Wednesday Action Log 03-26-25
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This week I’ve been playing more Deep Rock Galactic, and R.E.P.O. R.E.P.O.
continues to be fun. I’ve been having fun tumble launching myself at
enemies to ...
Tuesday Magic Item – Marine’s Cutlass
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Voddick sighed. “I really do not care for see travel. I prefer to have
solid ground under my feet.” Gollaon nodded. “I can understand but it is a
faster...
Treacle & Crouch's Pie Shop and the Wormwood Star
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Two more adventure locations in Piskaro! One is my obvious Sweeney Todd
riff, the other was inspired by my study of French Decadent literature.
*Treacle ...
Kickstarter - Sickest Witch (Old-School RPG)
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I got to spend some time with Justin at *PAGE 2*, and I will say this flat
out - the quality of his books - the art, the layout, and the paper itself-
...
Facebook ripped me off
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I punched my name into this handy plagiarism detection tool published by
The Atlantic, and like millions of other authors discovered Mark Zuckerberg
ripp...
The Satanic Panic: 1969 - 1999
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A little project I am working on. This is an overview/timeline of the
Satanic Panic in the last 30 years of the 20th Century and how our little
hobby is...
[New Magic Item] Sash of Cloud Jumping
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Sash of Cloud Jumping ‘Two more jumps and we are at the castle of the cloud
giant,’ Bakra-do said to the others.‘I am having a difficult time
breathing,’ r...
The Articles of Dragon: "Even Orcish is Logical"
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I've been fascinated with languages and alphabets since I was a young child.
Consequently, when I discovered roleplaying games in late 1979, it didn't
ta...
White Chalk: Crow Moon 2/12 (Almanac 25)
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The Crow Moon is the second month of the year, according to the Neolithic
farmers of the White Chalk Coast . Each month I attempt to update this
pariah a...
The Borderlands (solo), part 5
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As a GM I love when a simple random encounter ends up not only being
interesting and exciting as it unfolds, but ends up being a campaign
defining moment....
DTRPG print costs will increase on April 1
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DriveThruRPG is set to significantly raise the cost of print-on-demand
products, with an increase ranging from 20% to 80%, as mentioned on Reddit
(see belo...
Graxworm Map 16 – Corpsegaard
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The Graxworm is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, several miles long
and large enough to contain a town …
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The Tragicomic Collapse of 2024 "OneDnD"
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As the recently-fired speak up, way more details emerge on the "Office
Space" levels of ineptitude that WotC handled 2024 Dungeons & Dragons.
Gary Con XVII
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I attended Gary Con this year. Last year, I was supposed to go, but
something came up and I had to cancel. This year, I ran a scenario I
created called The...
Companion Chronicles #11: Heirs & Spares
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Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition
and the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha, The
Companion...
The Most Difficult Single Class Campaign
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I've long been interested - really since I was an adolescent reading the
old 2nd edition 'brown book' *Complete...* series - in the idea of a single
clas...
The Best Of 2015 Part 3
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Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the last third of
2015. The next part of the Trade In Fantasy series is so close to
completion that I...
The Ruins of Arbel Monastery
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By Aaron GustwillerAaron's Gaming StuffS&WLevels 1-3 […] After the fire,
the ruins gained a reputation an evil and cursed place, following the
disappearanc...
[Greyhawk] South Province
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Under the enlightened rule of the Herzogin, Eliamund, South Province could
reasonably boast to being the most cultured and genteel realm of the Aerdi.
T...
Bathtub Review: Salthaven
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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...
Planet Karus – Session 29
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Six players, seven hours, almost 10k XP, zero player-characters killed
(darn it)—our annual marathon session was a complete blast. This time
around, the pa...
The 3-2-1 Quest Model
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Dragon of Icespire Peak in the 2019 D&D Essentials Kit has a wonderful
quest model worth paying special attention to. I'm calling it the "3-2-1
quest model...
A Matte’r Microscope
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Microscope books are getting a production upgrade. Say hello to the new and
stylish matte covers. It might not come across in the picture but it looks
verr...
Geeky SKAturday: Bad Leavers' "Another Time"
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A pleasant Geeky SKAturday to everyone! (Well...it's barely Sunday
here...but pleasantness to all nonetheless!) Just a quick one today (if
I'm actually c...
Zombie Dice and All-Purpose Spellcasting
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[The following rule utilizes the Zombie dice from *Zombie Dice*, a game
published by Steve Jackson Games. Zombie dice, which will hereafter be
referred t...
Zombie Dice and All-Purpose Spellcasting
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[The following rule utilizes the Zombie dice from *Zombie Dice*, a game
published by Steve Jackson Games. Zombie dice, which will hereafter be
referred t...
[BLOG] News on the March! Episode VI.
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This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on
Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and
setup...
Return to the Mage War Era Skyship
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Earlier this month I made some character creation tables with links to a
world and some spells. But I kept jotting down tables for the 6 areas in
the setti...
The Sand Reckoner
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Okay, lets start by setting expectations: The advertising blurb mentions
‘the life of Archimedes’, suggesting a big, dense, fictional biography via
novel. ...
Survive This!! War for the Wasteland
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Survive This!! War for the Wasteland by Bloat Games, has just launched on
Kickstarter. I picked up the earlier Ashcan version and have been looking
fo...
The Hissing Grassland?
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So, I purchased Deck of Worlds from The Story Engine. It arrived in a
sturdy box. Inside the box, six unequally sized decks of cards rest in
separate niche...
Urban Gameplay Part 6: Concrete Jungle Gyms
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I sure do talk a lot about the needs of "simulation," huh? Truly the least
interesting approach to design. But my defense of simulationism is a topic
for...
Wee Hours
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*It's 5:40am.* I've been up for about an hour. Been awake since about an
hour before *that*.
Cutting the booze and sugared goodies out of my diet (Lenten r...
Teori-indblik #206
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- (Don’t) incentivise ethical behaviour af Zedeck Siew argumeterer for
at hvis man får poeng for at gøre noget godt, er det ikke lenger etiskt.
...
GOZR monster generator
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I had a think and tried to isolate the kinds of sounds you might find in a
GOZR RPG (affil link) monster name, then I figured what the heck, I’ll make
ye...
Small Gods: Non-CIS Genders
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I’m getting a little ahead of myself, but it’s timely for other reasons. I
have a use for this table right soonish. When I wrote Polyhedral Pantheons,
I wa...
Frightful Fridays! Inferno Giant
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Hello and welcome back for Frightful Fridays! It’s giant week again, but I
might have gotten them all out of my system for now. This week’s offering
is a k...
40K Friday - The Practical Side of 3D Printing
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He's upset about being resized
I know the dream of 3D printing is "I can print all the miniatures I want
for almost free" with a side order of "any tim...
Ivory Towers
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Found in the Ivory Towers hex of Wizard City Hexcrawl
*"Can you sue a god? What a ridiculous question!*
*...Of course you can sue a god! This is Wizard ...
A Thorough Look at Bards in D&D and GURPS
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A Thorough Look at Bards in D&D and GURPSBard is one of the core D&D
classes that has been present in every edition since AD&D 1e. The D&D
community sure l...
More Updates! More Stuff! And Getting Back On Track
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It’s taking me a while to get things back on track. Mainly, getting more
posts and content done. On the video side of things, I’ve made the first
step. I d...
The 1-Year Campaign Theater Part I
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I find that campaigns tend to run for a year before the seasonal break
(whatever season it’s nicest to be outside in your climate). So it makes
sense to s...
Monks as Fighter Techniques
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I reread the AD&D Monk over Christmas and was amazed at all the sheer janky
madness there is. I did think it was pretty cool in general, though the
speci...
Tim's Outlanders: Session 1, April 17 IC
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*Player Characters*
*Tim, a Wizard* - male human from the Free City of Freegate, student at
Outlands University
*Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dwarf from t...
Some Bioshock 2 Thoughts
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I know I am extraordinarily late to this party, but I just finished
Bioshock 2 and wanted to collect and explore some of my thoughts on the
game and series...
Celebrating Women’s History Month 2025
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Celebrating Women’s History Month 2025
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Greetings, ‘Finders!
March is Women’s History Month here in the United States, and to cel...
Happy St. Cuthbert's Day!
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Today is the saint's day of the original cuddy, St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel!
Although the real world Cuthbert seems not to have used a cudgel at all; in
t...
On the Success of the VOTE
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You voted for it, and it's here!
All the prices on the books I sell on DTRPG will be rising in price, 40-50%
so I can maintain the same margin as now!
...
Mydwandrings, Session 9
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Day 4, 2nd week of early spring, Middlebury Keep. Beck and Lugan spend an
uncomfortable night in a dungeon cell. They are escorted to the courtyard
where t...
Greyhawkery Comic: Tasha's Cauldron #10
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Welcome denizens of Greyhawk! By the time you read this I'll be at *Garycon
2025* in Lake Geneva Wisconsin. Yes I know I did Tasha's last week. This
extr...
Finding Art for Undeadwood
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Every week both before and after I run a session of *Undeadwood Weird West
RPG*, I work on the book. It has been a truly enriching and enjoyable
experience...
Inner Glow Effect for Polygons in ArcGIS Online
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Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS
Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow
effe...
Adventure Design: Node-Based Design
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This is the final article in my adventure design series. Over a year ago, I
put out a call on social media for ideas that people wanted me to include
in th...
Lessons Learned from Paranoia
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I recently ran Paranoia, my third time through a very loose scenario that
I’d prepared, using my hacked version of the current edition.
All three sessio...
Campaign Journal: Lindwurming
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Cresting the dunes, we see:
- Slick
- Jax
- Fulvus
(Frederick and Rondel joined later).
source
Before them were arrayed placer deposits of r...
[Mystara] Karameikos -- Kelvin and Environs
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This map is from when I ran a 5E campaign set in Mystara.
This goes with the earlier map. I love the simplicity of the "Grand
Tactical" map, so I bumped ...
Indexing Adventures
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June 11th, 2014 I started my Patreon. 1While I haven't been active during
the past half year or so I've accumulated 110 micro-adventures, 37
micro-locati...
OSR: Naga: Serpent Sages
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by GoldenDaniel
Number Appearing: 1d6 (1d3 Heads each) or 1d4 (1d4+1 Heads each) or 1
(1d6+2 Heads)
Alignment: Any
Languages: Lingua Franca plus 1 Ancient ...
The Tragedy of Dragons
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The dragons of this world are massive creatures dwarfing blue whales,
amphibians that have evolved into a shape and ecological niche somewhat
like sharks.
...
Random tables!
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1. *Brass Spiked Table.* Made of uhh, spiked brass. Any summon spell
cast while the scroll / spellbook sits on this table is more effective, but ...
Traveller (Mongoose 1e) World Generator
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I tried really really hard to make this 100% accurate to the rulebook, but
was stumped a couple times. This generator won't give you the temperature
of ...
5e monsters: vulnerability is bad
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One of the more puzzling non-changes in the D&D 2024 edition refresh is
that they didn’t make any changes to damage vulnerability. In 5e D&D (both
2014 and...
Play: Brave Old World
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* Mother Russia *by Lauren Yee, Directed by Nicholas C. Avila, Seattle Rep
through 6 April 13 April
If writer Lauren Yee has a "thing" that describes her...
My 2024 in Review
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This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I
decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five,
which m...
The Electrum Archive
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[image: My Electrum Archive character sheet]
I met up with Emiel and Ava shortly after they arrived in Toronto for Breakout
Con. I love to see my D&D fri...
M22 Locust
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The M22 Locust was a tiny tank designed and manufactured to a British
specification by Marmon-Herrington for a light air-landable tank to support
airbo...
Artists I Like: Larry MacDoughall
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Been a minute since I did an Artists I Like post. Let me try to get back
into the groove...
Larry MacDoughall is a Canadian fantasy and faerie tale artis...
Adapting Moorcockian Cosmology to D&D
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Years ago now I tried writing a post about alignment in D&D, Elden Ring,
and Michael Moorcock. It quickly bloated into a messy constellation of
ideas tha...
The Bazaar of the Memorable (Obol Desert)
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This is a post for the *Obol Desert*, a setting I've been working on
with friend-of-the-blog Eos of *Nobless Goblige*. This one mostly focuses
on carav...
20 questions with the Chubby Funster
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Hello Dear Readers! It has been a while since I’ve done a 20-question post.
I like to get to know people in the industry, and there are a few creators
who ...
Friday Night Roundup 3/14/2025
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Stuff for the week.
- Things I Want to Do Differently This Time over at DF Whiterock is well
worth the read. I do this kind of thing myself, but only an ex...
What's Being Sold at Radiket? (Freebie, Gear)
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This blog entry serves two purposes - it is a companion piece to the previous
entry, providing a variety of strange items to be sold at the Radiant
Marke...
The non-Stress-free Gift of Limitless Spells
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Letting wizards cast infinite spells with bizarre unpredictable costs made
my game so much better and I need to tell you a bit about it before I start
with...
Thoughts on conworld calendars
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Yes, we’re still playing and yes, I have to get a lot of logs up. Those are
as much for me to have a reference as anything else, and I feel lazy.
But th...
Ring Any Bells?
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So, yesterday, going through a box, I came across the dungeon map I did as
part of the Map Order for some adventure I worked on back in TSR/WotC days
(...
Farewell @Ex-Twitter
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[image: farewell hellbird site]
minor announcement If you were following my updates on ex-twitter (and
seeing any of them, hah, algorithm), I suggest instag...
Your players aren’t supposed to die
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We're going to celebrate John by playing D&D together in public, with you
if you want. Or you can watch. The event is March 16 from 1-4 pm PT.
MONSTERS UNLEASHED
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The dark world just became deadlier. The Fiends of Skorne, the latest
supplement for the role-playing game Skorne, unleashes a host of terrifying
creature...
This Post is for Underwater Sea Creatures Only
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As part of some other work I'm messing about with, I wanted to put together
an underwater bestiary. I don't like underwater critters in the midst of
my ...
Starfinder Design Test Conclusion
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The results are in, and are as expected!
Hi jay murphy,
Thank you for completing the Starfinder Design test. The hiring team has
decided not to offer...
Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition, Year Two
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Some years ago, I read through all of Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition.
I covered the products from 1991 in a pair of posts and then kept up the
posting...
2025-03-05 How do you process the news?
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2025-03-05 How do you process the news?
I’m looking at the blog and noticing that I haven’t posted much. It’s hard.
A long time ago I discontinued all my ...
GM’s Day Sale on DriveThruRPG
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DriveThruRPG is having one of its biggest sales of the year! Go here for
all of the OSR titles on sale, or check out my top picks below. Also, if
you’re ...
Not a Med Student
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With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical
student. I know *many* medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and
vengeful....
Fight On! number 16 is out.
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The new issue of *Fight On!* has been out for a bit. You can get copies via
drivethru or lulu.
I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to reco...
Wandering through the Majestic Fantasy Realms
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It's time for another Bat in the Attic update!
I am halfway through the first draft of my upcoming project, Into the
Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northe...
The Hungering Dark
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Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you.
Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone.
The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
Process Book
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The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and
have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through
research,...
Another Underclock
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I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog
post dropped. It's great!
Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
Backwards Compatible? Not without caveats!
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What does backwards compatibility mean? With respect to Dungeons & Dragons
2024 edition, it is very confused. Honestly, the game is mostly compatible
wit...
False Prophets (A Monster for King of Kings)
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*Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through
necromancy... Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a
euphemism ...
Fight On! Issue #16 is here!
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Just a brief announcement that Issue #16 of Fight On!, the premier fanzine
for classic D&D, is now out. 128 dirt-cheap pages of fantasy gaming
goodness, ...
D&D Class: The Cryptreaver
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BBC, Tales of the Old Bailey (unknown artist)This derivative of the *D&D
BECMI* thief class describes a specialized tomb robber and somewhat of a
scaveng...
Some thoughts on reading Appendix N
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Any attempt to read Appendix N is necessarily going to involve some
interpretation. If Gary just listed an author’s name and nothing else, how
many of thei...
A Robert E. Howard Reader at Fantasy Con Scotland
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"The Legend" by George Paul Chalmers (ca 1864),
illustrating a scene from *The Pirate* (1821) by Walter Scott
Scotland, befitting a land of inventors and ...
Wizard Tricks (OSE)
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"Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A
trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What
can m...
The New Game: Completed
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With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd
like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
How to Make a God of the Hyborian Age
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Well hey, long time no blog.
I've lately been getting back into the Hyborian Age, the setting of the
stories of Conan of Cimmeria, and putting together ...
Did the Bloggies make me Blog more? | You?
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2024 was a reasonably quiet year for me (reasons). In 2024 I posted 6,
arguably 7 posts (that were more than just update posts), and one of those
was on 31...
A Farmhouse
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Thatched roof and fieldstone walls, barn nuzzled up against the south end.
Nailed to the door is the farmer. Flies languidly buzz around his head.
You fe...
Triggered Actions
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2 claws/1 bite... iconic monster stat-line -- but, what if the bite attack
did* twice* the listed damage and was only triggered if both claws hit?
Obviou...
d100 – Swansong Abilities
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During the earliest days of this Hobby a Referee named Mark Swanson devised
a few Random Tables that would become known as “Swanson Abilities” or
“Swanso...
Superman, Fantastic Four, Etc. movie thoughts.
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Having grown up a comic book wonk I always have thoughts on what is going
on with comic book movies, especially these upcoming ones. When I was a lot
...
Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits?
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Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question
about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately
this hi...
Holmes Day 2025
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*J. Eric Holmes at his chalkboard game table, contemplating miniatures and
notes.Taken by Tony Bernard for the 1979 L.A. Times article, "Fantasy Life
i...
ShadowDark of Strahd - Game 2
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If you're new to this series about running Curse of Strahd as a sandbox for
ShadowDark, there have been a few other posts (here). The previous post
rela...
Class: Necanthrope
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This wizarding tradition is based on SLA Industries, but tweaked and
reflavoured to better fit the magic punk of the Wizard City.
From *SLA Industries*
...
Table This Discussion
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Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on:
Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure?
1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...
STILL ALIVE BITCHES
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Well. Here we are again.
It's been a while of sickness, needing a wheelchair, and being mostly
bed-ridden. SO I do have time for games when I'm not too ...
Digital Art Practice
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So every winter, my brain goes haywire trying to get relief from the awful
cold.I picked up a legit copy of Clip Studio Paint (I think it's like 55$)
and ...
On Hobby Best Practices - Part 5
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Series Index
<< Part 4 Part 5 - Practice your actual hobby
I have saved the most blatantly obvious of these posts for last. Yet it
feels sometimes lik...
Against 2d6
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The players from my Classic Traveller one-shot last week started asking
whether there would be more adventures for those characters. I felt a
certain un...
Appendix Probi of the OSSR
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Sandbox, not Any Box
Roll Tables, not Story Beats
Rumors, not Hooks
Character Progression, not Character Development
Scenario Generation, not Plot W...
STRANGE AEONS - ISTANBUL
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The next set of Strange Aeons adventures.
Leo Kazankian, sole owner and proprietor of the Manzikert Hotel in 1920s
Istanbul, wants you to help him solve ...
shield-killer bazaar builds
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(this one’s about the bazaar. which is in beta, so spoilies maybe)
( i dont have invites for the beta but, you can buy it? here's my referral
link if you...
Nate Hack
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Here's the basic idea for Nate Hack:
Base rules are AD&D
Ability scores, classes, advancement, spells, and experience gain are AD&D,
except classes go ...
A Redder Sonja: Jirel of Joiry
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*Jirel of Joiry is riding down with the score of men at her hack,For none
is safe in the outer lands from Jirel's outlaw pack; The vaults of the
wiza...
Six Flames
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Ghastflame
Burn corpse wax to create the sickly green ghastflame. Its wisps map out
faces of the dead and damned, which it invites to the flame like moths....
Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum
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Additional Thoughts on Alignment
In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun
exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...
DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like?
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*Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good
friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means
(please tra...
MOP-HEAD
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MOP-HEAD
"The thing called Mop-Head was not an animal or plant or rock, although, by
now it was a little of each. It had no definite body, and it longed f...
Chain Gang's Main Drain
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The Emperor is building a new canal. Maybe it's going to be full of his
favorite fish; a pond next to his new palace. Or perhaps it's a massive
rice farm...
Forever unto the breach, dear friends...
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Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My
roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days.
I started Once More Unto the Brea...
NTRPG Gaming Weekend
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[image: NTRPG Gaming Weekend]
This weekend was a "game day" for North Texas RPG Con, held at the same
hotel the con is held at. I haven't slung dice since...
The Stats of a Dave Arneson Player Character.
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If you want to find the details for one of the characters that Gary Gygax
made and played as a PC, perhaps to use as an NPC in your own game, it
isn't t...
Prependix N
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A mere 10 months ago (hot of the presses by what James refers to as our
shambolic standards), “The Problem with Appendix N” over at Grognardia
lamented: Ye...
Brink of Calamity proofs ordered
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Hello, blog family. It’s been a minute. I’m happy to inform you all that
I’ve just ordered a proof copy of *Brink of Calamity* from DriveThruRPG.
When I ...
Reminder: We have MOVED!
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Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged
with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be
found...
Crown of the Grognard's Legacy
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When I was in IT and finally had some money, I spent it on miniatures. I
would drive out to Concord, near where my store is now, and visit *Games
Unlimit...
I Quit My Job To Make Games
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Or, I Finally Beat Inspiral By Nerfing Workdays
TLDR: *Foolish Endeavor* is how I will polish & publish *Game Things* in a
personally sustainable manner:...
Strange Days
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a secret organization of villains… I mean An open grouping of well known
oligarchs are taking over… Your mission is to overthrow… I mean survive.
The three...
Kickstarter: White Box Cyclopedia
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James M. Spahn is currently raising money on Kickstarter for White Box:
Cyclopedia, which could easily be THE definitive book if you are into
fantasy rolep...
Atavist or ancestor?
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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...
Review: What Lies Beneath
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*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 ...
2024 Kickstarters
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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...
[Lore 25] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP #3
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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 ...
Of ghouls and ghuls
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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...
Articulations
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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...
Photo Parade 2024
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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...
Well of Future Skydropped Things
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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...
Oldhammer T-Shirt - 2025 Edition Drop
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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...
A Fiftieth Anniversary Year
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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
...
Dicey Tales: A Rock & Roll Fable
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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...
Christ is Born!
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He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the
Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows
and w...
"Ark Against Time" Submitted for DunDraCon #48
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[image: A colorful thing seems to be made of several elongated pods]
(Ark of Time)
*GM: Matt MorrisonType: RPGSystem: D&D/Arduin GrimoireEdition: 5...
Falling Star
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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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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...
State of the Blog Year 6
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Thus have we reached the 6th anniversary of A Distant Chime! On to the
reflections.
*Content*
I wrote only 13 posts this year, the same as 2022 and a b...
Put your money where the mists are…
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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...
Return to Doodle Land
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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...
D&D Things I've Been Vibing With Lately
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Despite a distinct lack of gaming in 2024, I've still been absorbing a lot
of D&D-related material. Books, blogs, podcasts, videos on Youtube...
there's a...
The Tarot of Pips
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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...
Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1
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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...
Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement
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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...
The Reynardine
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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...
Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report
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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...
Zombie Survival Escape USA
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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,...
Four facts a wizard might tell you
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*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 ...
Inspectres in Grifton
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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 ...
OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats
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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...
To Kill Frost Demons
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*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...
Imperium Maledictum Session 0
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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...
Welcome new Greyhawk Fans!
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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...
An Interview! With Sarah Carapace!
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1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good
friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core
(li...
Keuntungan Memilih Situs Casino Online ALEXIS500
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Ada cukup banyak rekomendasi situs judi casino online ketika kita
menjelajahi internet. Semua orang bebas memilih situs yang mana sesuai
dengan kehendak ...
D100+ Terrible Trolls
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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...
Knave 2e Alternate Attributes
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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...
IT HAS RISEN AGAIN!
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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...
Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs
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*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 ...
OBSCURE RPG – Free A4 character sheet
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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...
Consequence
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*Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina*
This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed
to create one *Apprentice* character, ...
It's been a bit
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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...
When did the OSR begin? 2008.
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I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across
a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought,
w...
Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding
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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...
The Sun Lich
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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...
The Time Bandits
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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...
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...
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...
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...
Gwenevere (2023)
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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...
Of Urbanity in Troika!
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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...
On Play-Style
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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...
d66 Classless Kobolds Linktree (of sorts)
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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 ...
This Blog Has Moved!
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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...
Falkrest Abbey Review
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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...
Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies
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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...
A Short Update
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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...
Monster Stat Concept: Disposition
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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...
SORCERER (Afterword)
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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...
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...
Eberron for Savage Worlds Revised!
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Eberron for Savage Worlds has been republished with updates and expanded
content and is now available in print and PDF through DriveThruRPG.com!
There Were Dice
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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 ...
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...
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...
Beneath the Cliffs - part 4
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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...
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...
This is an Important Game Mechanic
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*"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$&...
2e Character Sheet
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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...
In Defense of Race As Class
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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 "...
Knock! Issue 3
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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 ...
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...
Announcing: Book of Extinction
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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:...
Abiørn's Satchel
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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...
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...
My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!!
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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...
"Things to Find" tables and Velonia
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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...
Short Shelf of Picks - Vol. III
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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...
The Visitor Royal Telepath
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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. ...
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 ...
Troubleshooting Detachments and Forts
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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...
A new beginning
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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...
Context-Sensitive Encounter Tables
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The goal of these encounter tables is to provide dynamic, context-dependent
encounters with as little additional work as possible pushed onto the
referee. ...
The Why of a Blog?
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Because Writing Helps You Learn
Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you
gradually stop doing. — Erling Kagge, Walking: ...
New OSR Products at DTRPG — November 26th, 2020
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This is the first Thanksgiving in years that I have not worked. Kinda
strange.
Adventures
A Misplaced Prince - Featuring "piranhakeets", which I thin...
City of Heroes / City of Villains roster
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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...
Time Management and the Role of Caller
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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...
Owl Con Live Blog 2.2
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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....
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...
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 ...
TV update
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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 ...
eXPerience
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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...
The Kickstarter has Funded!
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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...
Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD
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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...
Ptolus returning in new Kickstarter campaign
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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...
High INT Bonus - "Floating" Spell Slots
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*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...
Four GLoG Houserules
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*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...
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...
Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019
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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...
Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Carwyn & The Revelthanes Of The Feywild - I
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"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...
Xenia: The Reaction Roll and Hospitality
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[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...
session recap, 1/5/2020
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CAST
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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 ...
Finders Keepers - Background and Sources
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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...
Winter's Daughter Play Report and Review
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*"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...
Graded success for roll-under d20
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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 ...
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 ...
Garm Bays Loudly
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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 ...
The Nightmares Underneath 2nd Edition
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to read (and understand) Silent Titans
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Originally published on Reddit. (Updated on 03/02/25; see at the bottom)
Yes, Patrick Stuart writes great books that require an extra effort from
the refer...
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...
Someone Has Been Here
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It is rare that a group of adventurers are the first to have plumbed the
depths of a perilous dungeon. Others have doubtless tried, possibly
succeeded. Wic...
Nuts & Bolts #161 - Gotta Get Away
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*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...
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...
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...
Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule
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*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...
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*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...
TFH&P Release Notification Signup
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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...
2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast
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Vast
The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one
considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races,
classes, gen...
Knights and their Towers
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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...
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...
Elsai Overview
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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...
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...
Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons
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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...
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...
New Website!
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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...
Friendly Advice: Finding Inspiration
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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...
Another way for Udemy to screw things up
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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...
100 curious thing for a setting.
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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 ...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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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...
The Mythology of Moog
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*Mythology of Moog*
*The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum
which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...
Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter
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*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...
FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW
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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...
Two Thieves
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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...
James's Celebration of Life
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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...
2017 and 2018 Anime
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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...
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...
Dick Dale
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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...
The G+ Apocalypse
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Regarding Zak
-
https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252
I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes
responsibility ...
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...
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...
Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome DCC Conversion
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*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...
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...
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...
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...
Please Update Your Link!
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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...
Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe!
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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...
Worldbuilding Through Shops
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'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...
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*...
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...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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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...
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 ...
Make your own days
-
How about you make some backgrounds? Call it a competition.
I'll send whichever one or ones makes me go "*fuck, I wish wrote that and
now I have to conscio...
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...
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...
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...
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*.
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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...
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...
Hinterverse, a Glossary
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Antikytheron, the
Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown.
Arcturean Arm
A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse.
Argos
The birth...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Numenera - The Devil's Spine - Session 12
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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
-
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
-
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. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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
...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
-
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
In Memory of Steve
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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...
[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! ...
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...
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...
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...
In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers
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[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...
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...
MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Independent Languages
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Overview Westron Family Casta Family Thulian Family Khoisa
Family Independent Languages Cants & Argots Nonhuman Languages
Scholarly...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
-
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...
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 ...
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...
Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land
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This is pretty accurate...
http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw
*CATEGORY*
Adventure
*WHAT*
The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...
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...
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 ...
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...
TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You!
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[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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
ACKS: Sorcery!
-
In a previous post, I'd expanded the ACKS "caster types", and thereby the
categories you can spend build points on in custom classes, with the Ovatic
type...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
[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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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!
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...
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...
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 ...
-
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
Khurasan down! Suggest a 15mm force for me??
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Image (cc) revoincubus
Just heard that Khurasan minis has closed down until the autumn ... so much
for the Vespulids for our homebrew wargaming rules then...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Finding My Way
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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...
Fables of Camelot – Beta
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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...
Fables of Camelot – Beta
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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...
Pallas Cat
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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...
In the Land of Ooo
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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...
New Game and System
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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...
D&D was a Wargame
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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...
This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End
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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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