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

Another take on demihumans as social constructs. - I had an idea knocking around inside my head, and then I saw that Dan had already done it over on Throne Of Salt, which rather undercut my brilliant orig...
11 months ago
Metal Earth

The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff. The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game design. In the past I...
11 months ago
At the Mountains of Weirdness

Longtailed Ironbeak - Creatures of Aurora - Riding Beasts - Known as “The Kicker”, this flightless bird is one of the most common means of transportation in Aurora. It’s fast and rather unpredictable but comes ch...
11 months ago
I Don't Remember That Move

substack announcement - I've been writing short stories and putting them on Substack. It's matthalton.substack.com, it's just my name. If you like the writing on this blog, you...
1 year 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!
1 year ago
textgolem

d100 dark souls - *I recently returned to Lordran and have some thoughts on applying the lessons of Dark Souls 1 to ttrpgs slowly percolating. In the meantime, a stocker...
1 year ago
Rocket-Propelled Game

The Four-Fold King - The men of the Frostlands are no friends of giants, and have often warred with them. But they have always respected certain traditions. Certain prophecies...
1 year ago
Xeno's Ramblings

Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing (GLOG Class: Bard) - Nu sculon heriġean heofonriċes Weard *Now we must praise heaven-kingdom's guardian,* Meotodes meahte and his modġeþanc *the Measurer's might an...
1 year ago
Age of Ravens

Now at ageofravensgames.com - We've moved locations-- you can now find my blog content, hacks, scenarios, reviews, TTRPG histories, AP videos and more at ageofravensgames.com. I'm...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Alesmiter

Real Tomb Maps for Your Gaming Enjoyment - Tomb KV08 - Pharoh Merenptah Copyright American Research Center in Egypt (ACRE) used with permission under Fair Use I came across a wonderful resource for...
1 year ago
Rogues' Repast

I have a new blog about weird old SFF novels - Well, as you can see I haven't updated this blog in quite some time. I still play D&D but I don't get creative ideas for it in the same way that I used ...
1 year ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

GAME REVIEW: Four-Color Heroics - Before we get started, here are some disclaimers: - I am reviewing a comp copy provided by the author - The author and I are friends, and have bee...
1 year ago
Lord Archaon's Grimoire

Daughters & Dragons - A surprisingly deep emoji-based RPG! - Image obviously created with OpenAI's Dall-E... As a father of a 3 and a half years old girl, I should be quite far still from glorious RPG sessions wi...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Gathox Vertical Slum

I think we just won . . . - Just caught the news that WotC and the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" crew in their upper echelons publicly claimed the irrevocable status of the OGL 1.0...
1 year ago
The Dungeon Dozen

ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE DCC AT LAST - NOW AVAILABLE in PDF and Print on Demand:ODIOUS UPLANDS and COMPLETELY UNFATHOMABLE (DCC)CLICK HERE TO BUY NOW! SO YOU SURVIVED OPERATION UNFATHOMABLE? Od...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
OgreCave

More ripples from WotC OGL revision - Wizards’ attempt to undo the OGL and break up the third-party publisher… uh, party, continues to have ripple effects across the tabletop roleplaying indust...
1 year ago
Necropraxis

The Blade Itself - I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Blade Itself, volume one in Joe Abercrombie’s The First Law trilogy. This was my first exposure to his wo...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
5 Stone Games

- Haven't posted in along time but if anyone is wondering I took down the various D20 content in case there are any forthcoming compliance issues with th...
1 year ago
Weapon versus Armor Class

Halbardier Re-spin - (reposted from my frotz.prose.sh blog) *Helmbarten* is Alex Schroeder's fantasy take on a Classic *Traveller*-style game, and I liked it so much I wanted...
1 year ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

Kadmeian classes - This is the last of three posts setting up the Kadmeian Mysteries setting. Here, we detail the classes of the setting. Some will simply be reflavorings o...
1 year ago
Once More Unto the Breach!

Chronicles of the Adventures in the Dune Imperium! - Cover art for Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook I have one of the few copies of the Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook that were ...
1 year ago
Lapidary Ossuary

- Give Me Hat Goblins & Beastlings
1 year ago
Box Full of Boxes

Dinsu, the Peaks of Supine Gods Vol I -- Thousand Thousand(er) Islands Part II - *Dinsu* *The Peaks of Supine Gods* ______ SevenDays,Crunching through snow ______ Gold, silver, jewelry, and spices are piled high on ra...
1 year ago
Ultanya

Krampusnacht Curios - So what does Krampus leave inside the shoes or boots of good little boys and girls? Since the winter months are so harsh and unforgiving, he usually g...
1 year ago
Lawful Indifferent

Looking Back - They say that if you don't look back at who who were from a year ago and cringe that you haven't grown enough. What if I look back five or seven years? It...
1 year ago
Strange Stones

Gaming Tidbits - Just sharing some things, because I’m thinking geeky thoughts and don’t have a clear shot at a game at the moment. Fantastical Medieval Campaigns – A new f...
1 year ago
Signs in the Wilderness

The Island of Death and Rubies - Today I'm rolling up another random campaign. I'm choosing two of the three starting adventure opportunities to test out their roll-up tables, then lett...
1 year ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

Tommy's Take on Camp Terror, an Actual Play Review - So this weekend I talked my group into taking a detour from D&D 5e to return to an old friend of ours: Savage Worlds. Not for an established setting suc...
1 year ago
INSTADEATH

SEXY BEAST - Gal has an advantage over Don Logan simply because he has found people who can love him. Don has, instead, constructed a mirror-ego to achieve sufficent...
1 year ago
Carjacked Seraphim

Midjourney and Campaign Inspiration - I'm an improvisational GM. I love random tables. I believe in the oracular power of the dice. I believe in emergent storytelling and character backstori...
1 year ago
daimon games

An HeroQuest set made with Warhammer Underworlds miniatures -
1 year ago
Buildings Are People

I'm back, but I'm at a new blog - Blogger is ugly and full of comment spam. Here's my new blog.
1 year ago
Crowbar And Brick

Decad(enc)e - The above remains my favorite hex type, though I do need to spend some more quality time around the Rockies to make sure. As I write this, I find mys...
1 year ago
Words for Yellow

Mechanics: Errant Spellcasting - Starting Point Spell: A specific, codified form of magic, somewhat limiting a caster's flexibility but maximizing speed and allowing for much more drama...
1 year ago
Wine and Savages

FREEDOM SQUADRON Now Available on DriveThruRPG! - * The Freedom Squadron October 2021 product line is now available on DriveThruRPG!*Click on each picture to follow an affiliate link to purchase and supp...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
The Restenford Project

Denizens of Restenford: Fairwind - Ah, yes, the Baroness Fairwind, beleaguered spouse of the tepid Baron Grellus; what do we know about her? From the "castle" roster: she is 42 years old, ...
1 year ago
To Distant Lands

Moving the blog - I am moving this blog to a git-based version at todistantlands.github.io. For your convenience, here is a link to its RSS feed. I have migrated many of my...
1 year ago
The Tao of D&D

This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Old School Heretic

This is a Fossilized Blog - After digging around through the guts of this blog, we've decided to mothball it but make it available as a sort of internet-fossil of sorts, in case anyo...
2 years ago
Ostensible Cat

Neurodiversity and Dragons - the adventure begins! - Tl;dr: Kia ora all! I don’t often post much about my personal life, but as a parent of two neurodiverse teens, I reckoned that I’d post some of my exp...
2 years ago
Semper Initiativus Unum

The Brave Art of Running Away - In last night's game, on two separate occasions the player characters decided that discretion is often the better part of valor, and decided not to fight...
2 years ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

Skull Mountain Reboot in East TN - *North of the last outpost of Sparn, through the cannibal haunted jungles of Brool, a boulder-strewn crag rises from the mists. An enormous stone reptile...
2 years ago
Critical Hits

Review: The Magus - I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at "The Magus". I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven "Sell me an amazing Indie RPG" thre...
2 years ago
Newest Critical Hits – Critical Hits

Review: The Magus - I decided to dig into my PDF library of RPGs and look at "The Magus". I had bought it last year during a Twitter-driven "Sell me an amazing Indie RPG" thre...
2 years ago
Inspiration Strikes!

Nuts & Bolts #169 - The Perfect Map for the End of the World Part 2- Puttin' My Money Where My Mouth Is - Last week, I wrote about finding some old road atlases and thinking they could be great for making maps for Post Apocalypse games. Well, this week I put ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Aaron The Pedantic

In Defense of Race As Class - Race As Class! Baffling to some, overly simplistic to others, gold to me. Race As Class does what even AD&D didn't have the balls to do: it not only says "...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Them Bones of Adventuring XXVII - Short Procedure for Chases - *Introduction* My bid for captaincy of HMS *Obvious* meets a new chapter, with yet another hat throw unto the ring of marginal mechanics. As the totally ...
2 years ago
The Walls of Uruk

A timeline for historical games in the Lowlands - 6th century: Clovis I, King of the Franks, converts to the Roman Church 1000: Pagan Saxon and Frisian religions cease to exist as such and are subsumed un...
2 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...
2 years ago
Save vs. Player Agency

Not the best year - In many ways 2021 has not been a lot of fun. For me, it started with catching COVID-19, along with many of the friends I game with, and while, fortunately,...
2 years ago
Subterranean Design

‘Thor’s Cave’ Prehistoric Cave System and Bronze Age Burial Site, Wetton, Peak District. - thesilicontribesman: ‘Thor’s Cave’ Prehistoric Cave System and Bronze Age Burial Site, Wetton, Peak District.
2 years ago
Unlawful Games

Unlawful Update - Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I continue ...
2 years ago
dredged from the gyoll: GFC's Table Scraps

A Treatise on Traps - This post is available in video form on my YouTube channel (opens in a new window). *Click to enlarge* Here is a simple 3d6 table to generate...
2 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:...
2 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...
2 years ago
Tarsos Theorem

SRDCAT Sneak Peek: Collections - My first post on WTF.com is up! It's the first glimpse of SRDcat's Collections interface, which helps us organize the vast amount of game objects that...
2 years ago
Have dice, will travel...

[ Kinship ] The Shadow Riders - I float above what is called by many the Road, some call it the Highway, some call it something worse. Highway to Hell is a favorite. And if you end ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Journey Into the Weird

New Home! - This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this platform. ...
2 years ago
Iron & Ink

Mothership: Further Thoughts - In my previous post I gave a few thoughts on a rough Mothership setting. Have some more. Note: I am not a physicist so the below is probably very wrong. ...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
Beyond the Black Gate

Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
2 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...
2 years ago
SAVE OR DIE!

Recaps & Roundups: Monster & Treasure Assortment Set Two - Levels Four-Six - Around this time in late 1977 the second *Monster & Treasure Assortment* was released. (Note that this date is very approximate; I've used a number of s...
2 years ago
sword +1

Ten Dead Rats Character Sheet - I have created a quick & dirty character sheet for Ten Dead Rats, it can be downloaded from my sidebar or here.
2 years ago
tengoldpiecegems

Random Name Generation - *Random Name Generation* (1) Roll 3d4 for # of letters, (2) Roll d% for each letter, (3) Arrange/Fudge A 01-09 J 46 ...
2 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...
2 years ago
Crawdads and Dragons

- Wow. That was a weird 5 years. So, I'm semiretired now, and after the last job, which made a lot of money, but almost killed me , I'm loving it. S...
2 years ago
3d6

COKE DWARVES - The second of my races for my gonzo kitchen sink campaign using the Black Hack. Inspired by the almost no information on Diesel Dwarves from Ultra Viole...
2 years ago
TrollBones

The Many Returns of Gamma World - I started this post planning to examine my growing interest in the roleplaying game *Gamma World*, after having only been casually appreciative of it pre...
3 years ago
Adventures and Shopping

Alternative Group Combat Rules for D&D BECMI/BX/AD&D and Basic Fantasy, OSR etc. - Although I don't often post on here, I still have a very active Tumblr blog with the same title: *adventuresandshopping.tumblr.com* It's mostly a reblogg...
3 years ago
Lithyscaphe

Inspiral - A game about (not) making stuff - I've been feeling bad about not making (well, releasing) stuff, so today I made a game about (not) making stuff. It's unbalanced and untested, but I'm re...
3 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. ...
3 years ago
...and the sky full of dust.

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! appeared first on theskyfullofdust.
3 years ago
Teach Game Design

"Good old Udemy" (not) - Good old Udemy.I was unable to submit tax paperwork because the submission process failed many times over the course of some weeks.Now that I need a 1098/...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
Dark Corners Of Role Playing

OSR Review & Commentary On Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan Campaign Setting By Terje Nordin For The Warriors of the Red Planet Rpg - * "Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan is a campaign setting for use with the Warriors of the Red Planet Roleplaying Game.* *New character races: Mutant, ...
3 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." ...
3 years ago
Goatman's Goblet

An Attempted Framework Conversion for: The Hole in the Oak set in Dolmenwood - The Hole in the Oak is a low level adventure about venturing into the Mythic Underworld for Old-School Essentials, and though it features some tonal item...
3 years ago
STUFFER SHACK

Circle of the Moon Druid Magic Item - Looking to enhance a Circle of the Moon Druid, but having a hard time finding a magic item that can do it? Look no further... The post Circle of the Moon...
3 years ago
Dungeon Smashing Empire

Monsters of Wander Marsh - *Lantern-Tail:* A large bat-like creature that possesses both hair, and an exoskeleton like an arthropod. It has a lengthy prehensile tail equipped wi...
3 years ago
Graphs, Paper, and Games

I moved ages ago, but forgot to tell anyone - I decided to get my own domain name: strangevistas.org and have been posting there for over a year. When Adam at Barking Alien mentioned that he wanted...
3 years ago
Fists of Cinder and Stone

Review: Beyond the Wall - I recently re-discovered this lovely post about the 1937 Hobbit book as a RPG setting, luckily for us the author has continued to write about this Wilder...
3 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...
3 years ago
Daayan Songs Translated

False Machine Dungeon Poetry - EDIT: Area 8 has been fucked for months, sadly. I forgot to mention that there was a 2 in 6 chance of the High Forgetter being present in the chamber...
3 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...
3 years ago
The Eye of Joyful Sitting Amongst Friends

The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections - Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game, Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue and The Tom...
3 years ago
A Hamsterish Hoard of Dungeons and Dragons

Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! - Today's the day!The day that Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! :D Brought to you by Paolo Greco of Lost Pages (lostpaolo @ Twitter), with lovely art by ...
3 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. ...
3 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: ...
3 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.
3 years ago
The Sign of the Frothing Mug

Arkwood Golem - CLIMATE/TERRAIN: AnyFREQUENCY: Very rareINTELLIGENCE: Semi (2-4)TREASURE: NoneALIGNMENT: NoneNO. APPEARING: 1ARMOR CLASS: 4MOVEMENT: 6HIT DICE: 11 (50 hp)...
3 years ago
Tomb Of The Wandering Millennial

Blog Reboot - How starting over feels... After the disaster that was 2020 I decided it would be best to start over on a new blog. Wipe the state clean as they say. It'll...
3 years ago
MegaDungeon

New Blog - I am retiring my WordPress blog and migrating over to Blogger. This site will remain up, for the time being, but you can follow my new stuff here: https://...
3 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...
3 years ago
Old Skulling

My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter! - I can't believe I didn't post about it here! The Dead are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time are on *Kickstarter right now!* Thes...
3 years ago
Wishful Gaming

I keep doing this - Sometime near the end of each year, I open up my blogs and realize I haven't posted in many moons. It's not that I don't have anything to say (in fact, i...
3 years ago
A Paladin In Citadel

NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
Dungeon of Signs

Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release - A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012 Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at Dr...
3 years ago
Accursed RPG

First licensed SWAG release - We're thrilled to announce that the first licensed Accursed release on SWAG has just hit! Adam Loyd introduced a new Witchbreed, the Oni. It includes a d...
3 years ago
Dreams and Fevers

Dreams and Fevers Turns Two! - *Image is self explanatory* 2019 will probably be remembered as the most consistent year in the blog’s history. But even though this year has turned out ...
3 years ago
Sorcery & Skulduggery

Ten Fearsome Pit Fighters of the Grand Arena - There are many fighting pits in the city, but none of them compare to the Grand Arena in terms of prestige, showmanship, and skill of the fighters. The fig...
3 years ago
The Brookmere Chronicles

GM Notes - Morgansfort Session 14 - Death Frost Doom - Part 2 of 2 - So, here stands the final chronicle of my two-year Basic Fantasy campaign. It ended a year ago and I'm just now getting around to finishing off the write...
3 years ago
Dust_Pan_Games

Finished. - This blog is closing as of 7/12/2020.
3 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...
3 years ago
Unvisible Citadel

Undermountain Map Origins - As documented on the Ruins of Undermountain sales page, "TSR didn't actually use Ed Greenwood's original maps," at least not in their entirety. This post d...
3 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
3 years ago
Ode to Black Dougal

The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon - As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1. This isn't ...
3 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

The Map for my Current DnD Campaign - So maybe two months ago, when we all realized that lockdown wasn't just going to last a couple of weeks, a number of us agreed to try playing a Dungeons an...
3 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...
3 years ago
AL0 Lair of the Megagorgon

Gamma World 12`000 AD - My 20 answers to scraps questions 1. Yes, yes there are, many different types of them. You can play one as mutant animal, you can get one as a mount, no y...
3 years ago
ANXIETY WIZARD

Half-Organized Thoughts About Monsters - When I think of a Monster it's all images and impressions at first, then it eventually settles into something like this, a loose sort of novelistic encyclo...
3 years ago
Known World, Old World

Blood Sundown Review - I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review on Driv...
3 years ago
GIBLET BLIZZARD

Star Wars JezD6 RPG – Fillable Character Sheet PDF - I've updated the custom D6 Character Sheets I use for my Star Wars RPGs to be fillable forms, to aid with online play. Included with the optional stat...
3 years ago
Neradia

Poison! - I don't love Save or Die poison. It's a bit to on off for me. It's also not that realistic. I often end up ad-libbing something less gnarly but more in...
3 years ago
White Box

WB:FMAG Total Print Sales - Hello Folks, The last time I did a quick sales report was in September 2018. I pulled reports from Amazon, Lulu and DrivethruRPG from October to current fo...
3 years ago
Gregorius21778

Tool-Time: The Police State - This is the sixth and final of a little article series of mine, where I mix Fishwife Games´Random Rollers: Urban Waste 1 with Gallant Knight Games´Little S...
4 years ago
SWORD & SHIELD

DIE 20! - Blame the stay at home order if you like. Well you cannot blame it for what this is. I guess the social distancing and stay at home order gave me uninter...
4 years ago
Meandering Banter

Welcome! - Welcome to Meandering Banter! ALLERGY ADVICE: Contains GLOG classes, OSR rambling, bizarre heartbreakers, traces of discourse and has been manufactured in ...
4 years ago
Dead Cyclops

Crystal Crypt Of Zhool - *Crystal Crypt Of Zhool* is a free mid-level Barrowmoor crypt for use with Barrowmaze or as a small set-piece in your campaign or hexcrawl. Stats are gi...
4 years ago
The Dwarven Stronghold

I Cast RESURRECTION!!! - So, I know it's been awhile. I didn't realize it had been quite *that *long. I hope some of you are still around out there. I know I've talked about some ...
4 years ago
The Gallery: Russ Nicholson

Hate hijackers ...but here is a couple of new and old pieces - have been inundated by lots of hijackers using my little blog to spew their own agendas - personally, besides saying, 'piss off' they should find there own...
4 years ago
helsmuth

Favourite anime of the last decade - My favourite anime of each year, 2010-2019, plus some honourable mentions: 2019 *Favourite:* The Promised Neverland An amazing mix of cuteness and horror. ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Vampire: Year One, Part II - And now for the second part of my dive into 1991, when the Soviet Union fell, the Japanese economic bubble burst, Gene Roddenberry passed away, and most pe...
4 years ago
Gaming Ronin

Power 10 for 5E D&D. - As I play more and more fantasy role-playing games, especially D20 variants, I find that some of my favorites are the ones that boil the entire leveling ex...
4 years ago
Savage Swords of Athanor

New start, new blog. - This bad boy has been neglected, and now I am leaving it behind. I'm starting fresh at http://douglaseasterly.blogspot.com with posts featuring art and gam...
4 years ago
Game Design is about Structure

Restarting the Blog - I haven’t been blogging for the last decade, but now seems like a good time to give it another go. I’ve moved the blog to my own server in the process; no ...
4 years ago
Game Design is about Structure

Restarting the Blog - I haven’t been blogging for the last decade, but now seems like a good time to give it another go. I’ve moved the blog to my own server in the process; no ...
4 years ago
Joeskythedungeonbrawler's Blog

RE: ZAK - FUCK ZAK. MAY BE I;M WRONG TO NOT BE ZAK’S FRIEND. BUT FUCK HIM. **SPOILER HINT: I;M NOT WRONG!!!1
4 years ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ... - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ...: LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/colle...
4 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...
4 years ago
Polar Bear Dreams and Stranger Things

Wargaming Wednesday: Blood Cross Chapter - Well, I'm a month behind already. ~sigh~ I'll just have to get better. As usual, Amazon affiliate links at the end. A Tactical Battle Brother of the Blood ...
4 years ago
Maximum Rock & Role Playing

Levithan - I just picked up a copy of Scotia Grendel's Leviathan. This is a game I've been meaning to get for years but thanks to the excellent Leviathan War blog, ...
4 years ago
Occultesque

One Hundred Thieves' Tools - "He dropped into the garden noiselessly, and I watched from my tower window with rapt curiosity. The thief approached a guard and quietly dragged him off i...
4 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...
4 years ago
Dice in the Corner

Campaign Planning for Dragon of Ice Spire Peak - Essential PhandelverI am planning a D&D 5e campaign with my friends to introduce them properly to the game and get past the only one session we have done...
4 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

The Player's Handbook IPA - Well, I never would have suspected this would show up at the local corner store in this life. Huh.
4 years ago
devilghost

PC Infravision in OD&D - PC Infravision in OD&D Delta asked about infravision, and how OD&D may be an outlier edition that denies infravision for player characters. The idea that...
4 years ago
THE WHEEL OF SAMSARA

Hail Jeff Rients, Howdy Timothy Brannan and Hello Nigeria! - Nearly eight years after last posting, I decided to crank this old Model T up again. Because reasons. What's fascinating to me is how many views I got: a...
4 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...
4 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...
4 years ago
OEF

Dungeoneering Blog - This blog is moved to: Dungeoneering.blogspot.com
4 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

Lots of Microlite20/74/5e Goodness - I have recently discovered Brian Mathers' blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain's blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Micr...
4 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...
4 years ago
Blessings of the Dice Gods

Best Spam Comment Ever - Wow, I normally wouldn't give any sort of attention to a spam comment, but this was too fantastic to pass up (posted to several of my posts as comments and...
4 years ago
The Savage Sword of Scadgrad

How to Cleric in Moog - *This is a quick, down and dirty guide for Clerics and other faith-based characters in the World of Moog. It is written for 5E but much of it can be easi...
4 years ago
The Goblinburg Notebook

Temporary new home for the blog - Something I should have posted earlier: >> MY 'DEV BLOG' IS NOW AT DRAGONS.IE << I'll get to make a proper home for my bloggerings at some stage, but ...
4 years ago
The Hydra's Grotto

Attacking the Stat for Fun and Profit* - Ascending Armor Class at the time of 3rd edition was a major intuitive and time saving innovation. But what is more important is how it points to rolling ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

James A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...
4 years ago
PLANET ALGOL

[chapter 2] - The children’s names were Abdan and Mershi. Preteens, traumatized. Everyone helped, but Mazi turned out to be surprisingly good with them. Jase started tea...
5 years ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

New content! New look! New locale! - What comes first? The dungeon or the wilderness? https://mythopoeicrambling.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/leveling-up-and-world-building/
5 years ago
UNTITLED DUNGEON

No Signal - I’m going off-line sorta! Taking a little break from social media, blogs, hyper-connectivity, the news cycles, the noise..
5 years ago
Coffee swillin' analog gamer

I got mine! - The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition kickstarter has started shipping. I got mine yesterday! It's a pretty big box (lower left) that shipped in a much bigger...
5 years ago
Spells and Steel

"Alignments that aren't stupid" in action - I wrote about a new concept to map onto the term alignment some years ago here: https://spellsandsteel.blogspot.com/2015/12/alignments-that-arent-stupid.ht...
5 years ago
Middenmurk

Bestiary of the Fabled Occident - A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material I'd lik...
5 years ago
Unofficial Games

So long and thanks for all the fish - If you want to find me someday check here
5 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...
5 years ago
Living 4 Crits

Banished to the Purple Planet - Part Thirteen - Under a Weirdling Sun *Peril on the Purple Planet* is an epic DCCRPG box set devised by +Harley Stroh. The adventure is a hex crawl, so player characte...
5 years ago
Castle Triskelion

SHORT BREAK. - I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.
5 years ago
Mythmere's Blog

Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doi...
5 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...
5 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...
5 years ago
Stocking The Dungeon

A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...
5 years ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

My new blog: devilghost.com - For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog. I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I li...
5 years ago
wizardshaw

100 Evocative Character Titles (Part II) - From the 'Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel' by Francois Rabelais This is part two of a resource for sparking character ideas. See part one here. Descriptive...
5 years ago
The Furthest Lands

Spells by Keyword - Another diversion... In order to help myself in creating new weird spells I came up with the following method and four d100 lists of keywords. The idea i...
5 years ago
The Omnipotent Eye

Long overdue closing down message - Friends. I guess if you see this in you notifications or feed reader you will be quite surprised. This blog have now been dormant for a long time, and much...
5 years ago
Build A Dungeon From Me

Photo -
5 years ago
A Journey Round My Skull

Twilight instrumental - I always wanted a music blog. (On Spotify as Will Schofield.)
5 years ago
The Nth Decree

d20 Jungle Environments - For all its focus on random combat encounters, one thing *Tomb of Annihilation* doesn't have is a table of places that make engaging in random combat fun a...
5 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...
5 years ago
The Book of Worlds

The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...
6 years ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

UVG: The Caravan Sheet - The UVG (my patreon) has grown a lot over the weeks and I got some friendly editing input from Skerples, and from that I realized I needed to restructure t...
6 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...
6 years ago
The Frothy Friar

In Search of...An Editor! - I'm looking for an editor for my RPG. Does anyone have any recommendations or advice on finding one?
6 years ago
Redbeard's Ravings

Pondering: Getting to the Good Parts in a Megadungeon - Thinking out loud: suppose you’ve got an episodic megadungeon campaign. Each session, the group picks a location in the megadungeon to explore. Somet...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 years ago
The City of Iron

Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news. This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...
6 years ago
A Sword for Hire

Here Be Monsters 4: Out of the Primal World WINNER - Congratulations again to all our Top Five. However, as a classic movie once taught me, there can be only one, so special congratulations to the winner of...
6 years ago
Tales from the Tower

Portfolio Images from an old CD from a while ago - This one contains some game art, a few 3d images I created from 3d CAD models, some 2d line art drawings etc. Again, fun work! Air Warrior pilot wing...
6 years ago
Anamnesis of the Mystic Scholar

Airlines Suck - I returned home to Pennsylvania a few days ago, after visiting my father in Colorado. I had absolutely *no trouble* with the Transportation Security Adm...
6 years ago
Design Notes

Night Ride Part 1 - Night Ride Part 1 “Look, Pa, it’s my turn. Also, Nana is having one of her spells again and she has no idea who I am when she gets this way.” Saw sighed an...
6 years ago
Aeternal Realm of Sylvaeon

Castle Keepers Guide - I am perusing the 2nd printing of the *Castle Keepers Guide*, today. So far the sections on magic staves/wands and expanded equipment lists have been of int...
6 years ago
THE LAND OF NOD

The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...
6 years ago
Carto Cacography

The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep - I only just today realized that I haven't posted anything here since the closing days of 2015. Wow. That's not a good way to maintain a blog. And I look ...
6 years ago
Sword and Board

Director George Romero passed away. - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...716-story.html Hard to believe he's gone. I've seen all of his movies. He's the man who made everyone know what a zo...
6 years ago
Gorgonmilk

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
6 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...
6 years ago
Crypt Of Rabies

A Pipeful Of Trouble out now! - All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
7 years ago
The 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...
7 years ago
My Realms

Starter Set Sandbox 19 - The City of Neverwinter - For some strange reason, the city of Neverwinter was never properly mapped in an RPG product until 4E's *Neverwinter Campaign Setting*, and it was really ...
7 years ago
Renovating the Temple

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different - Just dropping a quick note here to point out what you all already know: this blog's update schedule has taken a mortal blow. But don't worry. It's just at ...
7 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...
7 years ago
In the Mind of a Mad Man!!!

Transparency Agenda Daily January 30th 2017 - My plans for Starfinder an... -
7 years ago
Barbaric Frontier

Better pics -
7 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. ...
7 years ago
Prime Requisite Games™

Adding Too Much to My Adventure. When is Enough...ENOUGH? - Well, what was supposed to be a quick mini-dungeon using the DAGGER FOR KIDS rules turned into a bigger beast than I had originally planned. My daughter is...
7 years ago
The Rusty Dagger

Daily Monster Art- Axe Beak - This art series is more like the monsters I've never actually used in a game series. I think the axe beak is pretty cool, I mean, it is weird dumb crea...
7 years ago
(BHP) Confessions of a RPG Publisher

Commercial Auto Insurance Vs. Medical Health Insurance -
7 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 ...
7 years ago
Over the Misty Mountains

Not QUITE a TPK... - But you could see one from there! I know my players read these, so I'm going to try to avoid campaign spoilers. But there will be some. Last night the par...
7 years ago
SANDBOX EMPIRE

Swords & Glory, Vol. 2: Tekumel Player's Handbook - Hello, 14 year-old me... I stumbled across this post on the Tekumel Foundation blog early this last week, on Facebook (I think I traced that back correct...
7 years ago
OSR Today

OSRToday Winding Down - OSRToday is winding down. Thanks for your support.
7 years ago
Back Screen Pass - A DM's Secrets

Adventures in the City of the Dead - I am trying a new approach to dealing with sessions that multiple players have to miss in my new Waterdeep campaign. If I know in advance that multiple pl...
7 years ago
James Games

California Natural Dog Food - The California Natural dog food brand is produced and manufactured by Natura Pet Products, Inc. This dog food company uses premium, high-quality ingredie...
7 years ago
Rule of the Dice

5 More of the Most Despicable Things Ever Done by Player Characters - Player characters in role-playing games are generally supposed to be the "heroes" of the story, the good guys or at least the "anti-heroes." But as well al...
7 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
The Concierge

Time in my OD&D Campaign - I was running an OD&D game world when the first three AD&D books were published, and I resisted for a while, but of course made the purchases. I read the ...
7 years ago
The Free RPG Blog

Build your own monster in Fear Fetchers by Kevin Damen - Inhabit the mind of a monster on a mission to collect fear from the houses of unsuspecting people. It's not-Monsters-Inc-but-it-is. Wonderful monster-build...
8 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...
8 years ago
Black Hole Diaries

Tyranny of Dragons: Hoard of the Dragon Queen Review - I'm late to the party on this one I know, as Tyranny of Dragons is sort of old news, but I've spent a lot of time DMing this campaign for my group over the...
8 years ago
Oaths and Fates

In Search of the Unknown: Evadne Moon-touched, Part One - [image: Beverly Marshall Saling] Beverly Marshall Saling Beverly plays Evadne Moon-touched, a character originally created in 1995 for Mike Ryan's AD&D S...
8 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...
8 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! ...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 availab...
8 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.
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 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...
8 years ago
How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less

I ran Torchbearer - I ran Torchbearer this weekend. I had fun, and I want to run it again. Damn does this game have a learning curve, though. We were fumbling around with the...
8 years ago
ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog

Vanity, thy name is "A New Blog" - *"Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years..."* - apologies to LLCoolJ for the use of his lyrics. I've started a new blog. It's not the "OSR" blo...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
Places to Go, People to Be

This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...
8 years ago
Uncle Matt's Place

Quick pre-move thought - One thing that surprises me, looking back on nigh-unto a decade working for the same place, is how few friends I have here. Plenty of cheerful acquaintance...
8 years ago
Dangerous Brian: A Gamers Blog

No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
The Mule Abides

0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 years ago
Held Action

Held Action Theatre 1: World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl Part 1 - In episode 1 of Held Action Theatre, we kick off the show with the first part of the Dungeon Bastard’s World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl. It’s everything the tit...
9 years ago
games with others

Storing Information, Playing Information, Dungeons - Someone asked about nesting information. Oh and this is mostly about older D&D. Oh, and this is very useful in this context. Oh, this might be boring. I'm...
9 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...
9 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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. ...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

now with more pictures part two -
10 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*
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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.
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 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 ...
11 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!
11 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...
11 years ago
VAULTS OF THE MAD ARCHMAGE

Perhaps my PCs should be worried... -
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 years ago
Red Box Vancouver's Blog

What I Have Learned from Random Mutation Tables - Here is a lesson I have learned from using random mutation tables in D&D. I normally use the old Realms of Chaos books for mutations, and usually it’s beca...
12 years ago
Axe & Hammer

Closed - Nothing to see here. Move along.
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 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 ...
12 years ago
Eiglophian Press

eiglophian -
12 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...
12 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/
12 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 ...
12 years ago
Superhero Necromancer

A Ruined Castle of Aventurien - Another map courtesy of *Das Schwarze Auge*, in this case, a ruined keep on the water. I imagine the keep above plagued by skeletons and the ghosts, rat...
12 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 ...
12 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...
12 years ago
Initiative Or What?

The Future of Dungeons & Dragons - What if D&D 5e Had No DM? - Wow. My brain is still humming after last Friday's Twitter conversation. I had caught wind of, in my feed, of some discussion of what WotC (Wizards of the ...
12 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...
13 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...
13 years ago
Old Guard Gaming Accoutrements

Old things and rare my treasures are. - *Survivors beyond memoryOld things and rare my treasures are.Times folded gates, fast closed to me,These lonely sentinels unbar.Years do no...
13 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,...
13 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.
13 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...
13 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. ...
13 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...
13 years ago
Sham's Grog 'n Blog

ODD Bits 1 - ODD Bits is a web log series of trivia questions culled from the pages of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of original Dungeons & Dragons. If you care to play along, ans...
13 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...
14 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...
14 years ago
The Geek Emporium

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Friday, September 18, 2009

My Lost City Obsession: Descent to Death Part 2

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