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Into the Odd

Electric Broadcasts - Bastion is full of broadcasts. The very air you breathe is filled with transmissions waiting to be received. Radio, telly, machines silently pinging thei...
41 minutes ago
Twenty Sided

Wednesday Action Log 01-15-25 - This week has been a whole lot of nothing. But as of writing this, I was looking at steam and saw Heroes of Hammerwatch II. I don’t know anything about it ...
4 hours ago
Halls of the Nephilim

The 5e Vigilante City Kickstarter Is Live! - The 5e Vigilante City for 5e Kickstarter launched earlier today. With this project, Bloat Games is taking the street level vigilante spirit of the SURVIVE...
5 hours ago
Sea of Stars RPG Design Journal

Tuesday Magic Item – Logical Glasses - Gollaon and Voddick watched the quartermaster as they organized and prepared the supplies for the upcoming campaign. “Very impressive,” said Voddick. “A fa...
5 hours ago
Frugal GM

FLGS: The Hobbit Hobby Shop (Fayetteville, NC) - [image: FLGS: The Hobbit Hobby Shop (Fayetteville, NC)] Recently I was on a business trip to good-old Fayettenam....er, Fayetteville (NC), home of the 82n...
6 hours ago
Greyhawkery

Greyhawkery Comics: Tasha Cauldron #7 - Welcome back readers! Well, his was bound to happen folks. *Tasha the Witch* has a very long if not confusing history in *D&D*. I for one celebrate the m...
8 hours ago
Tenkar's Tavern

Bundle of Holding - Solo Rules! - The current *Solo Rules! Bundle from Bundle of Holding* perfectly fits *Matt Jackson and his YouTube channel*. Adventurer! You can play many of your favo...
8 hours ago
A character for every game

The Ruined Temple - Deep in the Delaver Jungle is an old temple dedicated to Regent Azaselse, demon of fecundity and unchecked growth. As … Continue reading →
9 hours ago
In My Campaign

Seekers of Lore: How to Hero (System) - Yesterday I wrote about using Hero System for my Seekers of Lore campaign. Today I explore what that would look like. Recognize that Hero System lets you b...
9 hours ago
GROGNARDIA

Correspondence from the Free States of America - *Issued February 29, 2000* *To the American People:* Our nation is in ruins. The United States of America, as it once existed, is no more. The ideals of...
10 hours ago
The Grand Tapestry

- All the Colors
10 hours ago
The Mad Queen's Court

And Death Appeared To Endorse Us (Dungeon Adventure) - wow it's been a while, huh Here's the dungeon I wrote these rules to test. If I had infinite ability, I'd like to trim down the verbose room descriptions...
10 hours ago
Swords & Stitchery - Old Time Sewing & Table Top Rpg Blog

B1 In Search of the UnKnown By Mike Carr, The King in Yellow, & The Thirteen Parsecs rpg by Jason Vey- Session 1 - Were Rogahn the Fearless (a fighter of renown) and Zelligar the Unknown (a magic-user of mystery and power) both corrupted by the King in Yellow?! The pla...
12 hours ago
B/X BLACKRAZOR

Blood Bowl Stars - *Superstars.* Pass rushers. Quarterbacks. Shutdown corners. Workhorse running backs. Receivers that are just bigger, stronger, faster than anyone else. Th...
13 hours ago
Ancient Vaults & Eldritch Secrets-The Old School Revolution is weird

[New Spell] Nothing in My Pockets, Satchel, Bags, etc - Nothing in My Pockets, Satchel, Bags, etc. As the adventurers slipped out of the town of Mojup they noticed it seemed easier than usual to exit, thanks to ...
17 hours ago
The Wasted Lands

The Intent of Supernatural Attacks in O.G.R.E.S. - Supernatural Attacks in O.G.R.E.S. *Art by Bradley K. McDevitt. Used under license.* Some questions have come up recently (even in my own gaming group...
17 hours ago
The Other Side blog

Character Creation Challenge: Aura the Elf Healer - [image: Aura the Elf Healer] One of the things I have been looking forward to seeing in this group of characters are the various classes Grenda and I cre...
17 hours ago
Library of Attnam

5e Lingering Injuries - In my *D&D 5e* game, I have replaced massive damage with lingering injuries, but I have never posted the rules. There were a few design considerations when...
18 hours ago
Kobold Press

Celebrate GMs Interview: Mandii Solano - It's New Gamemaster Month! To celebrate, we're interviewing some new game masters in our Kobold Creates program. In this program, Kobold Press provides s...
19 hours ago
Prismatic Wasteland

Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa - The medusa is a cool monster that was the victim of TSR’s honeypot encounter design like so many other female-coded monsters. A close reading of woman mons...
19 hours ago
DREAMING DRAGONSLAYER

Skorne v2.1 Update - Then play begins. The renegades awaken in the ruins of a village, surrounded by smoke, fire, and the dead. One of Skorne’s warbands has already come and go...
20 hours ago
No Foes, No Traps

Y2k/25 Jan 14 - Name: Jacendier “Jac” Erethenil/ Jac the Blade Race: Half-Elf Class: Rogue Level Range: Experienced Stats: Balanced Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Deity: On...
22 hours ago
Elfmaids & Octopi

Secrets of the grey gnomes - Still have not got Skerples magic industrial book sigh Crew can refer to gnomes only 50-90cm/2-3 foot so many of these...
1 day ago
Welcome to the Deathtrap

My Holiday in Outer Space: Cepheus Engine and Mongoose Traveller - Is is January 12 already?! 2025 has been absolutely crazy for me, readers! And not necessarily in a good way. I haven't had much time for hobbies since m...
1 day ago
Alone in the Labyrinth

Navigating the City of a Hundred Gods—Another Approach to the City - In ancient times a man named Patrick Stuart shared a post about wrapping a dungeon around a die to create a non-Euclidean adventure site: http://falsemac...
1 day ago
The Silver Key

Celebrating Rob Zombie, graphic artist, at sixty - *Master of many arts, including graphic.Editor's note: We don't get many offers to guest post here on The Silver Key, but here's a rare exception--my old ...
1 day ago
Dungeon Fantastic

Rules & Rulings from Session 203 - Rules & Rulings from last session! *Can you Wait until someone else's turn ends?* Essentially, can you hold your turn until later in the sequence, usually ...
1 day ago
Hobgoblinry

Atavist or ancestor? - Here's a wee conversion I did a few years ago - just got round to finishing off the paintwork. I'll probably make a few more of these: enough for a...
1 day ago
Break!!

The BREAK!! store is open! - Just a short but exciting announcement today, but our store is now open! Physical and digital books now available to everyone! *Prices are discoun...
1 day ago
Lord Matteus' Ancient Tomes and Wondrous Items

Megadungeons & Hello Neighbor - Hello Dear Readers! I’ve wanted to bloviate for a few minutes on the #dungeon23 “thing” (or is it #megadungeon23?) for some time but, thanks to the OGL deb...
1 day ago
Methods & Madness

AD&D DMG cover to cover - Part X, p. 169-173 (Appendices A, B - Random dungeons/wilderness) - The project is back after a long hyatus! We've been reading the original DMG - the ultimate DM book! - but *from a B/X and OSR point-of-view.* Check the o...
1 day ago
Rindis.com

SH127 My Brother, My Enemy - With other opportunities having passed it by, I decided to try soloing “My Brother, My Enemy” for SFB from Module S2 during the holidays. It’s an interesti...
1 day ago
Cirsova

Fantastic Review of Adrian Cole’s Dream Lords - Ben Espen has just posted a fantastic review of our 50th Anniversary Edition of Adrian Cole’s The Dream Lords. The full review can be found here. Adrian Co...
1 day ago
Reviews from R'lyeh

Miskatonic Monday #331: Trouble At Scarrick Isle - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of...
1 day ago
d4 Caltrops

d100 – Carousing Events for Sophisticated Soirées & Refined Revelry - Here’s a quick companion to my more rustic and less “up-market” prior Carousing Consequences & Complications Table, with this one focusing a little more o...
1 day ago
. . lapsus calumni . .

Dungeon 25: week 2 - We delve deeper into the mega dungeon. This time, entering the realm of the shroom lords!
1 day ago
Generic Universal Eggplant

Fear in GURPS - Fear in GURPSAdventurers often encounter things and situations that would terrify a regular person. The rules for fear in GURPS are quite interesting, but ...
1 day ago
Throne of Salt

Positively Unhinged Elden Ring Theoryposting: Part 3 - Following up from my previous posts (Part 1, part 2) , I'm headed back into the realm of my own observations. PART 5: GET THIS SHIT OUT OF MY DRAFT DOC...
1 day ago
Monsters and Manuals

Authority at the Table - The start of an RPG campaign is always an interesting anthropological moment - particularly if, as is often the case with an online game, the players do no...
1 day ago
Tower of the Archmage

Caves of Chaos: Sticky Sweet and Rotting Flesh - Session 6 was played on 9/12 Io the thief Gizzard Wannabe the Wizard Theiss of Gond, cleric Tiptoe the thief Boots the ranger Amnyuthist the halfling The...
1 day ago
The Alexandrian

Review: Mothership Adventure Sphere – Part 3 - Go to Part 1 THE THIRD SECTOR I really love the concept of Ian Yusem’s The Third Sector: Take a dozen different third-party Mothership adventures and weave...
1 day ago
Campaign Mastery

Looking At A Bigger Picture, Part 2 of 2 - Landscapes are wonderful things, more significant & useful than many GMs rwealize. This post focuses on using Landscapes, both literal and metaphoric, usin...
1 day ago
tenfootpole.org

War from the Stars - By Joseph BlochBRW Games1eLevels “Medium” (which is 4-6) The Eventide Valley has always been a place of mystery for those who dwell in the surrounding land...
1 day ago
From the Sorcerer's Skull

Ergodic RPG Setting Presentations - Going back to the *Greyhawk Folio* has made me realize how it differs from modern setting material and perhaps why I bounced off of it when I first enco...
1 day ago
Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque

The Karthax Mountains - In my opinion, mountains in a Gothic Fantasy setting are for putting isolated and hidden secrets in. Here's the overview of the Karthax Mountains before ...
1 day ago
evil baboons or perhaps mandrills

various nes and snes peripherals and similar -
1 day ago
Playful Void

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

Let Characters Automatically Succeed Sometimes - My friend and Forge of Foes partner, Scott Fitzgerald Gray, wrote a great post called Embracing the Awesome (subscribe to his newsletter here!) extolling t...
2 days ago
Gothridge Manor

A Walk-Thru of Unnatural Selection - I received my copy of Unnatural Selection the other day and decided to do a video walk-thru. I travel through each section giving an overview of one of b...
2 days ago
Akratic Wizardry

My Life in Roleplaying Games: 2024 and 2025 - As we head into 2025, here are some brief reflections on my role-playing activities in the recent past and near future. I've been really enjoying running ...
2 days ago
Alex Schroeder: Diary

2025-01-12 Disk space - 2025-01-12 Disk space It’s that time of the year again. How to get back disk space? Open the Files application and empty the trash. (How to do this from t...
2 days ago
Leicester's Ramble

Shadowdark: Bloggah's Blog #15: Abominable Snowthings - Dogs! Do not stomp on the goblin! Sorry about that. *It's nothing, I've had worse.* So I suspect. At least you don't appear burned today. But is that ice...
2 days ago
Stargazer's World

Hunting White Whales - Happy new year and welcome back to Stargazer’s World. I finally found some time to blog again, so lo and behold my first post of 2025! It has been a longti...
2 days ago
Doomslakers!

Artists I Like: Shawn McManus - Shawn McManus is one of the many artists I discovered via Instagram. I know he has done work for Marvel and DC, I believe, but since I don't keep up with...
2 days ago
What a horrible night to have a curse...

Minimalist Sci Fi Gaming - I'm not sure exactly why, but I've had Star Frontiers on the brain the past couple of days. I know the game has a pretty bad reputation among many gamer...
2 days ago
Ynas Midgard's RPG Blog

Review: What Lies Beneath - *Disclaimer: **I was provided a review copy of the game. Also, some of the links below are affiliate links (meaning I get a small percentage of the sale ...
2 days ago
The Wandering Gamist

Traveller: Knight-Captains - I read Space Viking in December and meant to blog about it but there has been a lot of other reading to blog about lately. It was very useful context fo...
3 days ago
Fleur du mal

Arcane thoughts… - Or, as is the case, thoughts about Arcane, two thoughts, or, I suppose, three thoughts. One, an interesting depiction of mental illness and the effects of ...
3 days ago
Age of Dusk

[Review] The Book of Antitheses (Lotfp); Summa Omnium Nisus - [Sourcebook/Adventure]The Book of Antitheses (2021)Jobe Bittman (Lamentations of the Flame Princess Adventures)Level ??? (but probably at least 4th and as ...
3 days ago
Gregorius21778

[OSR] 12 Magic Lenses - I feel it is time for an OSR Fantasy article again. Veins of the Earth made me toy a bit with the idea of magic lenses. VotE includes a spell where a lens ...
3 days ago
Gundobad Games

"Our Plague Marines are Different" -- a heavily converted warband grows... - Here is the core of a "Plague Marine" warband -- just some of the Chaos forces I've been working on lately for games in the 40k setting. EVERYTHING you s...
3 days ago
Vague Countries

Planet Karus – Session 27 - It’s the first session of 2025. We had four players at the table, a rare treat these days. They decided to finally try and get rid of a major threat loomin...
3 days ago
ropeblogi

Teoriakatsaus #196 - - No GM? No dice? No problem!, kirjoittajana Per Arne Kobbevik, reportoi Matthijs Holterin yhteistoiminnallisista peleistä. https://blog.indr...
4 days ago
Wine and Savages

??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.
4 days ago
Shouting Into The Void

HeroQuest (and HeroQuest-Adjacent) - Some years ago, when I was making some dungeon tiles, a guy gave me these. They'd taken all the miniatures out, but apart from that they appear to be c...
4 days ago
Mythopoeic Rambling

Frightful Fridays! Needleseed Swarm - Hello and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! In addition to the biweekly creature theme I’ve decided on for 2025, I’ve got a smaller running theme...
4 days ago
The Cosmic Orrery

I Ran The Iron Coral! (Again) - Another day of delving one of my favorite dungeons. This time as a one on one with a friend, M (see also: the Fever Swamp session). I did next to no pre...
4 days ago
DIY & Dragons

My 2024 Bloggies Nominations - The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and *DIY & dragons* is a finalist in two categories! *official BLOGGIES 2024 art ‘Blugtarp Blogeye and Weyman the Well-...
4 days ago
The Furtive Goblin's Burrow

Renegade Thoul Class for OSE Classic - Freak. Mutant. Abomination. *Thoul*. You've heard it all by now. It doesn't phase you anymore. You don't even bother snarkily correcting their pronunciat...
5 days ago
Graphite Prime

Bringing In 2025 With "AD&D" - That is, AD&D, as in *Adventures Dark and Deep* by Joseph Bloch. Not new, just the newest form (originally three core books, now two.) One of the stalwar...
5 days ago
Fabled Lands

Gaunt dead that cannot die - "One hundred years of vampire cinema: opera capes and neck-nuzzling, glowing beauties and monster-kid wish-fulfilment. Gone! The whole lot swallowed up b...
5 days ago
I Cast Light!

TORCHES (6): A RPG Microblog Collection 4 - The "TORCHES (6)" posts are basically my bit of microblogging when I spot something I like but don't really have a deep opinion beyond "Look at this g...
5 days ago
ars ludi

Word Count - Some writers track word count to see how much work they’re getting done. I spend as much, if not more, time erasing things I’ve already written. And then *...
6 days ago
paizo.com Recent Blog Posts in Paizo Blog

Find Your Path—January 2025 - Find Your Path—January 2025 January 8, 2025 Hail and well met, ‘Finders! This month’s new releases bring the prospect of mythic power to your pocket and...
6 days ago
They Might Be Gazebos!

Outgunned A Cinematic Action RPG Review - This game totally snuck up on me. I know it’s not the sort of game that usually see me post about. Well, I haven’t seen a recent game that was worth rantin...
6 days ago
Gnome Stew

Adventure Design: Supporting and Opposing NPCs - In any adventure, the party of player characters (PCs) will inevitably encounter other intelligent creatures and people. These are the non-player character...
6 days ago
Valianttheywere

Short Fiction: The New Guy - T H E N E W G U Y "Mito," Arden adjusted himself to better take the weight of the standard flag pole of the Terran Exoplanet Survey. "I'm in the Airl...
6 days ago
Underworld Kingdom

Ridiculous Random Results - what's inside? - Some content from my latest booklet- the *Ridiculous Random Results* which I dropped two days ago - is already available here on the blog. Here's the ...
1 week ago
Lost Papers of Tsojcanth

The Bright Reality & The Third Eye - Imagine, if you will, a brighter reality. One where auras glow, souls shines, and magic winds blow ethereal sparkly motes across reality, energizing the co...
1 week ago
Liche's Libram

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

OSR: More Not-Quite Orcs - Want to include Orcs, but also want to do something just a little different? Try these out. by Gorrem *White* HD 0 - 1d4 HP AR 0 Atk S...
1 week ago
Spes Magna Games

Happy New Year! - So, it’s a new year, and, to quote Bilbo Baggins, “I’m going on an adventure!” The Borderlands I started a ShadowDark campaign. We’re five sessions in usin...
1 week ago
Blog of Holding

Unofficial D&D 2024 Style Guide (Your Capitalization Questions Answered!) - When I’m writing rules for D&D 2024, it annoys me not to have an official style guide. In its absence, I made my own style guide so I can quickly answer my...
1 week ago
Whose Measure God Could Not Take

Wildernesscrawl Notes: Fellowship of the Ring - I recently had the joy of listening to *Fellowship of the Ring* in audiobook format, and took the opportunity to take notes about the journey the charact...
1 week ago
Tower of Zenopus

RPG Stuff - Yeah I'm still running that. We did take a break while I was dealing with the other stuff but we have started back up and Session 16 will happen this ...
1 week ago
DMDavid

For Years AD&D Rounds Lasted Six Times Longer Than D&D Rounds and Only Gary Gygax Thought It Made Sense - When gamers imagine an attack in a game like Dungeons & Dragons, they picture a wind up and sword swing, perhaps one second of motion. So two combatants on...
1 week ago
The Mule Abides

The Illustrator Jane Sala - In “The First Female Gamers” (2014), Jon Peterson identifies three “decidedly female names” in the of the December 1959 subscriber list of Jack Scruby’s Wa...
1 week ago
Traverse Fantasy

2024 Year in Review - Happy Holidays! It's funny writing this after having de-emphasized my presence here over the past year as I had intended. The thing is, having a blog is ...
1 week ago
Octopus Carnival

Como Obter e Instalar um e-CPF ou e-CNPJ A3 no Ubuntu Linux em 2025 - Este post é completamente diferente do conteúdo usual do Octopus Carnival, mas obter a informação aqui foi tão complicado que eu me sinto compelido a dei...
1 week ago
Gorgon Bones

Wolves Upon the Coast - Session Reports and Observations, part 2 - I've started playing in NBateman's Wolves Upon the Coast campaign being run from the Rainbow/Purple OSR Discord. I wrote another post already which ...
1 week ago
The Githyanki Diaspora

First Daydreams of 2025 - Thinking about a few things that are coming up at the table: Daydreaming about how reincarnation works. Daydreaming about the Solar System as a starting Tr...
1 week ago
Wizard Thief Fighter

Fragments of a Journey - I’ve got a new story + art post over on the substack. The time has come to begin culling and consolidating my different online presences. They simply take ...
1 week ago
The Vanishing Tower

Space Acid, the Mothership Mod - No need to write up a Space Opera retro-clone, just use Mothership as the basic rules chassis and modify from there. Then you are just creating a setting...
1 week ago
Dreams in the Lich House

Progress Report - Horror on the Hill - I love the Jim Holloway art from this era of Basic D&D We missed a lot of time with this campaign! Several of the players are die-hard Eagles fans (go bi...
1 week ago
Forgotten Runes

2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...
1 week ago
ZENOPUS ARCHIVES

Gary Con 2025 Games Scheduled! - *Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton* In March I'm returning to *GARY CON*, now in its 17th year, and as has been typical for me the past few years...
1 week ago
Goblin's Henchman

Word Play – Old monster New monster - I saw this post by Kyana and really liked the idea that changing something’s name a little can conjure up a whole new idea. I’m looking at it as sort of im...
1 week ago
Farsight Blogger

FARSIGHT GAMES NEW YEAR SALE - FIRETEAM & CYBER STREETS - It's time for a New Year Sale from Farsight Games! All High5 System products are now on sale. All through January these titles will be reduced, and the ...
1 week ago
Red Dice Diaries ��

Session 17 write-up for The Enemy Within Campaign - THE CANNIBAL TUNNELS
1 week ago
Den of the Lizard King

[Lore 25] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP #3 - I made even further progress with my Lore25 challenge maps: a full Referee's map including Drill routes, and a Players' map with only the commonly-known ...
1 week ago
Swords & Dorkery

Of ghouls and ghuls - I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to Advance...
1 week ago
Clerics Wear Ringmail

N-Spiration: Gandahar - * We speak of Time and Mind, which do not easily yield to categories. We separate past and future and find that Time is an amalgam of both. We separate go...
1 week ago
Sacnoth's Scriptorium

Happy Tolkien Day - So, today is Tolkien's birthday (January 3rd, 1892). You will often see it stated that he was born in South Africa, but this is not quite right. He was a...
1 week ago
Necropraxis

Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...
1 week ago
Mind Weave Role-Playing Platform

Barrier March, Session 104 (The Kobold Hunting Grounds) - On July 7th, 852nd Year of Asterneth, with Ingrid having joined them in Larksbridge, the party heads back up to Warded Cross where the garrison of the prin...
1 week ago
Realms of Chirak

Death Bat's 2025 Predictions - I honestly don't have too many for this year. I have a lot in my personal and professional life to worry about, and so paying attention to gaming trends...
1 week ago
yog-blogsoth

BUBBLES & OTHER - BUBBLES "'It's curious, we are much more afraid of the Others, who aren't very dangerous, than of the bubbles. I suppose it's because the horror of the O...
1 week ago
The Lost Fort

Photo Parade 2024 - I’ve decided to participate in the annual Photo Parade (Fotoparade) on Michael’s blog Erkunde die Welt (Discover the World) again. My post from last year’s...
1 week ago
Ravens N’ Pennies

Carpe Blogiem: 2024 – A Year In Review - Here are how things went for me in 2024: The Good (What I did well or that went well) My Patreon continues to grow and remains most of my monthly (steady...
1 week ago
Cross Planes

The Future Starts Today! - Or some such thing. Happy 2025. My blog is 12 years old and I didn't manage to post once a month on here. I don't know what 2025 holds but I'm trying ...
1 week ago
Havards Blackmoor Blog

Happy 2025 - 50 Years of Published Blackmoor! - I hope everyone has had nice celebrations for the New Year and are ready for 2025 to begin. 50 years ago, TSR published the second supplement for D&D...
1 week ago
Full Moon Storytelling

My best of 2024 - A collection of my favorite writing from the year 2024, including here at Full Moon Storytelling, Sounder at Heart and Factal.
1 week ago
Bat in the Attic

Bat in the Attic Games and 2025 - Happy New Year Folks! This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening with me and my plans for the upcoming year. Personal I ...
1 week ago
Green Skeleton Gaming Guild

An Unkindness of Ravens : Solo Play - Continuing the adventures of our small newly formed band of *The Righteous Vendetta*. We rejoin our band in a small clearing within the Ravenwold n...
1 week ago
The Acorn Afloat

Well of Future Skydropped Things - Somewhere in a forest, in the middle of a ring of mossy stones, there's a crudely built well, in which people have been dropping things for centuries. St...
1 week ago
Save vs. Total Party Kill

2024 in Minis - [image: My mini painting stats for 2024] One of my goals for 2024 was to buy fewer minis, and paint more of the minis I already owned. I made a big sprea...
2 weeks ago
Archon's Court

1d20 Navigator Backgrounds (Lanthanide Horizon) - Navigators are a foraging society in the megastructure of Lanthanide Horizon - their sept-vessels, each holding an extended family, wander out from their...
2 weeks ago
Unfrozen caveman dice-chucker

On Unearthed Arcana and other 80s Atrocities - One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd mowed lawns, washe...
2 weeks ago
World Building and Woolgathering

Returning to the Veins of the Earth - Patrick Stuart of the False Machine has announced a remastering of *Veins of the Earth*. I imagine most readers already know what this is; for those who ...
2 weeks ago
TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON

D&D Wokeness issues gets more and more media coverage - The whole wokeness invading D&D thing has been discussed on blogs and such for a good while, but it was when Elon Musk recently tweeted the possibilit...
2 weeks ago
Zadmar's Savage Stuff

Tricube Tales sales figures for 2024 - I've previously posted the sales figures for *2019/2020/2021*, *2022*, and *2023*, and a few other indie designers have expressed an interest, so I thoug...
2 weeks ago
The Realm of Zhu

Oldhammer T-Shirt - 2025 Edition Drop - As the wheel of time grinds ever onwards, it's time to unleash the Oldhammer 2025 Exclusive Edition t-shirt into the old world, and jettison the 2024 Editi...
2 weeks ago
Playing at the World

A Fiftieth Anniversary Year - The 50th anniversary year of *Dungeons & Dragons *is drawing to a close. A number of projects I'd been planning for this year finally came out, and I ...
2 weeks ago
Kill It With Fire!

Oracular Kanji Card Improv for Elfgames - Sometimes a DM has no idea what to do. One trick you could try is turning to a random page in a book and finding a random word to inspire you. But I usua...
2 weeks ago
Strange Stones

Dicey Tales: A Rock & Roll Fable - Wherein your humble scribe uses Dicey Tales (with a smattering of Barbarians of Lemuria, Everywhen, and other related games) to stat up the main cast of 19...
2 weeks ago
These Old Games

Guest Stars - Star Wars Campaign 2025 - Since I set my campaign just after the Battle of Endor, I have many main characters from the movies and TV shows to guest star in the campaign. However, ...
2 weeks ago
The RPGPundit

The Problem With D&D Magic - DnD magic is just fine, if you're playing in "D&D world". For any other world, it is a barrier to emulation. OSR TTRPGs with settings/genres different f...
2 weeks ago
Merric's Musings

Home Bases as Adventuring Hubs - Few of the published Dungeons & Dragons adventures make use of a home base that you return to again and again. This is not, in fact, that surprising. Whe...
2 weeks ago
Raven Crowking's Nest

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2 Hour Blog

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Embarking on a Foolish Endeavor - Over the second half of this year, I've started to get serious (and "full time") about finally polishing and publishing thinky-adventurey games, dungeons...
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d20 Pirates

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The Manse

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Blood of Prokopius

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Beyond Fomalhaut

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Direbane: An RPG Home Brewed Repository

"Ark Against Time" Submitted for DunDraCon #48 - [image: A colorful thing seems to be made of several elongated pods] (Ark of Time) *GM: Matt MorrisonType: RPGSystem: D&D/Arduin GrimoireEdition: 5...
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From the Pilgrim's Temple

Falling Star - Hearts respond to myths we see Spring from our soul Amidst the din of history Glories of balder and pan That promise whole Our dreamings of that shining th...
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GRUBB STREET

And To All A Good Night - Grubb Street wishes you and yours a safe and happy Holiday Season. Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Luc Olivier Merson (1879), MFA, Boston.
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A Book of Creatures

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

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3 weeks ago
False Machine

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A Knight at the Opera

Slush Pile - All the cool bloggers are into slushposting. I think it was started by Dan over at Throne of Salt? He occasionally does this thing where he takes all the u...
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Daemons & Deathrays

Put your money where the mists are… - I forgot to post it here, but I did something about my complaints involving Hasbro yoinking my puppeteer parasite. I converted my 5E block back to 2E for F...
3 weeks ago
Shuttered Room

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3 weeks ago
Adventures In Mapping

Women in GIS Workshop - If you aren’t doing anything else on the allotted 2.5 hours of January 24, 2025, then consider tuning in to this Women in GIS workshop where I’ll share the...
3 weeks ago
Le Chaudron Chromatique

Return to Doodle Land - At last you can all visit the Doodle Land with Tunnel Goon or other whimsical adventure games! https://evlyn.itch.io/doodle-landHexagnome did wonderful wo...
3 weeks ago
SAVE OR DIE!

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4 weeks ago
Jeffs Gameblog

Latest Releases Now Available from the US Webstore + YEAR END SALE! -
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Hack & Slash

On Manifestos - The paid media was instructed to not print this. To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a leng...
4 weeks ago
Monstrous Matters

Geeky SKAturday SKAliday: Oi to the World! - Next in line for ska songs that should probably be enjoyed every holiday season: "Oi to the World!" I only first heard this one when No Doubt covered it o...
4 weeks ago
Lloyd of Gamebooks

Entries are now being accepted for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum Prize - Entries are now being accepted for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum competition. This year, 50% of the weighting for the results will be due to judges and 50% of...
4 weeks ago
Adventures in Gaming v2

50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons -- Play! - And so, as others have mentioned, we come to the end of the first 50 years of *Dungeons & Dragons*. How to celebrate, you ask? Play. Play *Dungeons & ...
4 weeks ago
Weird & Wonderful Worlds

Rings of Power: The Inner Circle - *Rings of Power: The Inner Circle* The PCs are inducted into The Inner Circle, a secret society whose members are supplied with a ring of power. They sche...
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I'll See It When I Believe It

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

#TTRPG Tabletopless: EroTech Gazetteer 06 RELEASED! - You can buy it HERE. A gazetteer containing information and additional material around the Tabletopless EroTech adult gameworld and campaign. Legally disti...
4 weeks ago
Carjacked Seraphim

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

Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement - Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement (I started thinking about this as a way to make XP awards in 5e come from all three “Pillars of Adventure” r...
5 weeks ago
Goblin Punch

Blue Sky Temple, Revised - Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky. It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed together. This week, I ...
5 weeks ago
In Places Deep

The Reynardine - Reynardines are foxes cursed to go about the world in the manner of men, or perhaps men that are cursed to go about the world in the manner of foxes. The...
5 weeks ago
Don't Split the Party

Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...
5 weeks ago
Hidden in Shadows

Who Made Blackmoor? A History of Setting Development - In a sense Blackmoor "grew like Topsy", that is to say wild and on its own. Perhaps the first iteration of anything we might call Blackmoor is the well-d...
1 month ago
Trollish Delver

10 new metal Darkmaster passions - Alright, so here's a bunch of examples Passions for Against the Darkmaster based on some of my favourite metal acts. "Burn too bright and you'll burn aw...
1 month ago
Martin Ralya

Play with gray - The other day I came across the phrase “play with gray” on Reddit, a reference to playing miniatures games without, or before, painting the minis. It immed...
1 month ago
Places to Go, People to Be

Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...
1 month ago
I Don't Remember That Move

STRANGE AEONS - NEW ORLEANS - Writing a set of pulp horror adventures based out of New Orleans, set in and around the Gulf of Mexico and the Deep South. Over at my new blog. You can f...
1 month ago
Numbers Aren't Real

With the Worms Down in Mexico (GLOG Class: Fighter) - * The Hydra’s head glinted in the afternoon light and replied; that I didn't have to try to destroy it. That some dark things may live in caves. That...
1 month ago
Quarterling’s Corner

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

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

All the holidays, all the prices ... (and some news!) - *The short of it is: all my games are on the cheap from now on until January. It is the season, after all. And while I'm here, I might as well talk a bit...
1 month ago
Critical Hits

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

Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.
1 month ago
Fictive Fantasies

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

OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats - Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just want t...
1 month ago
The Man With A Hammer

To Kill Frost Demons - *LINK TO DUNGEON* Blurb: *The Village's crops froze overnight. In Midsummer! Tax season mere weeks away, not to speak of the devastating hunger when co...
1 month ago
Swamp of Monsters!

Death, Injury, and Retirement - I made a custom rulebook for my d&d game that's a mashup of AD&D 1e and Worlds Without Number, but I wasn't too excited about the death rules for either...
2 months ago
Samwise7RPG

BRP Basic Roleplaying Allegiance System for the Gods of The Kingdoms of Kalamar - Hello again folks, Here is what I came up with for a Basic Roleplaying style Allegiance system for the gods in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting. I have...
2 months ago
Quest for Fun!

Leadership - I went on a walk with my son yesterday. He's on the last stages of his Eagle Scout rank requirements and he's been roped into a leadership position. This...
2 months ago
Save vs. Player Agency

Imperium Maledictum Session 0 - Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum is the new Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game from Cubicle7. Unlike Cubicle7’s other Warhammer 40,000 RPG, Wrath & Glo...
2 months ago
The Retired Adventurer

The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.
2 months ago
The Lizard Man Diaries

Saga RPG - The Hiven (Player Character faction) - I have been running a Silmarillion inspired play by post game all of this year, where the players take on the roles of creator spirits and then the leade...
2 months ago
DIY RPG Productions

Orcs! A High Octane Adventure for Hubris: A World of Visceral Adventure Now in Print on DriveThru! - That’s right! Orcs is finally on print on Drivethru! Summary Orcs is a high-octane adventure…
2 months ago
The Sundaland RPG Setting

Real History: Lost Maya city with temple pyramids and plazas discovered in Mexico - Another day and another lost Mayan city has been discovered: “The larger of Valeriana’s two monumental precincts has all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya...
2 months ago
Elf Lair Games

Thirteen Parsecs Books Ready to Ship - New pictures from Elf-in-Chief, Jason Vey. Palettes of Thirteen Parsecs books have arrived and shipping will be starting! [image: Palette of Thirteen Pa...
2 months ago
Goodberry Monthly

Class Social Features - Unsatisfied with the number of class features in PF2e/5e that pertained to the social characteristics of each character class, I went and wrote a few. Th...
2 months ago
Greyhawk Grognard

Welcome new Greyhawk Fans! - With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the Wor...
2 months ago
Pulsipher Game Design

What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book - What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book This is an unusual piece because I want to talk about what “should” be in an RPG design book. Somehow I once agai...
2 months ago
Aeons & Augauries

Undead Handmines - Undead Handmines A seasonal trap/encounter for yuor RPG campaigns. * Undead Handmines* A fields of earth, sand, or gravel concealing bound undead that...
2 months ago
Cavegirl's Game Stuff

An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
2 months ago
The Engine of Oracles

Bespoke Bogeymen - The following is a template and set of Generator Tables to create unique humanoid monsters. While designed for the Ghastly … Continue reading →
3 months ago
A Blasted, Cratered Land

The Witch (GLOG Class) - It's GLOGtober! Happy GLOGtober, everyone. *Witch* You treat with otherworldly powers as an equal, or at least as a petitioner worth their attentions. C...
3 months ago
Intelligence Check

Third-Party Support: Indigenous Fey - It took the fey quite some time to find their place in D&D. While stories of a “fairyland” or “realm of the fey” go back for centuries, D&D’s traditional G...
3 months ago
Brave Halfling Publishing

Keuntungan Memilih Situs Casino Online ALEXIS500 - Ada cukup banyak rekomendasi situs judi casino online ketika kita menjelajahi internet. Semua orang bebas memilih situs yang mana sesuai dengan kehendak ...
3 months ago
Less Dice, More Decisions: Houserules in OSR and D&D (Part 4) – Ominosity

Components in Play - Sometimes people talk about the RPGs they have been playing and it feels like their games and my games have absolutely nothing in common. It’s like trying ...
3 months ago
The Hapless Henchman

Into the Surf Dungeon....? - What is the Venn diagram between Surfing and Dungeons? and Surf Guitar and DungeonSynth?Is there one?I don't know, but I have a vast seaside cavern in my ...
3 months ago
Eldritch Fields

[Dungeon] Hole of the Goblin King - Buckle up and put on some Grieg, we are going on a trip to the Hall of the Mountain King! ...what? The DM blew all our money on novelty dice and now we can...
3 months ago
| Unlawful Games

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

MAGA House of Horrors - This is a recent thing I did… the final image has a lot of text added and this is obviously for a political campaign… since the campaign has not launched y...
3 months ago
Delta's D&D Hotspot

Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities - [image: Ul-Mor in desert] As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
3 months ago
Northport

A pair of Kickstarters I like - First off is Todd Leback/ Third kingdom games Hex a Day Calender, which would probably net me some commissions- but never mind me, there will be a ton of a...
4 months ago
Bugbears for Breakfast

August 2024 - My father passed away. It had been coming since the end of last year, when they moved him to hospice care. That's when everyone realizes that the numbe...
4 months ago
Applied Phantasticality

Back to the Table - The last gaming session I participated in was probably last year as a player in the playtest of a *Mutant Crawl Classics RPG* adventure via Zoom. Until a...
4 months ago
Applied Phantasticality

Back to the Table - The last gaming session I participated in was probably last year as a player in the playtest of a *Mutant Crawl Classics RPG* adventure via Zoom. Until a...
4 months ago
Mazirian's Garden

Good Lore/Bad Lore - For our purposes let’s just say that lore is “setting background”: information about the setting of a campaign. The paradigm is perhaps the history of th...
4 months ago
Nature Kills: A Hexcrawl for GURPS Dungeon Fantasy

Game log 11 August 2024: The rain is cold, cold like cold rain - Personae dramatis *Tonfa Guy*, doesn't speak or have a name but has a tonfa *Grignok*, handsome orc druid *Augustus*, human cleric *Nílde*, elf archer (NPC) ...
4 months ago
DMiurgy

Autocrats of Night Campaign Recruitment Open! - The Autocrats of Night campaign is finally open for recruitment! It will be a big open table megadungeon, with many players likely coming and going. Learn...
4 months ago
An Abominable Fancy

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

Goin' Through the Fiend Folio Part 15 (Shocker to Symbiotic Jelly) - Back at it again! Here's the last entry in this series, here's a link to the first post, etc. etc., time to pick back up where we last left off! To...
4 months ago
Game in the Brain

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

Three Demihumans - Featured image by Timi Honkanen Anilins From a distance, they are indistinguishable from human children, not older than twelve. The only noticeable differe...
5 months ago
My Terrible Sorcery Is Without Equal In The West

IT HAS RISEN AGAIN! - Ladies and gentlemen, Fight On! magazine is BACK!!! After almost 15 years, the premiere zine of the Old School Renaissance has returned in force. Go ge...
5 months ago
Alesmiter

Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs - *More solo play with post background after the jump. Next time they should be at the tomb.* Vineyard’s Bounty, 8th Rising. On the Old South Road in the ...
5 months ago
...and the sky full of dust.

STUFF - The Brief: design my own book. This book was a curated collection of random objects, which was printed and bound...
5 months ago
The Things We Do for XP

Delta Green #5 — Project Anthropocene / An Item of Mutual Interest - Part six of a series of reviews and notes on the scenarios I ran for my Delta Green group. Project Anthropocene (shotgun contest 2016, Ethan Cordray) tur...
5 months ago
Roll Sanity

OBSCURE RPG – Free A4 character sheet - I recently made an A4 character sheet for the OBSCURE roleplaying game by Tommy Sunzenauer. If you feel like using it – download it here for free. What i...
5 months ago
Chaos Magick-User

«The Butchery of Agnes Gooder» and Evil Books - Throughout the history of mankind, there have been many evil books that can damn a person’s soul just by reading or even looking at them. James Raggi, the ...
5 months ago
About Bruce Heard and New Stories

The Great Carriage - This is the second of three Mammoth Masher vehicles. For continuity, see the previous two War Machine articles: the *Command Chariot* and the *Vanguard W...
5 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Anatomy of a Wonder: Napoleon’s Tomb - I wasn’t going to visit Napoleon’s tomb, but I was in the middle of writing posts about Civ and I thought “is there a more Civ artifact? The mausoleum of a...
5 months ago
Richard's Dystopian Pokeverse

Anatomy of a Wonder: Napoleon’s Tomb - I wasn’t going to visit Napoleon’s tomb, but I was in the middle of writing posts about Civ and I thought “is there a more Civ artifact? The mausoleum of a...
5 months ago
UNTITLED DUNGEON

Mob of Frogmen - via Runehammer
6 months ago
Roles, Rules, and Rolls

Mass Combat 3: Delta's Book of War (and its inspiration) - Back in the early days of the Old School Revival, Delta's D&D Hotspot was a place to go for thoughtful design and scholarship, firmly rooted in the class...
6 months ago
From Kuroth's Quill - grodog's AD&D blog

New Planar Magic Items - Hellsguard, Mephrytis, Ring of Planar Vision, and Four New Potions - I've been busily working away on various projects since the end of April, including attending the North Texas RPG Con in Dallas from 5-10 June 2024 (and ...
6 months ago
Daddy Rolled a 1

Editions of Dungeons & Dragons - Most of you know that I run an old-school Dungeons & Dragons game for my daughter and her friends. We started when they were between 10 and 11 years-old an...
6 months ago
LotFP: RPG

The Weird Crushers that will Accompany the Imminent Releases! - The next upcoming LotFP releases will be delivered from the printer THIS WEEK! Leading up to the big new releases... here are the FIVE new Weird Crusher...
6 months ago
Trollsmyth

Grimdark vs. Eucatastrophe - Noisms has some interesting ideas in this post about his desire for some depth to his grimdark, and turns to Gene Wolfe and Tolkien for relief. Now, it ...
6 months ago
Slight Adjustments

Consequence - *Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina* This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed to create one *Apprentice* character, ...
7 months ago
The 3 Toadstools

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

When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff, and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, ...
8 months ago
Dragons Gonna Drag

Gold Box D&D - Final Party Lineup for Champions of Krynn Series? - As with the Pool of Radiance series, I'd need to settle on a party if I want to play the three Krynn games on the Gold Box engine. In this case, I decid...
8 months ago
Sheep and Sorcery

Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding - I'm not a fan of Wizards of the Coast dragons. I don't really feel like this should be that controversial. The organization of dragons based on the colo...
8 months 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...
9 months 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....
9 months 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...
9 months 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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
1 year ago
HeroPress

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

Of Urbanity in Troika! - This was sparked by someone asking about Orbital Intelligence's crapland. which is about crappy suburbian.I jokingly call it a crappy suburb of Troika! (t...
1 year ago
Playing Dice with the Universe

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

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

This Blog Has Moved! - The new blog: samsorensen.blot.im! Hello! This blog, Caput Caprae, is old and deprecated. If you're looking for the latest, freshest, hottest, coolest new...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
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
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
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
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
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
Captain Ahab's Leg

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

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

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

Wild Dwarves (race-class for Old-School Essentials) - This is the first of a handful of race-classes I've made for my Wengemerlin campaign. Dwarves feature heavily within the first part of the setting, the H...
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
Rolang's Creeping Doom

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

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

Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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 ...
3 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...
3 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...
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
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
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
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
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 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: ...
4 years ago
Necrotic Gnome Productions

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

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

In Search of OD&D Part 3: The Northern Shores of Tamerthya - In part 1 and part 2 of this search for OD&D, I asked the question: does my old friend Mike McDowell's 1992 game style, the one that has for years haunted ...
4 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...
4 years ago
Dust_Pan_Games

Finished. - This blog is closing as of 7/12/2020.
4 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...
4 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
4 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...
4 years ago
The Contemptible Cube of Quazar

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

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

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

TV update - Sony doesn't rush with updates, this is Android 7 to 8. They have also changed their custom GUI. The 'Discover' button on the wheel which used to do not a ...
4 years ago
Ten Foot Polemic

Wizard Rework Finale: The Death of Spell Levels + 500 Levelless Spells - Last year I reworked wizards so that they used Mana instead of spell slots. In that very post I said the following - This is part of my soft move towards a...
4 years ago
Tomb Of The Wandering Millennial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Subtle Verve - In putting together *Beeswox*, I ended up adding a couple rules without precedent from the original sources, but I feel they tighten up the system as a who...
4 years ago
Bugbear Slug

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

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

24 hours left on the Questing Beast Kickstarter! - The latest adventure I’m working on for Zine Quest, The Waking of Willowby Hall, is fully funded and has all its stretch goals unlocked! There’s less tha...
4 years ago
Buildings Are People

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

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

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

Review: Cockamania! - Cockamania! is a 30-page mini-setting based in Filipino culture and folklore. Cockfighting is the main theme of the text, but it also includes mythologic...
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
Ravenous Ambience

Cuckoo Guild - Lexi over at her blog has recently made a very solid template for extensible Thieves in the GLOG tradition, with the pitch that the unique thing for Thieve...
4 years ago
Unlawful Games

Prinny Dood! - Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to reincarnate...
4 years ago
Sorcery & Super Science!

More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
4 years ago
Known World, Old World

Troika! review/overview - As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a really te...
4 years ago
Lord Archaon's Grimoire

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

Xenia: The Reaction Roll and Hospitality - [image: Related image] *This is primarily for Swords and Sorcery/Sandals games.* Xenia is the Greek term for hospitality and is the ancient code of conduct...
4 years ago
Henchman Abuse

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

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

Across the Editions — Encumbrance - So in hindsight it was a terrible idea to start a blog just as my dissertation was ramping up. I'd also like to thank Google for ensuring that all previou...
5 years ago
Neradia

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

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

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

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

Garm Bays Loudly - I'm happy to announce the release of a new scenario for my old Norse magic trpg: Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave. Garm Bays Loudly focuses on a Norse ...
5 years ago
I Waste The Buddha With My Crossbow

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

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

A World of Our Imagination - *The essay below was written as the final paper of a composition class at SFSU.* *From Genesis to Revelation* *A very brief history of Dungeons & Dragons*...
5 years ago
daimon games

Encumbrance rules - If buying equipment at char-gen is often a waste of time, keeping track of the weight of each item is often too much even for the fanatic OSR player. Numbe...
5 years ago
And He Built A Crooked Dungeon

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

New Map of the Elf Empire and Southern Isles - I’ve been having fun developing a new map-drawing style that I think is finally reaching a certain level of maturity. And yeah, it owes a lot to Matthew Ad...
5 years ago
INSTADEATH

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

Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
5 years ago
Bardiches & Bathhouses

Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
5 years ago
By Odin's Beard

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

containers in yoon suin - d12 ways the treasure (or hostage) is trapped CONTAINERS 1. Snake coiled around, end visible 2. Ice block, object visibly within 3. Heap of sleeping wolv...
5 years ago
The Blog That Time Forgot

BeastieScotInktoberFest: #31 - Wild Hairy Haggis - My heart’s in the Highlands, twa strings on my bow To hunt the fierce haggis, man’s awfu’est foe. And weel may my bairn ha’ a tear in his ee. For I shalln...
5 years ago
Old Skulling

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

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

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

Wargaming Wednesday: We're Back (for the Motherland!) - Well...it's been a loooooong time since we've posted on the old blog. Too long, in fact. Something like almost three years since a serious post, not merel...
5 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...
5 years ago
Inspiration Strikes!

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

Them Bones of Adventuring - XXV: Stealth Revisited - *An ongoing exposition on table procedures for common exploration feats and rules, which began here with part one*. *Introduction* Though for the most tr...
5 years ago
Lord of the Green Dragons

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

Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
5 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...
5 years ago
Tankards & Broadswords

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

- *In this installment, we learn that you can make a percentile system really complicated if you keep adding special results and that DQ doesn't stand for "D...
5 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...
5 years ago
Wishful Gaming

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

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

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

Basic Land Cannons: Classic and OSR - Basic Land Cannons Threw together some basic cannon rules for a bit of fun carnage. First up: I'm keeping it simple. Cannons are complicated; there are many...
5 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...
5 years ago
Servitor Ludi

Dangerous Reviews (2 of 3) - This is the second part of my ongoing review of the 1967 sci-fi anthology *Dangerous Visions.* Find *part 1 here* (for reviews of stories 1 through 11), an...
5 years ago
Journey Into the Weird

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

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

Tomb of the Serpent Kings: Session 1 - Finally got around to running a session using my in-development Yoon-Suin Lamentations of the Flame Princess hack. I decided on using Skerples' Tomb of the...
5 years ago
Lawful Indifferent

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

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

New Website! - Sorry I haven't been posting, have been adjusting to a new job and dealing with personal things. Now I get to show you one of the things I've been working...
5 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...
5 years ago
Teach Game Design

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

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

And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...
5 years ago
The Savage Sword of Scadgrad

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

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

FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
5 years ago
The Brookmere Chronicles

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

Character - Marigold Silvereyes - I'm playing in a 5e campaign from next week, and I find 5e can be dull and uninspired. So I left it to this generator for my 5th level starting character.....
5 years ago
Crowbar And Brick

A Number of Irelands - In looking at various ways to abstract the game down to its fundamentals, one starts looking at things outside the rules a bit - or, things that start to ...
5 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...
5 years ago
Dreams of Mythic Fantasy

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

2017 and 2018 Anime - If you haven't watched the 1997 series of Berserk, do yourself a favour and check it out. The most 90's anime ever, from the grunge soundtrack to the ultra...
5 years ago
Gathox Vertical Slum

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

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

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

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

The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...
5 years ago
Dungeons and Digressions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...
6 years ago
Weapon versus Armor Class

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

Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe! - I never did a lot of RPG stuff on Google+, for some reason the interface and spam I'd run into there just kept me from getting that into it. I was a bit sa...
6 years ago
1d30

Dragon Scale Armor - Running a 1e campaign now featuring a dragon (a few, actually, but one main dragon). So dragonparts will be on the treasure menu eventually. If the PCs get...
6 years ago
Spells and Steel

Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...
6 years ago
wizardshaw

Worldbuilding Through Shops - 'Arms Dealer in Cairo' by Jean-Leon Gerome In the classic module B2: Keep on the Borderlands, Gary Gygax suggests allowing the players to begin interacti...
6 years ago
White Box

Total Sales for WB:FMAG - Hi Folks, It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. *LULU* Print: 396 PDF: 433 *OBS*...
6 years ago
Ultanya

Review: Tome of Holding - In a hoard of gaming accessories, it is hard to stand out in the crowd. I think Alex Ingram has done just that with the Tome of Holding Kickstarter. I wait...
6 years ago
The Dungeon Dozen

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

The Ergonomic 3 Mile Hex - So if my blog numbers are correct, everybody loves the six mile hex. It has the top number of posts with the most comments. All in all the 6 mile hex is ...
6 years ago
What Would Conan Do?

Troika: Numinous Edition 24 hour warning - IT'S ALMOST OVER! This is the obligatory 24 hour reminder, and then we can all take a breather. The Troika! Numinous Edition Kickstarter is 24 hours...
6 years ago
RetroRoleplaying: The Blog

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

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

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

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

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6 years ago
The Most Unread Blog on the Internet. Ever.

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

Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
6 years ago
A Journey Round My Skull

Crouching and Screaming - Wonderful 1978 illustrations by Outi Markkanen (Finland, b.1951) on Kuriosas. Visit the link for many more illustrations from *Kurnau ja Kamaluu*.
6 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...
6 years ago
Harvester

Game Pitch Outline: Night Train - *Game Pitch Outline: Night Train* *High Concept:* Ravenloft modern with undertones of Kult’s Metropolis meets *Mission Impossible* *The Pitch* What ...
6 years ago
Dungeon Smashing Empire

the MOONS of KOS - Kos has five moons. 1. the White Huntress Largest of the moons. Unwavering and constant, crowding the horizon. She lightens the seaward prow, bathes t...
6 years ago
sword +1

Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
6 years ago
Built by Gods Long Forgotten

Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...
6 years ago
Dungeonskull Mountain

Regarding ACKS and Autarch LLC - One of the few RPG products that carries my name in the credits is the core *Adventurer Conqueror King* rulebook. I helped out with editing and proofreading...
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 Book of Worlds

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10 More Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios - Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC Funnel b...
7 years ago
The Warlock's Home Brew

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

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

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

Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
7 years ago
Tales from the Tower

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abject Shillery, Ladies and Gentlemen -
7 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...
7 years ago
Daayan Songs Translated

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

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

New Adventure for AZ on the Way - So, Adventure Locale #1: White Star Trailer Park is coming soon! It's a location based adventure for my zombie apocalypse game, AZ: After Zombies. When it'...
7 years ago
Old School Heretic

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

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

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

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

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

Notes from the Nystul campaign - In pursuit of further knowledge of the Restenford realm, I was wandering around over at the Dragonsfoot Archives the other day and found this old issue of ...
7 years ago
The Rusty Dagger

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

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

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

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

A little playing around - So, I've been going through some of my older work and giving it the colour treatment. Daisey does most of my colour work but I do like to play around with ...
8 years ago
5 Stone Games

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

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

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

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

- Oh, for crap's sake, it's been nearly a year and a half since my last post. In the meantime, my wife and I bought a house, I had a huge pile of projects at...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Quickly, Quietly, Carefully

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

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

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

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

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

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

Appendix N: May 2016 Edition - I've been looking for some decent bookcases for about four years. I finally came across the bookcases, above, which a used bookstore were getting rid ...
8 years ago
The Concierge

House Rule Updates for my OD&D Game - Back in February, I presented my players with some updates to my house rules. I handed them a paper at the start of a session and asked everyone to read ...
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
The Free RPG Blog

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

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

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

In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen...
9 years ago
MISKA FREDMAN

[DIY] Faux-parchment - Have you ever thought about doing old looking paper for fancy handouts or for kids’ scavenger hunts, for example, but felt like its too much work? Me too! ...
9 years ago
Carto Cacography

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
9 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.
9 years ago
games with others

MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS - IN THE WOODS In The Woods is a Monsterparts adventure. The PDF is for sale here. It has all the rules you'll need to run the game. Is designed to make ...
9 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 ...
9 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 ...
9 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...
9 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 ...
9 years ago
Uncle Matt's Place

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

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

Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...
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
ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog

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

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

Mad Wizards and Demented Godlings - *Achaierai:* "Though the foul motives which caused these loathsome birds to be first summoned from the infernal depths are now lost from memory, remnants ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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 ...
10 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...
10 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...
10 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
Coffee swillin' analog gamer

The Dungeon Dozen -
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...
11 years ago
Have dice, will travel...

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

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

[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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...
11 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. ...
11 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 ...
11 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...
11 years ago
UNDERWORLD INK

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

I should call this blog 2d6 h-town - Just got dungeon world.Liquid awesome on a stick. Waiting to play before making any final conclusions but this what I have been waiting for. I still dig me...
11 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...
12 years ago
Project Hoverstead

The Wilderlands - Four Dwarves seeking adventure and excitement crawled from there hole into the grander world. There first two days away from the humble mines that there fo...
12 years ago
Rogues & Reavers: A Game Design Blog

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

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

Guest Post: Setting Out for the Lost City - Originally posted on Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog: Earlburt is my closest gaming friend, and has done more than any other person to help bring the games I’ve ...
12 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...
12 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 ...
12 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!
12 years ago
Old School Psionics

Gnomes, Svirfneblin and the family of illusionist trickster Wee Folk - Gnomes are the only demi-human race in 1e who can become illusionists. Gnomes are remarked as being cousins of the dwarfs, but just as equally, they appea...
12 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...
12 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
Black Hole Diaries

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

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

The Iron Court - So, to celebrate the TPK-related end of the first (shortish) Zu campaign, here's the map AND the key to the Iron Courts, the place where the party has met ...
13 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 ...
13 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 ...
13 years ago
Eiglophian Press

eiglophian -
13 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...
13 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/
13 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 ...
13 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 ...
13 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...
13 years ago
Initiative Or What?

Elminster's Jock - Yeah, this will drive traffic to the site. Well, you can blame Brian, the creative genius over at d20monkey for this one. He posted THIS COMIC, and I could...
13 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

Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...
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.
14 years ago
Back to (Role-Playing Game) Basics

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

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

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

[LOCATIONS] Some of the City-States, Settlements and Ruins of Sumer and Akkad - Ur: (pop. c. 15,000) here dwells Nanna-Sin in his shrine E-kishnugal; ruled by the undying ensi Shulgi, who seeks by recording all things to become a god. ...
14 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...
14 years ago
Sham's Grog 'n Blog

In the Land of Ooo - As a Dad I get to watch plenty of cartoons created for kids. I have been enjoying Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Marvelous Misadven...
14 years ago
Worlds in a Handful of Dice

Greyhawk Modules Online – Naerie Endures - Well, some of you may remember my involvement with the Living Greyhawk campaign of yore. I was active in our local region, the Principality of Naerie. Smal...
14 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...
15 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...
15 years ago
The Geek Emporium

This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Well folks, this is the very last post on this particular web address. Everything...
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Friday, September 18, 2009

My Lost City Obsession: Descent to Death Part 2

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