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My Blog List
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The Scrapheap Starter Set - Pegs in Space - New challenge for 2025: Can you make an entire starter set style wargame box by raiding your leftover materials and spending as little as possible? That's ...
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Y2k/25 Jan 22 - Name: Ataziré (Formless, Nothing) / Formerly “Kas’marak of Wood and Waters” (Destined Child) Race:Human Class: Fighter Level Range: Experienced Stats: Pow...3 hours ago
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Review & Commentary On Baptism of Fire Rpg By Rpg Pundit From Mad Scribe Games - 'Baptism of Fire is an OSR RPG set in the dawn of the Polish monarchy in the early medieval period. It is a complete rulebook and setting. As a setting, i...5 hours ago
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Wednesday Action Log 01-22-25 - This week I’ve actually played some games. I played the demo for Heroes of Hammerwatch II. It was fine. I don’t know if it was just the demo, but there was...5 hours ago
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REPOST: Conan of Cross Plains - Janus must be very fond of writers, for so many were born this month: J.R.R. Tolkien, Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, Abraham Merritt and, today, Robe...
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Alexandrian Auxiliary – Questing Beast @ PAGE - Last weekend I attended the Philadelphia Area Gaming xpo (PAGE). While there, Questing Beast interviewed me and a bunch of other guests. You can check out ...6 hours ago
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Dice - So, I've been going to occupational therapy recently in hopes that it will help with the tremors in my hands, which sometimes make difficult things like...6 hours ago
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The Reward Economy - There’s an interesting statement in the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide. “The Game is Not An Economy”. It goes on: “The rules of the game aren’t intended to ...6 hours ago
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Tuesday Magic Item – Guardian’s Shield - The trumpets blew and Gollaon and Voddick shifted as the new prince marched in with his guards. Their armor glinted after a recent polishing, their tabards...6 hours ago
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OSR Christmas 2024 - Days 9 & 10 - Giving the Gifts - We got back from PAGE 2 Sunday afternoon, and both Rach and I escaped Con Crud: The Reckoning. Still, we had a bunch of catching up to do, so gifting th...
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Are we still using . . . (Felltower Rules) - Let's look at some rules we've used in the past but may or may not be using now. *Are we still using Trademark Move?* In a word, no. It's 1 point for a +...9 hours ago
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Lost Songs of the Nibelungs Part 2: Playtesting 2025 (Setting up a campaign) - *Hey, folks. How's things? It's 2025 now, and we can start making new promises to break them later this year. Fun times ahead, I'd say. Anyway. In this p...
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An Incomplete Theory of -Taurs - It is easy to 'grok' (sorry) centaurs. Half-human, half-horse, their behaviour and culture is obvious: they are souped-up raiders of the steppe - Scythia...11 hours ago
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Europa Rule the Waves - This is the thirteenth in a series of reviews looking at the evolution of Europa Universalis IV. See the previous reviews here: Europa Universalis IV: A Fa...14 hours ago
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On the Passing of Howard Andrew Jones - The news went out last week that Howard Andrew Jones passed away, having lost his short battle with cancer. I hadn’t made a post commenting on it yet becau...15 hours ago
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The Rival Academies (Part 2) - The Rival Academies (Part 2) Tuesday, January 21, 2025 The release of *Pathfinder Lost Omens Rival Academies* is fast approaching! You met the first thr...16 hours ago
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ASC Review: Foundry Ovens of the Bitter Paramore [sic] - *Foundry Ovens of the Bitter Paramore (Nick Alexander)* AD&D for PCs of 5th-7th level This one is gross. But whatever. *For my review criteria, you may che...18 hours ago
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On 1984 - * “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -1984*19 hours ago
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Character Creation Challenge: Queen Talason - [image: Queen Talason Character Sheet] Evil ruler? Sure why not. I have to admit this sheet jumped out at me for a number of reasons. First, it is a rare ev...
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d100 – From Whence Did This Monster Spawn? - Often when Referees seek out explanations for the many Foes and Fiends that can be found in the various manuals of Monsters at our disposal (or when mint...
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2025-01-21 Sabotage - 2025-01-21 Sabotage The OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual a short 20 page read. There’s a cleaned up version on Wikisource. It might help you make the rig...20 hours ago
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Seventh Sanctum: Vocabulary Files - Of the Seventh Sanctum files, the configuration files I described yesterday are the simplest. They were not, however, the first files I dove into. The seed...20 hours ago
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Celebrate GMs Interview: Chris Hayes - It's New Gamemaster Month! To celebrate, we're interviewing some new game masters in our Kobold Creates program. In this program, Kobold Press provides s...20 hours ago
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Is D&D Best When Corporate Isn’t Paying Attention? The Suits Are Paying Attention Now - D&D is best when its corporate owner isn’t paying attention. When I asked who deserved credit for that observation, it proved too widespread and too old to...21 hours ago
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A work-in-progress Elemental Color Wheel - I spend a fair amount of time...a lot more than anyone probably should, to be honest...thinking about elemental philosophies in games, beliefs, and esoteri...
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[SIGNAL BOOST] Neural Archive for SPRAWLGOONS - Let me boost the signal of a pal out there. If you have read my late articles, you know that I did some 3rd-Party-Publishing for SprawlGoons:Upgraded. Th...1 day ago
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Bookpost 18 - Previous installments found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10* , *11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 *Books of the South*, Glen Cook DNF / on hold I retur...1 day ago
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Not Out of the Woods Yet: Solo Play - Continuing the (mis)adventures of the villainous and egotistical Jorven Master of Beasts. Jorven continued to make poor rolls and get lost, he finally ...
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Campaign Journal: Trenches and Horses - Who's here? - Jax - Fulvus - Slick - Frederick - Rondel Where are they? Cobalt Lake. The party retrieved the broken lens from the tower ...
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Miskatonic Monday #333: Bride of the Wilds - 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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Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation - We burned through the global industrial-scale of fossil fuels faster than anticipated, the bodies of fresh water are shriveled corpses of their former glor...1 day ago
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[Review] AX4 Ruined City of Cyfandir (ACKS); Shades of Gondolin - [Adventure]AX4 Ruined City of Cyfandir (2018)Simon Forster & Alex Macris Lvl 5-7 Another AX adventure, this time advancing into the mid-level range and des...1 day ago
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kirbsday: reprise - By Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, published December 20, 1940. This is the official position of the Mule.1 day ago
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The Treasure Room in the Goblin Warrens - The Grak’Thar Clan of goblins are the current residents of these twisting and looping caves tucked deep beneath the roots … Continue reading →1 day ago
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[New Spell] Repeller of the Dead - Repeller of the Dead ‘Throw the stone down the corridor behind you as soon as you can after casting your spell,’ urged Nuli to Arakam.‘What?’ the wizard re...1 day ago
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Caves of Chaos: Heading West! - Session 7 was played on 9/19 Io the thief Theiss of Gond, cleric After returning to the keep, the party brings the bodies of their fallen to the chapel...1 day ago
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Dungeon 25: week 3 - A weird water level this week. In play, I feel the waterholder would be a blast.
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Freeport 2025 Campaign - I am pleased to start the new year with a new home campaign, playing Pathfinder 1E in the Freeport setting! -Nate *Freeport 2025 Campaign Notes* *The...1 day ago
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Trade In Fantasy Ch. 3: Routine Personnel, Pt 4 - The last installment of the third Chapter of the series looks as worker productivity and how race and other factors influence it. It’s been an interesting ...1 day ago
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Music Monday - Peg Leg Silly-Billy - This collaboration between Patty Gurdy and Alestorm's Christopher Bowes is some nautical fun. Listening to it reminded me of how much I want to run Secret ...
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The Final Voyage of Draengr Thar - By J.C. Conners1Shot Adventures BlogOSR/5e/GURPS/Cthulhu Dark AgesLevels 3-5 […] Drængr survived the initial attack and ordered his men to barricade the lo...1 day ago
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Crunch and Complexity - Last week, consideration of the new *HârnMaster: Roleplaying in the World of Kèthîra* and a blog post I came across in defense of heavy rules sets got m...
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Bathtub Review: The Iron Coral - 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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Rolling Lots of D20s? Assume One Quarter Succeeds - When you need to adjudicate a whole bunch of checks — say rolling two dozen saving throws for a bunch of skeletons hit with Turn Undead — simplify the situ...2 days ago
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NIGHTWICK ABBEY: The Purple Eater of People Session 106 - *I'm giving a bit shorter report these days for Nightwick in an effort to make them more timely. If these horrid halls of **Nightwick Abbey** call to ...
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Castle Dranzig and Eisengraz - Two potential adventure locations in the Karthax Mountains. This entry details a fortress, and the darkness within, inspired by Gilles de Rais and an en...
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Setting: The Seven Masks of the Wondersmith - *The Wondersmith is an enigmatic figure in Outer World's mythology. A protege of the Creator who was present for the forging of Promise, it was their han...2 days ago
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FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps - [image: FGM Review: How to Draw Fantasy Art & RPG Maps] I've had my eye on this one book for a while now and I was hesitant to pick up *How to Draw Fantas...
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Blogging the Silmarillion--all parts linked - I've finished uploading all my prior Blogging the Silmarillion posts. In hindsight I feel like I wrote as many words as *The Silmarillion* itself. Hopefull...2 days ago
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Check out this fashionable fellow. - I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it was p...
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Magic Hexcrawls - Magic: the Gathering is fertile ground for hexcrawl generation. Grab a Commander deck. If you know what MtG is, you either have one or you have strong ...
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Sketchbook vs. Sketchbook - Articka vs. Vanrtto = Articka wins. I picked up a Vanrtto square hardback sketchbook. I thought it would be BETTER than that Articka, which I love. This f...
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Shadowdark at Philly Area Gaming Expo - I ran 3 games of Shadowdark at *Philly Area Games Expo* (PAGE), a convention that seems to be gaining some traction in the area here in it's second year...
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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...2 days ago
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ON SALE - Cyber Streets: Rules Light Future Noir Roleplaying - *ON SALE - Cyber Streets: Rules Light Future Noir Roleplaying* A rules-light #rpg of story and narrative, so groups can focus more on the game and less on...
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Is Star Frontiers Mimimalist? Is it Lite? - What exactly defines a minimalist game is subjective, as is what makes a game "lite." Some people go by page count, with 1-page RPGs the epitome of minim...2 days ago
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Session 4 write-up for Rough Nights & Hard Days Campaign - MORRSLEIB'S SHADOW, THE LAST WALK2 days ago
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d100 Hex Crawl Landmarks for Chagrinspire - *Just stuff to add detail to a hex and are places to use and landmarks or avoidedd12 Landmark Additions*1 Garbage mounds 2 Road or rail or garbage-fille...
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Rhyming Boxed Text - Remember when Homer fought the giant spider? Some people hate boxed text, and others find it useful (I met one of my players when they reached out to comp...
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Playing with Classic Traveller Book 1 Chargen - Spent some time this morning generating characters from CT Book 1, intending to use them as pregens for a game in the office. The inability to follow up ...3 days ago
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Magic Item inflation in AD&D - Modern D&D is sometimes accused of turning PCs' into "superheroes". I have been accused of similar transgressions for daring to add feats to my OSR games....3 days ago
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Your Gummi Doom Draws Nigh! - The Borderlands My The Borderlands campaign continues, as does the growth of the campaign’s Scabard site. Middangeard I’ve made more progress on my homage ...3 days ago
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Working Class D&D - Like it says on the side bar, I ain’t no scholar and I ain’t no academic. I don’t care about your English Lit essay nor your socio-economic manifesto. I ju...3 days ago
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Chaos Goblins - VotE Remastered Development - Anarchists of the infinite dark. Chaotic where nothing so uncertain should be able to survive. By chance alone they thrive, by chance they die Russ Nichols...
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Random Generation: Fighter - Random Generation: FighterIn one of my previous posts, I boldly declared that I'm going to make random "class"-based character generation tables. But as al...3 days ago
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Domicile Beyond the Caves - [image: Archway in the Balkan Mountains, Thomas Allom] For a PDF version of this adventure, click HERE. *Regarding doors:* • A door marked with the lett...
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Requiescat in Pace, Howard Andrew Jones - I wish I could've started the new year on a happier tone. Howard Andrew Jones was an author whose work exemplified everything this blog was made to exto...
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Teori-inblick #197 - - Lower secondary school students’ conversations when constructing representations of plate boundaries in Minecraft av Julie Guttormsen viser ...4 days ago
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Art by Nohr - [image: Screenshot from G+] G+ died in slow motion. There were redesigns people hated. Tweaks and changes throughout its life, as Google tried to make it...4 days ago
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Barrier March, Session 107 (Looting Anturous) - On July 11th, the Dragon Hall team is finally back from their various affairs in the area, including Mel and his followers getting the first profits from t...4 days ago
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Waiting to Exist - What is this little underground complex? A basement. A dungeon of some sorts? Maybe a resupply station? Or a prison? Maybe. Maybe all of them. It's a pl...
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Top Ten Anticipated RPGs for 2025 - EN World does this every year and I usually try to comment on them. I'm running a little late but I thought it was worth bringing up. The list and dis...
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Cabinet of Curiosities (I wrote a module!) - I wrote an 87-page module and it is for sale! (CLICK HERE to check it out on DriveThruRpg) WHAT THIS MODULE HAS: - Two urban heist adventures (*Cabinet ...4 days ago
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Frightful Fridays! Looze - Hello and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! I’m back with a biweekly ooze, and I went with one that can steal stuff from the PCs. This necessitat...4 days ago
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Choosing sides in a devil-folk/vampire brawl in Ioun City. - tl;dr: The gang takes sides in a barfight between Jonas the vampire's posse and a newly-arrived-in-Ioun City Tiefling cartel.
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Review: Sanguine by Found Familiar Coffee - Once upon a time I was a professional coffee taster. This is what I thought of Sanguine, one of Found Familiar's darker roasts.
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In the Ashes - *In The Ashes *is a solo roleplaying gamebook written by Pablo Aguilera and published by Devir. Pablo was kind enough to send me a couple of copies. It's...
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Chaosium 50 Year Anniversary (1975-2025) - This is not just the 50 year anniversary of the Blackmoor Supplement and with that, Blackmoor in its published form. This also marks the 50th Anniversar...
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Building a Grounded Sept (Lanthanide Horizon) - Player characters in the upcoming Navigator hexcrawl campaign start "grounded" - their sept-vessel shattered and their clan left to scrape out a life pin...
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Even Heroes Bleed is Back on the Air - I mean, the Vanishing Tower house game has been going steady. We are live streaming the session. But it has been a year since I downloaded a recorded s...
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A Tale from the Infiniwastes (freeform faction game) - *These were the rules: * - It's infinigrad, but a wasteland/wilds. - Players control a band of sentients within said Infiniwastes. - I resolve o...5 days ago
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Kickstarter: White Box Cyclopedia - James M. Spahn is currently raising money on Kickstarter for White Box: Cyclopedia, which could easily be THE definitive book if you are into fantasy rolep...6 days ago
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SPAWN OF ANCIENT EVIL - SPAWN OF ANCIENT EVIL "The structure was festooned and enwrapped by wriggling, climbing shapes, none of which he could see in their entirety, for they we...
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Alien Biomass Severity Warning System - You ever have a dream where you get so mad at the sheer incompetence or stupidity on display that you halfway wake up and think about ways to fix it? I j...
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Gnomecast 204 – Running vs. Playing - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CG_204_runningVSplaying_finalV01.mp3 Join Ang, JT, and guest Alex Thomas as they talk about the difference ...6 days ago
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Ridiculous Random Results - Disappointing Treasure - Another random table from my latest release. Roll 1d20 and enjoy your disappointment: 1. Chest full of candies shaped like coins 2. Pouch full wit...
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Greyhawkery Comics: Tasha Cauldron #7 - Welcome back readers! Well, his was bound to happen folks. *Tasha the Witch* has a very long if not confusing history in *D&D*. I for one celebrate the m...
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And Death Appeared To Endorse Us (Dungeon Adventure) - wow it's been a while, huh Here's the dungeon I wrote these rules to test. If I had infinite ability, I'd like to trim down the verbose room descriptions...1 week ago
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The Intent of Supernatural Attacks in O.G.R.E.S. - Supernatural Attacks in O.G.R.E.S. *Art by Bradley K. McDevitt. Used under license.* Some questions have come up recently (even in my own gaming group...1 week ago
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5e Lingering Injuries - In my *D&D 5e* game, I have replaced massive damage with lingering injuries, but I have never posted the rules. There were a few design considerations when...
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Monster, Maiden, Madonna, Medusa - The medusa is a cool monster that was the victim of TSR’s honeypot encounter design like so many other female-coded monsters. A close reading of woman mons...1 week ago
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Skorne v2.1 Update - Then play begins. The renegades awaken in the ruins of a village, surrounded by smoke, fire, and the dead. One of Skorne’s warbands has already come and go...
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My Holiday in Outer Space: Cepheus Engine and Mongoose Traveller - Is is January 12 already?! 2025 has been absolutely crazy for me, readers! And not necessarily in a good way. I haven't had much time for hobbies since m...
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Navigating the City of a Hundred Gods—Another Approach to the City - In ancient times a man named Patrick Stuart shared a post about wrapping a dungeon around a die to create a non-Euclidean adventure site: http://falsemac...
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Atavist or ancestor? - Here's a wee conversion I did a few years ago - just got round to finishing off the paintwork. I'll probably make a few more of these: enough for a...
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Megadungeons & Hello Neighbor - Hello Dear Readers! I’ve wanted to bloviate for a few minutes on the #dungeon23 “thing” (or is it #megadungeon23?) for some time but, thanks to the OGL deb...1 week ago
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OSR: Empusai: Shapeshifting Sexual Predators - by Papaya-Style Number Appearing: 1 Alignment: Chaotic Evil Languages: lingua Franca plus Crime-Speak (a secret language known only by criminals) Treasure:...1 week ago
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My Life in Roleplaying Games: 2024 and 2025 - As we head into 2025, here are some brief reflections on my role-playing activities in the recent past and near future. I've been really enjoying running ...
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Review: What Lies Beneath - *Disclaimer: **I was provided a review copy of the game. Also, some of the links below are affiliate links (meaning I get a small percentage of the sale ...
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Arcane thoughts… - Or, as is the case, thoughts about Arcane, two thoughts, or, I suppose, three thoughts. One, an interesting depiction of mental illness and the effects of ...1 week ago
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"Our Plague Marines are Different" -- a heavily converted warband grows... - Here is the core of a "Plague Marine" warband -- just some of the Chaos forces I've been working on lately for games in the 40k setting. EVERYTHING you s...
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Planet Karus – Session 27 - It’s the first session of 2025. We had four players at the table, a rare treat these days. They decided to finally try and get rid of a major threat loomin...1 week 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.1 week ago
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HeroQuest (and HeroQuest-Adjacent) - Some years ago, when I was making some dungeon tiles, a guy gave me these. They'd taken all the miniatures out, but apart from that they appear to be c...
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I Ran The Iron Coral! (Again) - Another day of delving one of my favorite dungeons. This time as a one on one with a friend, M (see also: the Fever Swamp session). I did next to no pre...
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My 2024 Bloggies Nominations - The 2024 Bloggie awards are here, and *DIY & dragons* is a finalist in two categories! *official BLOGGIES 2024 art ‘Blugtarp Blogeye and Weyman the Well-...
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Renegade Thoul Class for OSE Classic - Freak. Mutant. Abomination. *Thoul*. You've heard it all by now. It doesn't phase you anymore. You don't even bother snarkily correcting their pronunciat...
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Bringing In 2025 With "AD&D" - That is, AD&D, as in *Adventures Dark and Deep* by Joseph Bloch. Not new, just the newest form (originally three core books, now two.) One of the stalwar...
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Word Count - Some writers track word count to see how much work they’re getting done. I spend as much, if not more, time erasing things I’ve already written. And then *...1 week ago
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Short Fiction: The New Guy - T H E N E W G U Y "Mito," Arden adjusted himself to better take the weight of the standard flag pole of the Terran Exoplanet Survey. "I'm in the Airl...2 weeks ago
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The Bright Reality & The Third Eye - Imagine, if you will, a brighter reality. One where auras glow, souls shines, and magic winds blow ethereal sparkly motes across reality, energizing the co...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Unofficial D&D 2024 Style Guide (Your Capitalization Questions Answered!) - When I’m writing rules for D&D 2024, it annoys me not to have an official style guide. In its absence, I made my own style guide so I can quickly answer my...2 weeks ago
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Wildernesscrawl Notes: Fellowship of the Ring - I recently had the joy of listening to *Fellowship of the Ring* in audiobook format, and took the opportunity to take notes about the journey the charact...
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2024 Year in Review - Happy Holidays! It's funny writing this after having de-emphasized my presence here over the past year as I had intended. The thing is, having a blog is ...2 weeks ago
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Como Obter e Instalar um e-CPF ou e-CNPJ A3 no Ubuntu Linux em 2025 - Este post é completamente diferente do conteúdo usual do Octopus Carnival, mas obter a informação aqui foi tão complicado que eu me sinto compelido a dei...2 weeks ago
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Wolves Upon the Coast - Session Reports and Observations, part 2 - I've started playing in NBateman's Wolves Upon the Coast campaign being run from the Rainbow/Purple OSR Discord. I wrote another post already which ...
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Fragments of a Journey - I’ve got a new story + art post over on the substack. The time has come to begin culling and consolidating my different online presences. They simply take ...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Gary Con 2025 Games Scheduled! - *Gary Con XVII illustration by Chet Minton* In March I'm returning to *GARY CON*, now in its 17th year, and as has been typical for me the past few years...
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Word Play – Old monster New monster - I saw this post by Kyana and really liked the idea that changing something’s name a little can conjure up a whole new idea. I’m looking at it as sort of im...2 weeks ago
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[Lore 25] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP #3 - I made even further progress with my Lore25 challenge maps: a full Referee's map including Drill routes, and a Players' map with only the commonly-known ...
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Of ghouls and ghuls - I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to Advance...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Death Bat's 2025 Predictions - I honestly don't have too many for this year. I have a lot in my personal and professional life to worry about, and so paying attention to gaming trends...2 weeks ago
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Photo Parade 2024 - I’ve decided to participate in the annual Photo Parade (Fotoparade) on Michael’s blog Erkunde die Welt (Discover the World) again. My post from last year’s...
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Carpe Blogiem: 2024 – A Year In Review - Here are how things went for me in 2024: The Good (What I did well or that went well) My Patreon continues to grow and remains most of my monthly (steady...2 weeks ago
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The Future Starts Today! - Or some such thing. Happy 2025. My blog is 12 years old and I didn't manage to post once a month on here. I don't know what 2025 holds but I'm trying ...2 weeks ago
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Bat in the Attic Games and 2025 - Happy New Year Folks! This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening with me and my plans for the upcoming year. Personal I ...2 weeks ago
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Well of Future Skydropped Things - Somewhere in a forest, in the middle of a ring of mossy stones, there's a crudely built well, in which people have been dropping things for centuries. St...2 weeks ago
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On Unearthed Arcana and other 80s Atrocities - One fateful night in the summer of 1985 I made a momentous trip to the mall with a pocketful of cash from my first paycheck. Sure, I'd mowed lawns, washe...
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Returning to the Veins of the Earth - Patrick Stuart of the False Machine has announced a remastering of *Veins of the Earth*. I imagine most readers already know what this is; for those who ...3 weeks ago
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D&D Wokeness issues gets more and more media coverage - The whole wokeness invading D&D thing has been discussed on blogs and such for a good while, but it was when Elon Musk recently tweeted the possibilit...
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Tricube Tales sales figures for 2024 - I've previously posted the sales figures for *2019/2020/2021*, *2022*, and *2023*, and a few other indie designers have expressed an interest, so I thoug...
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Oldhammer T-Shirt - 2025 Edition Drop - As the wheel of time grinds ever onwards, it's time to unleash the Oldhammer 2025 Exclusive Edition t-shirt into the old world, and jettison the 2024 Editi...
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A Fiftieth Anniversary Year - The 50th anniversary year of *Dungeons & Dragons *is drawing to a close. A number of projects I'd been planning for this year finally came out, and I ...
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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...3 weeks ago
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Guest Stars - Star Wars Campaign 2025 - Since I set my campaign just after the Battle of Endor, I have many main characters from the movies and TV shows to guest star in the campaign. However, ...
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The Problem With D&D Magic - DnD magic is just fine, if you're playing in "D&D world". For any other world, it is a barrier to emulation. OSR TTRPGs with settings/genres different f...
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Omeyer, the Weenie Wizard - Photo Credit UnknownInspired by a post on Facebook: *Omeyer, the Weenie Wizard:* Init +2; Atk short sword +3 melee (1d6) or magic staff +3 melee (1d4+7) ...
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Two Hour Wargames Winter Sale on WGV. - Check it out! Wargame Vault - Winter Offensive Sale - The largest wargame download store3 weeks ago
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Embarking on a Foolish Endeavor - Over the second half of this year, I've started to get serious (and "full time") about finally polishing and publishing thinky-adventurey games, dungeons...
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Christ is Born! - He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows and w...
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"Ark Against Time" Submitted for DunDraCon #48 - [image: A colorful thing seems to be made of several elongated pods] (Ark of Time) *GM: Matt MorrisonType: RPGSystem: D&D/Arduin GrimoireEdition: 5...
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Falling Star - Hearts respond to myths we see Spring from our soul Amidst the din of history Glories of balder and pan That promise whole Our dreamings of that shining th...4 weeks ago
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And To All A Good Night - Grubb Street wishes you and yours a safe and happy Holiday Season. Rest on the Flight into Egypt by Luc Olivier Merson (1879), MFA, Boston.
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State of the Blog Year 6 - Thus have we reached the 6th anniversary of A Distant Chime! On to the reflections. *Content* I wrote only 13 posts this year, the same as 2022 and a b...4 weeks ago
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Slush Pile - All the cool bloggers are into slushposting. I think it was started by Dan over at Throne of Salt? He occasionally does this thing where he takes all the u...4 weeks ago
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Put your money where the mists are… - I forgot to post it here, but I did something about my complaints involving Hasbro yoinking my puppeteer parasite. I converted my 5E block back to 2E for F...4 weeks ago
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"No Holidays This Season!" - Secret Santicor(e/n) 2024 - Prompt from Errant Thinking was: *"No Holidays this Season!" a paperboy cries the headlines in the cold. The player characters found themselves snowed in...4 weeks ago
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Women in GIS Workshop - If you aren’t doing anything else on the allotted 2.5 hours of January 24, 2025, then consider tuning in to this Women in GIS workshop where I’ll share the...
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Return to Doodle Land - At last you can all visit the Doodle Land with Tunnel Goon or other whimsical adventure games! https://evlyn.itch.io/doodle-landHexagnome did wonderful wo...
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D&D Things I've Been Vibing With Lately - Despite a distinct lack of gaming in 2024, I've still been absorbing a lot of D&D-related material. Books, blogs, podcasts, videos on Youtube... there's a...5 weeks ago
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Entries are now being accepted for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum Prize - Entries are now being accepted for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum competition. This year, 50% of the weighting for the results will be due to judges and 50% of...5 weeks ago
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50 Years of Dungeons & Dragons -- Play! - And so, as others have mentioned, we come to the end of the first 50 years of *Dungeons & Dragons*. How to celebrate, you ask? Play. Play *Dungeons & ...5 weeks 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...5 weeks ago
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#TTRPG Tabletopless: EroTech Gazetteer 06 RELEASED! - You can buy it HERE. A gazetteer containing information and additional material around the Tabletopless EroTech adult gameworld and campaign. Legally disti...5 weeks 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...1 month 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...1 month ago
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Blue Sky Temple, Revised - Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky. It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed together. This week, I ...1 month ago
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The Reynardine - Reynardines are foxes cursed to go about the world in the manner of men, or perhaps men that are cursed to go about the world in the manner of foxes. The...
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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...1 month ago
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Who Made Blackmoor? A History of Setting Development - In a sense Blackmoor "grew like Topsy", that is to say wild and on its own. Perhaps the first iteration of anything we might call Blackmoor is the well-d...1 month ago
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10 new metal Darkmaster passions - Alright, so here's a bunch of examples Passions for Against the Darkmaster based on some of my favourite metal acts. "Burn too bright and you'll burn aw...1 month ago
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Play with gray - The other day I came across the phrase “play with gray” on Reddit, a reference to playing miniatures games without, or before, painting the minis. It immed...1 month ago
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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,...1 month ago
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STRANGE AEONS - NEW ORLEANS - Writing a set of pulp horror adventures based out of New Orleans, set in and around the Gulf of Mexico and the Deep South. Over at my new blog. You can f...
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With the Worms Down in Mexico (GLOG Class: Fighter) - * The Hydra’s head glinted in the afternoon light and replied; that I didn't have to try to destroy it. That some dark things may live in caves. That...
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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.2 months ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.2 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 ...2 months ago
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OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats - Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just want t...
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To Kill Frost Demons - *LINK TO DUNGEON* Blurb: *The Village's crops froze overnight. In Midsummer! Tax season mere weeks away, not to speak of the devastating hunger when co...2 months ago
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Death, Injury, and Retirement - I made a custom rulebook for my d&d game that's a mashup of AD&D 1e and Worlds Without Number, but I wasn't too excited about the death rules for either...2 months ago
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BRP Basic Roleplaying Allegiance System for the Gods of The Kingdoms of Kalamar - Hello again folks, Here is what I came up with for a Basic Roleplaying style Allegiance system for the gods in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting. I have...
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Leadership - I went on a walk with my son yesterday. He's on the last stages of his Eagle Scout rank requirements and he's been roped into a leadership position. This...2 months ago
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Imperium Maledictum Session 0 - Warhammer 40,000: Imperium Maledictum is the new Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game from Cubicle7. Unlike Cubicle7’s other Warhammer 40,000 RPG, Wrath & Glo...2 months ago
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The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.2 months ago
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Orcs! A High Octane Adventure for Hubris: A World of Visceral Adventure Now in Print on DriveThru! - That’s right! Orcs is finally on print on Drivethru! Summary Orcs is a high-octane adventure…2 months ago
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Real History: Lost Maya city with temple pyramids and plazas discovered in Mexico - Another day and another lost Mayan city has been discovered: “The larger of Valeriana’s two monumental precincts has all the hallmarks of a Classic Maya...2 months ago
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Thirteen Parsecs Books Ready to Ship - New pictures from Elf-in-Chief, Jason Vey. Palettes of Thirteen Parsecs books have arrived and shipping will be starting! [image: Palette of Thirteen Pa...
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Class Social Features - Unsatisfied with the number of class features in PF2e/5e that pertained to the social characteristics of each character class, I went and wrote a few. Th...2 months ago
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Welcome new Greyhawk Fans! - With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the Wor...2 months ago
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What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book - What “Should” Be in an RPG Design Book This is an unusual piece because I want to talk about what “should” be in an RPG design book. Somehow I once agai...3 months ago
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Undead Handmines - Undead Handmines A seasonal trap/encounter for yuor RPG campaigns. * Undead Handmines* A fields of earth, sand, or gravel concealing bound undead that...3 months ago
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An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
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Bespoke Bogeymen - The following is a template and set of Generator Tables to create unique humanoid monsters. While designed for the Ghastly … Continue reading →3 months ago
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Third-Party Support: Indigenous Fey - It took the fey quite some time to find their place in D&D. While stories of a “fairyland” or “realm of the fey” go back for centuries, D&D’s traditional G...3 months ago
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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 ...3 months ago
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Components in Play - Sometimes people talk about the RPGs they have been playing and it feels like their games and my games have absolutely nothing in common. It’s like trying ...3 months ago
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Into the Surf Dungeon....? - What is the Venn diagram between Surfing and Dungeons? and Surf Guitar and DungeonSynth?Is there one?I don't know, but I have a vast seaside cavern in my ...
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[Dungeon] Hole of the Goblin King - Buckle up and put on some Grieg, we are going on a trip to the Hall of the Mountain King! ...what? The DM blew all our money on novelty dice and now we can...
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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...3 months ago
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MAGA House of Horrors - This is a recent thing I did… the final image has a lot of text added and this is obviously for a political campaign… since the campaign has not launched y...3 months ago
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Star Frontiers: Volturnus Racial Abilities - [image: Ul-Mor in desert] As you'll know if you followed the spring season of Dan's Olde Time Minis Show, I've been playing the classic Star Frontiers ga...
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August 2024 - My father passed away. It had been coming since the end of last year, when they moved him to hospice care. That's when everyone realizes that the numbe...4 months ago
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Back to the Table - The last gaming session I participated in was probably last year as a player in the playtest of a *Mutant Crawl Classics RPG* adventure via Zoom. Until a...4 months ago
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Back to the Table - The last gaming session I participated in was probably last year as a player in the playtest of a *Mutant Crawl Classics RPG* adventure via Zoom. Until a...4 months ago
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Good Lore/Bad Lore - For our purposes let’s just say that lore is “setting background”: information about the setting of a campaign. The paradigm is perhaps the history of th...
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Game log 11 August 2024: The rain is cold, cold like cold rain - Personae dramatis *Tonfa Guy*, doesn't speak or have a name but has a tonfa *Grignok*, handsome orc druid *Augustus*, human cleric *Nílde*, elf archer (NPC) ...4 months ago
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Autocrats of Night Campaign Recruitment Open! - The Autocrats of Night campaign is finally open for recruitment! It will be a big open table megadungeon, with many players likely coming and going. Learn...
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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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Goin' Through the Fiend Folio Part 15 (Shocker to Symbiotic Jelly) - Back at it again! Here's the last entry in this series, here's a link to the first post, etc. etc., time to pick back up where we last left off! To...
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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...5 months ago
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Three Demihumans - Featured image by Timi Honkanen Anilins From a distance, they are indistinguishable from human children, not older than twelve. The only noticeable differe...
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IT HAS RISEN AGAIN! - Ladies and gentlemen, Fight On! magazine is BACK!!! After almost 15 years, the premiere zine of the Old School Renaissance has returned in force. Go ge...
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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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STUFF - The Brief: design my own book. This book was a curated collection of random objects, which was printed and bound...5 months ago
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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...5 months ago
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«The Butchery of Agnes Gooder» and Evil Books - Throughout the history of mankind, there have been many evil books that can damn a person’s soul just by reading or even looking at them. James Raggi, the ...
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The Great Carriage - This is the second of three Mammoth Masher vehicles. For continuity, see the previous two War Machine articles: the *Command Chariot* and the *Vanguard W...
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Anatomy of a Wonder: Napoleon’s Tomb - I wasn’t going to visit Napoleon’s tomb, but I was in the middle of writing posts about Civ and I thought “is there a more Civ artifact? The mausoleum of a...6 months ago
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Anatomy of a Wonder: Napoleon’s Tomb - I wasn’t going to visit Napoleon’s tomb, but I was in the middle of writing posts about Civ and I thought “is there a more Civ artifact? The mausoleum of a...6 months ago
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Mass Combat 3: Delta's Book of War (and its inspiration) - Back in the early days of the Old School Revival, Delta's D&D Hotspot was a place to go for thoughtful design and scholarship, firmly rooted in the class...6 months ago
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New Planar Magic Items - Hellsguard, Mephrytis, Ring of Planar Vision, and Four New Potions - I've been busily working away on various projects since the end of April, including attending the North Texas RPG Con in Dallas from 5-10 June 2024 (and ...6 months ago
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Editions of Dungeons & Dragons - Most of you know that I run an old-school Dungeons & Dragons game for my daughter and her friends. We started when they were between 10 and 11 years-old an...7 months ago
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The Weird Crushers that will Accompany the Imminent Releases! - The next upcoming LotFP releases will be delivered from the printer THIS WEEK! Leading up to the big new releases... here are the FIVE new Weird Crusher...
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Grimdark vs. Eucatastrophe - Noisms has some interesting ideas in this post about his desire for some depth to his grimdark, and turns to Gene Wolfe and Tolkien for relief. Now, it ...
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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...8 months 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, ...
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Gold Box D&D - Final Party Lineup for Champions of Krynn Series? - As with the Pool of Radiance series, I'd need to settle on a party if I want to play the three Krynn games on the Gold Box engine. In this case, I decid...8 months ago
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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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Session #12 & Adventure Sites Compilation - Firstly, I wanted to let everybody know that Adventure Sites I by Coldlight Press is now available as a free download on DriveThruRPG. It includes my own...9 months ago
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Gary Con XVI: Where Dreams Came True - *Prelude* After putting it off and making excuses for so long, it was finally time to make my first ever pilgrimage to Lake Geneva and attend a Gary Con....
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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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The Economy Engine, v0.2 - I made a thing. For D&D 3rd edition, so it might not be that interesting to a lot of people. But I made it and I think it’s cool. The 3rd edition Dungeon M...11 months ago
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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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Housekeeping 2024 - Coactus Illustration © Heather Gwinn. A gift she gave me in 2013 for an edition of Miscreated Creatures which I hope exists someday. Coloring by me. I am a...1 year ago
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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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Time Rolls On - Today is December 31, 2023, in the mid-afternoon. In less than ten hours it will be 2024. 2023 2023 was a good year. But all years are good years. Both goo...1 year ago
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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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Using Hex Kit for Thirty Years Reuel, 2nd Age - Here’s a sample of what I am working with to populate a hex map for my West Marches style game. I’m using the Cairn 2e playtest and running it on Owlbear R...1 year ago
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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...1 year 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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A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
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Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
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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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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff. The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game design. In the past I...
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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!1 year ago
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Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing (GLOG Class: Bard) - Nu sculon heriġean heofonriċes Weard *Now we must praise heaven-kingdom's guardian,* Meotodes meahte and his modġeþanc *the Measurer's might an...1 year ago
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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 ...1 year 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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Chronicles of the Adventures in the Dune Imperium! - Cover art for Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook I have one of the few copies of the Dune: Chronicles of the Imperium core rulebook that were ...
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Dinsu, the Peaks of Supine Gods Vol I -- Thousand Thousand(er) Islands Part II - *Dinsu* *The Peaks of Supine Gods* ______ SevenDays,Crunching through snow ______ Gold, silver, jewelry, and spices are piled high on ra...
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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...2 years ago
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This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...
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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...2 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...2 years ago
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In Defense of Race As Class - Race As Class! Baffling to some, overly simplistic to others, gold to me. Race As Class does what even AD&D didn't have the balls to do: it not only says "...2 years ago
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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 ...2 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 ...3 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. ...
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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 ...
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Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...3 years ago
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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...3 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...4 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#752004 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 years ago
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Wizard Rework Finale: The Death of Spell Levels + 500 Levelless Spells - Last year I reworked wizards so that they used Mana instead of spell slots. In that very post I said the following - This is part of my soft move towards a...
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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 (...4 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...4 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...4 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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Subtle Verve - In putting together *Beeswox*, I ended up adding a couple rules without precedent from the original sources, but I feel they tighten up the system as a who...4 years ago
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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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24 hours left on the Questing Beast Kickstarter! - The latest adventure I’m working on for Zine Quest, The Waking of Willowby Hall, is fully funded and has all its stretch goals unlocked! There’s less tha...4 years ago
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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...4 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...4 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...4 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...4 years ago
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Cuckoo Guild - Lexi over at her blog has recently made a very solid template for extensible Thieves in the GLOG tradition, with the pitch that the unique thing for Thieve...4 years ago
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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...4 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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Troika! review/overview - As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a really te...
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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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Xenia: The Reaction Roll and Hospitality - [image: Related image] *This is primarily for Swords and Sorcery/Sandals games.* Xenia is the Greek term for hospitality and is the ancient code of conduct...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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Across the Editions — Encumbrance - So in hindsight it was a terrible idea to start a blog just as my dissertation was ramping up. I'd also like to thank Google for ensuring that all previou...
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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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New Map of the Elf Empire and Southern Isles - I’ve been having fun developing a new map-drawing style that I think is finally reaching a certain level of maturity. And yeah, it owes a lot to Matthew Ad...
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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...
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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...
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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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containers in yoon suin - d12 ways the treasure (or hostage) is trapped CONTAINERS 1. Snake coiled around, end visible 2. Ice block, object visibly within 3. Heap of sleeping wolv...
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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...
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One Hundred Thieves' Tools - "He dropped into the garden noiselessly, and I watched from my tower window with rapt curiosity. The thief approached a guard and quietly dragged him off i...
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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...
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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...5 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...5 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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Basic Land Cannons: Classic and OSR - Basic Land Cannons Threw together some basic cannon rules for a bit of fun carnage. First up: I'm keeping it simple. Cannons are complicated; there are many...
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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...5 years ago
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Dangerous Reviews (2 of 3) - This is the second part of my ongoing review of the 1967 sci-fi anthology *Dangerous Visions.* Find *part 1 here* (for reviews of stories 1 through 11), an...
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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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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 ...5 years ago
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And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...5 years ago
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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...5 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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Character - Marigold Silvereyes - I'm playing in a 5e campaign from next week, and I find 5e can be dull and uninspired. So I left it to this generator for my 5th level starting character.....
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A Number of Irelands - In looking at various ways to abstract the game down to its fundamentals, one starts looking at things outside the rules a bit - or, things that start to ...
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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...5 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 ...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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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Dragon Scale Armor - Running a 1e campaign now featuring a dragon (a few, actually, but one main dragon). So dragonparts will be on the treasure menu eventually. If the PCs get...6 years ago
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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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Review: Tome of Holding - In a hoard of gaming accessories, it is hard to stand out in the crowd. I think Alex Ingram has done just that with the Tome of Holding Kickstarter. I wait...
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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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Troika: Numinous Edition 24 hour warning - IT'S ALMOST OVER! This is the obligatory 24 hour reminder, and then we can all take a breather. The Troika! Numinous Edition Kickstarter is 24 hours...
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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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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 ...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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 ...6 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...6 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...
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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...
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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) ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...7 years ago
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...7 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...7 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'...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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A little playing around - So, I've been going through some of my older work and giving it the colour treatment. Daisey does most of my colour work but I do like to play around with ...
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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...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 years ago
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Appendix N: May 2016 Edition - I've been looking for some decent bookcases for about four years. I finally came across the bookcases, above, which a used bookstore were getting rid ...
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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 ...8 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...8 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 ...9 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...9 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 ...9 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...9 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...9 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...9 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 ...9 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...9 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...9 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...10 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 ...10 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...10 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...10 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 ...10 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...
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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...11 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...11 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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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 ...12 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!12 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...12 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...12 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 ...13 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...13 years ago
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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...13 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,...13 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...15 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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