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Shadowdark: Bloggah's Blog Part 10 - The Cards Fall Where They May... - "Dude! Get out of the fridge!" "No way! This stuff is wondrous! I've never had such a delicacy!" "You're eating mayonnaise straight from the jar! Forget ...
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Tower in the Wasteland v2 - I recently asked my patrons what posts deserved a sequel and Tower in the Wasteland was one of the first replies. So here's an updated version of that d...54 minutes ago
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Back in Ioun City for less than a day and shenanigans are afoot - tl;dr: Back home, seeming to have dodged the heat for now with arcane help, the gang buys some magic items and then plans to free a young homocidal mage fr...
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The Death Of Adventure - So...last night (Wednesday), I purchased the new "5.5" *Dungeon Master's Guide*. No joke. The kids and I were at Barnes & Noble, using up old gift cards (w...
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All the holidays, all the prices ... (and some news!) - *The short of it is: all my games are on the cheap from now on until January. It is the season, after all. And while I'm here, I might as well talk a bit...
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Kickstarter - Ashes Without Number (Sine Nomine) - I'm a huge fan of Kevin Crawford and his Tag System. I own all of Kevin's core books in print and his non-core books in print and/or PDF. *Ashes Withou...
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D&D 2024 - Multiple Sessions In - We're multiple game sessions in to using the D&D 2024 PHB and DMG, and I have to say: they work pretty well. We have encountered enough new changes in b...3 hours ago
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GURPS House Rule: You're A Natural - I've been using this rule, or close to it, since my 3rd edition GURPS games. I remember my friend Fred's brother Dave benefiting from this in his very firs...4 hours ago
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Immaculate Scoundrels by John Fultz, a review - An immaculate cover.When it appears in sword-and-sorcery anthologies, John Fultz is a name that I look forward to reading. Why? His “Chivane” (*Worlds Be...4 hours ago
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Cue the sun - Jamie and I have mostly avoided patching the Vulcanverse books once they're published, as obviously it's not as easy to deliver a patch for a book as it ...
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Holdings of the Zombie Queen - I would love to run a campaign of Encounter Critical!, for money though, and if I am going to charge I should have a decent idea of what the Mighty Worl...
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Down and Dirty - So, we’re in the final stages of the Temple of Elemental Evil, though it’s been a rocky path to get here. Politics and the wider world (aka, some random en...8 hours ago
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Greyhawkery Comics: Tasha's Cauldron #5 - Well met denizens of Greyhawk. Today is a new gem from our resident *5E D&D* expert, *Tasha*! She always has a good topic brewing in her cauldron. Anyone...
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OSR Commentary OnThe Mall of Doom For The Mutant Epoch Rpg - "In the twisted, dark future of 24th century America, heroes are needed more than ever. Do you have what it takes? Recruited to investigate the disappeara...11 hours ago
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November Digital Adventures Previews - November Digital Adventures Previews Thursday, November 21, 2024 Hello, Starfinders! This month, an old friend of ours needs a little help. Remember Enva...11 hours ago
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Monstrous Menagerie 2: Goblin Mode - Hey, I’m the lead writer on EN Publishing’s new book, Monstrous Menagerie II: Hordes and Heroes! It’s on Kickstarter RIGHT NOW (assuming now is Dec 12 2024...13 hours ago
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[New Magic Item] Ward Against Birds - Ward Against Birds ‘I’d lose that thing,’ Fellhorn told the gnome as he eyed the strange thing dubiously.‘It could be worth a few gold in Thek-ganab,’ the ...13 hours ago
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d100 - Mercenary Minutiae & Sellsword Specifics - Eventually, games might reach a point at which the Players will seek out Mercenaries to assist them with achieving certain goals/aspirations. For when th...
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Let’s Build! Make a Lucky rogue for your next Tales of the Valiant character - [image: Let’s Build! Make a Lucky rogue for your next Tales of the Valiant character] Luck inherently makes rogues stronger because the majority of their...15 hours ago
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Abrigor's Triangle and The Annalise - Two adventure locations in Krevborna's Judas Sea. *Abrigor’s Triangle* Abrigor’s Triangle is an expanse of the Judas Sea regarded as its most dangerous ...
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2024-11-21 Quips for pros - 2024-11-21 Quips for pros The following grew out of an exchange with @otfrom and @jack. I think it’s important to have quips at the tip of our tongue read...18 hours ago
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Dungeon Regular: The Shrine of Ilsidahur - A new episode of Dungeon Regular is available! It’s embedded below, or here, on Spotify or in your favourite podcast app. Playful Void is a production of I...
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DARK EARTH: The horrible future that we were promised then forgot about but now remembered - In 1997, Kalisto Studios released Dark Earth, a post-cataclysmic action adventure game for PC, which has a really compelling look. For me, it really sets...
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They Lost Me - For the past two years or so, I've been playing a mobile game called Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes. While it had its annoyances (heavily pushing in-app pur...1 day ago
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Haronin’s Folly - His mind shattered by rituals contacting strange intelligences of other planes, the wizard Haronin became reclusive and bizarre – not … Continue reading →1 day ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.1 day ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.1 day ago
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BACK TO THE DUNGEON RPG now on LULU! - PDF BttDRPG DriveThruRPG Back to the Dungeon RPG Deluxe Hardcover, Go download the FREE PDF! Take a look at a few of the modules for it on DriveThruRPG...
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Hijinks of Kaiku Proportions - Thought I'd share some fun supers vs. kaiju art from Brendan Tobin.If you want some 5e kaiju content check this out:Generic KaijuGodzilla and Kong The Meg...
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The Real Monstrous Matters: A Saber-Toothed Kitten in Siberia - I mean, poor kitty...but man is this cool. A formal description and analysis has just been published for the frozen mummy of a saber-toothed cat cub tha...
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MidJounrey Goofin' - I know I ain't supposed to like it, but I love it. Furry explorers! LOL
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Witchcraft Wednesday: The Witch Book of Shadows for the ShadowDark RPG - What have I been doing? Well this last Gary Con (back in April) I was talking with my Elf Lair Game co-conspirators about future projects. Of course our...
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Thoughts on the US Election - Or…Where Do We Go From Here? When I was in high school, I learned an important lesson about debating. It isn’t enough to have a strong position yourself;...
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The Great North - Visual Delights - In the background, quietly, as my Yoon-Suin 2nd edition projects nears final fulfilment, work has been going on in relation to The Great North. Behold, s...
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The Making of OD&D: Half-Price Sale on Amazon - The *Making of Orginal D&D *is currently on sale for $49.99 on Amazon, which is 50% off the cover price ($99). This is the lowest price I've seen for ...
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Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1984 (week 3) - My mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at the comics on newsstands around November 17, 1983....
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CSC Campaign Report 2: The Green Box - Continuing where we left off last time, here's the green box section of the reference doc. I've split it up into the box as it was inherited, and then ad...1 day ago
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The Unleashed Evil - By Simone ZambrunoClassic Dungeon AdventuresOSE? Generic/Universal?Levels ... 0? 2? Here, characters without heroic skills or amazing powers and weapons (b...1 day ago
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Gnomecast 201 – Oops! All Bards - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GC_201_oops_all_bard_final.mp3 Join Ang, Jared and Josh as they talk about what to do when you have charac...1 day ago
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River Travel Tables For Chagrinspire - Marsh Folk - green skinned abjuman fisher folk who live in the swamp. Some have taken up degenerate cults and are inbred...
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Bypassing the Fun - In MAC Attack each faction is based on a group that splintered from HumanityFleet upon completing their voyage across the stars. Early on I knew that I w...1 day ago
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Wednesday Action Log 11-20-24 - This week I’ve been playing more Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. So far, I’ve learned that turning down the damage reduction really hurts. Last time I played...2 days ago
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Tuesday Magic Item – Moon Crescent Blade - Gollaon moved carefully, alert to any threat, sword and dagger out. Voddick followed behind, crossbow ready and between them, the governor’s daughter. “Do...2 days 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 days ago
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Simplifying THAC0 (and attack matrices) - I usually prefer ascending AC to descending AC, but I never thought THAC0 was particularly complicated. You don't even need subtraction to use THAC0. Jus...2 days 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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Charmin Ultra Soft Smooth Tear Product of the Year 2024 Not Review - As jaded as we've become by notions like "innovation" and "progress" in this late stage of our capitalism, one should take a step back once in a while and ...2 days ago
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D20 Tabletop Roleplaying Game Gift Ideas that Aren’t Just More TTRPGs (or Dice) - When you are shopping for a tabletop roleplaying game obsessive, most of the recommendations are for more TTRPG books or more dice, when they probably alre...2 days ago
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25 Years Ago I Posted My Wish List For D&D. How’s it Going? - At Gen Con in 1999 Wizards of the Coast revealed plans for a third edition of Dungeons & Dragons, scheduled for release in 2000. The upcoming release would...2 days ago
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REPOST: The Articles of Dragon: "The Astral Plane" - A *Dragon* article written by Roger E. Moore and with an introduction by E. Gary Gygax, where he states that "[this] is about as 'official' as is possible...
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Unfocused Thoughts on Operation: Mobile Armor - I like mechs and the various anime and video games that contain them. I haven't talked a lot about them on this blog, but in pretty much every other venu...
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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...3 days ago
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Dynasty - I haven’t read Tom Holland’s Rubicon, but I also know the civil wars period better than the Julio-Claudians (I have to admit that the BBC production of I, ...3 days ago
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In This Photograph - In our world, every copy of a photograph is the same. But in this world, every time you print a new photograph from a negative, the image subtly changes to...3 days ago
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Miskatonic Monday #322: Flash Cthulhu – Whistling Bones - Much like the Jonstown Compendium for RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha and The Companions of Arthur for material set in Greg Stafford’s masterpiece of A...
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GIS Day 2024 - They say it’s the mappiest day of the year, but here’s a short video we made for GIS Day way back at the mappiest place on earth (aka the Esri User Confere...3 days ago
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First Brozer After Action Report! - Someone actually beat the Brozer Diceless crew to the punch on this by running the suggested Conclave of Six tutorial Braunstein! You can get Brozer: Islan...3 days ago
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Caves of Chaos: Donkeys & Dragons - Session 2 was played on 6/12/24 Dramatis Personae: Glyn the Dwarf Berm the Fighter Thorin Oakenshield the Dwarf Io the Thief Wannabe Gizzard the Wizard Li...3 days ago
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Mental Health and the GM - Gamemasters are human, and just like everyone else, vulnerable to mental health problems. It’s entirely possible that the active participation in an immers...3 days ago
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AS THE WORLD TURNS: Retrocloning the Regional Events Tables - *Oriental Adventures is a TSR publication often noted for two things. The one I want to talk about today is its regional events *because the other has be...3 days ago
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Weapon vs. Armour in Chainmail vs. AD&D - *Disclaimer: Note that some of the links below are affiliate links (meaning I get a small percentage of the sale without extra cost to you or the publish...
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The Many Right Answers of the TTRPG Hobby - Two truths seem evident to me in the tabletop RPG hobby: There are many "right" answers to how we play tabletop RPGs – including which RPGs we play. There'...3 days ago
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2024/2025 Lindenbaum Prize announcement - The Lindenbaum Prize is sponsored by Peter Agapov, contributor to Lloyd of Gamebooks and owner of Augmented Reality Adventure Games who is very generou...4 days ago
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Recent Arrivals: GameholeCon Swag - So a few weeks back I wrapped up my final gaming convention of the year, Gamehole Con, in Madison, Wisconsin. I usually do only one or two conventions a ...4 days ago
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Artists I Like: Volpini - A bit of an unusual post this week because here's an artist I found on Bluesky and never heard of. The art was so fun and compelling I assumed they were ...
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Inspiration is everywhere: Floating islands - The Lost Island of Reylerel drifted away from Sheljar when magic disappeared.
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Larry Elmore Red Box Cover 3D Rendition at Lucca Games & Comics 2024 - The Italian Gaming Convention, Lucca Games & Comics has been steadily growing in popularity over the years. During this year's convention, a few weeks ...
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Curse of Strahd - for Shadowdark - I started running a game with my neighborhood gang for *Horror on the Hill*, a classic module from the 1980's. Meanwhile, my high school group voted to ...
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[Review] The Yellow Book of Brechewold (Lotfp); Missed Win - [Setting] The Yellow Book of Brechewold (2023)Matt Strom (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)Lvl 1 – ??? (8) Disclaimer: A while back I was sent a pile of ...4 days ago
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Sopwith Triplane (1:200) - This was (I think) a CapnAhab design. I added a pilot and some engine detail, but that's all, and I printed it on my Mars Pro at 1:200 scale. The model...
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September-October 2024 Miscellany - *Orlando Furioso* As referenced previously, I have been reading *Orlando Furioso*, the work of Ariosto. In some ways, actually saying commenting on this ...5 days ago
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OUT NOW - DEEP SPACE SOURCEBOOK #5 - THE COALITION - As the Cold War went on and dozens of star systems found themselves being handed around like playing pieces, a few members of different nations realised ...
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Veins of the Earth - Workshop - 'Queen Mab's Palace' will be moving to layout soon. My gigantic review of Hugh Cooks 'Chronicles of and Age of Darkness' is done. What will False Machine b...5 days ago
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OSR: Sacraments of Hesayanism - by arsenixc *How the Church of the Unconquered Son Works:* The Authority is the Ultimate, the Supreme Being, the One who Created the Universe. The Author...5 days ago
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Treasure Hunter Adventures at Con of the North 2025 - I am excited to say that I'll be running two session of *Treasure Hunter Adventures* at Con of the North 2025. This year's scenario is called "Crowning A...
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Gregorius21778 November 2024 UPDATE - We have reached the middle of November, it is time for another update. I will keep this one brief. For one, I would like to offer you CY-Oct_30-xx24, which...5 days ago
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Roleplaying Games are Wargames - Preface The title is a simplification and shortening of the real statement. What I will explain below is how (Tabletop) Roleplaying Games are one subse...5 days ago
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Teori-innblikk #188 - - Scratch pad av Ron Edwards forteller om hvordan Med stor makt… (With great power…) fanger opp viktige idéer om superhelttegneserier og hvordan ...5 days ago
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Illusionists added to Heroes & Homelands - Just a quick update to say that I have updated* Heroes & Homelands* to a v.0.6 that includes an illusionist class, spells, and a unique mechanic for ill...6 days ago
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Cinco: Inventory Items - Oh yeah, I forgot I was doing this! Here's some gorgeous art by Norn Noszka to start. :) Last time, I talked about the UX side of your character's invent...6 days ago
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Not Frightful Fridays! Plank - Behold! The plank! Another, proper monster will be along soon. It’s a wooden plank, innit?Plank CR 1/8XP 50N Small constructInit +0; Senses —; Percept...6 days ago
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Powers Enumerated I - Spells By Any Other Name Would Cast As Harsh. POWERS ENUMERATED:OLDTECH & FANTASCIENCE These are the accepted and known secret sciences, indistinguishable ...6 days 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...6 days ago
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OPALESCENT THING - OPALESCENT THING "It resembled nothing so much as a star-shaped blob of transparent jelly that shimmered and changed color like an opal. It appeared to be...
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My 1,000th logged RPG session - I’ve been logging RPG sessions on RPGGeek since 2008, and last night’s Basement Game session — AD&D 1st Edition, running the module “Citadel by the Sea” fr...1 week ago
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Barrier March Villain: Ankrill and Bakeri - Ankrill and Bakeri are conjoined twins, one of them quite a bit more of a man than the other. Ankrill controls the whole body and has risen through the ran...1 week ago
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Accommodating the Unrequested - I was going to call this post, "When the players change the rules" but it isn't that at the end of the day. I used to play in a shared world with 3 rota...
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The Little Gods - I have been considering this setting ("Hyrkos and the Parch", name pending) for some time, and have decided to post the result of some conversations I...
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Ex-RPGNet Review: Usagi Yojimbo – Monsters! - A solid supplement for the Usagi Yojimbo Roleplaying Game. Dungeons & Dragons GMs may also want to check this one out. Review Originally Published December...1 week ago
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Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024 - [image: Quick Convention Report: LongCon 2024] Last weekend I was able to attend LongCon in Longview, TX. I had a work trip to the Nashville area that en...
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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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Shadowdark: B/X Edition - Hello Dear Readers! I was inspired the other day while thinking about Shadowdark and my favorite old-school Dungeons & Dragons game, the Rules Cyclopedia, ...1 week ago
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Wizardry: Fun with Prestidigitation - Wizardry: Fun with PrestidigitationD&D, being a combat-focused system, combines all the minor utility spells that wizards would likely to learn to make the...1 week ago
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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...1 week ago
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the d60 on your wrist - If you need a random generator but can't roll dice or can't (or don't want to) access electronics, you already carry a d60 with you - or at least I do, w...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Relationship Mind Map | visualizing NPC relationships - I’m writing an adventure. I might even get round to publishing it one day! The adventure at the moment has quite a lot of NPC-NPC relationships going on, ...1 week ago
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Setting: Outer World Holidays - Every place has its notable days of observance, celebration, and remembrance. Outer World is no exception to this rule, though such dates come in two var...1 week ago
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Shit Happens... Right? - ( ._.) In the Rush by the governments of israel and The US of A to make their conflict with Hamas into a genocide gloryhole lubr...1 week ago
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Ride Ze Shoopuf? (TROIKA! Background & Creature) - Shoopuf Driver You are one of the froglike Hypello, clammy and laidback in the extreme. So laidback in fact, that when the river decided to change its cour...
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Negative Space Reprise - *This is an update to an earlier blog post I wrote on rules and OSR games, which was published in the zine Mixed Success, which you should also check out...1 week ago
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GURPS101: Merging Autohypnosis and Meditation - We’ve been there before – two skills both alike in utility…GM, do I really have to purchase both? Yes, that’s RAW of course…although… So that was my thou...1 week ago
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Where ya been, Gundobad??? - Still here! I had hoped that this might be a fairly active year for the blog. As it turned out, however, it's been a really challenging, draining year ...1 week ago
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The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.2 weeks ago
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More Curses - I recently shared a revision to the curse of the spirit-touched, tying curses in PARIAH to PC inventory, in a nod to *Cairn* & *Eco-Mofos*. Continuing...
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Let's Read Hell's Rebels: Adventure 04, Part 3 - This article is part of a series! Click here to see the other entries. We’re firmly in the wrap-up stage now. If you’re here, the PCs have succeeded at ...2 weeks ago
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Saga RPG - The Hiven (Player Character faction) - I have been running a Silmarillion inspired play by post game all of this year, where the players take on the roles of creator spirits and then the leade...
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A Tin Soldier orc in a retro style - Here's an orc from Tin Soldier painted in a somewhat retro style with heavy blacklining in ink. Although I had originally based many of them on pennie...
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The Mutant Epoch Expansion Rules - * Long time followers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of William McAusland's RPG The Mutant Epoch. He recently released the long-awaited...
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The Sciurus for Savage Worlds - It’s been a while since I posted anything for Savage Worlds, so here’s a new race for that game. Sciurus (Race Value: 2)Attribute Increase – Agility: Durin...2 weeks ago
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Mothership Month - Ghost Ship - *(for the month, i'm going to throw together a couple short, unedited posts. no scope-crept regional hexcrawls, no 1d20 character classes, no nothing. ju...
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Climbing the Mythic Mountain - Play-Cast Name: Mythic Mountains RPG OD&D Actual Play Playlist System: Swords & Wizardry (White Box?) Where I Watched: YouTube *Chain & Shield* *Tho...
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GLOG: Wizard Chassis - Mere six years after I've started with the list of wizard schools, I have finally put together magic rules and a wizard chassis that I am rather content wi...
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The I-Took-A-Month-Off Update Post - It wasn't really planned but it ended up working out that way. No particular crisis, just fell down the priority list in a busy month. I do plan to do...2 weeks ago
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Six ridiculous magic items - 1. *Chromium Skull of Celestial Summoning*. Summons an abandoned alien battlecruiser that was hiding on the orbit for the last 12700 years. It ...
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Pokémon BX Day 31: Gengar! - Happy Halloween! Gengar are Warlocke familiars whose summoners have left this plane and know wander aimlessly through haunted woods, cemeteries, crypts, du...3 weeks 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…3 weeks ago
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Ghost Posts - So, here's a piece in The Guardian that explains a lot: Ghost jobs: why do 40% of companies advertise positions that don’t exist? "A survey has revealed...3 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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NUTS and Compendium Deal of the Day Tomorrow on Wargames Vault - $15 gets you both. Heck, that's even cheaper than buying either one of the rules by itself. Deal of the Day!3 weeks ago
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Planet Karus – Session 25 - We had an occasional player request an additional session because they were in the neighborhood. I was only too happy to oblige. This was a fairly straight...3 weeks ago
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Trail of Cthulhu 2e and Broken Empires - I try not to back funding projects (on Kickstarter and the like) that often these days. This is because I backed a few in recent years that I now kind of r...
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Dawn War Remix: Avandra - 4e has a warm place in my heart, though when I played it I railed continually against it. The dawn war pantheon in particular I find to be so generic t...
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G+ Necro: So I had a run-in with one of these guys... - Was posting something on Xitter about spiders and cool things, and went searching through my Google+ archive for something I'd written back in the day an...4 weeks 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...4 weeks 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...4 weeks ago
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Goodbye, Twitter - Given the recent changes to twitter, I will rarely be posting there from now on. Unless things get significantly better. You can follow me on Bluesky her...4 weeks ago
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Rogues Gallery: Grimslade and Valerius, Saren and Indel - Back in late '81/early '82, TSR ran a series of full page ads in the back of comic books--remember when comic books had ads? These ads were in the form o...
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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...4 weeks ago
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#TTRPG – RaC & Ruin 2 – House Rules & Goblins - GET IT HERE R&R is a set of supplementary material and options for ‘Old School’ games, with a bunch of innovations and choices to make it more fun and play...4 weeks ago
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Jagged D&D - “Are you an “evens” person or an “odds” person?” my mentor asked while we sat in his backyard. “Evens,” said I. “Thought so. “Evens” lends itself to perfec...4 weeks 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...4 weeks ago
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A Psionics Sytem Using Playing Cards for Old School D&Ds and BRPs - Zener cards First, you gotta see if you are psychic. You must roll a d100 at or under your mind stats (one chance per each stat. So in D&D you would roll ...
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Under the Floorboards - "I fell through the floor, and there I was..." for GLoGtober 2024. Alan Lee If you look at floorplans of centuries-old palaces and temples and castles, ...
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Such. A. Nerd. - Truly, I can’t imagine this would be even a mild surprise to anyone that I’m a nerd at times. But this goes a little beyond the norm, even for me. I just s...4 weeks ago
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STRANGE AEONS - SPELLS - I have a new post on my new blog. It's about spells for a Call of Cthulhu type setting. The idea is that every spell should go with a specific book and ...
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I Ran Fever Swamp! - The players were M, N, and U. Both and M and N had played before, albeit not in the sort of games I usually run, and U had never touched a roleplaying game...
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Bundle of Holding: Wulfwald, few hours left! - Lee Reynoldson’s Wulfwald is available at the Bundle of Holding. It’s going at about 55% discount, and it will last only a few hours. You get the PDFs of a...5 weeks ago
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Rise of the Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - Khaös Deth Swordwraiths - ancient daemonic blades that have enslaved disembodied cursed, rag shrouded souls to wield them. Izn-Rvn - a curse of undeath ins...
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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 →1 month ago
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In the Mouth of Madness - "Go on in, it's okay. You can see him." The Dungeon Master was frozen at the door. He was nervous for what he'd find on the other side. But that was his ...
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Adventure Site Contest - As a hexcrawl fan I'm always in need of more lairs and smaller sites for exploration, and Coldlight Press has done a good job fostering such (in a additi...1 month ago
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James Raggi and The Albatross? - Yah, its weird to me to be making a post regarding LOTFP stuff two times in a row, but I saw something that got my goat a bit and got me thinking. Lik...
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The strengths of Strength - I can tell you why, from a design standpoint, 1st Edition AD&D STR attack and damage bonuses are lower than other bonuses at a given score value. (1) You w...1 month ago
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Speech Impediments - For When PCs Remember a Language They've Never Spoken - We've all been there. The party is confronted with an otherworldly horror uttering guttural chants, or behold a mysterious elven monolith covered in cur...
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The Witch (GLOG Class) - It's GLOGtober! Happy GLOGtober, everyone. *Witch* You treat with otherworldly powers as an equal, or at least as a petitioner worth their attentions. C...
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[BLOG] Year Eight: New Foundations - The Hall of Mirrors stretches beyond the Two Infinities...This blog started on 5 August 2016, making this part of the year a good time to take stock and...
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Classic Traveller: Mayday! - Previously in this series reading the rules of the Classic Traveller boxed-set games: Snapshot, Azhanti High Lightning. *Summary:* Mayday! is an alterna...1 month ago
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Psychotronic Gaming: The Basics - Not too long ago I celebrated the 45th anniversary of me starting an AD&D 1e campaign. I started the campaign before I was a teenager and it is still ...1 month ago
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The New D&D PHB: Hit or Flop? - Some recent reports claim the 2024 D&D PHB has sold more than the 5e PHB. Others are claiming the book has barely sold! But hardly anyone noticed how gam...
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al-Alam al-Wasat Kinds - This post concerns the "races" (now rebranded as "species") for the al-Alam al-Wasat setting. I'm going to stick with "kinds" (which is the term I used ...
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The Pathfinder Megadungeon - You've been down underground for days. When your party's thief said she smelled some gold down that dark corridor, you said it was a bad idea. You were lo...1 month ago
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Knave Jammin’ - Ben Milton, Mr. Questing Beast, is holding an adventure jam for the release of the much-celebrated second edition of his game, Knave. Short form, October...1 month 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...1 month ago
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Wizards of the Coast are dropping the ball again! - I hate to complain. I’m trying to maintain an optimistic attitude and focus on the positive. Also, I hate that my first post on the blog about the 2024 ver...1 month ago
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I hate the Technocracy (MAGE WoD) - I can never talk about World of Darkness shit because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong. It's such an old series of games and books, with multiple cha...
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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 ...1 month 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...1 month 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...1 month ago
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Gamer ADD: Suleiman Subsector Gazetteer Part 2 - 1110 Quaver C111469-B Prior to the Civil War, Quaver was a major trade hub overseen by an opportunistic dictatorship. Seen as a possible disruptive force i...1 month ago
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Building a Library: What to Do When a PC Decides to Pick a Book Off the Shelf - We've all been there as Dungeon Masters. The player characters are exploring a library, or a wizard's study, or any other sort of place that might have ...1 month ago
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At Last .... The Cube World - (Ha, and why it's good none of the players read my blog.) (Northern Continent Detail by Zak S.) I had been intending to run Zak Smith's Cube World settin...
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Keto Friendly Hot Dog / Sausage Buns Recipe - *NOTE: I AM HAVING ISSUES WITH THIS RECIPE - THE DOUGH IS TOO STICKY AND/OR DOES NOT RISE PROPERLY. I'M LEAVING IT HERE FOR REFERENCE BUT IT MAY NOT WORK...2 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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A pair of Kickstarters I like - First off is Todd Leback/ Third kingdom games Hex a Day Calender, which would probably net me some commissions- but never mind me, there will be a ton of a...2 months ago
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[Review] XBoat Special Supplement 2: Galaxiad Gaming Kit - I have recently bought and read XBoat Special Supplement 2: Galaxiad Gaming Kit, published in March 2024 by *Robert Eaglestone*, a licensed - and canon...
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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...2 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...2 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...2 months ago
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Miracles and the Law - I’ve been working on revising and expanding my book on pilgrimage and related matters for DnD and part of that has been expanding the coverage to some othe...2 months ago
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Strahd for Shadowdark - "I am the ancient. My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. I am not dead. Nor am I alive. I am undead, forever." - Count Strahd von Zarovich ...
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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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Hey, Wizbro, how about some credit? - I never bothered at reading their reboot of Spelljammer, but someone pointed out to me that they stole the idea and foundations of the Puppeteer Parasite I...2 months ago
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Conan vs Barbarianism - One of the themes that Robert E. Howard returns to again and again in his Conan tales, is the idea that civilization is a temporary thing that must be w...2 months ago
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Knave 2e Adventure Jam Prompts - I’ve launched the Knave 2e Adventure Jam on Itch.io! Create an old-school adventure for Knave and get entered to win some prizes. Click “Randomize” on th...2 months ago
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D&D Player’s Handbook 2024 - Being an incomplete, visual review of the 2024 Player’s Handbook. I got a copy of this almost entirely on the strength of the new cover art: (This is the “...2 months ago
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You are what you eat, and potions are what they say - Potions of invisibility are invisible. Potions of flying needs to be kept on a leash. Potions of diminution are really tiny. Potions of giant strength a...
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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) ...2 months ago
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Terminal State - Now the lines are converging to the point of no return. VX2, the publishing imprint my brother Chris and I operate, has launched our second Kickstarter c...2 months ago
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Draconis 2024 - My illustration for the Montreal's TTRPG festival is online:https://www.facebook.com/FestivalDraconisMore info on the convention: https://www.festivaldrac...
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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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Concerning the Future of Traveller - I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as from Ma...2 months ago
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Knave 2e Alternate Attributes - Sometimes, I'm exactly in the mood for the classic simplicity of defining characters entirely by D&D's six attributes, as Knave does. But sometimes, I want...
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The Mystery of the First Blackmoor Map - In this POST from a few years ago, I was concerned with the issue of scale and distance in Blackmoor in the course of which I attempted to determine the...
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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...3 months ago
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just play dnd - Deborah Ann Woll is a treasure. I have been tempted to do this before, but it feels like an imposition to just suggest to launch into a game but DAW does ...3 months ago
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Reading Dracula - I found myself reading Dracula. I don't read novels much anymore -- it takes an act of will -- the book has to be exceptional. Yet, what defines exceptio...
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Far Away Land 2nd Edition Kickstarter is Amazing - Fay Away Land RPG Ed. 2 is now Kickstarting! It funded quick and has 22 days remaining as of this post. It is a unique setting and RPG that reeks of fun....
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My Barkeep Jam Entry - The Cockatrice Tail - *This is my entry in the Barkeep Jam hosted by Prismatic Wasteland. I wanted to write something as different as possible from my previous pubcrawl locatio...
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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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Pre-order The Terror Beneath - Folks, I have a new game coming out on October 24th with Osprey Games. The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror is base...
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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...3 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...3 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...4 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...4 months ago
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Fantasy Game Notes - Returning evil Encroaching doom Castle among the mountains at the end of the world A need for a quest to gain an advantage A secret sea entrance to th...4 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...4 months ago
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d66 Monsters and Men of BIBLICAL CARCOSA! - Rodney Matthews. Don't know what it's called. *Biblically-accurate *blood-soaked sci-fantasy hex-crawl across an Old Testament/Revelation para-apocalypti...
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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 ...4 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...5 months ago
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A Bargain at Any Price: Unfathomable Bundle in Progress - This impecunious Underworld Otter knows a good deal when he smells it. If you crave* deep*, almost ridiculous discounts for your RPG materials, look no fu...
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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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My Spring Tour 2024 – Part 2: From Turku back to Kiel - Helsinki also offered the chance for a day trip. Turku, the oldest town in Finland, is only about two hours bus ride away, and a nice ride through an inter...
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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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The Circus of Joy (GLoG thief guild) - (based on https://crateredland.blogspot.com/ s thief guilds) Circus of Joy *Level 1:* Gain 2 abilities at rank 1 *Level 2:* Rank up an ability you have, t...
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Unexpected Bounty - I just wanted to make a quick note about the happy coincidence that some new books from my favorite writers have been coming out in recent days. First, t...
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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...6 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...6 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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Review of The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg - This dungeon is a reproduction of Greg Svenson’s dungeon. Greg was one of the early players in Dave Arneson’s Blackmoor campaign and is immortalized in...6 months ago
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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...7 months ago
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Improvised Awful Lights Missions - Asking about The Awful Lights, a commenter asks: *I'd love to hear about how this is run - with the Handler determining mission location and objectives ...7 months ago
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Tales of the City Guard: A one-shot adventure - On Friday I decided to run *Tales of the City Guard* for my gaming group, and as it was just before Easter, I gave it an Easter/spring equinox theme. I s...
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Jim Ward's Adventure in Gygax's Wonderland - Last weekend at GaryCon, many of us raised a glass to the memory of Jim Ward, who passed away just days before the convention. Ward was very helpful to m...
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Three Powers Behind The Gods - These are things within mortal ken worshipped oft as gods. Rather than the inscrutable mind-warping unrealities of the darkness-beyond-stars, these are T...7 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 Bastard Princess - It’s hard to find anything interesting any more. You know things that dare to color outside the lines even a bit. Enter The Bastard Princess. I admit that ...7 months ago
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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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Dead Theory Necromancy - *I. Introduction* GNS theory is dead, but this post on the history of the Forge contains an interesting tidbit: As originally conceived, the rec.games.f...
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Clothing Makes The Man (MyD&D) - Everything has a level in MyS^amp;D. This especially includes executive positions in the hierarchy. For example your typical bishop of a mostly rural bis...9 months ago
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Black Pudding 8 Print Edition Out Now! - The print edition of *Black Pudding Issue 8* is now available to order from the Squarehex site using the following link: https://www.squarehex.co.uk/coll...
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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...9 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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Triangulation: The Land That Time Forgot at 100 - I was once again offered the opportunity to write for DMR Books - as this year marks a century since *The Land That Time Forgot* (or the novel fix-up for...
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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...10 months ago
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Ave Atque Vale, Jennell - Jennell Jaquays passed away two days ago, and it's hitting me hard. I had a chance to meet Jennell at NTRPG 2016 (and '17), and even get into a playtes...
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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...10 months 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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Sex-Crazed Falling Stars, Free Weather Magic, and Adventures: News of the Hill Cantons - *Grandma Gaya, the Rav-Witch of High Kezmarok*, seeks the stout of limb and humble of mind in the *obtaining of fallen stars* from an upcoming prophesied ...
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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...10 months 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...10 months 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...10 months ago
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My Druid Adventure On Sale - Oakfell Vale, my adventure about mysterious druids in a secluded valley, is on sale now for 20% off - only $7.99. It is 64 pages, and is intended for use w...
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Helldelvers (GLOG character options for a game) - I needed a little character creation ruleset to test a dungeon I'm writing and I guess I decided to do it here instead of google docs so now all of you can...11 months 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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RPG Blog Carnival: Endings - Apologies for my lack of involvement over the last few months, real life gets in the way sometimes. I do have a post still in draft for the September Car...
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Guardian Monsters - Listed and Considered - There are a great number of guardian monsters to help spice up the role playing. Guardian-type monsters are a regular feature in dramatic fantasy fiction...11 months ago
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Spider Bankers of the Bureau of Universal Exchange - I'll put in a picture when I have one. We're working on these a bit at a time. The Spider Bankers have been in Troika since the beginning and I've alway...11 months ago
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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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Basic Roleplaying: Universal Game Engine - So, after all this time, the folks at nuChaosium decided to embrace the concept of a standalone core BRP book after all. Which leads us to BRP: Universal G...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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What to relate when the thief asks for lock description - Also provides me with inspiration of how/were to place some device traps. More tricksy boxses https://www.antiquebox.org/category/antique-locks-and-me...
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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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The End - In January of 2011 I launched a new blog, this blog, *Adventures in Gaming version 2*. I had had several blogs before this one, most notably of course, *...1 year ago
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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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Moving On... - So, my D&D 5e experiment has blown up the lab in a puff of green smoke leaving my face blackened like Wile E. Coyote after a failed roadrunner Acme trap...1 year ago
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GUARDIANS OSR Superhero RPG- DC Heroics House Rules - It's been a rough year with sickness. But here I am. Let's go. Guardians is a fun little game from Night Owl Workshop games. They have a lot of fun OS...
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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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3d printed minis - A question for all of you - I've been ignoring the OSR and blogs (which I assume are dead at this point) and forums (also guessing, dead) and reddits and...1 year ago
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Some Favorite Audiobooks - While I prefer reading actual books, I do enjoy to fall asleep to a good audiobook. Here are some of my favorites, and you might notice my bias for stuff...1 year ago
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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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Longtailed Ironbeak - Creatures of Aurora - Riding Beasts - Known as “The Kicker”, this flightless bird is one of the most common means of transportation in Aurora. It’s fast and rather unpredictable but comes ch...
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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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d100 dark souls - *I recently returned to Lordran and have some thoughts on applying the lessons of Dark Souls 1 to ttrpgs slowly percolating. In the meantime, a stocker...1 year ago
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The Four-Fold King - The men of the Frostlands are no friends of giants, and have often warred with them. But they have always respected certain traditions. Certain prophecies...1 year ago
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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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Now at ageofravensgames.com - We've moved locations-- you can now find my blog content, hacks, scenarios, reviews, TTRPG histories, AP videos and more at ageofravensgames.com. I'm...
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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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I have a new blog about weird old SFF novels - Well, as you can see I haven't updated this blog in quite some time. I still play D&D but I don't get creative ideas for it in the same way that I used ...1 year ago
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GAME REVIEW: Four-Color Heroics - Before we get started, here are some disclaimers: - I am reviewing a comp copy provided by the author - The author and I are friends, and have bee...
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Daughters & Dragons - A surprisingly deep emoji-based RPG! - Image obviously created with OpenAI's Dall-E... As a father of a 3 and a half years old girl, I should be quite far still from glorious RPG sessions wi...
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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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I think we just won . . . - Just caught the news that WotC and the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" crew in their upper echelons publicly claimed the irrevocable status of the OGL 1.0...
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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...1 year ago
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More ripples from WotC OGL revision - Wizards’ attempt to undo the OGL and break up the third-party publisher… uh, party, continues to have ripple effects across the tabletop roleplaying indust...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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Halbardier Re-spin - (reposted from my frotz.prose.sh blog) *Helmbarten* is Alex Schroeder's fantasy take on a Classic *Traveller*-style game, and I liked it so much I wanted...1 year ago
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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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Looking Back - They say that if you don't look back at who who were from a year ago and cringe that you haven't grown enough. What if I look back five or seven years? It...2 years ago
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The Island of Death and Rubies - Today I'm rolling up another random campaign. I'm choosing two of the three starting adventure opportunities to test out their roll-up tables, then lett...
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Tommy's Take on Camp Terror, an Actual Play Review - So this weekend I talked my group into taking a detour from D&D 5e to return to an old friend of ours: Savage Worlds. Not for an established setting suc...
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SEXY BEAST - Gal has an advantage over Don Logan simply because he has found people who can love him. Don has, instead, constructed a mirror-ego to achieve sufficent...
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Midjourney and Campaign Inspiration - I'm an improvisational GM. I love random tables. I believe in the oracular power of the dice. I believe in emergent storytelling and character backstori...2 years ago
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I'm back, but I'm at a new blog - Blogger is ugly and full of comment spam. Here's my new blog.2 years ago
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Decad(enc)e - The above remains my favorite hex type, though I do need to spend some more quality time around the Rockies to make sure. As I write this, I find mys...
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Mechanics: Errant Spellcasting - Starting Point Spell: A specific, codified form of magic, somewhat limiting a caster's flexibility but maximizing speed and allowing for much more drama...2 years ago
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FREEDOM SQUADRON Now Available on DriveThruRPG! - * The Freedom Squadron October 2021 product line is now available on DriveThruRPG!*Click on each picture to follow an affiliate link to purchase and supp...
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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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Denizens of Restenford: Fairwind - Ah, yes, the Baroness Fairwind, beleaguered spouse of the tepid Baron Grellus; what do we know about her? From the "castle" roster: she is 42 years old, ...2 years ago
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Moving the blog - I am moving this blog to a git-based version at todistantlands.github.io. For your convenience, here is a link to its RSS feed. I have migrated many of my...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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This is a Fossilized Blog - After digging around through the guts of this blog, we've decided to mothball it but make it available as a sort of internet-fossil of sorts, in case anyo...2 years ago
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Neurodiversity and Dragons - the adventure begins! - Tl;dr: Kia ora all! I don’t often post much about my personal life, but as a parent of two neurodiverse teens, I reckoned that I’d post some of my exp...
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The Brave Art of Running Away - In last night's game, on two separate occasions the player characters decided that discretion is often the better part of valor, and decided not to fight...
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Skull Mountain Reboot in East TN - *North of the last outpost of Sparn, through the cannibal haunted jungles of Brool, a boulder-strewn crag rises from the mists. An enormous stone reptile...
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Nuts & Bolts #169 - The Perfect Map for the End of the World Part 2- Puttin' My Money Where My Mouth Is - Last week, I wrote about finding some old road atlases and thinking they could be great for making maps for Post Apocalypse games. Well, this week I put ...2 years ago
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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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Them Bones of Adventuring XXVII - Short Procedure for Chases - *Introduction* My bid for captaincy of HMS *Obvious* meets a new chapter, with yet another hat throw unto the ring of marginal mechanics. As the totally ...2 years ago
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A timeline for historical games in the Lowlands - 6th century: Clovis I, King of the Franks, converts to the Roman Church 1000: Pagan Saxon and Frisian religions cease to exist as such and are subsumed un...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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‘Thor’s Cave’ Prehistoric Cave System and Bronze Age Burial Site, Wetton, Peak District. - thesilicontribesman: ‘Thor’s Cave’ Prehistoric Cave System and Bronze Age Burial Site, Wetton, Peak District.2 years ago
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Unlawful Update - Hi everyone it’s John G of Unlawful Games here. Just stopping by to remind y’all that I have moved over to https://www.unlawful.games/ where I continue ...3 years ago
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A Treatise on Traps - This post is available in video form on my YouTube channel (opens in a new window). *Click to enlarge* Here is a simple 3d6 table to generate...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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SRDCAT Sneak Peek: Collections - My first post on WTF.com is up! It's the first glimpse of SRDcat's Collections interface, which helps us organize the vast amount of game objects that...3 years ago
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[ Kinship ] The Shadow Riders - I float above what is called by many the Road, some call it the Highway, some call it something worse. Highway to Hell is a favorite. And if you end ...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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New Home! - This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I'll no longer be updating on this blog primarily due to all the spambots that plague this platform. ...3 years ago
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Mothership: Further Thoughts - In my previous post I gave a few thoughts on a rough Mothership setting. Have some more. Note: I am not a physicist so the below is probably very wrong. ...3 years ago
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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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Hey, what's going on in here? - It seems the Mad Scientist is working on something secret in his laboratory of horrors... I wonder what it will be? Is it anything to do with Warrior...
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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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Ten Dead Rats Character Sheet - I have created a quick & dirty character sheet for Ten Dead Rats, it can be downloaded from my sidebar or here.3 years ago
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Random Name Generation - *Random Name Generation* (1) Roll 3d4 for # of letters, (2) Roll d% for each letter, (3) Arrange/Fudge A 01-09 J 46 ...3 years ago
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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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COKE DWARVES - The second of my races for my gonzo kitchen sink campaign using the Black Hack. Inspired by the almost no information on Diesel Dwarves from Ultra Viole...3 years ago
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The Many Returns of Gamma World - I started this post planning to examine my growing interest in the roleplaying game *Gamma World*, after having only been casually appreciative of it pre...
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Alternative Group Combat Rules for D&D BECMI/BX/AD&D and Basic Fantasy, OSR etc. - Although I don't often post on here, I still have a very active Tumblr blog with the same title: *adventuresandshopping.tumblr.com* It's mostly a reblogg...
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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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"Good old Udemy" (not) - Good old Udemy.I was unable to submit tax paperwork because the submission process failed many times over the course of some weeks.Now that I need a 1098/...3 years ago
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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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OSR Review & Commentary On Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan Campaign Setting By Terje Nordin For The Warriors of the Red Planet Rpg - * "Swords and Super-Science of Xuhlan is a campaign setting for use with the Warriors of the Red Planet Roleplaying Game.* *New character races: Mutant, ...
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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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An Attempted Framework Conversion for: The Hole in the Oak set in Dolmenwood - The Hole in the Oak is a low level adventure about venturing into the Mythic Underworld for Old-School Essentials, and though it features some tonal item...
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Circle of the Moon Druid Magic Item - Looking to enhance a Circle of the Moon Druid, but having a hard time finding a magic item that can do it? Look no further... The post Circle of the Moon...3 years ago
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Monsters of Wander Marsh - *Lantern-Tail:* A large bat-like creature that possesses both hair, and an exoskeleton like an arthropod. It has a lengthy prehensile tail equipped wi...
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I moved ages ago, but forgot to tell anyone - I decided to get my own domain name: strangevistas.org and have been posting there for over a year. When Adam at Barking Alien mentioned that he wanted...3 years ago
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Review: Beyond the Wall - I recently re-discovered this lovely post about the 1937 Hobbit book as a RPG setting, luckily for us the author has continued to write about this Wilder...
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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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False Machine Dungeon Poetry - EDIT: Area 8 has been fucked for months, sadly. I forgot to mention that there was a 2 in 6 chance of the High Forgetter being present in the chamber...
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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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The Best of the Journal: The Pettigrew Selections - Mark Pettigrew wrote the delightful swashbuckling role-playing game, Flashing Blades. He also wrote two Tekumel adventures, A Jakallan Intrigue and The Tom...3 years ago
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Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! - Today's the day!The day that Hamsterish Hoard of Hexes is live! :D Brought to you by Paolo Greco of Lost Pages (lostpaolo @ Twitter), with lovely art by ...
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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. ...3 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: ...3 years ago
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Arkwood Golem - CLIMATE/TERRAIN: AnyFREQUENCY: Very rareINTELLIGENCE: Semi (2-4)TREASURE: NoneALIGNMENT: NoneNO. APPEARING: 1ARMOR CLASS: 4MOVEMENT: 6HIT DICE: 11 (50 hp)...3 years ago
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Blog Reboot - How starting over feels... After the disaster that was 2020 I decided it would be best to start over on a new blog. Wipe the state clean as they say. It'll...
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New Blog - I am retiring my WordPress blog and migrating over to Blogger. This site will remain up, for the time being, but you can follow my new stuff here: https://...3 years ago
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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...3 years ago
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My RPG Zine Trilogy is on Kickstarter! - I can't believe I didn't post about it here! The Dead are Coming, Screams Amongst the Stars and Running Out of Time are on *Kickstarter right now!* Thes...
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I keep doing this - Sometime near the end of each year, I open up my blogs and realize I haven't posted in many moons. It's not that I don't have anything to say (in fact, i...3 years ago
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NEW Appendix N Video Review Series - Daniel, over at The Dungeon Dive, is starting up a Youtube review series of various Appendix N authors, I highly recommend you follow along with his inves...3 years ago
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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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Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release - A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012 Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at Dr...
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First licensed SWAG release - We're thrilled to announce that the first licensed Accursed release on SWAG has just hit! Adam Loyd introduced a new Witchbreed, the Oni. It includes a d...4 years ago
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Dreams and Fevers Turns Two! - *Image is self explanatory* 2019 will probably be remembered as the most consistent year in the blog’s history. But even though this year has turned out ...
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Ten Fearsome Pit Fighters of the Grand Arena - There are many fighting pits in the city, but none of them compare to the Grand Arena in terms of prestige, showmanship, and skill of the fighters. The fig...4 years ago
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GM Notes - Morgansfort Session 14 - Death Frost Doom - Part 2 of 2 - So, here stands the final chronicle of my two-year Basic Fantasy campaign. It ended a year ago and I'm just now getting around to finishing off the write...
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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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Undermountain Map Origins - As documented on the Ruins of Undermountain sales page, "TSR didn't actually use Ed Greenwood's original maps," at least not in their entirety. This post d...
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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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The Broken Lands - The Undertemple of Arkon - As part of our current online campaign, The Broken Lands, I used an adventure called, "The Undertemple of Arkon" from The Dragon Horde Zine #1. This isn't ...
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The Map for my Current DnD Campaign - So maybe two months ago, when we all realized that lockdown wasn't just going to last a couple of weeks, a number of us agreed to try playing a Dungeons an...
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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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Gamma World 12`000 AD - My 20 answers to scraps questions 1. Yes, yes there are, many different types of them. You can play one as mutant animal, you can get one as a mount, no y...4 years ago
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Half-Organized Thoughts About Monsters - When I think of a Monster it's all images and impressions at first, then it eventually settles into something like this, a loose sort of novelistic encyclo...4 years ago
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Blood Sundown Review - I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review on Driv...
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WB:FMAG Total Print Sales - Hello Folks, The last time I did a quick sales report was in September 2018. I pulled reports from Amazon, Lulu and DrivethruRPG from October to current fo...4 years ago
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DIE 20! - Blame the stay at home order if you like. Well you cannot blame it for what this is. I guess the social distancing and stay at home order gave me uninter...
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Welcome! - Welcome to Meandering Banter! ALLERGY ADVICE: Contains GLOG classes, OSR rambling, bizarre heartbreakers, traces of discourse and has been manufactured in ...4 years ago
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Crystal Crypt Of Zhool - *Crystal Crypt Of Zhool* is a free mid-level Barrowmoor crypt for use with Barrowmaze or as a small set-piece in your campaign or hexcrawl. Stats are gi...
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I Cast RESURRECTION!!! - So, I know it's been awhile. I didn't realize it had been quite *that *long. I hope some of you are still around out there. I know I've talked about some ...4 years ago
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Hate hijackers ...but here is a couple of new and old pieces - have been inundated by lots of hijackers using my little blog to spew their own agendas - personally, besides saying, 'piss off' they should find there own...
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Favourite anime of the last decade - My favourite anime of each year, 2010-2019, plus some honourable mentions: 2019 *Favourite:* The Promised Neverland An amazing mix of cuteness and horror. ...
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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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Power 10 for 5E D&D. - As I play more and more fantasy role-playing games, especially D20 variants, I find that some of my favorites are the ones that boil the entire leveling ex...4 years ago
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New start, new blog. - This bad boy has been neglected, and now I am leaving it behind. I'm starting fresh at http://douglaseasterly.blogspot.com with posts featuring art and gam...4 years ago
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Restarting the Blog - I haven’t been blogging for the last decade, but now seems like a good time to give it another go. I’ve moved the blog to my own server in the process; no ...4 years ago
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Restarting the Blog - I haven’t been blogging for the last decade, but now seems like a good time to give it another go. I’ve moved the blog to my own server in the process; no ...4 years ago
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RE: ZAK - FUCK ZAK. MAY BE I;M WRONG TO NOT BE ZAK’S FRIEND. BUT FUCK HIM. **SPOILER HINT: I;M NOT WRONG!!!14 years ago
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ... - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: Merlynd the Magician: A Remembrance of Don Kaye, ...: LINK to Description and Ordering: https://www.tlbgames.com/colle...4 years ago
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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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Wargaming Wednesday: Blood Cross Chapter - Well, I'm a month behind already. ~sigh~ I'll just have to get better. As usual, Amazon affiliate links at the end. A Tactical Battle Brother of the Blood ...
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Levithan - I just picked up a copy of Scotia Grendel's Leviathan. This is a game I've been meaning to get for years but thanks to the excellent Leviathan War blog, ...
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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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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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Campaign Planning for Dragon of Ice Spire Peak - Essential PhandelverI am planning a D&D 5e campaign with my friends to introduce them properly to the game and get past the only one session we have done...
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The Player's Handbook IPA - Well, I never would have suspected this would show up at the local corner store in this life. Huh.
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PC Infravision in OD&D - PC Infravision in OD&D Delta asked about infravision, and how OD&D may be an outlier edition that denies infravision for player characters. The idea that...5 years ago
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Hail Jeff Rients, Howdy Timothy Brannan and Hello Nigeria! - Nearly eight years after last posting, I decided to crank this old Model T up again. Because reasons. What's fascinating to me is how many views I got: a...5 years ago
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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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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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Lots of Microlite20/74/5e Goodness - I have recently discovered Brian Mathers' blog, The Gnomish Embassy. Brain's blog has a large number of posts for Microlite20 in general although his Micr...5 years ago
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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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Best Spam Comment Ever - Wow, I normally wouldn't give any sort of attention to a spam comment, but this was too fantastic to pass up (posted to several of my posts as comments and...5 years ago
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How to Cleric in Moog - *This is a quick, down and dirty guide for Clerics and other faith-based characters in the World of Moog. It is written for 5E but much of it can be easi...5 years ago
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Temporary new home for the blog - Something I should have posted earlier: >> MY 'DEV BLOG' IS NOW AT DRAGONS.IE << I'll get to make a proper home for my bloggerings at some stage, but ...
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Attacking the Stat for Fun and Profit* - Ascending Armor Class at the time of 3rd edition was a major intuitive and time saving innovation. But what is more important is how it points to rolling ...5 years ago
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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 A. Smith, Jr. Memorial Video - A beloved father, devoted friend, and D&D Dungeon Master extraordinaire. We miss you! To view video, click here Memorial Video Note - The original video...
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[chapter 2] - The children’s names were Abdan and Mershi. Preteens, traumatized. Everyone helped, but Mazi turned out to be surprisingly good with them. Jase started tea...5 years ago
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New content! New look! New locale! - What comes first? The dungeon or the wilderness? https://mythopoeicrambling.wordpress.com/2019/04/01/leveling-up-and-world-building/5 years ago
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I got mine! - The Fantasy Trip Legacy Edition kickstarter has started shipping. I got mine yesterday! It's a pretty big box (lower left) that shipped in a much bigger...
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"Alignments that aren't stupid" in action - I wrote about a new concept to map onto the term alignment some years ago here: https://spellsandsteel.blogspot.com/2015/12/alignments-that-arent-stupid.ht...5 years ago
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Bestiary of the Fabled Occident - A long time ago I started to put together a bestiary. I've pursued various other projects in the time since but I still have a fair bit of material I'd lik...
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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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Banished to the Purple Planet - Part Thirteen - Under a Weirdling Sun *Peril on the Purple Planet* is an epic DCCRPG box set devised by +Harley Stroh. The adventure is a hex crawl, so player characte...
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SHORT BREAK. - I'm going to take a break for a week or so and will start up again in the New Year. Thanks for reading and we'll start with Level 6 when I get back.5 years ago
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Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doi...
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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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A lighthearted open letter to Greyhawk fans. - Let me start by saying I don't dislike Greyhawk. I play in a current AD&D 2nd ed. game set in that setting, Greyhawk and Blackmoor also, as the settings de...6 years ago
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My new blog: devilghost.com - For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog. I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I li...6 years ago
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100 Evocative Character Titles (Part II) - From the 'Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel' by Francois Rabelais This is part two of a resource for sparking character ideas. See part one here. Descriptive...
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Spells by Keyword - Another diversion... In order to help myself in creating new weird spells I came up with the following method and four d100 lists of keywords. The idea i...
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Long overdue closing down message - Friends. I guess if you see this in you notifications or feed reader you will be quite surprised. This blog have now been dormant for a long time, and much...6 years ago
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d20 Jungle Environments - For all its focus on random combat encounters, one thing *Tomb of Annihilation* doesn't have is a table of places that make engaging in random combat fun a...
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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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The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...
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UVG: The Caravan Sheet - The UVG (my patreon) has grown a lot over the weeks and I got some friendly editing input from Skerples, and from that I realized I needed to restructure t...6 years ago
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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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In Search of...An Editor! - I'm looking for an editor for my RPG. Does anyone have any recommendations or advice on finding one?
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Pondering: Getting to the Good Parts in a Megadungeon - Thinking out loud: suppose you’ve got an episodic megadungeon campaign. Each session, the group picks a location in the megadungeon to explore. Somet...6 years ago
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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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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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Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to https://necroticgnome.com/blogs/news. This blog will remain indefinitely, but will ...7 years ago
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Here Be Monsters 4: Out of the Primal World WINNER - Congratulations again to all our Top Five. However, as a classic movie once taught me, there can be only one, so special congratulations to the winner of...
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Portfolio Images from an old CD from a while ago - This one contains some game art, a few 3d images I created from 3d CAD models, some 2d line art drawings etc. Again, fun work! Air Warrior pilot wing...
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Airlines Suck - I returned home to Pennsylvania a few days ago, after visiting my father in Colorado. I had absolutely *no trouble* with the Transportation Security Adm...
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Night Ride Part 1 - Night Ride Part 1 “Look, Pa, it’s my turn. Also, Nana is having one of her spells again and she has no idea who I am when she gets this way.” Saw sighed an...7 years ago
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Castle Keepers Guide - I am perusing the 2nd printing of the *Castle Keepers Guide*, today. So far the sections on magic staves/wands and expanded equipment lists have been of int...
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The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...7 years ago
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The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep - I only just today realized that I haven't posted anything here since the closing days of 2015. Wow. That's not a good way to maintain a blog. And I look ...7 years ago
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Director George Romero passed away. - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...716-story.html Hard to believe he's gone. I've seen all of his movies. He's the man who made everyone know what a zo...7 years ago
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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 Pipeful Of Trouble out now! - All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
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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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Starter Set Sandbox 19 - The City of Neverwinter - For some strange reason, the city of Neverwinter was never properly mapped in an RPG product until 4E's *Neverwinter Campaign Setting*, and it was really ...
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all different - Just dropping a quick note here to point out what you all already know: this blog's update schedule has taken a mortal blow. But don't worry. It's just at ...7 years ago
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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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Adding Too Much to My Adventure. When is Enough...ENOUGH? - Well, what was supposed to be a quick mini-dungeon using the DAGGER FOR KIDS rules turned into a bigger beast than I had originally planned. My daughter is...
7 years ago -
Daily Monster Art- Axe Beak - This art series is more like the monsters I've never actually used in a game series. I think the axe beak is pretty cool, I mean, it is weird dumb crea...
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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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Not QUITE a TPK... - But you could see one from there! I know my players read these, so I'm going to try to avoid campaign spoilers. But there will be some. Last night the par...
7 years ago -
Swords & Glory, Vol. 2: Tekumel Player's Handbook - Hello, 14 year-old me... I stumbled across this post on the Tekumel Foundation blog early this last week, on Facebook (I think I traced that back correct...
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Adventures in the City of the Dead - I am trying a new approach to dealing with sessions that multiple players have to miss in my new Waterdeep campaign. If I know in advance that multiple pl...8 years ago
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California Natural Dog Food - The California Natural dog food brand is produced and manufactured by Natura Pet Products, Inc. This dog food company uses premium, high-quality ingredie...8 years ago
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5 More of the Most Despicable Things Ever Done by Player Characters - Player characters in role-playing games are generally supposed to be the "heroes" of the story, the good guys or at least the "anti-heroes." But as well al...
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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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Time in my OD&D Campaign - I was running an OD&D game world when the first three AD&D books were published, and I resisted for a while, but of course made the purchases. I read the ...
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Build your own monster in Fear Fetchers by Kevin Damen - Inhabit the mind of a monster on a mission to collect fear from the houses of unsuspecting people. It's not-Monsters-Inc-but-it-is. Wonderful monster-build...
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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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Tyranny of Dragons: Hoard of the Dragon Queen Review - I'm late to the party on this one I know, as Tyranny of Dragons is sort of old news, but I've spent a lot of time DMing this campaign for my group over the...
8 years ago -
In Search of the Unknown: Evadne Moon-touched, Part One - [image: Beverly Marshall Saling] Beverly Marshall Saling Beverly plays Evadne Moon-touched, a character originally created in 1995 for Mike Ryan's AD&D S...
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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...8 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! ...8 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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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 availab...
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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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I ran Torchbearer - I ran Torchbearer this weekend. I had fun, and I want to run it again. Damn does this game have a learning curve, though. We were fumbling around with the...9 years ago
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Vanity, thy name is "A New Blog" - *"Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years..."* - apologies to LLCoolJ for the use of his lyrics. I've started a new blog. It's not the "OSR" blo...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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This is Phase World…It’s Nothing Like Regular Rifts, Honest - Tonight was character generation for the Phase World Game: Mary, a 10′ bipedal dinosaur (Seljuk) mercenary with a grenade launcher, a power halberd, a comb...9 years ago
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Quick pre-move thought - One thing that surprises me, looking back on nigh-unto a decade working for the same place, is how few friends I have here. Plenty of cheerful acquaintance...9 years ago
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No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...
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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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0-Level ACKS Alices - Introductory Complaining If I’m running a low-power game, I like 0-level play: It sets the tone, establishes more of the character at the table, and introd...9 years ago
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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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Held Action Theatre 1: World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl Part 1 - In episode 1 of Held Action Theatre, we kick off the show with the first part of the Dungeon Bastard’s World’s Worst Dungeon Crawl. It’s everything the tit...10 years ago
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Storing Information, Playing Information, Dungeons - Someone asked about nesting information. Oh and this is mostly about older D&D. Oh, and this is very useful in this context. Oh, this might be boring. I'm...
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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...10 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 ...10 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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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...11 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...11 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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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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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...12 years ago
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What I Have Learned from Random Mutation Tables - Here is a lesson I have learned from using random mutation tables in D&D. I normally use the old Realms of Chaos books for mutations, and usually it’s beca...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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A Ruined Castle of Aventurien - Another map courtesy of *Das Schwarze Auge*, in this case, a ruined keep on the water. I imagine the keep above plagued by skeletons and the ghosts, rat...
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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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The Future of Dungeons & Dragons - What if D&D 5e Had No DM? - Wow. My brain is still humming after last Friday's Twitter conversation. I had caught wind of, in my feed, of some discussion of what WotC (Wizards of the ...13 years ago
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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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Old things and rare my treasures are. - *Survivors beyond memoryOld things and rare my treasures are.Times folded gates, fast closed to me,These lonely sentinels unbar.Years do no...13 years ago
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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.13 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...13 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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ODD Bits 1 - ODD Bits is a web log series of trivia questions culled from the pages of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of original Dungeons & Dragons. If you care to play along, ans...14 years ago
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Greyhawk Modules Online – Naerie Endures - Well, some of you may remember my involvement with the Living Greyhawk campaign of yore. I was active in our local region, the Principality of Naerie. Smal...14 years ago
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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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This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Well folks, this is the very last post on this particular web address. Everything...16 years ago
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Sorry - just really tired of the whole OSR debate that's cropping up on too many of the blogs that I read every day (I've got 140+ on my blogroll and I read new posts every day - which helps to explain why I get very little done on MY blog...)
It happens every couple of months. Don't worry too much about it. Just keep your head down and keep doing what you're doing.
Yeah, I know - it just seems really...pointless this time. Yeah, I'll just keep plugging away...
Isn't it pointless just about every time? Just ignore it, and it'll all go away. With luck the people you like wont.
yeah - I'm glad some folks came back after the last broohahah (how the heck do you spell THAT?) - and, yeah, it's probably all pretty pointless...
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