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Greyhawkery Comics: Under #15 - Well met Greyhawkers! I have another installment of the short story,* Under* for your reading pleasure. Follow the links below to catch up on the whole s...
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How to make map textures for ArcGIS and stuff - Here’s how you can take an image, turn it into a repeating texture, and apply it to the whole world. We’ll make a cement-sourced gritty texture and then a ...
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Who feeds all these monsters? Monster Keepers & Menageries - So I loved that Zoati in the original 40k were enslaved by tyranids who fed them zoatibix. It also kept them passive, and those who were free of it went ...
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The Ten People You Meet in Hill Cantons Prison - Hello remember me, people? Insert the usual round of excuses about life, work, the difficulties of this period, etc. But hey I am writing again and fini...3 hours ago
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They Met at a Tavern 12: Back into the Sewers - A late Meetup posting for a Monday game at the end of the three day weekend. Players: - Peter: Quorl (Pronounced Carl), Elf Fighter - Mike: Otzi (...
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Advanced Gamemastery: Jump Scares with a Twist - ’tis the Halloween season! The perfect time for a little horror gaming! But how can you scare your players when you don’t have a camera, a composer, a symp...4 hours ago
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Index Card Dungeon II – Map 13 – Sorcerer’s Tomb - This is the thirteenth map in the Index Card Dungeon II set. It sits below and to the west of … Continue reading →5 hours ago
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"Blackrazor Cup" (Cauldron 2025) - Not everyone attending Cauldron 2025 this year is on the convention's discord site (though, if you're not, why not?) so I'm posting this notice here for an...5 hours ago
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The Origins of Grognardia - The Origins of Grognardia by James Maliszewski Toward an Introduction to the Blog Read on Substack5 hours ago
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Punk Song of the Day- Washington Bullets- The Clash - #PunkSongOfTheDay Whole playlist here: Amazon Music/Spotify What is PSotD Punk Song of the Day is a playlist I’ve…5 hours ago
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[New Magic Item] Leper’s Veil - Leper’s Veil ‘What did you get?’ Krogi asked.‘Three gold pieces, a piece of ribbon, and a button,’ Thoz replied.Arakam looked up from researching a new spe...5 hours ago
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Witchcraft Wednesdays: More Occult D&D, the Supernal Tongue - [image: A 16th-century portrait of John Dee] Still working through my ideas on "Occult D&D." I have scads of notes on Enoch and Enochian and the connecti...
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Not Quite Canon: BYAKHEE for Old School Fantasy & Horror - Byakhee/ Lisa Free A re-model rather than a conversion; * for optional. The TLDR/Basic Byakhee. Hybrid winged things composed of conventional material. Su...7 hours ago
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Rappan: Assaulting Immarassrath, 2nd try pt. 2 - Session 285 was played on 06/19/25 Morgana, wizard 10 (Rob) Borumar, Triton Thief 11 (Josh) Blotto, Goblin Fighter 8 (Lanse) Nick, Fighter 9 (Me) Koltic,...8 hours ago
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Wednesday Comics: DC, December 1984 (week 1) - My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*. This week, I'm looking at the comics that were at newsstands in the week ...
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Holding Threads - You’ll have noticed that if you stick around a holding in Mythic Bastionland then the land is, well, less mythic. In fact, Myths kind of pause when the Kni...11 hours ago
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Wide open worlds - Over the next ten years, artificial intelligence looks set to radically transform almost every field you can think of. Astrophysics. Materials science. M...
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Linguistic Archaeology: Rivers of Kalamantan (Borneo) - *Kalamantan river names* *1. Barito* 2. Alalak 3. Martapura 4. Kapuas 5. Negara 6. Tabalong 7. Berau 8. Kelai 9. Jelai-Bila 10. Kahayan *11. Kapuas* 12. S...14 hours ago
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July-August Miscellany 2025: France, Alabama, Estar, Little Gidding and the High Dreaming Citadel - *The Heptameron*, Marguerite of Navarre [image: Frontispiece] Marguerite, from a drawing held at the Bibiotheque Nationale. A sixteenth century collection...
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BENEATH! FRINGERS! (A COMMON TRAVELER HERITAGE IN DUNGEONFLOOR: ACCELERATED!) - FringerThey have to eat to live, and you might have to steal to eat, to paraphrase an old song…but somehow, by hook or by crook, they scrape by. Rural fri...15 hours ago
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Goblins Pretending To Be A Wizard - This is a 3d print of a model I got from somewhere, sometime. I'm not at all sure who originally designed it. Possibly Miguel Zavala, but I wouldn't...
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Wednesday Action Log 09-03-25 - This week I’m Playing a bit of Project Zomboid. It’s going well, learning how foraging works because after playing 80+ hours I for some reason never experi...17 hours ago
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The Journal of Agatha Fizzyflask -- My Cozy Campaign Experiment (pt.2) - Created using HiDream I1 fast In my last post I described how I created a tool that let me create a series of magical maladies, their cures, and adventure...
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Kickstarter - Inn To The Deep: Deluxe Edition For Shadowdark and OSE - Hmmm.* OSE *and* ShadowDark.* Decisions, decisions. I'm well known as a Kickstarter Junkie, but I have been trying to cut back on my intake. I'm currentl...
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Tuesday Magic Item – Gloves of Transmuting - Voddick watched as the wizard took the corroded sword blade, heavy with rust and age. As he worked his gloved hands over the blade, the rust receded, beco...18 hours ago
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They Defeated Racism+ - A couple weeks back I ran a *PLANET MOTHERFUCKER* one-shot as a "palate cleanser," which is ironic because the game tastes like a hangover. The character...
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BPPB Errata 1 - As I find errors the Black Pudding Play Book or they are pointed out to me, I'll post about them here, as needed. Since this is just one item to discuss....19 hours ago
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Celtic Adventures wrapup and on into Cimmerian September - Worth your 10 cents...I just closed the cover on DMR Books’ latest release, *Celtic Adventures*, and had to say a few words about the final entry collecte...20 hours ago
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On Manon Quarterly - The new Sinless Manon Quarterly Kickstarter is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/agonarchartist/manon-quarterly https://sinlessrpg.com --------------...
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On the OSR - Oh yeah it’s one of these. My Exegesis. My recent delve (and submission) into Fight On! has once more turned my lidless eye to the OSR and its place within...1 day ago
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Mörktober 2025 Prompts are OUT - I have actually been waiting for this. Since yesterday, the Mörktober 2025 prompts are out. Time to get into gears. I was part of it last year, I want to b...1 day ago
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Zock Bock Radio return engagement - German AD&D superfan and podcast host Settembrini (who already had me on his show a couple-three years back) recently completed a two-year-long run thro...1 day ago
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Manic at the Monastery (OSE adventure review) - *Disclosure: The author has contacted me to offer a review copy.* From the blurb: *Manic at the Monastery is an old-school adventure for character levels 1...1 day ago
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The Rules - *Shanthopal Multi-Player Online Game* 1. Characters a. Players may have any number of active characters, but all active characters must be ...1 day ago
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Play with the demon-killing weapons of KPop Demon Hunters - You might have heard of the Netflix animated movie, KPop Demon Hunters. Here are their demon-killing weapons statted up for 5E play! The post Play with t...1 day ago
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Four Unspeakable Sins of the Butter Wizards - as you can see, AI has its uses 1. Transmuted the Death Pyramid into butter. It melted within few hours, flooding the nearby Skull Temple with fat,...
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2025-09-02 Show the page unblurred - 2025-09-02 Show the page unblurred Here’s a bookmarklet to remove the blur filter everywhere. javascript:(()=>{try{const els=[...document.querySelectorAll...1 day ago
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Un-American Activities - I am halfing prices for all False Machine books held outside the U.S.A. This discount will last until sales the the U.S. are re-started, OR until the ...
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Ill Met In The Wastelands - Cepheus Atom Session report - So today we ran a /Barbaric one shot adventure. The player's PC's were a part of an adventuring guild that sent the party into a wasteland to clear an are...1 day ago
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October Lantern Advance Copy Available - I've finished the advanced version of the October Lantern, posted on patreon. I've taken the requisite three hours rest and now I'm writing about it her...1 day ago
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Slay Cthulhu - My partner got me and herself really into *Dandadan*, which she described at one point as *Mob Psycho* for people who go to the club. It's so so so fucki...1 day ago
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Grozz keeps gettin' graphic...plus, a Soldier! - I hate to start out posts by just lamenting my lack of posts... BUT...man, I'm really having a tough time working regular blogging back into my schedule,...
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TTRPG in Korea Online SummerCon is Finished - So, the Online Summer Con is over. I think the game I was in Sunday evening closed out the event, since we went about 30 minutes over the end time (and ...1 day ago
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I’ the Licht o’ September Sleepin’ (Cimmerian September 2025) - But on they came, driven by the implacable will of Suleyman, and now in September, 1529, over the ruins of Hungary, the Turk swept on Europe, with the Ak...
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Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
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Miskatonic Monday #370: Rryonn - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of...
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Designing Tables - In my Friday Twitch stream where I share my work in progress for building a campaign world that is an ocean world with archipelagos instead of continental ...2 days ago
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The Best Of 2016 Part 1 - Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the first third of 2016. It was my intention to offer up the next post in Topologia but it’s not quit...2 days ago
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Star Trek Reviews: Picard - A couple weeks ago, I finished watching *Star Trek: Picard*. I put off watching Seasons 2 and 3 for a couple years, but since I was planning to cancel Pa...2 days ago
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Dungeon Walls 2.0 - Here I go. Messing with things again. I wasn’t really happy with my original dungeon walls so I redid them. The old ones were just too tall. They were basi...2 days ago
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TORCHES (6): A RPG Microblog Collection 7 - Over on *bluesky*, Zenopus Archives posts a new favorite Holmes/OD&D house rule: ".*..that thieves can fire into melee without penalty; i.e. no friendly...2 days ago
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Some Artefacts — The Second Dossier - *Here's the first dossier from semiurge*, get in loser it's time to get *organized*. Seven artefacts one might find, or at least read about, in the *Facili...
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Bathtub Review: Cryo-Siq - 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...2 days ago
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Music Monday - Cry Little Sister - My friend Stew sent me think link to this video with the message "Relevant to your interest" and before clicking it I knew at least one hot alt chick would...
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The Secret of the Eight Steps of Lazy Game Prep - There's a hidden secret of the eight steps of game prep outlined in [Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master]. The steps themselves are less important than helpi...2 days ago
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L Monsters at the Opera - A B C D Demon Dragon E F G1 G2 G3 H I Jackalwere K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Credit: Mike Mignola Hey, happy 200th post, Knight at the Opera. Now let's...
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Greyhawk News You Can Use - Harvester 2025 Edition - I’m well-overdue for another Greyhawk news roundup, and a recent post by /u/talktoh in /r/Greyhawk prompted me to complete catchup on Greyhawk news for the...2 days ago
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The Best Boots a Monk can have - So one of my players started his first DnD campaign not long after I put the group together in the late summer of last year (actually I am in two of m...
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Mounted on a Pin (Aclas Dungeon) - The central dungeon of Those Fragile Bridges, my funnel hexcrawl for Locheil's Aclas. The Panopticon is shaped like its namesake - a 3-floor tower of 30 ...
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Road Hogs (Tricube Tales) - Last month's Tricube Tales one-pager was *Road Hogs*. This one was actually inspired by the artwork -- I knew I wanted to turn it into a micro-setting th...
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Expanded Random Appendix N Campaign Concept Generator - Trey over at From the Sorcerer's Skull posted a Random Appendix N Campaign Concept Generator, and I took it and ran with it, expanding out the list to incl...3 days ago
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The Dark Veil - The second Star Trek: Picard novel is more successful as a story, but this is at the price of it being less successful as a prequel. For those who kept up ...3 days ago
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Tim's Outlanders: Session 4, June 17 to July 28, 17 IC - *Player Characters* *Tim, a Wizard* - male human from the Free City of Freegate, student at Outlands University *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dwarf from t...3 days ago
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RPGaDay 2025: Day 31 - *31. Reward* Role-playing is its own reward. This is true of most hobbies, but the role-playing game is also the quintessential example of the game that...3 days ago
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RPGaDay 2025: Day 31 - *31. Reward* Role-playing is its own reward. This is true of most hobbies, but the role-playing game is also the quintessential example of the game that...3 days ago
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RPGaDay 31: Reward - It’s the final day of #RPGaDay2025, Hannah and myself are rewarding ourselves by cracking open a couple of cold ones and talking about what we find to be t...3 days ago
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Anatomy of A Grown-Ass Dysfunctional Dungeons and Dragons Game: The Movie - ***This Video has been corrected to meet YouTube Standards*** A portion of AC/DC's "Back in Black" is in the background during a segment of this video...
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The d20 is stupider than you think, and that’s great. - So the d20 is boring, swingy and un-opinionated, but these are not only useful features of the dice, but actually critical to the continued success of D&D.3 days ago
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Observations from The Keep on the Borderlands 2025 Sessions 2 and 3 - B2 Keep on the Borderlands (A DriveThruRPG link to purchase the module) was published in 1979 and was often the first module players encountered. It was ...
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Blood Magic: Vile Spells - Blood Magic: Vile SpellsObviously, Book of Vile Darkness had some spells that are appropriate to blood mages. Thus, here's a quick conversion of them for t...4 days ago
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OSS Report on the Holy Alliance - Now available on DriveThruRPG is *OSS Report on the Holy Alliance*. This supplement, for use with the *Savage Worlds* RPG and *Treasure Hunter Advent...
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Brink of Calamity - By Trent SmithStorm Fetish Productions1eLevels 1-6 The town of Warnell, straddling a trade route that crosses two great forests, seems at first like any ot...4 days ago
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Teoriakatsaus #229 - - [Liquid] Well, I just rolled the dice for show, keskustelun aloittajana Frank Tarcikowski, herättää kysymyksen siitä, miksi perinteinen roo...4 days ago
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Random Links & Notes for 8/29/2025 - - 9 and 30 Kingdoms talks a bit about mapping. I'm okay with players mapping or not mapping. It's up to them, as long as their characters can do it. If the...4 days ago
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Holmes1to3 [general guidelines] - Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st...5 days ago
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Product of Your Imagination - I was reminded, when digging out the D&D Expert rulebook, that TSR had possibly the best slogan of any RPG company. Products of YOUR Imagination. It follow...
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Romanizing Cthulhu 3: Breakthrough - - Part 1 - Part 2 Back on this again, but now with something to actually show for it. Dump the previous two posts out the window, I've cooked u...5 days ago
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Frightful Fridays! Ouroborooze - Hello and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! It’s ooze time again, and this week’s monster concept struck me out of nowhere. Fortunately, it didn’...5 days ago
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Ann Leckie’s wisdom - I liked what Ann Leckie had to say below and thought it had definitely parallels to gaming.5 days ago
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COLOURED GAS BEING - COLOURED GAS BEING "He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space, especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...
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D&D School of Simulacra (OSE character class / school of magic) - The *School of Simulacra* is a specialized form of illusion magic that creates Turing-complete illusions, which are constructs of pure thought and will cap...5 days ago
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Mythic Bastionland: Character Omens (ft. Dark Souls) - In Mythic Bastionland, you travel the world and the myths reveal themselves with each roll of a 1, 2, or 3 on the Wilderness roll. Plot lines unfurl as the...
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Post Game Debrief - Last month, I started a new way to manage the information for my campaigns, and I have been excited about it. Excited enough, that I started doing somethin...5 days ago
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New Cirsova Merch! - The new Cirsova Merch is up in our TeePublic merch store! First up, we have this awesome Otis Stein shirt that spoofs the magazine cover. This art by Carlo...
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Shadowdark: Narrative Hirelings - Currently, hirelings are not part of Shadowdark. They can shift the spotlight away from the heroes and too easily become little more than cannon fodder. ...
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Bridge War! (Adventure Location) - Inspired by the history of Milwaukee, this is a small adventure location with competing factions and easy connections to other underground lairs. It is a...
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Up Your Game with Rubber Stamps - [image: Up Your Game with Rubber Stamps] This isn't a Free GM Resource, but a product, well company really, that I think is a useful resource for the prep...
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Let's Read the 4e Dark Sun Creature Catalog: Kirre - A kirre, looking like a horned green tiger with eight legs. Copyright 2010 Wizards of the Coast. This post is part of a series! Click here to see the res...6 days ago
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Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
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Marvel Multiverse RPG Random Character Generation - After spending the last couple of months exploring deeply through the Palladium Wilderness, our main protagonist side-trekked once again to the Marvel Mu...
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A Return to Venture-Gossip Briefings! - A Return to Venture-Gossip Briefings! Wednesday, August 27, 2025 HELLO, PATHFINDERS! Oh, my *gods*, besties, it’s been so long since I’ve been able to w...1 week ago
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Halflings (ODD Race) - I discovered a handful of recent stripped down D&D hacks online this last week. One immediately jumped out at me, probably because of the old school aesthe...
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Feast For A Sphinx, digital release - The digital release of the Gold Edition of Feast For A Sphinx is live:https://evlyn.itch.io/a-feast-for-a-sphinx
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Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available - I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of *Against the Darkmaster* coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprisingly) *Against ...1 week ago
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Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
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Zodiac Ring, 20 Years Later - Twenty years ago today I released Zodiac Ring, my very first publication. Which means this is also the 20th anniversary of Lame Mage Productions. There’s n...1 week ago
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#TTRPG – MOTSP – The Hot Take - Congratulations on your purchase/rental of the:Shurok Mivshikvik Shunvik Mivsha – Sha-Rashmivvikruk(CTF INDEPENDENT TRADER – The Hot Take)from Corman Ship ...1 week ago
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AMC Hut BFRPG Package #3 - Here is a recording of the actual exchange as it happened at the AMC Hut at Lonesome Lake today. It is a project of my own devising and I will link to th...
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Setting: Manny Perez - Formerly one of many rank and file employees working at Infinite Possibility Foundation, Manny Perez was the definition of a paper pusher. He couldn't tel...1 week ago
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XML Workflow: Variations. So Many Variations - Still not giving up on the A-Z Challenge! Just going really slowly this year. I utterly failed on time, but will complete the series! I’ve been trying to w...1 week ago
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Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner (and others!) in Chronological Order - I’m a big fan of the Alien, Predator, and Bladerunner franchises, and the fact that they all apparently intersect in a shared universe is really great to m...1 week ago
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The MN Gathering 2025 - The MN Gathering 2025 is the annual meetup of Minnesota Gamers, including several of the original Blackmoor Bunch.This year the event took place last ...1 week ago
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YouTube – some actual plays | Mausritter & AD&D 1e - You might not know, but I have a YouTube channel. It’s nothing to shout about, but it is there. Here are some actual plays if you are interested in that ki...1 week ago
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How to run a slasher. 1 of 2 - I ran a summer camp slasher game not too long ago. It went pretty well. Here's some of the stuff I used to make it happen Plan for one or two sessions t...
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Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...1 week ago
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Deadlands: Dark Ages Crowdfunding in September - So they have been talking about this one for a while now but Pinnacle made it official this week: the next setting for Deadlands is coming next month. ...
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STRANGE AEONS - SHANGHAI - The final set of Strange Aeons adventures, at least for now. An alchemist’s shop in the Old City of Shanghai. Uncle Ho wants to create the Pill of Immor...
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Tuesday Terrors: Xenomorph for Shadowdark - Xenomporph for Shadowdark *"Perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility."**-- Ash, regarding The Alien (from Alien)*...2 weeks ago
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Dumpster Deep Dive: You Got a Job on the Garbage Barge Prep Example - An example for our I prepared to run a (great) published adventure.2 weeks ago
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How to Win the Dawn War: 20 Wanderers - From Etrian OdysseyNever much been good at NPCs. Trying to change that. 1. *Kayven *Race, class, level: Human Commoner 0 Description: Balding...
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where are psionics from? - A kind of crazy in-game explanation for D&D psionics occurred to me. I haven’t seen it before so I figured I’d share it. The canonical explanation for psio...2 weeks ago
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Cup of Crimson Wonder - I got into *Dungeons & Dragons* in the late 70s at college. At that time, I was listening to a lot of progressive rock, which was a broad category which ...2 weeks ago
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Revising Skills in RPGs: A Gods of the Forbidden North Guide - Hello, Dear Readers! Today, I am going to provide you with my current set of houserules and homebrew for my Gods of the Forbidden North Campaign. Gods of t...2 weeks ago
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Roll on Adventure - Immortal Reckoning review - Hello gamebookers. I don't normally do reviews here, but my lovely tutor group bought me this book, so I thought I would review it. The Roll on Adve...
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An Offering For The Goat-Mother - Play Report - Per Weird Writers "Just Run It" advice, I decided to run a little horror-investigation scenario I had written up a while back. CW: abuse, suicide WW pla...2 weeks ago
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d100 - Side Effects from Bargain Basement Potions - In most of my Campaign Settings, I try to emphasize that Magic is a rather Rare and Wonderous thing. You’ll seldom find Arcane Artifacts for Sale in Mark...
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From Gygax to Mourngloom Keep: Old-School Geomorphs Reimagined - Shortly after I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons in the fall of 1981, I was visiting a friend's house and saw a bunch of products I had no idea exist...2 weeks ago
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Cloak-and-Sword Économiste - Économiste A cloak-and-sword class. Any early modern French milieu needs its John Law, or its John Blunt, or perhaps an enterprising florist. Begin with a...2 weeks ago
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The Smith Family quilt - So, a hundred and fifty years ago, at a place known as The Hollow (later renamed Ararat), a group of women got together and created a quilt for Rev. Ne...2 weeks ago
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Everlasting Summer - The Lighthouse - Underneath System, Insight Resolution System, Campaign Intro, Encounters, GM Forward. Introduction / Marquette Venture - Part 1 Venture - Part 2 Venture ...3 weeks ago
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The 'I Want' PC - Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something called *K-Pop D...
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Picking the Fall release 5e products best for you - Official D&D has a lot of books coming out within the next couple months. Your normie friends need advice.
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Last Man Standing: Life at the Bottom of the Retail Funnel - In roleplaying games there is the funnel. You throw a bunch of zero level townsfolk into a meat grinder and see who crawls out. The survivors become hero...3 weeks ago
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WWII Aviation Industry Part 4 - This article has been more of a whopper after having had a look at French and British wartime industries (click here for *France* or *Britain*). I posted...3 weeks ago
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Spring Greens and Tulips – The Egeskov Castle Gardens - An overcast spring day in early May may not be the perfect time to visit a garden in cold and windy Denmark, but I nevertheless got a good amount of photos...
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More Star Wars/Traveller ship scale - Today’s contribution to I Made It So I Might As Well Share It. Might be interesting or useful to someone else as well. A selection of some of the most icon...3 weeks ago
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New LotFP Books Out Now! - I keep forgetting this blog exists. So might as well give the latest news while I'm here! Nebulith, Altar of Madness, The Music of Ericha Zann, and th...
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Fantasy RPG Video Game Project - Long time, no blog! Life treated me poorly, and life treated me well. I went dark on YouTube and most certainly here due to the fact that, put simply, I...3 weeks ago
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[BLOG] News on the March! Episode X. - 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...
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To Be Too Practical is Madness (GLOG Class: Paladin) - Everyone, of course, has heard the tragic tale of Alonso Quixano, who was so unfortunately driven to madness and death by those ever-foolish "chivalric rom...3 weeks ago
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WFRP-like RPGs - The role-playing side of Warhammer Fantasy (WFRP) has seen a number of distinct editions over the decades. We've had everything from one-book-to-rule-the...4 weeks ago
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Mist part ways once more… - Keep an eye out for an expansion to The Broken Cog Cluster in Quoth the Raven #32. The mists will reveal all at the end of October.4 weeks ago
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GM Companion for Shadowdark - Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top ten....
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Ramanan Sivaranjan Awards for Excellence in Gaming 2025 - My friend Warren messaged me a few days ago. “Ram,” he said, “reminder to write the Rammies, Ennies are in 2 days.” Wait, what? The year zooms by and I’m...4 weeks ago
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Great article, and resource for my Chicago CoC setting - https://magazine.atavist.com/2025/the-talented-mr-sheridan-bruseaux-chicago-granady-assassination-thompson-capone4 weeks ago
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Angstone: A Magical Substance - I came up with this magical substance for one of my homebrewed settings, and maybe you can use it in a game. Angstone Recipe: Every cubic yard of the s...
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TF2 Mercenary Generator - In this episode of "I thought I wrote this blogpost like 5 times over the past decade this blog has been around", I could have sworn I made this before. ...
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The Thing From Another World in Mothership - I don't think anyone has done this exactly, but I think it's time to do a series on adopting various famous monsters to the Mothership rules. Let's start...
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5 Tropes that Make Exciting Stories But Ruin D&D Games - Stories like those in movies and books thrive on setbacks. Everyone relishes a tale where disaster complicates the heroes’ predicament, leaving them facing...5 weeks ago
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Defiance Of Darkness Campaign Journal I - DEFIANCE OF DARKNESS SESSION 17/12/25 @ Mythic Games Santa Cruz Our Heroes:Sylvia, Half-Elf Female CLR-1 / RNG-1 (Brandon)Kale, Human Male MNK-1 (Brandon)T...5 weeks ago
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The First Dungeon Crawl in History - Mapping a Lost Session Report, Part II - Today detailed reports from game sessions are common. Until recently, some of the oldest I knew of were to be found in Alarums & Excursions, but only ra...
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Filling in the OD&D Gaps: Another Take on Initiative - As I mentioned in my last post, I've scrapped the OD&D/Chainmail hybrid I was working on, and I'm filling in the OD&D gaps with my own rules. To be hone...5 weeks ago
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Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight - There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons & Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in a ...5 weeks ago
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52 Pages at Canterbury (UK) Gaming Con - For my followers who can easily get to Canterbury in the southern UK on August 8-10, the local game shop is hosting a convention on the University of Ke...5 weeks ago
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I Did a Thing for a Heartseeker Game Jam (And Also Am Still Alive)! - Oh, hey. I kind of vanished for a few months there, didn't I? I didn't plan on that, and had a few things lined up, but I guess somewhere between the ne...
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ONE HUNDREDTH POST ON SAVE VS WORM !!!!!!!! - This is the *100th POST on SAVE vs. WORM !!!!* (I've been holding off on posting anything else until I make this post so that the timing works out exact...
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Class: Gnome - Gnomes are an artificial race created by Dark Lady Ta-tiki-tekh-uata, the Witch Mother, to serve as her attendants, spies and enforcers. Some sources sugge...
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Barrier March, Session 124 (Back to the Redoubt) - On July 31st, having offloaded the treasures from their last visit to the the redoubt of Kalibad the Theurgist, the adventurers at Wetdell calling themselv...5 weeks ago
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Alma Mater / OSR Mash-Up - I recently ran a one-shot games day for a group of friends I rarely get to game with in person anymore. After a friend’s initial suggestion I’ve been think...5 weeks ago
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Farsight Games - hold, please - Hi - This Farsight Games page is on hold at the moment while I decide what to do with it. There's more than 15 years of stuff on here so I don't want to...1 month ago
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Dungeon Crawling Basics: How does combat work? - This is how the order of combat actions is explained in D&D, Labyrinth Lord, and similar games: In practice, this means an intense action scene. Here’s an ...
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Flatiron Building Map as Dungeon Level - Turned a map from the Flatiron Building in a single-level dungeon with 30 rooms (so I could add a d30 table or two to go with it—to come in a future pos...
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Quietly reading and playing - One of the joys of having no posting schedule and, let’s be honest, a very small audience, is that I don’t feel any pressure to post. Usually when Yore is ...1 month ago
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My Little Slice of the OTU - I think I found my new favorite Official Traveller Universe (OTU) "milieu": the *Galaxiad*. Situated in 1902 Imperial (the 7th millennium CE!) and relate...
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Ashes Without Number!! - Happy I backed the latest Kevin Crawford release: Ashes Without Number! Those who have followed my blog for a while know that I am a big fan...1 month ago
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Musis Needs to Find His Friend, or another adventure by my daughter - Yesterday my ten year old daughter started writing in a notebook all of a sudden. When I asked her what she did, she just said: "I'm writing a role playi...
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Musing on Superman - The new Superman movie is coming out, and given some of the hullbaloo surrounding it, I thought I’d give my two cents about one of my favorite comic book...
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Undead and a construct for Frostgrave - I've got some games of Frostgrave scheduled for the later summer and autumn. We also has a domestic run-through of the second-edition rules on Saturday...
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[Actual Play] The World of Tomorrow, Session 3: Exploring Cryopolis - We continued our science fantasy game. Session 1 was a dungeon crawl, session 2 was a trek through the wilderness, so it is only fair for session 3 to co...
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Bayou of Feathers 6: What’s Where? - Earlier this week, I whipped out Atelier Clandestin‘s Sandbox Generator and went hex-by-hex to determine the main feature in each hex. (Nota Bene: That pro...2 months ago
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The AD&D Experience Point System - *Roger Moore battles to the death with the AD&D XP calculation rules, Dragon #89* *Update 20 July 2025 to fix va...
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Curse of Strahd Campaign (ShadowDark) - Mid-Campaign Update - Our ShadowDark-based *Curse of Strahd* (COS) campaign ("Holiday in Barovia") has been motoring along at a fine pace. We're very consistent, playing mos...2 months ago
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A Wraithblade to Bind a Murderer’s Soul - Wraiths are the restless souls of brutal murderers. They cannot find rest in death, and keep on tormenting the living, leaving behind a long trail of pain....2 months ago
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Shadowdark torch timer that lives in your URL bar - Oh boy, another bookmarklet. This one puts a timer in the URL bar, at the end of it, and counts down, then alerts you when torches are going out. Visu...
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Namesakes: A Setting (Part 1) - There are six Namesakes on The Continent. Namesakes are the physical titanic creatures that resemble animals and warp the land and societies around them....
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Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time - The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people have missed...
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Third-Party Support: Playing with a Full(er) Deck - The deck of many things was a classic staple of Dungeons & Dragons long before the d20 System was invented. With its random effects and oftentimes-severe c...2 months ago
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Unto The Cruel (campaign setting, GLOG classes, gamerunning musing) - This is information for a semi-successful, semi-abortive campaign I ran off and on for a handful of denizens of the double-concealed exclusive invite-onl...
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How I prep my games - Weird Writer suggested this as a topic/challenge for a post, and I think it’s a good idea, so here we go. Preparing a Campaign I’ve run three short (~a doz...2 months ago
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How (Not) To Play D&D 4th Edition in 2025 - In the last few months I really got excited about D&D 4th Edition again. I actually wrote a post about this a couple of weeks ago. After not having run any...2 months ago
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Ruined Tower of Zenopus Goes Mithral! - *Find it here* I haven't had much free time lately, hence the dearth of posts, but here's a quick update on *the Ruined Tower of Zenopus* 5E conversion...
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Roll Windows - These days I mostly post on my Substack, but I thought I’d share this one here. Three months ago I ran a poll over at Questing Beast looking how GMs actu...2 months ago
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Deep Space & Derelicts: Basic/Xenotech version, an idea for a game - here's a little idea for a game that's been floating around my head for a while. what if early D&D had been based around classic scifi rather than cl...2 months ago
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Worlds Funsome and Free: Understanding Open Role-Play Adventures - *The following is mainly available in various pdf and text formats on my itch.io page, but some folks also like having it available in blog form, so here t...
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A Second Summer LEGO RPG Jam! - Last summer, I invited everyone to participate in a Summer LEGO RPG Setting Jam. It was a lot of fun! And nineteen people created Lego-themed settings, adv...
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OSR: Spectacle Fighter - This is a new variant of my Fighting Man class. It is designed to be the anarchic sister to the Free-Form Wizard, to lend that same air of gleeful unpredi...3 months ago
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Brief Thoughts on Fantasy Monotheism - It had not been my intention to leave the blog fallow for almost six months after its five year anniversary. However, heading into my graduate degree, job ...3 months ago
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Getting Back in the (Worm’s) Saddle - Wow! So, it’s been… (checks notes) …12 years since I last posted here? That’s as many as four threes. And that’s terrible. During that time I was heavily i...3 months ago
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Beggars - One piece of feedback I got on Burgs & Bailiffs Trinity was that I gave clerics reasons to go on pilgrimages but not so much for other classes. The upcomin...3 months ago
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A new and improved OSRIC is on the way! Here's why that matters. - The long-awaited third version of OSRIC, the premier Advanced Dungeons & Dragons retro-clone game, is currently being crowdfunded by the fine folks at My...
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Observations on Onboarding - The few chances I had to crack open the dusty ol' tomes and partake in adventure gaming has been on the refereeing side of the table. Normally with some ...
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Pulp: Adventure Location: Trindade & Martim Vaz - History is fractally interesting. Start examine any event, or following any citation, and interesting facts emerge. But some places, for whatever reason,...
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Mydwanderings, Session 11 - Day 1, 3rd week of early spring, in the town of Bree. Beck and Lugan spend the day resting their wounds. Felix avails himself of the refreshments at the De...3 months ago
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Planet Karus – Session 31 - “Let’s return to that farmers’ guild hall, bullshit our way in, and continue to explore that dungeon underneath it” said my players at the start of this se...3 months ago
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The Mygnskerö Unleashed! - Out latest set of paper minis - The Attack of the Mygnskerö - three fearsome Fungoid invaders, alongside three craft working defenders, hand-drawn in old s...
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HOT OFF THE PRESS! - Time for a few high-powered updates from your humble interlocutor: *OSRIC 3.0 CROWDFUNDING* The original retroclone! Rising from the ashes of the OGL de...
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All Work and No D&D Makes Homer Something Something - I have a problem. I haven't played an RPG in about a year. Circumstances in my life are such that I have precious little free time. Now that I've written...3 months ago
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Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...
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Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
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NOT TODAY, ASTAROTH - Negative thought patterns, expectations, comparisons, self-doubt & self-criticism… You will overcome them eventually, so *any time or energy spent on the...
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I Want Magic Weapons to Matter - There’s part of me that wants to put monsters that can only be hit by +1, +2 or even +3 weapons back into the game. And you’re wondering, “Why do you hat...4 months ago
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THE WOUND LOGIC - THE WOUND LOGIC These are not commandments. They are fault lines. Pressure responses. Sacred malfunctions. Each one is a site of tension, and some are ...4 months ago
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Real History: The Nuragic Civilisation - A look at a Bronze Age civilisation that many people might not know about. The Nuragic civilisation of the island of Sardinia.
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Blogs on Tape season 6 has begun! - Hi everybody! Its been a minute. How are you? Everything is awful all the time? Horrors never cease? You’re being driven mad by the weight of the unfathoma...4 months ago
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Secluded Cloister - *For a PDF version of this adventure, click HERE* Regarding doors: • A door marked with the letter *S* is Secret. • A door marked with the letter *L* is ...
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Giants of the Middle West - When summer comes, and the heat hangs in the air, the giants appear low on the horizon matching ponderously from some distant sea. Chimes hang over man...
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Directions in an Empty Place - a d20 table of information sources in the trackless nowhere Hydramwt and Pele-Peq came upon a lonely crossroad. Behind, the Pianure of pale-blown weed and...4 months ago
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Chatbot and the Demiurge for Solo Play - I have been playing around with my solo protocols, the d6 demiurge ( https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/347048/the-d6-demiurge-protocols-for-solo-pl...5 months ago
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City of 100 Gods 4/10: The Last Ladders - These are the final wards of The Ladders, the City of a Hundred Gods' warren of slums lying beyond its perimeter walls. Movement through the district is ...
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February and March 2025 - Authorial Highlights No fiction was written, but I’m going to catch up this month! I already have some stuff outlined and ready to go. The Fantasy Trip...5 months ago
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Recent Illustration – Tomb of the Claw - acrylic on paper, March 2025 When I was working as a commercial photographer and grip, we would often use colored gels to color different light sources in ...5 months ago
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Trench Crusade Warband: Sisters of the Sable Geisslerlieder - So I have become absolutely *fixated* upon Trench Crusade. Maybe it is the aesthetics, maybe it is the fact that I'm a huge WWI fan (Second Yrpes ...
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A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...5 months ago
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Happy St. Cuthbert's Day! - 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...
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Three Things Other Than the Things Previously Listed - Amphitheres Most people believe that amphitheres are a type of feathered dragon. This is incorrect; amphitheres and dragons are completely unrelated taxono...5 months ago
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The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
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Thoughts on conworld calendars - Yes, we’re still playing and yes, I have to get a lot of logs up. Those are as much for me to have a reference as anything else, and I feel lazy. But th...5 months ago
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The Ghastly Dragon Generator | Bespoke Dragons for the Ghastly Affair RPG - In the vein of the “Bespoke Boogeyman” post, here is a complete system of Generator Tables to create Dragons … Continue reading →5 months ago
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Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition, Year Two - Some years ago, I read through all of Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition. I covered the products from 1991 in a pair of posts and then kept up the posting...5 months ago
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.6 months ago
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Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...6 months ago
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Another Underclock - I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog post dropped. It's great! Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
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Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...6 months ago
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The New Game: Completed - With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
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Fisher-Price toy turned GRIMDARK ADMINISTRATUM BUILDING!!! (Thrift-Store Terrain for 40k) - So: this thing cost $10 at a local thrift store. No doubt it was an antique secretly worth 85 Gabzillion bucks. Who cares? I had far more grimdark purpo...
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Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...6 months ago
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Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...6 months ago
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Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
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Table This Discussion - Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on: Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure? 1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...6 months ago
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STILL ALIVE BITCHES - Well. Here we are again. It's been a while of sickness, needing a wheelchair, and being mostly bed-ridden. SO I do have time for games when I'm not too ...
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Digital Art Practice - So every winter, my brain goes haywire trying to get relief from the awful cold.I picked up a legit copy of Clip Studio Paint (I think it's like 55$) and ...
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Against 2d6 - The players from my Classic Traveller one-shot last week started asking whether there would be more adventures for those characters. I felt a certain un...6 months ago
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Appendix Probi of the OSSR - Sandbox, not Any Box Roll Tables, not Story Beats Rumors, not Hooks Character Progression, not Character Development Scenario Generation, not Plot W...6 months ago
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Nate Hack - Here's the basic idea for Nate Hack: Base rules are AD&D Ability scores, classes, advancement, spells, and experience gain are AD&D, except classes go ...7 months ago
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Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...7 months ago
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DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
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Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...7 months ago
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Reminder: We have MOVED! - Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be found...7 months ago
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Strange Days - 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...7 months ago
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??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.7 months ago
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Irkalla (Hex25 week one) - Oops! All big hexes. Hexmap and nice internal links via Alex Schroeder's Hex Describe. 01.02 01.03 01.04 02.01 02.02 02.03 02.04 03.01 03.02 03.03 03.04 0...7 months ago
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2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...7 months ago
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Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...8 months ago
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Dicey Tales: A Rock & Roll Fable - Wherein your humble scribe uses Dicey Tales (with a smattering of Barbarians of Lemuria, Everywhen, and other related games) to stat up the main cast of 19...8 months ago
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The Tarot of Pips - Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a secr...8 months ago
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Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...8 months ago
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Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement - Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement (I started thinking about this as a way to make XP awards in 5e come from all three “Pillars of Adventure” r...8 months ago
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Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...8 months ago
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Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...9 months ago
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Four facts a wizard might tell you - *Most of this is me trying to take this old post and rewrite it as in-world lore, but Fact #1 is an all-new idea.* *I.* Everyone knows that magic spells ...
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Oracles; or, letting a Surprising Future derail your Story and Confound the Players - *At last the ragged wanderers found themselves at the sacred grove. There they sought an audience with the Oracle of the Broken Stone, to ask the one qu...
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.9 months ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.9 months ago
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Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...9 months ago
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The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.9 months ago
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Keuntungan Memilih Situs Casino Online ALEXIS500 - Ada cukup banyak rekomendasi situs judi casino online ketika kita menjelajahi internet. Semua orang bebas memilih situs yang mana sesuai dengan kehendak ...11 months ago
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D100+ Terrible Trolls - Trolls come in many shapes and sizes but are united by a ravenous hunger, exceptional healing capacities, a dislike of thunder/bells/fire, and a tendency t...11 months ago
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Knave 2e Alternate Attributes - Sometimes, I'm exactly in the mood for the classic simplicity of defining characters entirely by D&D's six attributes, as Knave does. But sometimes, I want...
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Broke my Previous Wordpress Site, New Wordpress Site. - https://blog.gi7b.org/ slowly migrating to this blog. Whats so special about it: Now I can put all the pictures relevant to the Product in its page as part...1 year ago
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Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs - *More solo play with post background after the jump. Next time they should be at the tomb.* Vineyard’s Bounty, 8th Rising. On the Old South Road in the ...
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Delta Green #5 — Project Anthropocene / An Item of Mutual Interest - Part six of a series of reviews and notes on the scenarios I ran for my Delta Green group. Project Anthropocene (shotgun contest 2016, Ethan Cordray) tur...
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OBSCURE RPG – Free A4 character sheet - I recently made an A4 character sheet for the OBSCURE roleplaying game by Tommy Sunzenauer. If you feel like using it – download it here for free. What i...1 year ago
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Consequence - *Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina* This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed to create one *Apprentice* character, ...
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It's been a bit - Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and other st...1 year ago
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When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...
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Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding - I'm not a fan of Wizards of the Coast dragons. I don't really feel like this should be that controversial. The organization of dragons based on the colo...
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The Sun Lich - This is a campaign setting idea I've had for years but never got to use. Perhaps you can have fun with it? Edge of Darkness by Ben J Long ago, a wor...
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The Time Bandits - Six boisterous dwarves, who, until recently, were employed by the *Supreme Being* to fix holes in the space-time continuum. Then they had a brainstorm: W...
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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...
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Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...1 year ago
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Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
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Of Urbanity in Troika! - This was sparked by someone asking about Orbital Intelligence's crapland. which is about crappy suburbian.I jokingly call it a crappy suburb of Troika! (t...1 year ago
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On Play-Style - Welcome to the third post wherein I lay the groundwork for this blog's future direction. Today, I want to discuss the concept of *play-style* as it perta...1 year ago
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d66 Classless Kobolds Linktree (of sorts) - Hello! As of Summer this year, I have changed jobs to work as a middle- and high-school Humanities teacher for a classical Christian school. As such, I ...
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This Blog Has Moved! - The new blog: samsorensen.blot.im! Hello! This blog, Caput Caprae, is old and deprecated. If you're looking for the latest, freshest, hottest, coolest new...1 year ago
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Falkrest Abbey Review - Hello All – It has been quite some time since we talked. There was this little pandemic that happened, and life got all crazy. I played a hell of a lot o...
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...2 years ago
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I used 'Satan' to generate illustrations for someone's setting! - It is a known fact that Noism consider AI to be SATAN. I've got my own intensely mixed feelings on the matter, especially when it come to who control the...
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SORCERER (Afterword) - Hi there. I'm sure you, astute reader, have noticed that this blog isn't very active anymore. That's because I don't quite have the inspiration for it. N...
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D&D Risks, Evolution and Witchlight - Chris Perkins - I am continuing my somewhat exhaustive research of all things related to The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, as I've finished the guide to it (will be posted...
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Eberron for Savage Worlds Revised! - Eberron for Savage Worlds has been republished with updates and expanded content and is now available in print and PDF through DriveThruRPG.com!2 years ago
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There Were Dice - I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but I *was ...2 years ago
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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...
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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...
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Beneath the Cliffs - part 4 - This week, I've finished up two more sections of the Ruined Monastery of St Amruss. I wrote the last descriptions of the kitchen area and wrote up the th...2 years ago
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The Magic Ladder: A Tarot Card Map Generator (part one of three) - Part 1: The part where I go on for a bit I’ve written before about using tarot cards to generate dungeons and tarot cards to generate hexcraws. This tar...2 years ago
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...3 years ago
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Wild Dwarves (race-class for Old-School Essentials) - This is the first of a handful of race-classes I've made for my Wengemerlin campaign. Dwarves feature heavily within the first part of the setting, the H...3 years ago
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2e Character Sheet - One of the most popular posts on this site over the years has been the 2nd Edition AD&D character sheet I cooked up for our game in the early 90s. I cleane...3 years ago
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Knock! Issue 3 - Knock! Issue 3 Hey all! I'm a contributor to the OSR zine Knock! I wrote up 12 Sword Saint techniques specifically for your Fighter character! Click the ...3 years ago
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What’s in the Wizard’s Mug? - Mmmm smells good! Just a sip… 1d8 1- A potent shrinking potion. You are now swimming in the cup alongside a drenched wizard. 2- Hot Green Slime. That’s w...3 years ago
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Announcing: Book of Extinction - We're working with a good friend of ours, Lucas Zellers (@SparkOtter), to craft a new book that gives life to extinct animals through Dungeons and Dragons:...3 years ago
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Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...3 years ago
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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...
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My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!! - I hope everyone is well. I am very excited to be able to share a little game I have been working on for a while. 12v12 is a D12-based multi-genre RPG, an...
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Cultural Influences on early British Role-Playing Games - If you’re interested in early British tabletop role-playing games (particularly from the 1970s and ’80s), I recommend keeping an eye on the #BOSR (British ...4 years ago
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"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
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Short Shelf of Picks - Vol. III - Blood in the Roots This is a packed little half fold pamphlet. Evocative in a way that I appreciate. I am aware of Trollish Delver Games (Scott Malthous...
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The Visitor Royal Telepath - I have taken a little break from blogging to set up the Ravens Purge campaign for Forbidden Lands for my friends on Discord for a bit of a change of pace. ...
4 years ago -
The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
4 years ago -
Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...4 years ago
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Troubleshooting Detachments and Forts - I'm running custom Detachment rules which are a mash-up of *Into the Odd's* company rules and *Apocalypse World's* gang-sizes so that ship crews in my pi...
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A new beginning - I've been blogging here for a while now, but I think it's time to move on to a new blog with a new title. There's a lot of dragons and flagons and flago...4 years ago
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Context-Sensitive Encounter Tables - The goal of these encounter tables is to provide dynamic, context-dependent encounters with as little additional work as possible pushed onto the referee. ...4 years ago
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The Why of a Blog? - Because Writing Helps You Learn Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing. — Erling Kagge, Walking: ...4 years ago
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New OSR Products at DTRPG — November 26th, 2020 - This is the first Thanksgiving in years that I have not worked. Kinda strange. Adventures A Misplaced Prince - Featuring "piranhakeets", which I thin...4 years ago
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In Search of OD&D Part 3: The Northern Shores of Tamerthya - In part 1 and part 2 of this search for OD&D, I asked the question: does my old friend Mike McDowell's 1992 game style, the one that has for years haunted ...
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City of Heroes / City of Villains roster - Mid September I’ve returned to a game I’ve played for a while a long time ago. At the time, I didn’t focus on the mechanics, or the story: I just wanted to...4 years ago
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Time Management and the Role of Caller - Last week was the first session of my Wednesday night Roll20/Discord group’s new B/X campaign (a continuation of a long-running AD&D campaign that went o...5 years ago
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Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#752005 years ago
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ボンズカジノの本人確認の方法 - ボンズカジノで本人確認する方法を解説します。本人確認が完了しないと出金することができません。また同時に入金不要＄40ボーナスも本人確認が完了したら、もらうことができます。では早速、本人確認していきましょう！右上のボタンをクリックです。プロフィールをクリック。メールアドレス認証は登録時に行ってますので、ここでは電話...5 years ago
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Owl Con Live Blog 2.2 - Who knew that in the bowels of the Humanities building... ...Professor Norm offered a course on the Caves of Chaos??? Meanwhile, behind the screen... And....
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Nightmoor Abbey Level 1 Saturday Night Specials - Using the Megadungeon - Random Area Name Generator, the area names from the Diablo games, and game reports from In Places Deep as inspiration below are the...5 years ago
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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 ...
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TV update - Sony doesn't rush with updates, this is Android 7 to 8. They have also changed their custom GUI. The 'Discover' button on the wheel which used to do not a ...5 years ago
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eXPerience - The following are some alternative ways I want to try out in my home LotFP game. I already use Session Attendance & Carousing but I want to try the othe...
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Session Report 2/21/2020: The Tower of Florymonde - *Oolong, a Troglodyte, the Tower, a charred corpse, a tiger beetle, the butler.* Persons mentioned in the text: - KYLE, a level 4 Halfling - GRACE,...
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Skalag's Secret Sight - Level: 3 School/sphere: Divination Range: Caster Components: V, S Duration: Inst. Casting Time: 1 minute Area of Effect: 10 foot radius Saving Throw: Yes (...5 years ago
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The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the...5 years ago
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Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD - My 2nd favorite incarnation, OSE, of my favorite D&D rule set, B/X. [My 1st favorite is Necrotic Gnome's previous, B/X Essentials, cause it was soft backe...
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Ptolus returning in new Kickstarter campaign - Sometimes, you spot an impressive gamebook on a friend’s shelf, and wish you could take it home with you because it’s out of print, and you’ll never get yo...5 years ago
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High INT Bonus - "Floating" Spell Slots - *Bonus Slots per Day* *INT 13-15 +1* *INT 16-17 +2* *INT 18 +3 * High INT Sorcerers gain “Floating” Spell Slot(s), each equivalent to One Spell Level. At...
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Four GLoG Houserules - *Four Houserules* *This is based on Skerple's hack of GLoG.* *1. Fleeing* To run from combat you need to roll under 8 + your amount of unoccupied item slot...
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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...
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Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019 - System: B/BX. Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) and Emily (Bagira.) *If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may reque...5 years ago
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Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life - CAUTION LANGUAGE! *After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR* Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started to suck and make it n...5 years ago
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Blank space and mechanical fluff - Perhaps my favorite part of any character sheet is the 'appearance' section, especially if it has an area for drawing a character portrait. People should b...5 years ago
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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...
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Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...5 years ago
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Prinny Dood! - Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to reincarnate...5 years ago
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More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
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Carwyn & The Revelthanes Of The Feywild - I - "ARGH!" - The cry of Carwyn was not of pleasure anymore, but it went unheard, absorbed by the densely misty night as if the Feywild itself would have want...5 years ago
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session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...5 years ago
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Finders Keepers - Background and Sources - Credit Konstantin Vavilov For the rules and character generator, see here. This is likely to be a long and boring post, go make some funky weirdos instead...5 years ago
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Winter's Daughter Play Report and Review - *"Delve into the **fairy-haunted **forest of **Dolmenwood"* *"The tomb of an ancient hero, lost in the tangled depths of the woods. A ring of standing ston...
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Graded success for roll-under d20 - This is a sort of half-baked add-on inspired by Call of Cthulhu 7e's graded difficulty system for roll-under d100 resolution. It assumes 3d6-based ability ...5 years ago
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Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...5 years ago
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Wednesday Map Strikes Back! (Dwarven Hill Fort) - Here’s a nice little dwarven hill fort for plundering, defending, assaulting, or for simply relaxing therein with a brew.5 years ago
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Garm Bays Loudly - I'm happy to announce the release of a new scenario for my old Norse magic trpg: Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave. Garm Bays Loudly focuses on a Norse ...
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In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
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The Nightmares Underneath 2nd Edition - I don’t use this blog much anymore, but since I don’t have a new website set up yet, I should announce this here: The second edition revision of The Nightm...5 years ago
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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...
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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...
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death stranding review'd: to love supply - *Snaps and buckles, backpacks and belts.* The game ends in a signature Kojima-annoying fashion; two hour cutscene including two separate credit rolls, th...
5 years ago -
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...
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Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
5 years ago -
The Howling Caverns (5e) - The hunched beast prowls the forest, sniffing at the still air. The roiling sky flashes and thunder breaks the silence. The time is near and the beast sens...5 years ago
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The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition - Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customiz...5 years ago
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Awlad-i-Dimagh (Child of the Mind): Troika Background - Axes + Orcs has been tirelessly diving into the Troika design space, creating oodles of backgrounds. He got me inspired to write this up and submit it to t...
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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...
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Wargaming Wednesday: We're Back (for the Motherland!) - Well...it's been a loooooong time since we've posted on the old blog. Too long, in fact. Something like almost three years since a serious post, not merel...
5 years ago -
Someone Has Been Here - It is rare that a group of adventurers are the first to have plumbed the depths of a perilous dungeon. Others have doubtless tried, possibly succeeded. Wic...
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Nuts & Bolts #161 - Gotta Get Away - *So, last week over on his blog Andrew posited some ideas for GMs looking into introduce a big bad and enable their escape from the players. (you'll wan...
5 years ago -
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...
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1 - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1: I am now an author for EN World with a monthly column. Six lead columns have been submitted to...5 years ago
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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...
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
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Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
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TFH&P Release Notification Signup - Dear Friends, This game is very near to completion, and there has been a flattering amount of interest in the game since the kickstarter campaign ended. So...6 years ago
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2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast - Vast The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races, classes, gen...6 years ago
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Knights and their Towers - Knight's towers were fortified self-standing buildings, several-stories high, most often erected on a plan similar to a square. They contained both livi...
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Echoes of Prohibition - Prohibition is a nearly forgotten time in Maryland history, despite the still-visible paint on the side of a Fell’s Point building urging residents to “Vot...6 years ago
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Elsai Overview - Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar scum—E...
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Tomb of the Serpent Kings: Session 1 - Finally got around to running a session using my in-development Yoon-Suin Lamentations of the Flame Princess hack. I decided on using Skerples' Tomb of the...6 years ago
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Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...6 years ago
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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...
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New Website! - Sorry I haven't been posting, have been adjusting to a new job and dealing with personal things. Now I get to show you one of the things I've been working...
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Friendly Advice: Finding Inspiration - This past week I spent my days in the verdant mountains of Pennsylvania near a small town called Bedford. It was a farm that went by Fort Royal where a mus...6 years ago
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Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...6 years ago
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100 curious thing for a setting. - As your genial host let me welcome to lovely "insert place holder name" world. It is a wonderful place to have a vacation during this part of the aeon. As ...6 years ago
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The Mythology of Moog - *Mythology of Moog* *The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...6 years ago
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Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other chara...
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FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
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Two Thieves - Jeff Easley's BECMI Thief I’ve recently decided to run an OD&D game. This, of course, brings with it the age-old question of which version of OD&D (3LBBs...
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STAR EAGLES: Reflections on Kickstarter Project Expectations - When Kickstarter launched a decade ago, on April 28th, 2009, it helped to create a new kind of business model that allowed businesses and individuals to ra...6 years ago
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James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...
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2017 and 2018 Anime - If you haven't watched the 1997 series of Berserk, do yourself a favour and check it out. The most 90's anime ever, from the grunge soundtrack to the ultra...
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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...
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Thoughts on (#1): Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition - I played Warhammer 1st edition for many years. I loved everything about it: the setting, the amazing artwork, the simple rules, the euro-renaissance look, ...
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Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talen...
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A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
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The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...6 years ago
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Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...6 years ago
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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...
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BACK AT IT AGAIN - OKAY………….. WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!? AGOOD QUESTION FOR ANSWERING BUT I WILL ONLY SAY THIS: THE MOVIE TRON IS A TRUE STROY AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TOO!! ANYW...6 years ago
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Removing Support from Zak Smith - [UPDATE February 14th, 2019: Zak has issued a statement responding here. I am not convinced to change my position below, but it introduces some doubt. I m...6 years ago
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Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
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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...
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Profane and Profound Prep Part 2 - This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release, along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a Saint 8000...6 years ago
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Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome DCC Conversion - *This is a DCC conversion for Jeff Call's excellent one-page dungeon Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome! Get it here: gelatinousdome.tumblr.com (direct link...
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SWADE Update! - The Adventure Edition Update for Accursed is now freely available for download from DriveThruRPG. This is just a bare-bones document, to help players who w...6 years ago
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Frightful Fridays! Opportunistic Griffons - Hello and welcome back to the first post of 2019. I hope the new year has started well for you. I'm making up for lost time with five monsters for you this...6 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.6 years ago
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...6 years ago
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Designing an OSR Game, Part Three: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests - This is part three in a series of posts about designing a new OSR game. You can find the previous two here: - Designing a new OSR game - Designin...
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...6 years ago
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Changes to the d20 mechanic to fit the Moldvay Basic style - This is Part 1 of an ongoing series - the introduction and table of contents can be found here. In order to bend the D&D Third Edition rules into the tiny ...6 years ago
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Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe! - I never did a lot of RPG stuff on Google+, for some reason the interface and spam I'd run into there just kept me from getting that into it. I was a bit sa...
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Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...6 years ago
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Worldbuilding Through Shops - 'Arms Dealer in Cairo' by Jean-Leon Gerome In the classic module B2: Keep on the Borderlands, Gary Gygax suggests allowing the players to begin interacti...
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Total Sales for WB:FMAG - Hi Folks, It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. *LULU* Print: 396 PDF: 433 *OBS*...6 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
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The Ergonomic 3 Mile Hex - So if my blog numbers are correct, everybody loves the six mile hex. It has the top number of posts with the most comments. All in all the 6 mile hex is ...6 years ago
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Make your own days - How about you make some backgrounds? Call it a competition. I'll send whichever one or ones makes me go "*fuck, I wish wrote that and now I have to conscio...7 years ago
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
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Ordinary Starting Item / “I Search the Body” Table (d00) - A table of one hundred starting items for character creation or searching bodies. Each item is worth 1d6 x 10gp to an appropriately interested person, and...
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Some musings about the complaints in Adventurers League - I have been away from blogging for a long time. I did not have much to say that I did not say on Facebook. However I recently started working on a D&D 5e...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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*.
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...7 years ago
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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...7 years ago
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Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...7 years ago
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Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...
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Vaults of Vyzor: Post-species Integration and Education Society - *The Vaults of Vyzor is an on-going, epic, multi-player dungeoncrawl run by Jeff Rients of the Broodmother Skyfortress.* My character there is a lotfp spec...7 years ago
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On Absolute Evil - When Henry James wrote *The Turn of the Screw*, he was careful to leave the actions of the ghosts Quint and Jessel unspoken. Their relation to young Miles ...7 years ago
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Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...7 years ago
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How to Make Goon Master Character in Macchiato Monsters - [image: http://chaudronchromatique.blogspot.ie/2014/10/goblin-enchantress-with-shaman-and.html] *Some time ago,+Samuel Guillon's character managed to convi...
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2018: I Yam What I Yam And I Don't Give A Damn - Time for another year-end beatdown.Time to roll another one out. This past holiday season I resolved to be more mellow than previous years, which I met w...
7 years ago -
DUNGEON#3:TOTALT JAVLA MORKER - PDF here It's a simple 13 room dungeon I've ran for new players to figure out how OSR is played. The dungeon can be easily adapted for your purposes b...
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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...
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Random Encounters Shaping Campaign Choices: Emergent Story - This is what you get when you open your game up and have no expectations; what happens when you present a problem to the player characters that can’t be ...
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Numenera - The Devil's Spine - Session 12 - Once Upon a Time in the Ninth World Welcome to our group's campaign log for *The Devil's Spine*, a mega-adventure by +Monte Cook for the *Numenera* cam...
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Behold Beyond Dread Portals now has a cover! - Our upcoming release of Paul Mitchener's Dimension Hopping Fantasy Adventure game, Beyond Dread Portals, now has a cover courtesy of Jon Hodgson. Continue ...7 years ago
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10 More Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios - Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC Funnel b...
7 years ago -
Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
7 years ago -
Here Be Monsters 4: Out of the Primal World voting booth - The Top 5 have been revealed and now it's time to vote for your favorite monster! For those who need one last look to make their decision, the finalists...
7 years ago -
Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far - Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in *Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about it. Fi...7 years ago
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Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
7 years ago -
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...
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Goblins of Mount Shadow - a low-level adventure for C&C - Next Sunday, I run the Castles & Crusades adventure: *Goblins of Mount Shadow *for my new roleplaying group :) While the basic plot isn't too bad, there ...
8 years ago -
Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...8 years ago
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(Video) Game Review: Crawl - So my gaming group all hang out together and one of us had this new video game, Crawl from Powerhoof We got so distracted we didn't even play out sched...
8 years ago -
Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
8 years ago -
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
8 years ago -
A Book Review: Jean Lafitte, The Pirate Who Saved America - As a cousin of Jean Lafitte, I'm always interested in publications that detail his life and I thought I might find this book interesting. Alas, neither the...
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Moving Day! - I’ve decided to start blogging on Blogger. I’ve written a more detailed post over there. For now everything I have previously written will be archived here...8 years ago
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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...
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It's hard to do horror in D&D - I love the Ravenloft setting, but I have to admit that it is really hard to pull off horror games with Dungeons & Dragons. The biggest issue is clerics. Th...8 years ago
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New Adventure for AZ on the Way - So, Adventure Locale #1: White Star Trailer Park is coming soon! It's a location based adventure for my zombie apocalypse game, AZ: After Zombies. When it'...8 years ago
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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...
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And thus, the Gibbering Gamer passes into obscurity... - I mentioned a while ago that I was probably going to get rid of this blog. Turns out, I'm not a very good blogger. The "identity" never stuck, probably b...8 years ago
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[Patreon] Dwarven Stronghold + Bandits + Wizard Tower of Toerd + Alia(k) of Wizard Tower - Thanks to my Patrons, here is new content for you to enjoy! If you like stuff like this, you can support me to create more, and more, and more! *DWARVEN S...8 years ago
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The King Arthur Pendragon RPG is free to download - Hop on over to the nice people at DriveThruRPG and you’ll find the classic 1st Edition of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG by Greg Stafford available as a fre...8 years ago
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[LPJ Design] Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super Powered by M&M Now available FOR FREE for a limited time!!! - Louis Porter Jr. Design, has released Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super-Powered by M&M at LPJDesign.com. Here is information on this product: In c...8 years ago
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I Missed the LL Box Set News - Now I know I’ve been out of the RPG circles for quite some time, but how did I not hear of a freakin’ *Labyrinth Lord BOX SET*…and when can I *get* one (m...
8 years ago -
Notes from the Nystul campaign - In pursuit of further knowledge of the Restenford realm, I was wandering around over at the Dragonsfoot Archives the other day and found this old issue of ...
8 years ago -
Daily Monster Art- Anhkheg - Again, I don`t think I`ve ever used these in a game.They are pretty gross gribbly beasts. Spitting acid and chomping and such. They kind of make me think...
8 years ago -
Mapping doors - Doors are driving me a bit batty. I should explain. Architecturally, one of the things old-school dungeon mapping has gotten right, I tend to think almost...8 years ago
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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 ...
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Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...8 years ago
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DM Lessons: Mea Culpa - I play a fairly house-ruled version of D&D 5e with lots of more old-school elements to it. One of the most noticeable elements is my Modified XP and Levell...8 years ago
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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...
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D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...9 years ago
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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...
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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...
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Dog Food Coupons and Promo Codes - Over the years it seems as if Pet Food have been get more expensive. There has definitely been an increase in people looking for Dog Food Coupons, probably...9 years ago
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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...
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The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...9 years ago
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More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...9 years ago
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House Rule Updates for my OD&D Game - Back in February, I presented my players with some updates to my house rules. I handed them a paper at the start of a session and asked everyone to read ...9 years ago
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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...
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Delicious, exploratory campaigns in Mythosa by Bruce Gulke - Mythosa is a system agnostic game setting with a consistency and depth that comes with years of honing. It has recently made the welcome transition from w...
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Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...9 years ago
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Two years before the dice. - * GROGNARD SPEAKS TO YOU !!!* So, I've been gone for a while, and while it's traditional to make...
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In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen...9 years ago
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[DIY] Faux-parchment - Have you ever thought about doing old looking paper for fancy handouts or for kids’ scavenger hunts, for example, but felt like its too much work? Me too! ...9 years ago
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The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...9 years ago
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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...
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The Horus Supremacy - *It is the 41st Millenium. For ten thousand years, the Emperor has led his grear war-fleets from the Silver Throne of Luna. He is the master of mankind by...9 years ago
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In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers - [image: B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland] B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland In a classic D&D adventure, characters in search of adventur...9 years ago
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A Hi-Res Copy of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Map - Thanks to Extra Life, this hi-res version of the map from SCAG has been posted online and I thought I might share it here for convenience. While I like t...
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Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...9 years ago
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Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
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MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS - IN THE WOODS In The Woods is a Monsterparts adventure. The PDF is for sale here. It has all the rules you'll need to run the game. Is designed to make ...
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Poker Tables For Sale - Last night, March 15, on an all new "Comic Book Men" on AMC, "Star Wars" actor Billy Dee Williams of The Stash with the rest of the crew and they take a ...9 years ago
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A new rpg blog - https://ropeblogi.wordpress.com/ This one is old and feels cluttered. Rather than try resurrecting this I decided to start a new rpg blog. Some content is ...10 years ago
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Current Portfolio - If you’re looking my current portfolio, please head over to www.chrishuth.com. If you’re looking for gaming-related writing or updates on some other gaming...10 years ago
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Back from the Dead! - Yet Again! - I have never stopped playing RPGs but I have been extremely slack about updating this blog. No posts for over three years? Uggh... I am running a campaign ...10 years ago
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Giant squid + giant squid - So much is happening that it's hard to write about any of it. My drafts folder is littered with abandoned proto-ideas, each dropped when the next came into...10 years ago
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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...
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Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...10 years ago
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setetes info - http://goo.gl/H4qGNi http://goo.gl/zzWiKL http://goo.gl/39DUWK http://goo.gl/UCWyHF http://goo.gl/oBN1OG http://goo.gl/4pboks http://goo.gl/kYn86p http://g...10 years ago
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Fin. With an update - *Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge life project come upon me, it was time to put my energy into something else. I ...10 years ago
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Episode 30: The Conclusion - ‘The Conclusion’ is the 30th episode of a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG actual play podcast. Additional information can be found at http://irontavern.com/po...10 years ago
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Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land - This is pretty accurate... http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw *CATEGORY* Adventure *WHAT* The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...10 years ago
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Exploring the BigDungeon - I haven't been making much use of this blog lately. Plans come and go. I've been playing with programming some of my own tools lately as I mentioned a whil...10 years ago
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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 ...
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New supplement plus thinking out loud. - Go get it Tons of options for your characters and scenarios in FiveCore games. Balancing on ledges, pick pocketing and taming wild animals, we got you cove...10 years ago
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TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You! - [image: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137077/TrollsZine-8?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2238] *TrollsZine!* #8 is waiting for you! The eighth issue o...
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Fiction: A Disruption - *Another fiction post everyone. Same character as before.* I lay on the chaise in my long formal dress I wore to a few events in the late '20s. I have no...11 years ago
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New Campaign 2014 Update - We've been playing 11 session now into the new campaign. The players had some hairy encounters with Proud, Spider-eye Goblins and Quill Wolves (along with ...11 years ago
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Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...11 years ago
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Support My Friend's Patreon Page Cause He's Awesome - Hey guys, if you like supporting independent artists / musicians and creative types then please check out my friend Mike TV of the band Get Set Go's Patreo...11 years ago
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Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e) - Figure out the point buy value of your character for the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition role playing game with this calculator. STR 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...11 years ago
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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...
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North Texas RPG Con 2014 Lineup - Well it's time for the 6th Annual North Texas RPG Convention! The NTRPG Con focuses on old-school Dungeons & Dragons gaming (mainly OD&D, 1E, 2E, or Bas...
11 years ago -
Prepping for Success - Last week, I wrote about working with success. By leaning into the players' success, you make your campaign more engaging and exciting. When you put your g...11 years ago
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Happy New Year! - First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Mine was okay, and I'm kind of glad it's all finally over. T...11 years ago
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Still alive and more useless crap - I wonder if anyone still reads this blog. Anyway, things have been changing at the speed of light in the last few months so I feel like a little update is ...11 years ago
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[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
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Check It Out... - And speaking of building new worlds...I've been a regular reader of Rob Conley's Bat In the Attic blog for a while now. He's a dedicated gamer with an ext...11 years ago
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Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...11 years ago
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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...
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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. ...
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[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 ...
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Other than the vanished empires, ancient manuscripts, and armed rebellion, this post has nothing to do with gaming - Last month, this article showed up in The New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda . It describes how a team of librarians, archivist...12 years ago
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I should call this blog 2d6 h-town - Just got dungeon world.Liquid awesome on a stick. Waiting to play before making any final conclusions but this what I have been waiting for. I still dig me...12 years ago
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Palace of the Wind Sultan, Part 1 - Maps for Wednesday's heist game. 2 more maps coming tomorrow afternoon. *Outside* * Level 1* *Level 2-3*
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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...
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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...
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Charging Wands in Dungeons & Dragons - Looking through the rules in original D&D, wands and staves can apparently only be made by Wizards (Magic-Users of 11th level) or higher. It also says that...12 years ago
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The Wilderlands - Four Dwarves seeking adventure and excitement crawled from there hole into the grander world. There first two days away from the humble mines that there fo...12 years ago
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ACKS Half Value Spellcasting - The Strategic Review and 1E Ranger (I don't recall a Basic DND Ranger?) would gain spellcasting in later levels as both a Cleric and a Magic User (Druid an...
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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...
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Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
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Guest Post: Setting Out for the Lost City - Originally posted on Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog: Earlburt is my closest gaming friend, and has done more than any other person to help bring the games I’ve ...12 years ago
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New Website & Blog Live - Finally the pieces start to come together. The new website is up (not much on the front page to look at yet) and the blog is located on the second tab at t...12 years ago
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Rental Equipment As a Business Strategy - During stock tracking, you might normally want to sell off rarely used and even underused equipment. Turn these obligations into resources instead. Create ...13 years ago
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New Site - I won't be using my Livejournal much more, I'm afraid. All of my new blog posts can now be found at montecook.com. Hope to see you there! Thanks!13 years ago
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Gnomes, Svirfneblin and the family of illusionist trickster Wee Folk - Gnomes are the only demi-human race in 1e who can become illusionists. Gnomes are remarked as being cousins of the dwarfs, but just as equally, they appea...
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Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...13 years ago
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Significance of Beginning Child years Health care and Education - According to developing psycho therapist Jean Piaget, he indicates that the sense of kids is absolutely different from that of grownups. He considered tha...
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Review: John Carter - This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was announced some...13 years ago
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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...13 years ago
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Dark Dungeons has Moved! - Dark Dungeons is no longer alone. It now has a sister game – Darker Dungeons – and another one on the way. Because of this expansion, I’m moving from this ...13 years ago
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Review #14: Farman - Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, who has used Pervasive Games as material on his courses. He has published an academic rev...13 years ago
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Infinite Stars - Well, it’s here. I’m sorry but I haven’t gotten the time before now. http://www.burrowwolf.com/infinitestars/13 years ago
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Quick comic recommendations and reviews - There are a lot of really great comics out there and with the changes at Marvel & DC there is a lot to be excited about for comic book fans. Here are a few ...13 years ago
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Blog Has Moved ! - I have reboot and moved my blog. In all reality it is a new blog, but I will explain that shortly. The new address is: http://sylvaeon.blogspot.com/ The ...14 years ago
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Kingdoms of Kalamar Play Report: Session III - Mopping up Bandits - Last night's session went off well for the most part, though there was a disagreement as to the procedure for treasure division amongst the players. All sh...14 years ago
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Khurasan down! Suggest a 15mm force for me?? - Image (cc) revoincubus Just heard that Khurasan minis has closed down until the autumn ... so much for the Vespulids for our homebrew wargaming rules then...
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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...
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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...
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THAC© - *THAC0* is an acronym for "to-hit armor class zero" in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, published in 1989. It represents the minimum target numbe...
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Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...14 years ago
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Dungeon Magazine Indexes - So the other day I was thinking to myself about how it would be good to have the various Dungeon Adventures organized not only by level, but also by topic,...14 years ago
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New Blog - As promised, here's a link to my new blog. It's rather bare at the moment, but I'm planning to ramp up content over the next few weeks.14 years ago
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Finding My Way - As mentioned in my last post I will continue blogging and I'll expand the scope to include other facets to my life and interests. So it is with great pleas...14 years ago
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Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...14 years ago
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Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...14 years ago
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[LOCATIONS] Some of the City-States, Settlements and Ruins of Sumer and Akkad - Ur: (pop. c. 15,000) here dwells Nanna-Sin in his shrine E-kishnugal; ruled by the undying ensi Shulgi, who seeks by recording all things to become a god. ...14 years ago
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Pallas Cat - I am fascinated with the Pallas cat. If you notice, the pupil of their eyes are round, not slit-like other cats. Since it is Monday, here is a random beh...
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In the Land of Ooo - As a Dad I get to watch plenty of cartoons created for kids. I have been enjoying Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Marvelous Misadven...
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New Game and System - I've recently discovered Microlite20, a "stripped down" version of 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons. To give an idea, the core rules- including character creatio...15 years ago
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D&D was a Wargame - I have been giving this one some thought recently. I was first introduced to wargames, and it was only afterwards that I started into D&D. The concept of t...16 years ago
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This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Well folks, this is the very last post on this particular web address. Everything...16 years ago
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Sorry - just really tired of the whole OSR debate that's cropping up on too many of the blogs that I read every day (I've got 140+ on my blogroll and I read new posts every day - which helps to explain why I get very little done on MY blog...)
It happens every couple of months. Don't worry too much about it. Just keep your head down and keep doing what you're doing.
Yeah, I know - it just seems really...pointless this time. Yeah, I'll just keep plugging away...
Isn't it pointless just about every time? Just ignore it, and it'll all go away. With luck the people you like wont.
yeah - I'm glad some folks came back after the last broohahah (how the heck do you spell THAT?) - and, yeah, it's probably all pretty pointless...
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