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Spider-Verse x Anime Art - Check out these fun Marvel x Anime mashups by The_Monsterwolf.Spider-Mirko (Marvel x My Hero Academia)Carnage Devil (Marvel x Chainsaw Man)
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Professional GM'ing, so far... - The biggest take-away for me has been how bad 5e DnD is. For me, as a GM. I guess players love it. The character builds are more bloated and involved th...
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Carpe Blogiem: Author, Patreon, and Blog Highlights – February and March 2025 - Authorial Highlights No fiction was written, but I’m going to catch up this month! I already have some stuff outlined and ready to go. The Fantasy Trip...4 hours ago
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Best OSR Cartographers - A video about some my favorite cartographers in the game. This is not an exhaustive list, but the ones I go to the most and ones that have influenced my st...
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Artists I Like: Sean Aaberg - I came to know the work of California artist Sean Aaberg through the monster section of Labyrinth Lord Advanced Edition Companion. Sean was a fitting if ...
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Darkness & Danger - When it comes to the Old School Renaissance, there are plenty of retroclones and microclones and other roleplaying games designed to emulate the play and...
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Character stable #43 - The most recently played characters are listed first, aside from the graveyard, where the highest wargamey experience gets priority place. Characters in Co...9 hours ago
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Gamelog: Return to the Gatehouse - Heroes have not been into Chagrinspire since December and since then have been exploring, trading, and ruining the inte...
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Y2k/25 Mar.29- Half-Elf Paladin - Name:Ba’nat’ar Bandor Race: Half-Elf Class: Paladin Level Range:Experienced Stats:Powerful Alignment: Lawful Good Deity: Parrish, the Sunlord Affiliation: ...15 hours ago
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DM of the Rings Remastered CXII: Insubstantial - The rulebooks explain that undead have very low charisma scores, but they offer nothing in the way of explanation as to why the other people at the table a...16 hours ago
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A Hazard Die for Mothership - [image: Rolling a 1 on your Hazard Die] Ben is interested in getting people blogging about Mothership. People are good, so of course it wasn’t long befor...16 hours ago
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Deal of the Day - GM's Miscellany: Wilderness Dressing (5e) (Essentially System Neutral) - The *GM Miscellany* series of releases is one of the best resources for any GM running a campaign, OSR or otherwise. They exemplify the ideal resource fo...
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Duchy of Saint Albus: Wraith Widows for Shadowdark - Wraith Widows for Shadowdark *Hundreds of years ago, Zaul, an evil druid dedicated to Vor the Hunger That Stalks, transformed a coven of hags, the seve...18 hours ago
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Brink of Calamity live for sale! - As of about 15 minutes ago *Brink of Calamity* is finally live for sale at DriveThruRPG in both (softcover) print and pdf versions. Note that DriveThruRP...18 hours ago
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The Evil Ones - Back in 1980, Dragon magazine presented an Anti-Palidin. These guys were stereotypical black hat NPCs. The logic behind them was a Palidin pledged themsel...
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PzJg38(t) Hetzer - Continuing with my plan of painting all the stuff I printed ages ago and then forgot about — this time it's a 15mm (1:100) Hetzer, or to be pedantic, a...
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The Hydra Problem - Discordian FifthDragon an image of this tumblr post the other day: Interesting for sure, and with a very fine piece of art to go with it. But as people ...
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Let's Build a PIE Conlang 1: Intro + First Word - TLN sent me this ages ago I have been deep-diving on Proto-Indo-European linguistics for the last year for Conlang Reasons, which has filled me with usele...
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Review & Commentary On The Hostile Situation Report #017 For The Hostile rpg - " HOSTILE Situation Reports - Free one-page NPCs or adventure situations for the gritty HOSTILE setting."CONAM 17"A waystation, off the traffic routes, wit...1 day ago
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"Now Make It YOUR Tékumel." (Part I) - Last week, in the comments to last week's post, "Rules, Rules, and More Rules," reader Bonnacon asked me to elaborate on something I wrote there. Specifi...1 day ago
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GM Don’t List #20: Always Say Yes - GM: So now, at last, Minas Tirith is besieged, enclosed in a ring of foes. The Rammas has been broken, and all Pelennor abandoned to the Enemy. All night t...1 day ago
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Geeky SKAturday: Gettin' RUDE with the Sybians... - Happy SKAturday, all! Thank you for stopping by to hopefully make it just a little bit brighter, nerdier, and more skankable with me. As a reminder, these...
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[New Magic Item] Ring of Gelatinous You - Ring of Gelatinous You ‘What a horrible way to die,’ Thoz said as he winced.The others suddenly looked at the green pile of jelly that had seemingly engulf...1 day ago
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Cheater’s Ring - This cursed ring is made of gold and silver. With pleasing decorations making the whole seem to be worth 80 gp. However, when acquired in any manner othe...
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Gene Wolfe is intimidating. The Knight is not. I also recommend smoked brisket. - I’ve got a Gene Wolfe sized hole in my reading. Wolfe is generally accorded of the most respected and literary fantasy authors--ever. Readers are enthra...1 day ago
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Filchers in the Feylight - By WIll FloraProp Co GamesOSELevel 1 A secret thieves guild, The Crimson Web, has stolen an artifact from the Archmage Twane*, and the party must recover i...1 day ago
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My 2 Campaigns in 2 Paragraphs - Over at the RPG pub (the only RPG forum I regularly visit these days) there’s an interesting thread asking people to describe their campaigns in one paragr...
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[Now Available] Shadowmercs -- A Shadowdark 1980's Action-Adventure Supplement - *Shadowmercs: 1980s-Style Action Adventures* *A Shadowdark Supplement* By James Mishler and Jodi Moran-Mishler [image: Shadowmercs Cover] *You were in The...
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The Most Important Rule Missing From WotC D&D - There were several changes from old to new school rules, but one mechanic in particular was lost that made WotC D&D much worse for its absence. #dnd ...
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Frightful Fridays! Crooze - Hello and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! It’s ooze time again, and I’ve got another speedy ooze for you. The crooze can race around the battle...2 days ago
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Recent Illustration – Tomb of the Claw - acrylic on paper, March 2025 When I was working as a commercial photographer and grip, we would often use colored gels to color different light sources in ...2 days ago
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In The Beginning there was Holmes… - I know I’ve commented on this story before. So here it is with props, thoughts, and a few little shout outs. Basically, I started by RPG fascination with H...2 days ago
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Reunion [Book Review] - My friend wrote a book. Writing an un-biased review isn't really possible. Over the decade and a half that I've been writing this blog, I've mentioned my f...
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Pokemon Supply and Demand - *Balancing supply, demand, allocations, and the realities of a collector-driven market.* Pricing hot Pokémon products isn’t just about looking at TCGplay...
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New Segment- Punk Rock Backwash! - Today’s PSotD (love you Siouxsie) marks the 536 song I did for this playlist… so…2 days ago
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Kickstart Your Weekend: More Witches! More Adventures! - These people want to keep making a liar out of me. Both of these have already funded and blown past their funding goals. *Sickest Witch RPG - Core Rule...
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 17 - The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →2 days ago
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Howling Tower: A Study of the Elf - Your character’s lineage is a cornerstone of deep roleplaying, not just a mechanism for gaining some bonuses you’d like to have. Elves, dwarves, smallfol...2 days ago
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[Greyhawk] North Province - *Art by Mihai Radu* The Overking was traditionally appointed by vote of the magnates ruling the constituent territories of the Aedi. One of these was the r...
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Getting The Band Back Together - In November, I paused my Mutants in the Now game because my campaign’s content clashed with the rising political climate, and I was not in a place where I ...2 days ago
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Zungeon Zunday: Cacogenic Vats - In 2025 I’m reviewing zungeon zines. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques, just like Bathtub Reviews, but they’ll be a little briefer. Th...2 days ago
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Random table synergy - Yesterday I had some free time but not much brain power, so pulled out my old random table print-outs and just shuffled through them, browsing, rolling d...2 days ago
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Shit. Did I break Ioun City? - tl;dr: tl;dr: The Dullgray River Rats are rich. Now what? We're trying to figure out what to do next. Did I break the game? Does wealth make the game not f...
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Tim's Outlanders: Session 2, May, 17 IC - *Player Characters* *Tim, a Wizard* - male human from the Free City of Freegate, student at Outlands University *Dangar Stonekleaver* - male dwarf from th...2 days ago
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It Doesn’t Feel Like My Game, It Feels Like Our Game - This may sound kind of weird, but once one of my games is done and released, I don’t really think of it as something *I* made. I mean, of course I know I m...3 days ago
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[Cyberpunk] Defensive OnSite Hackers instead of Security Servers - Those who follow my indie-publisher-doings know that I involve myself with Sprawl Goons:Upgraded and chat with its creator, Paul „Geist“ Gallagher from tim...3 days ago
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Introducing the Shades of Blood Player’s Guide - Introducing the Shades of Blood Player’s Guide March 27, 2025 The quiet daily life of Talmandor’s Bounty, a settlement on a remote island in what remai...3 days ago
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OSR: 1d12 Magical Staves - The Magus known as Kalzana was brilliant, even as a child. At the age of eight, he quickly grasped the basics of spell-craft and was soon recognized as ...3 days ago
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Trench Crusade Warband: Sisters of the Sable Geisslerlieder - So I have become absolutely *fixated* upon Trench Crusade. Maybe it is the aesthetics, maybe it is the fact that I'm a huge WWI fan (Second Yrpes ...
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When the Clouds Come Down - On certain days, at twilight, the clouds gather themselves down along the horizon and become indistinguishable from hills. At such times, the onlooke...
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Parry Gripp, Session 16: Reaching the Pegasus Prison - Having obtained the bathysaucepan from Breakfast Wizard, the party heads directly toward the pegasus prison below the sea: They aren’t far from the sunken ...3 days ago
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Rarely pure and never simple - We were talking recently about alignment, and because I don't believe in those concepts I've never been very interested in heroes and villains, either in...3 days ago
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Seek Earth - DF Whiterock has a nice post on *Seek Earth*. Find it here. In DF Felltower, I do the following: - Even a single coin is a "significant" amount. This mean...3 days ago
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A Case Study in AI Art in RPGs and Why it Poses Problems - Gammadark - I write this from the perspective of a author and small publisher who produced works that required art. Back when I was filled with a lot more energy an...3 days ago
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New Greyhawk Map: Perrenland Campaign - Hello Greyhawk friends! No comic this week but coming back from* Garycon 2025* I am pleased to share a new map I worked on for my current *5.5E* home cam...
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Two Rounds of Camalatrum - After Jackpot Jones’ untimely death, Patch and I did our usual pair of games of Commands & Colors: Ancients. Up this time was the Battle of Camalatrum, nea...4 days ago
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Great Pendragon Campaign Follow-Up - From 2017 to 2021, I ran the Great Pendragon Campaign, starting in 480 AD (I think technically the year 479 actually) and running to 535 AD. For most of th...4 days ago
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Distances in the 2024 Monster Manual - As a d20 monster designer, a question I often have is “how D&D is this distance?” D&D has certain speeds, distances, and ranges that it likes more than oth...4 days ago
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Coming Soon: Dracoheim Confidential, by Misha Burnett - Return to the magical realm of Dracoheim! For the city at the nexus of myriad strange and sorcerous alien worlds, magic and monsters have become just anoth...4 days ago
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Playing Card Initiative - Instead of rolling for initiative, here is a method for playing cards instead to determine who acts and when.4 days ago
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Niv Lova, s3 (solo AP) - This is a continuing playtest of the Niv Lova (link)RPG playtest. Previous sessions: Session 0, Session 1, session 2.Departing for the Factory Ruins Andre...
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Landmark Sites - Dwelling - Sites read like a bit of a side-dish in Mythic Bastionland. I wanted to include a simple little system to create more zoomed-in locations, but the game i...
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Tuesday Magic Item – Marine’s Cutlass - Voddick sighed. “I really do not care for see travel. I prefer to have solid ground under my feet.” Gollaon nodded. “I can understand but it is a faster...4 days ago
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Treacle & Crouch's Pie Shop and the Wormwood Star - Two more adventure locations in Piskaro! One is my obvious Sweeney Todd riff, the other was inspired by my study of French Decadent literature. *Treacle ...
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A "special: review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...5 days ago
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White Chalk: Crow Moon 2/12 (Almanac 25) - The Crow Moon is the second month of the year, according to the Neolithic farmers of the White Chalk Coast . Each month I attempt to update this pariah a...
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DTRPG print costs will increase on April 1 - DriveThruRPG is set to significantly raise the cost of print-on-demand products, with an increase ranging from 20% to 80%, as mentioned on Reddit (see belo...
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Gary Con XVII - I attended Gary Con this year. Last year, I was supposed to go, but something came up and I had to cancel. This year, I ran a scenario I created called The...6 days ago
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The Best Of 2015 Part 3 - Listing the best posts offered at Campaign Mastery in the last third of 2015. The next part of the Trade In Fantasy series is so close to completion that I...6 days ago
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Mini-Reviews: Polite Society Chang'an, Fast Times! The Surprises! - This set of reviews were the movies that exceeded my expectations. Polite Society I absolutely love a good bonkers bollywood movie, and Polite Society del...6 days ago
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RANDOM ENCOUNTER TABLES AS ADVENTURE RAM: Adding “Memory” To Encounter Checks - artist: Stefan Poag What if we design the random encounter table to function as computer RAM- to store short-term information/change without having t...6 days ago
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Planet Karus – Session 29 - Six players, seven hours, almost 10k XP, zero player-characters killed (darn it)—our annual marathon session was a complete blast. This time around, the pa...6 days ago
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The 3-2-1 Quest Model - Dragon of Icespire Peak in the 2019 D&D Essentials Kit has a wonderful quest model worth paying special attention to. I'm calling it the "3-2-1 quest model...6 days ago
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Zombie Dice and All-Purpose Spellcasting - [The following rule utilizes the Zombie dice from *Zombie Dice*, a game published by Steve Jackson Games. Zombie dice, which will hereafter be referred t...
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Zombie Dice and All-Purpose Spellcasting - [The following rule utilizes the Zombie dice from *Zombie Dice*, a game published by Steve Jackson Games. Zombie dice, which will hereafter be referred t...
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[BLOG] News on the March! Episode VI. - This post continues the series of brief play reports I have been posting on Discord. This does not cover every single session (sometimes, recon and setup...
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Survive This!! War for the Wasteland - Survive This!! War for the Wasteland by Bloat Games, has just launched on Kickstarter. I picked up the earlier Ashcan version and have been looking fo...
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The Hissing Grassland? - So, I purchased Deck of Worlds from The Story Engine. It arrived in a sturdy box. Inside the box, six unequally sized decks of cards rest in separate niche...1 week ago
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Urban Gameplay Part 6: Concrete Jungle Gyms - Pssst! If you're coming here from the Glatisant, Part 1 is here! I sure do talk a lot about the needs of "simulation," huh? Truly the least interesting ap...
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GOZR monster generator - I had a think and tried to isolate the kinds of sounds you might find in a GOZR RPG (affil link) monster name, then I figured what the heck, I’ll make ye...1 week ago
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Small Gods: Non-CIS Genders - I’m getting a little ahead of myself, but it’s timely for other reasons. I have a use for this table right soonish. When I wrote Polyhedral Pantheons, I wa...1 week ago
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40K Friday - The Practical Side of 3D Printing - He's upset about being resized I know the dream of 3D printing is "I can print all the miniatures I want for almost free" with a side order of "any tim...
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Ivory Towers - Found in the Ivory Towers hex of Wizard City Hexcrawl *"Can you sue a god? What a ridiculous question!* *...Of course you can sue a god! This is Wizard ...1 week ago
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A Thorough Look at Bards in D&D and GURPS - A Thorough Look at Bards in D&D and GURPSBard is one of the core D&D classes that has been present in every edition since AD&D 1e. The D&D community sure l...1 week ago
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The 1-Year Campaign Theater Part I - I find that campaigns tend to run for a year before the seasonal break (whatever season it’s nicest to be outside in your climate). So it makes sense to s...1 week ago
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Monks as Fighter Techniques - I reread the AD&D Monk over Christmas and was amazed at all the sheer janky madness there is. I did think it was pretty cool in general, though the speci...1 week ago
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Happy St. Cuthbert's Day! - Today is the saint's day of the original cuddy, St. Cuthbert of the Cudgel! Although the real world Cuthbert seems not to have used a cudgel at all; in t...
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On the Success of the VOTE - You voted for it, and it's here! All the prices on the books I sell on DTRPG will be rising in price, 40-50% so I can maintain the same margin as now! ...1 week ago
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Mydwandrings, Session 9 - Day 4, 2nd week of early spring, Middlebury Keep. Beck and Lugan spend an uncomfortable night in a dungeon cell. They are escorted to the courtyard where t...1 week ago
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Finding Art for Undeadwood - Every week both before and after I run a session of *Undeadwood Weird West RPG*, I work on the book. It has been a truly enriching and enjoyable experience...
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Inner Glow Effect for Polygons in ArcGIS Online - Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow effe...
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Campaign Journal: Lindwurming - Cresting the dunes, we see: - Slick - Jax - Fulvus (Frederick and Rondel joined later). source Before them were arrayed placer deposits of r...
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The Tragedy of Dragons - The dragons of this world are massive creatures dwarfing blue whales, amphibians that have evolved into a shape and ecological niche somewhat like sharks. ...1 week ago
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A Review of 'Appendix N: Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons' - Weird Tales From The Roots Of Dungeons & Dragons Revised and Expanded Edition Edited by Peter Bebergal (Disclosure - Strange Attractor Press sent me this...
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Random tables! - 1. *Brass Spiked Table.* Made of uhh, spiked brass. Any summon spell cast while the scroll / spellbook sits on this table is more effective, but ...
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Three Things Other Than the Things Previously Listed - Amphitheres Most people believe that amphitheres are a type of feathered dragon. This is incorrect; amphitheres and dragons are completely unrelated taxono...1 week ago
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Play: Brave Old World - * Mother Russia *by Lauren Yee, Directed by Nicholas C. Avila, Seattle Rep through 6 April 13 April If writer Lauren Yee has a "thing" that describes her...
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My 2024 in Review - This is my fourth year doing a round-up of my favorite media. This year, I decided to pick one winner in each category, but acknowledge a top five, which m...
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The Oneironaut Launches! Downtime in Zyan is back in print! - There are two pieces of big news I want to shared with you. The first is that I have launched the first installment of my new physical zine for my Patreo...
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Linguistic Archaeology: That Acting Job on Andor Season 1 - *Actors selected for Andor season 1* 1. Luna (RO) 2. Soller 3. Arjona 4. Skarsgård 5. Shaw 6. O'Reilly 7. Gough 8. Marsay 9. Sethu 10. Dulau 11. Sibtain 1...1 week ago
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Thoughts After Ending my Shadows Over the Barrowmaze Game - THE SIX MONTHS AFTER PERSPECTIVE2 weeks ago
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Adapting Moorcockian Cosmology to D&D - Years ago now I tried writing a post about alignment in D&D, Elden Ring, and Michael Moorcock. It quickly bloated into a messy constellation of ideas tha...
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The Bazaar of the Memorable (Obol Desert) - This is a post for the *Obol Desert*, a setting I've been working on with friend-of-the-blog Eos of *Nobless Goblige*. This one mostly focuses on carav...
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20 questions with the Chubby Funster - Hello Dear Readers! It has been a while since I’ve done a 20-question post. I like to get to know people in the industry, and there are a few creators who ...2 weeks ago
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People, Plots and Places of the Wild West: Military Fort - "People, Plots and Places of the Wild West: Military Fort" is now available from DrivethruRPG. This six-page supplement presents a layout for a U.S. Arm...
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RPG Design Assumptions - "An RPG's mechanics should support the fiction." has become "Fiction needs to be supported by mechanics."2 weeks ago
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What's Being Sold at Radiket? (Freebie, Gear) - This blog entry serves two purposes - it is a companion piece to the previous entry, providing a variety of strange items to be sold at the Radiant Marke...2 weeks ago
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The non-Stress-free Gift of Limitless Spells - Letting wizards cast infinite spells with bizarre unpredictable costs made my game so much better and I need to tell you a bit about it before I start with...2 weeks ago
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[Review] In the Realm of the Nibelungs (S&W 3PP); Mythopoeic - [Supplement]In the Realm of the Nibelungs (2024)Martin Mertens (Mitland) Disclaimer: Sponsored content. While I was at Cauldron Con I was, like most DM’s t...2 weeks ago
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...
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Thoughts on conworld calendars - Yes, we’re still playing and yes, I have to get a lot of logs up. Those are as much for me to have a reference as anything else, and I feel lazy. But th...2 weeks ago
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Let's Read the Dark Sun Creature Catalog: Cloud Ray - A cilops, which is a giant centipede with one big angry eye on its head. Copyright 2010 Wizards of the Coast. This post is part of a series! Click here t...2 weeks ago
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Checks Versus Attack Rolls: Every Aspiring RPG Designer (and Some Veterans) Should Read This - One of the great innovations of roleplaying game design came in 1977 when Steve Perrin and his Runequest design friends realized the advantage of using the...2 weeks ago
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Ring Any Bells? - So, yesterday, going through a box, I came across the dungeon map I did as part of the Map Order for some adventure I worked on back in TSR/WotC days (...2 weeks ago
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Adding Character Classes to Monsters in the d20 System - Giving monsters abilities that are typically restricted to character classes is something of a sticky wicket in the d20 System. Not because monsters can’t ...2 weeks ago
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Voting is now open for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum competition! - Hello all! Image by Pat ONeill Voting is now open for the 2024/2025 Lindenbaum Prize. Voting is open until 5pm GMT on the 31st May 2025. *Voting* The ...2 weeks ago
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Farewell @Ex-Twitter - [image: farewell hellbird site] minor announcement If you were following my updates on ex-twitter (and seeing any of them, hah, algorithm), I suggest instag...2 weeks ago
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Your players aren’t supposed to die - We're going to celebrate John by playing D&D together in public, with you if you want. Or you can watch. The event is March 16 from 1-4 pm PT.
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The Ghastly Dragon Generator | Bespoke Dragons for the Ghastly Affair RPG - In the vein of the “Bespoke Boogeyman” post, here is a complete system of Generator Tables to create Dragons … Continue reading →3 weeks ago
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MONSTERS UNLEASHED - The dark world just became deadlier. The Fiends of Skorne, the latest supplement for the role-playing game Skorne, unleashes a host of terrifying creature...3 weeks ago
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This Post is for Underwater Sea Creatures Only - As part of some other work I'm messing about with, I wanted to put together an underwater bestiary. I don't like underwater critters in the midst of my ...
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Blackmoor Trademark Now Registered to Estate of Dave Arneson LLC - As of March 4th, 2025, the Blackmoor Trademark is listed as Registered to the The Estate of David Arneson LLC. The estate first applied to register the...3 weeks ago
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Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition, Year Two - Some years ago, I read through all of Vampire: The Masquerade 1st Edition. I covered the products from 1991 in a pair of posts and then kept up the posting...3 weeks ago
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OUT NOW! DEEP DUNGEONS DD1 - The Tower of Leorik the Bold - *OUT NOW!* DEEP DUNGEONS DD1 - The Tower of Leorik the Bold An OD&D adventure A GREAT WARRIOR’S ABANDONED HOME A LEGEND OF A MAGICAL SWORD GOLD AND GLORY A...
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2025-03-05 How do you process the news? - 2025-03-05 How do you process the news? I’m looking at the blog and noticing that I haven’t posted much. It’s hard. A long time ago I discontinued all my ...3 weeks ago
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The "Your-Canon-Concerns-Me-Not" Middle-Earth Campaign - I've been re-reading Lord of the Rings the past two weeks or so, getting through a chapter some mornings, and one to three chapters in the afternoon/even...
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GM’s Day Sale on DriveThruRPG - DriveThruRPG is having one of its biggest sales of the year! Go here for all of the OSR titles on sale, or check out my top picks below. Also, if you’re ...3 weeks ago
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Not a Med Student - With respect to my last blog, I want to clarify: I am not a medical student. I know *many* medical students, but I'm not one. I'm just nosy and vengeful....3 weeks ago
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Fight On! number 16 is out. - The new issue of *Fight On!* has been out for a bit. You can get copies via drivethru or lulu. I haven't finished reading my copy, but I'd like to reco...
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.4 weeks ago
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Wandering through the Majestic Fantasy Realms - It's time for another Bat in the Attic update! I am halfway through the first draft of my upcoming project, Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northe...4 weeks ago
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The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
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Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...4 weeks ago
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Eldritch Cultists: Changing a metagame currency without changing the mechanics - Metagame currencies are one of those things that some people love and others hate, but "karma" is a core part of the Tricube Tales game mechanics and not...
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Another Underclock - I've been using Arnold's Underclock since about 5 minutes after that blog post dropped. It's great! Trouble is I do miss the "oh shit there's something her...
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Backwards Compatible? Not without caveats! - What does backwards compatibility mean? With respect to Dungeons & Dragons 2024 edition, it is very confused. Honestly, the game is mostly compatible wit...4 weeks ago
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False Prophets (A Monster for King of Kings) - *Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through necromancy... Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism ...
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Fight On! Issue #16 is here! - Just a brief announcement that Issue #16 of Fight On!, the premier fanzine for classic D&D, is now out. 128 dirt-cheap pages of fantasy gaming goodness, ...
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Warring States: A Mini Setting for Old-School Fantasy RPGs - This is another "mini-setting" that I posted as a series of graphic images on Twitter and Instagram just about a year and a half ago, but thought it was ...
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D&D Class: The Cryptreaver - BBC, Tales of the Old Bailey (unknown artist)This derivative of the *D&D BECMI* thief class describes a specialized tomb robber and somewhat of a scaveng...4 weeks ago
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Some thoughts on reading Appendix N - Any attempt to read Appendix N is necessarily going to involve some interpretation. If Gary just listed an author’s name and nothing else, how many of thei...5 weeks ago
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A Robert E. Howard Reader at Fantasy Con Scotland - "The Legend" by George Paul Chalmers (ca 1864), illustrating a scene from *The Pirate* (1821) by Walter Scott Scotland, befitting a land of inventors and ...
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Wizard Tricks (OSE) - "Do not mistake me for some conjurer of cheap tricks!" - Gandalf the Gray"A trick is something a hooker does for money... or candy." - Gob Bluth"What can m...5 weeks ago
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The New Game: Completed - With huge apologies to anyone out there who has been waiting for this, I'd like to bring to a close the *TenStones* Glass Bead Game that I started in *Dec...
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To Have a Share of the Earth and the Unfruitful Sea (GLOG Class: Cleric) - Artemis or Hecate, via Wikipedia Artemis, via Wikipedia In the base of the rocky hill on which the high citadel of the city of Orchitrave is founded, t...5 weeks ago
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Best Case Scenario Mission - INTERSECT BINARY WAVES [O-E] - *Player Intro* A dozen unstable psychics, recovered from the ruins of the Center for Coordination [see archival documents SECOND HAND CLOCK/PIKES GATHER ...5 weeks ago
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How to Make a God of the Hyborian Age - Well hey, long time no blog. I've lately been getting back into the Hyborian Age, the setting of the stories of Conan of Cimmeria, and putting together ...
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Fisher-Price toy turned GRIMDARK ADMINISTRATUM BUILDING!!! (Thrift-Store Terrain for 40k) - So: this thing cost $10 at a local thrift store. No doubt it was an antique secretly worth 85 Gabzillion bucks. Who cares? I had far more grimdark purpo...
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Did the Bloggies make me Blog more? | You? - 2024 was a reasonably quiet year for me (reasons). In 2024 I posted 6, arguably 7 posts (that were more than just update posts), and one of those was on 31...5 weeks ago
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Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...5 weeks ago
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Southern Reach 3: Area X as Cthulhu adventure or Trophy incursion - Astute readers of the previous post will have already noticed that of course everything there about how languages construct subjects applies to RPG rule sy...5 weeks ago
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A Farmhouse - Thatched roof and fieldstone walls, barn nuzzled up against the south end. Nailed to the door is the farmer. Flies languidly buzz around his head. You fe...5 weeks ago
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Triggered Actions - 2 claws/1 bite... iconic monster stat-line -- but, what if the bite attack did* twice* the listed damage and was only triggered if both claws hit? Obviou...
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d100 – Swansong Abilities - During the earliest days of this Hobby a Referee named Mark Swanson devised a few Random Tables that would become known as “Swanson Abilities” or “Swanso...
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Using a chatbot to make random pick up and play D&D characters... - Put this into chatgpt: "I will give you a format and can you help me generate random characters for a roleplaying game in character sheet form" (copy and...5 weeks ago
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Superman, Fantastic Four, Etc. movie thoughts. - Having grown up a comic book wonk I always have thoughts on what is going on with comic book movies, especially these upcoming ones. When I was a lot ...
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Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
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Holmes Day 2025 - *J. Eric Holmes at his chalkboard game table, contemplating miniatures and notes.Taken by Tony Bernard for the 1979 L.A. Times article, "Fantasy Life i...
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ShadowDark of Strahd - Game 2 - If you're new to this series about running Curse of Strahd as a sandbox for ShadowDark, there have been a few other posts (here). The previous post rela...
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Class: Necanthrope - This wizarding tradition is based on SLA Industries, but tweaked and reflavoured to better fit the magic punk of the Wizard City. From *SLA Industries* ...
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Table This Discussion - Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on: Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure? 1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...1 month ago
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STILL ALIVE BITCHES - Well. Here we are again. It's been a while of sickness, needing a wheelchair, and being mostly bed-ridden. SO I do have time for games when I'm not too ...
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Digital Art Practice - So every winter, my brain goes haywire trying to get relief from the awful cold.I picked up a legit copy of Clip Studio Paint (I think it's like 55$) and ...
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Real History: Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest - Two great articles about the the remains of cultures that existed in South America. I find this type of culture fascinating and imagine many of the cultu...1 month ago
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On Hobby Best Practices - Part 5 - Series Index << Part 4 Part 5 - Practice your actual hobby I have saved the most blatantly obvious of these posts for last. Yet it feels sometimes lik...1 month ago
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Damnation Seize My Soul If I Give You Quarters, Or Take Any From You (Class: Fighter) - Owing thanks to GLOG discord user Eos of Dawn for her excited description of a class in Pathfinder, the tabletop roleplaying game system of her invention...1 month ago
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Against 2d6 - The players from my Classic Traveller one-shot last week started asking whether there would be more adventures for those characters. I felt a certain un...1 month ago
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#TTRPG – Seth’s Gear & Ammo, Back to School 2025 Released - Another assortment of oddness and oddities, gear, animals and example characters and villains for Shadowdark and similar d20-based games, with particular r...1 month ago
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Appendix Probi of the OSSR - Sandbox, not Any Box Roll Tables, not Story Beats Rumors, not Hooks Character Progression, not Character Development Scenario Generation, not Plot W...1 month ago
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STRANGE AEONS - ISTANBUL - The next set of Strange Aeons adventures. Leo Kazankian, sole owner and proprietor of the Manzikert Hotel in 1920s Istanbul, wants you to help him solve ...
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shield-killer bazaar builds - (this one’s about the bazaar. which is in beta, so spoilies maybe) ( i dont have invites for the beta but, you can buy it? here's my referral link if you...1 month ago
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Nate Hack - Here's the basic idea for Nate Hack: Base rules are AD&D Ability scores, classes, advancement, spells, and experience gain are AD&D, except classes go ...1 month ago
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Too Like the Lightning-Rod: Serendipitous January Reading - I suppose I could bulk this out into a fuller miscellany, but January's almost over and these go quite well together. I acquired two bits of reading whic...1 month ago
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A Redder Sonja: Jirel of Joiry - *Jirel of Joiry is riding down with the score of men at her hack,For none is safe in the outer lands from Jirel's outlaw pack; The vaults of the wiza...
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Six Flames - Ghastflame Burn corpse wax to create the sickly green ghastflame. Its wisps map out faces of the dead and damned, which it invites to the flame like moths....1 month ago
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Alignment in O.G.R.E.S. Addendum - Additional Thoughts on Alignment In case you all haven't seen it, Tim Brannan has been doing a super fun exercise with the O.G.R.E.S. games over on his Th...1 month ago
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DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...
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MOP-HEAD - MOP-HEAD "The thing called Mop-Head was not an animal or plant or rock, although, by now it was a little of each. It had no definite body, and it longed f...
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Chain Gang's Main Drain - The Emperor is building a new canal. Maybe it's going to be full of his favorite fish; a pond next to his new palace. Or perhaps it's a massive rice farm...
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Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...2 months ago
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NTRPG Gaming Weekend - [image: NTRPG Gaming Weekend] This weekend was a "game day" for North Texas RPG Con, held at the same hotel the con is held at. I haven't slung dice since...
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The Stats of a Dave Arneson Player Character. - If you want to find the details for one of the characters that Gary Gygax made and played as a PC, perhaps to use as an NPC in your own game, it isn't t...2 months ago
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Prependix N - A mere 10 months ago (hot of the presses by what James refers to as our shambolic standards), “The Problem with Appendix N” over at Grognardia lamented: Ye...2 months ago
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An Unseasonal Treat - The Shitting Log of Catalonia as Elder Horror. - Vance at Leicester's Ramble got my Secret Santicorn 2024 prompt: "The Real Monster of which the Shitting Log of Catalonia is the sanity-protecting bowdle...2 months ago
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Reminder: We have MOVED! - Just a quick reminder, folks! The official Elf Lair Games blog has merged with my Wasted Lands fantasy blog. If you're following us, we can now be found...2 months ago
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I Quit My Job To Make Games - Or, I Finally Beat Inspiral By Nerfing Workdays TLDR: *Foolish Endeavor* is how I will polish & publish *Game Things* in a personally sustainable manner:...
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Strange Days - a secret organization of villains… I mean An open grouping of well known oligarchs are taking over… Your mission is to overthrow… I mean survive. The three...2 months ago
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Kickstarter: White Box Cyclopedia - James M. Spahn is currently raising money on Kickstarter for White Box: Cyclopedia, which could easily be THE definitive book if you are into fantasy rolep...2 months ago
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Atavist or ancestor? - Here's a wee conversion I did a few years ago - just got round to finishing off the paintwork. I'll probably make a few more of these: enough for a...
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Review: What Lies Beneath - *Disclaimer: **I was provided a review copy of the game. Also, some of the links below are affiliate links (meaning I get a small percentage of the sale ...
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??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.2 months ago
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Irkalla (Hex25 week one) - Oops! All big hexes. Hexmap and nice internal links via Alex Schroeder's Hex Describe. 01.02 01.03 01.04 02.01 02.02 02.03 02.04 03.01 03.02 03.03 03.04 0...2 months ago
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2024 Kickstarters - My annual update of the status of the Kickstarters I have backed. No new additions to the wall of shame and "Lady Ingrade" actually posted a draft in No...2 months ago
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[Lore 25] Full Ishtar and Apep Sectors Map WIP #3 - I made even further progress with my Lore25 challenge maps: a full Referee's map including Drill routes, and a Players' map with only the commonly-known ...
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Of ghouls and ghuls - I haven’t been blogging much for some time. Mainly it’s being busy with work and family, but it’s also just that I’m devoting a lot of free time to Advance...2 months ago
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Articulations - Creating house rules, custom rules specific to a local group or campaign, has been common throughout the history of D&D. What makes an effective house rule...2 months ago
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Photo Parade 2024 - I’ve decided to participate in the annual Photo Parade (Fotoparade) on Michael’s blog Erkunde die Welt (Discover the World) again. My post from last year’s...
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Well of Future Skydropped Things - Somewhere in a forest, in the middle of a ring of mossy stones, there's a crudely built well, in which people have been dropping things for centuries. St...2 months ago
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Oldhammer T-Shirt - 2025 Edition Drop - As the wheel of time grinds ever onwards, it's time to unleash the Oldhammer 2025 Exclusive Edition t-shirt into the old world, and jettison the 2024 Editi...
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A Fiftieth Anniversary Year - The 50th anniversary year of *Dungeons & Dragons *is drawing to a close. A number of projects I'd been planning for this year finally came out, and I ...
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Dicey Tales: A Rock & Roll Fable - Wherein your humble scribe uses Dicey Tales (with a smattering of Barbarians of Lemuria, Everywhen, and other related games) to stat up the main cast of 19...3 months ago
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Christ is Born! - He whom nothing can contain has been contained in a womb. He is in the Father’s bosom and His Mother’s embrace. How can this be, but as He knows and w...
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"Ark Against Time" Submitted for DunDraCon #48 - [image: A colorful thing seems to be made of several elongated pods] (Ark of Time) *GM: Matt MorrisonType: RPGSystem: D&D/Arduin GrimoireEdition: 5...
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Falling Star - Hearts respond to myths we see Spring from our soul Amidst the din of history Glories of balder and pan That promise whole Our dreamings of that shining th...3 months ago
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State of the Blog Year 6 - Thus have we reached the 6th anniversary of A Distant Chime! On to the reflections. *Content* I wrote only 13 posts this year, the same as 2022 and a b...3 months ago
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Put your money where the mists are… - I forgot to post it here, but I did something about my complaints involving Hasbro yoinking my puppeteer parasite. I converted my 5E block back to 2E for F...3 months ago
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Return to Doodle Land - At last you can all visit the Doodle Land with Tunnel Goon or other whimsical adventure games! https://evlyn.itch.io/doodle-landHexagnome did wonderful wo...
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D&D Things I've Been Vibing With Lately - Despite a distinct lack of gaming in 2024, I've still been absorbing a lot of D&D-related material. Books, blogs, podcasts, videos on Youtube... there's a...3 months ago
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The Tarot of Pips - Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a secr...3 months ago
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Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...3 months ago
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Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement - Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement (I started thinking about this as a way to make XP awards in 5e come from all three “Pillars of Adventure” r...3 months ago
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The Reynardine - Reynardines are foxes cursed to go about the world in the manner of men, or perhaps men that are cursed to go about the world in the manner of foxes. The...
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Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...3 months ago
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Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...3 months ago
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Four facts a wizard might tell you - *Most of this is me trying to take this old post and rewrite it as in-world lore, but Fact #1 is an all-new idea.* *I.* Everyone knows that magic spells ...
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Oracles; or, letting a Surprising Future derail your Story and Confound the Players - *At last the ragged wanderers found themselves at the sacred grove. There they sought an audience with the Oracle of the Broken Stone, to ask the one qu...
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.4 months ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.4 months ago
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Inspectres in Grifton - On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly pulled out and ...4 months ago
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OSR: Magical Industrial Gunboats - Here's some useful information for river-based adventures using *Magical Industrial Revolution*. Skip to Part 3 or click this PDF link if you just want t...
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To Kill Frost Demons - *LINK TO DUNGEON* Blurb: *The Village's crops froze overnight. In Midsummer! Tax season mere weeks away, not to speak of the devastating hunger when co...4 months ago
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BRP Basic Roleplaying Allegiance System for the Gods of The Kingdoms of Kalamar - Hello again folks, Here is what I came up with for a Basic Roleplaying style Allegiance system for the gods in the Kingdoms of Kalamar setting. I have...
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The Tellian Sector: The Void Khans and the Bhadran Water Comet Trade - Kailasa and Kangyur are thirsty planets.4 months ago
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Welcome new Greyhawk Fans! - With the publication of the new Dungeon Master’s Guide, there are doubtless going to be a lot of new D&D players interested in my favorite setting, the Wor...5 months ago
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Undead Handmines - Undead Handmines A seasonal trap/encounter for yuor RPG campaigns. * Undead Handmines* A fields of earth, sand, or gravel concealing bound undead that...5 months ago
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An Interview! With Sarah Carapace! - 1. *Right! Something a bit different. Today, I'm interviewing my good friend Sarah Carapace to promote her current kickstarter Violet Core (li...
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Keuntungan Memilih Situs Casino Online ALEXIS500 - Ada cukup banyak rekomendasi situs judi casino online ketika kita menjelajahi internet. Semua orang bebas memilih situs yang mana sesuai dengan kehendak ...6 months ago
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D100+ Terrible Trolls - Trolls come in many shapes and sizes but are united by a ravenous hunger, exceptional healing capacities, a dislike of thunder/bells/fire, and a tendency t...6 months ago
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Knave 2e Alternate Attributes - Sometimes, I'm exactly in the mood for the classic simplicity of defining characters entirely by D&D's six attributes, as Knave does. But sometimes, I want...
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Broke my Previous Wordpress Site, New Wordpress Site. - https://blog.gi7b.org/ slowly migrating to this blog. Whats so special about it: Now I can put all the pictures relevant to the Product in its page as part...7 months ago
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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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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...8 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...8 months ago
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New Planar Magic Items - Hellsguard, Mephrytis, Ring of Planar Vision, and Four New Potions - I've been busily working away on various projects since the end of April, including attending the North Texas RPG Con in Dallas from 5-10 June 2024 (and ...9 months ago
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The Weird Crushers that will Accompany the Imminent Releases! - The next upcoming LotFP releases will be delivered from the printer THIS WEEK! Leading up to the big new releases... here are the FIVE new Weird Crusher...
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Consequence - *Monster and Knight - Angelina Zhogina* This game features a small amount of "perma-death". Each player is allowed to create one *Apprentice* character, ...
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It's been a bit - Hey everyone, I hope you are doing well! I've had a lot going on and haven't had much time to blog lately. Heres a recap of gaming events and other st...10 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, w...
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Dragons: The Great Victims of Worldbuilding - I'm not a fan of Wizards of the Coast dragons. I don't really feel like this should be that controversial. The organization of dragons based on the colo...
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The Sun Lich - This is a campaign setting idea I've had for years but never got to use. Perhaps you can have fun with it? Edge of Darkness by Ben J Long ago, a wor...
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The Time Bandits - Six boisterous dwarves, who, until recently, were employed by the *Supreme Being* to fix holes in the space-time continuum. Then they had a brainstorm: W...
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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...1 year ago
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A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
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Housekeeping 2024 - Coactus Illustration © Heather Gwinn. A gift she gave me in 2013 for an edition of Miscreated Creatures which I hope exists someday. Coloring by me. I am a...1 year ago
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Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...1 year ago
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Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...
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Of Urbanity in Troika! - This was sparked by someone asking about Orbital Intelligence's crapland. which is about crappy suburbian.I jokingly call it a crappy suburb of Troika! (t...1 year ago
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On Play-Style - Welcome to the third post wherein I lay the groundwork for this blog's future direction. Today, I want to discuss the concept of *play-style* as it perta...1 year ago
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d66 Classless Kobolds Linktree (of sorts) - Hello! As of Summer this year, I have changed jobs to work as a middle- and high-school Humanities teacher for a classical Christian school. As such, I ...
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This Blog Has Moved! - The new blog: samsorensen.blot.im! Hello! This blog, Caput Caprae, is old and deprecated. If you're looking for the latest, freshest, hottest, coolest new...1 year ago
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Falkrest Abbey Review - Hello All – It has been quite some time since we talked. There was this little pandemic that happened, and life got all crazy. I played a hell of a lot o...
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...1 year ago
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I used 'Satan' to generate illustrations for someone's setting! - It is a known fact that Noism consider AI to be SATAN. I've got my own intensely mixed feelings on the matter, especially when it come to who control the...
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A Short Update - Nothing new to share in terms of D&D stuff, but I have to say I've been a little more productive on another project now that all social media sites are u...
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Monster Stat Concept: Disposition - Yesterday, I introduced the concept of monster Motivations as a way to help understand how to use that monster when designing encounters, or what they mi...
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SORCERER (Afterword) - Hi there. I'm sure you, astute reader, have noticed that this blog isn't very active anymore. That's because I don't quite have the inspiration for it. N...
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D&D Risks, Evolution and Witchlight - Chris Perkins - I am continuing my somewhat exhaustive research of all things related to The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, as I've finished the guide to it (will be posted...
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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff. The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game design. In the past I...
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Eberron for Savage Worlds Revised! - Eberron for Savage Worlds has been republished with updates and expanded content and is now available in print and PDF through DriveThruRPG.com!2 years ago
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There Were Dice - I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but I *was ...2 years ago
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Mad Max custom figure - This amazing custom was posted on ebay at the beginning of 2023. The seller's account was listed as Old Colony Hobbies. It looks like there are a lo...
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Moving to Markdown - In one sense, it's a no-brainer to move away from Blogger. The interface is archaic and unpredictable, the platform is limited in capability, and as a fr...
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Beneath the Cliffs - part 4 - This week, I've finished up two more sections of the Ruined Monastery of St Amruss. I wrote the last descriptions of the kitchen area and wrote up the th...2 years ago
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The Magic Ladder: A Tarot Card Map Generator (part one of three) - Part 1: The part where I go on for a bit I’ve written before about using tarot cards to generate dungeons and tarot cards to generate hexcraws. This tar...2 years ago
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...2 years ago
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This is an Important Game Mechanic - *"That's the GM's Regional Map from my AOWG. And it's a damned good regional map. It's not a good map for a Simple Homebrew Campaign. It does some s$&...
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Wild Dwarves (race-class for Old-School Essentials) - This is the first of a handful of race-classes I've made for my Wengemerlin campaign. Dwarves feature heavily within the first part of the setting, the H...2 years ago
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2e Character Sheet - One of the most popular posts on this site over the years has been the 2nd Edition AD&D character sheet I cooked up for our game in the early 90s. I cleane...3 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 "...3 years ago
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Knock! Issue 3 - Knock! Issue 3 Hey all! I'm a contributor to the OSR zine Knock! I wrote up 12 Sword Saint techniques specifically for your Fighter character! Click the ...3 years ago
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What’s in the Wizard’s Mug? - Mmmm smells good! Just a sip… 1d8 1- A potent shrinking potion. You are now swimming in the cup alongside a drenched wizard. 2- Hot Green Slime. That’s w...3 years ago
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Announcing: Book of Extinction - We're working with a good friend of ours, Lucas Zellers (@SparkOtter), to craft a new book that gives life to extinct animals through Dungeons and Dragons:...3 years ago
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Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...3 years ago
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It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
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My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!! - I hope everyone is well. I am very excited to be able to share a little game I have been working on for a while. 12v12 is a D12-based multi-genre RPG, an...
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Cultural Influences on early British Role-Playing Games - If you’re interested in early British tabletop role-playing games (particularly from the 1970s and ’80s), I recommend keeping an eye on the #BOSR (British ...3 years ago
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"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
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Short Shelf of Picks - Vol. III - Blood in the Roots This is a packed little half fold pamphlet. Evocative in a way that I appreciate. I am aware of Trollish Delver Games (Scott Malthous...
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The Visitor Royal Telepath - I have taken a little break from blogging to set up the Ravens Purge campaign for Forbidden Lands for my friends on Discord for a bit of a change of pace. ...
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The Spine of Night Premiering at SXSW Tonight! - *The Spine of Night* will be premiering tonight at *SXSW*. I am extremely excited about this one! If the past output from Morgan King/Gorgonaut has been ...
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Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...4 years ago
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Troubleshooting Detachments and Forts - I'm running custom Detachment rules which are a mash-up of *Into the Odd's* company rules and *Apocalypse World's* gang-sizes so that ship crews in my pi...
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A new beginning - I've been blogging here for a while now, but I think it's time to move on to a new blog with a new title. There's a lot of dragons and flagons and flago...4 years ago
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Context-Sensitive Encounter Tables - The goal of these encounter tables is to provide dynamic, context-dependent encounters with as little additional work as possible pushed onto the referee. ...4 years ago
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The Why of a Blog? - Because Writing Helps You Learn Journeys of discovery are not something you start doing, but something you gradually stop doing. — Erling Kagge, Walking: ...4 years ago
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New OSR Products at DTRPG — November 26th, 2020 - This is the first Thanksgiving in years that I have not worked. Kinda strange. Adventures A Misplaced Prince - Featuring "piranhakeets", which I thin...4 years ago
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In Search of OD&D Part 3: The Northern Shores of Tamerthya - In part 1 and part 2 of this search for OD&D, I asked the question: does my old friend Mike McDowell's 1992 game style, the one that has for years haunted ...
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City of Heroes / City of Villains roster - Mid September I’ve returned to a game I’ve played for a while a long time ago. At the time, I didn’t focus on the mechanics, or the story: I just wanted to...4 years ago
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Time Management and the Role of Caller - Last week was the first session of my Wednesday night Roll20/Discord group’s new B/X campaign (a continuation of a long-running AD&D campaign that went o...4 years ago
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Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#752004 years ago
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ボンズカジノの本人確認の方法 - ボンズカジノで本人確認する方法を解説します。本人確認が完了しないと出金することができません。また同時に入金不要＄40ボーナスも本人確認が完了したら、もらうことができます。では早速、本人確認していきましょう！右上のボタンをクリックです。プロフィールをクリック。メールアドレス認証は登録時に行ってますので、ここでは電話...4 years ago
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Owl Con Live Blog 2.2 - Who knew that in the bowels of the Humanities building... ...Professor Norm offered a course on the Caves of Chaos??? Meanwhile, behind the screen... And....
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Nightmoor Abbey Level 1 Saturday Night Specials - Using the Megadungeon - Random Area Name Generator, the area names from the Diablo games, and game reports from In Places Deep as inspiration below are the...5 years ago
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Using the Rainy City with Risus: The Anything RPG - S. John Ross's *Risus: The Anything RPG* can do anything. It says so right on the tin. And, if it is anything, the Rainy City is certainly something! But ...
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TV update - Sony doesn't rush with updates, this is Android 7 to 8. They have also changed their custom GUI. The 'Discover' button on the wheel which used to do not a ...5 years ago
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eXPerience - The following are some alternative ways I want to try out in my home LotFP game. I already use Session Attendance & Carousing but I want to try the othe...
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Session Report 2/21/2020: The Tower of Florymonde - *Oolong, a Troglodyte, the Tower, a charred corpse, a tiger beetle, the butler.* Persons mentioned in the text: - KYLE, a level 4 Halfling - GRACE,...
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Skalag's Secret Sight - Level: 3 School/sphere: Divination Range: Caster Components: V, S Duration: Inst. Casting Time: 1 minute Area of Effect: 10 foot radius Saving Throw: Yes (...5 years ago
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The Kickstarter has Funded! - Our first Kickstarter has funded in the first day. Pretty pumped! Some of you reading this have already received some version of these accessories in the...5 years ago
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Old-School Essentials Online Tools and SRD - My 2nd favorite incarnation, OSE, of my favorite D&D rule set, B/X. [My 1st favorite is Necrotic Gnome's previous, B/X Essentials, cause it was soft backe...
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Ptolus returning in new Kickstarter campaign - Sometimes, you spot an impressive gamebook on a friend’s shelf, and wish you could take it home with you because it’s out of print, and you’ll never get yo...5 years ago
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High INT Bonus - "Floating" Spell Slots - *Bonus Slots per Day* *INT 13-15 +1* *INT 16-17 +2* *INT 18 +3 * High INT Sorcerers gain “Floating” Spell Slot(s), each equivalent to One Spell Level. At...
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Four GLoG Houserules - *Four Houserules* *This is based on Skerple's hack of GLoG.* *1. Fleeing* To run from combat you need to roll under 8 + your amount of unoccupied item slot...
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Spoils of the Gorgon Coast: The Degenerate Heir - As the kickstarter for the Zinequest Quartet winds down, I find myself in awe of the amount of folks who seem interested in my project; especially given t...
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Caverns of Thracia session log: February 2, 2019 - System: B/BX. Players: Niku and Loretta (Les and Myrtle) and Emily (Bagira.) *If you're playing in my game, please do not read the following. You may reque...5 years ago
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Reevaluating My RPG Gamer (NON) Life - CAUTION LANGUAGE! *After the 4E Apocalypse and the OSR* Well my old group from back in 2006-2009, well some of the people started to suck and make it n...5 years ago
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Blank space and mechanical fluff - Perhaps my favorite part of any character sheet is the 'appearance' section, especially if it has an area for drawing a character portrait. People should b...5 years ago
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Review: Cockamania! - Cockamania! is a 30-page mini-setting based in Filipino culture and folklore. Cockfighting is the main theme of the text, but it also includes mythologic...
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Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...5 years ago
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Cuckoo Guild - Lexi over at her blog has recently made a very solid template for extensible Thieves in the GLOG tradition, with the pitch that the unique thing for Thieve...5 years ago
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Prinny Dood! - Prinnies are the souls of the dead who are working off their lives of sin either in the heavenly or infernal realms before they are able to reincarnate...5 years ago
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More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
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Troika! review/overview - As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a really te...
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Carwyn & The Revelthanes Of The Feywild - I - "ARGH!" - The cry of Carwyn was not of pleasure anymore, but it went unheard, absorbed by the densely misty night as if the Feywild itself would have want...5 years ago
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Xenia: The Reaction Roll and Hospitality - [image: Related image] *This is primarily for Swords and Sorcery/Sandals games.* Xenia is the Greek term for hospitality and is the ancient code of conduct...5 years ago
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session recap, 1/5/2020 - CAST ------- Pai Mei the Wu-Jen (7) Biff the Fighter (6) Clint the Duelist (4) Assorted Henchpersons / Temporary PCs: JoJo the Healer (5), Phil the Healer ...5 years ago
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Finders Keepers - Background and Sources - Credit Konstantin Vavilov For the rules and character generator, see here. This is likely to be a long and boring post, go make some funky weirdos instead...5 years ago
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Winter's Daughter Play Report and Review - *"Delve into the **fairy-haunted **forest of **Dolmenwood"* *"The tomb of an ancient hero, lost in the tangled depths of the woods. A ring of standing ston...
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Graded success for roll-under d20 - This is a sort of half-baked add-on inspired by Call of Cthulhu 7e's graded difficulty system for roll-under d100 resolution. It assumes 3d6-based ability ...5 years ago
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Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...5 years ago
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Wednesday Map Strikes Back! (Dwarven Hill Fort) - Here’s a nice little dwarven hill fort for plundering, defending, assaulting, or for simply relaxing therein with a brew.5 years ago
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Garm Bays Loudly - I'm happy to announce the release of a new scenario for my old Norse magic trpg: Beyond the Fence, Below the Grave. Garm Bays Loudly focuses on a Norse ...
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In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
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The Nightmares Underneath 2nd Edition - I don’t use this blog much anymore, but since I don’t have a new website set up yet, I should announce this here: The second edition revision of The Nightm...5 years ago
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Encumbrance rules - If buying equipment at char-gen is often a waste of time, keeping track of the weight of each item is often too much even for the fanatic OSR player. Numbe...
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What the hell have you done to Stonehell? - I thought I'd increase the difficulty of running Stonehell slightly by reconfiguring the maps slightly. This is the test layout of the first level of the...
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New Map of the Elf Empire and Southern Isles - I’ve been having fun developing a new map-drawing style that I think is finally reaching a certain level of maturity. And yeah, it owes a lot to Matthew Ad...
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death stranding review'd: to love supply - *Snaps and buckles, backpacks and belts.* The game ends in a signature Kojima-annoying fashion; two hour cutscene including two separate credit rolls, th...
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Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...
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Markwald - I have no intention of abandoning *Lukomorye* any time soon, but my goal was always expand into other historical-fantasy settings - a Central European-flav...
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The Howling Caverns (5e) - The hunched beast prowls the forest, sniffing at the still air. The roiling sky flashes and thunder breaks the silence. The time is near and the beast sens...5 years ago
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How to read (and understand) Silent Titans - Originally published on Reddit. (Updated on 03/02/25; see at the bottom) Yes, Patrick Stuart writes great books that require an extra effort from the refer...5 years ago
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containers in yoon suin - d12 ways the treasure (or hostage) is trapped CONTAINERS 1. Snake coiled around, end visible 2. Ice block, object visibly within 3. Heap of sleeping wolv...
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The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition - Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customiz...5 years ago
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Awlad-i-Dimagh (Child of the Mind): Troika Background - Axes + Orcs has been tirelessly diving into the Troika design space, creating oodles of backgrounds. He got me inspired to write this up and submit it to t...
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City Map System & Making a Spooky City - This is a system to quickly and easily create unique cities that are detailed during play, using randomization and simple procedures. Content is provided b...
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Wargaming Wednesday: We're Back (for the Motherland!) - Well...it's been a loooooong time since we've posted on the old blog. Too long, in fact. Something like almost three years since a serious post, not merel...
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Someone Has Been Here - It is rare that a group of adventurers are the first to have plumbed the depths of a perilous dungeon. Others have doubtless tried, possibly succeeded. Wic...
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Nuts & Bolts #161 - Gotta Get Away - *So, last week over on his blog Andrew posited some ideas for GMs looking into introduce a big bad and enable their escape from the players. (you'll wan...
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Them Bones of Adventuring - XXV: Stealth Revisited - *An ongoing exposition on table procedures for common exploration feats and rules, which began here with part one*. *Introduction* Though for the most tr...
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Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1 - Lake Geneva Original RPG Campaign: New EN World Column: #1: I am now an author for EN World with a monthly column. Six lead columns have been submitted to...5 years ago
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Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
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Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
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TFH&P Release Notification Signup - Dear Friends, This game is very near to completion, and there has been a flattering amount of interest in the game since the kickstarter campaign ended. So...5 years ago
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2019 RPGaDay 21: Vast - Vast The potential experiences available to RPG-players is vast. When one considers the number of genres, sub-genres, character-types, races, classes, gen...5 years ago
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Knights and their Towers - Knight's towers were fortified self-standing buildings, several-stories high, most often erected on a plan similar to a square. They contained both livi...
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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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Elsai Overview - Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar scum—E...
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Tomb of the Serpent Kings: Session 1 - Finally got around to running a session using my in-development Yoon-Suin Lamentations of the Flame Princess hack. I decided on using Skerples' Tomb of the...5 years ago
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Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...5 years ago
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This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
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New Website! - Sorry I haven't been posting, have been adjusting to a new job and dealing with personal things. Now I get to show you one of the things I've been working...
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Friendly Advice: Finding Inspiration - This past week I spent my days in the verdant mountains of Pennsylvania near a small town called Bedford. It was a farm that went by Fort Royal where a mus...5 years ago
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Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...5 years ago
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100 curious thing for a setting. - As your genial host let me welcome to lovely "insert place holder name" world. It is a wonderful place to have a vacation during this part of the aeon. As ...5 years ago
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And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to indulge m...5 years ago
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The Mythology of Moog - *Mythology of Moog* *The following is a long-accepted translation from the Codex Incarnaeum which describes the birth of the world. The views expressed...5 years ago
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Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other chara...
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FROSTCRAWL AVAILABLE NOW - DOWNLOAD FROSTCRAWL HERE Frostcrawl is a hexcrawl for use with Heroes & Other Worlds or Blades & Black Magic. The map coves 441 hexes to explore and I p...
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Two Thieves - Jeff Easley's BECMI Thief I’ve recently decided to run an OD&D game. This, of course, brings with it the age-old question of which version of OD&D (3LBBs...
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STAR EAGLES: Reflections on Kickstarter Project Expectations - When Kickstarter launched a decade ago, on April 28th, 2009, it helped to create a new kind of business model that allowed businesses and individuals to ra...5 years ago
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James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...
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2017 and 2018 Anime - If you haven't watched the 1997 series of Berserk, do yourself a favour and check it out. The most 90's anime ever, from the grunge soundtrack to the ultra...
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The Mutant Insurrectionist: Talking about zines - Okay, here's an awesome new thing I made for Gathox - it's a zine. I'm gonna post the link first, so you can go get a copy, and then I'm going to talk abou...
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Thoughts on (#1): Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition - I played Warhammer 1st edition for many years. I loved everything about it: the setting, the amazing artwork, the simple rules, the euro-renaissance look, ...
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Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talen...
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A Pipeful Of Trouble Adventure By Bret James Stewart From D-oom Products For Labyrinth Lord Or Your Old School Campaigns - "All is not well in Brierfield. The idyllic halfling village has fallen prey to unknown bandits and marauders. These peaceful victims of shattered loves ...
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The G+ Apocalypse - This is where to find me after the fall of the G+ empire. Facebook https://m.facebook.com/brett.slocum Blog Https://joyfulsitting.blogspot.com The Tekumel ...6 years ago
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Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...6 years ago
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FLINTLOCK FANTASY: Episode II Play Report! - The second session kicked off with the aftermath of the Machetza showdown and monstrous attack at the Welcome Arms *(which you can read about HERE)*. The p...
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BACK AT IT AGAIN - OKAY………….. WHERE HAVE I BEEN???!? AGOOD QUESTION FOR ANSWERING BUT I WILL ONLY SAY THIS: THE MOVIE TRON IS A TRUE STROY AND IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU TOO!! ANYW...6 years ago
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Removing Support from Zak Smith - [UPDATE February 14th, 2019: Zak has issued a statement responding here. I am not convinced to change my position below, but it introduces some doubt. I m...6 years ago
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Regarding Zak - https://www.facebook.com/amandapatricianagy/posts/10215845527064252 I hope that Zak engages with some sort of accountability process, takes responsibility ...
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A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria - This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the fantas...
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Profane and Profound Prep Part 2 - This is part 2 of my work to edit my magic items for a DMsGuild release, along with adding cursed items along the way. Here is part 1. Bone of a Saint 8000...6 years ago
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Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome DCC Conversion - *This is a DCC conversion for Jeff Call's excellent one-page dungeon Prisoners of the Gelatinous Dome! Get it here: gelatinousdome.tumblr.com (direct link...
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SWADE Update! - The Adventure Edition Update for Accursed is now freely available for download from DriveThruRPG. This is just a bare-bones document, to help players who w...6 years ago
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Frightful Fridays! Opportunistic Griffons - Hello and welcome back to the first post of 2019. I hope the new year has started well for you. I'm making up for lost time with five monsters for you this...6 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.6 years ago
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's *not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to promote...6 years ago
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Designing an OSR Game, Part Three: Names, Backgrounds, and Playtests - This is part three in a series of posts about designing a new OSR game. You can find the previous two here: - Designing a new OSR game - Designin...
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Please Update Your Link! - If you're seeing this, it means your link to the Greyhawk Grognard blog is out of date. Please update your link to www.greyhawkgrognard.com (RSS feed is h...6 years ago
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Changes to the d20 mechanic to fit the Moldvay Basic style - This is Part 1 of an ongoing series - the introduction and table of contents can be found here. In order to bend the D&D Third Edition rules into the tiny ...6 years ago
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Stocking the Dungeon is now on MeWe! - I never did a lot of RPG stuff on Google+, for some reason the interface and spam I'd run into there just kept me from getting that into it. I was a bit sa...
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Phased Real-Time Combat - The Solution You Didn't Know You Needed - Phased Real-Time round structure dates back to the 1824 Kriegspiel rules; that is to say, to the very origin of wargames and of roleplaying games. The 1959...6 years ago
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Worldbuilding Through Shops - 'Arms Dealer in Cairo' by Jean-Leon Gerome In the classic module B2: Keep on the Borderlands, Gary Gygax suggests allowing the players to begin interacti...
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Total Sales for WB:FMAG - Hi Folks, It's been a long time since I provided an update for the sales of White Box: Fantastic Medieval Adventure Game. *LULU* Print: 396 PDF: 433 *OBS*...6 years ago
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Review: Tome of Holding - In a hoard of gaming accessories, it is hard to stand out in the crowd. I think Alex Ingram has done just that with the Tome of Holding Kickstarter. I wait...
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
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The Ergonomic 3 Mile Hex - So if my blog numbers are correct, everybody loves the six mile hex. It has the top number of posts with the most comments. All in all the 6 mile hex is ...6 years ago
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Make your own days - How about you make some backgrounds? Call it a competition. I'll send whichever one or ones makes me go "*fuck, I wish wrote that and now I have to conscio...6 years ago
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...
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Ordinary Starting Item / “I Search the Body” Table (d00) - A table of one hundred starting items for character creation or searching bodies. Each item is worth 1d6 x 10gp to an appropriately interested person, and...
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Some musings about the complaints in Adventurers League - I have been away from blogging for a long time. I did not have much to say that I did not say on Facebook. However I recently started working on a D&D 5e...
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The West is Dying: Book 1 Fall of the First World - The West is Dying Book 1 Fall of the First World Written by David C. Smith $2,99 Kindle $19.99 Paperback I read a few of David C. Smith's books back in...
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Goodbye and Good Luck - Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from the OSR...
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Crouching and Screaming - Wonderful 1978 illustrations by Outi Markkanen (Finland, b.1951) on Kuriosas. Visit the link for many more illustrations from *Kurnau ja Kamaluu*.
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New blog - Ok, people, time to update your bookmarks. I'm moving this blog to another domain, so this is my last post here. You may find the new blog at http://letra...
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Game Pitch Outline: Night Train - *Game Pitch Outline: Night Train* *High Concept:* Ravenloft modern with undertones of Kult’s Metropolis meets *Mission Impossible* *The Pitch* What ...
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the MOONS of KOS - Kos has five moons. 1. the White Huntress Largest of the moons. Unwavering and constant, crowding the horizon. She lightens the seaward prow, bathes t...
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Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...
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Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...6 years ago
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Regarding ACKS and Autarch LLC - One of the few RPG products that carries my name in the credits is the core *Adventurer Conqueror King* rulebook. I helped out with editing and proofreading...7 years ago
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Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...7 years ago
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Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...
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Vaults of Vyzor: Post-species Integration and Education Society - *The Vaults of Vyzor is an on-going, epic, multi-player dungeoncrawl run by Jeff Rients of the Broodmother Skyfortress.* My character there is a lotfp spec...7 years ago
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On Absolute Evil - When Henry James wrote *The Turn of the Screw*, he was careful to leave the actions of the ghosts Quint and Jessel unspoken. Their relation to young Miles ...7 years ago
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Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Clue: The Great Museum Caper is a game from my nerdly youth that, sadly, I never got to play truly.[1] I admired its place of honor on a shelf for years, a...7 years ago
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How to Make Goon Master Character in Macchiato Monsters - [image: http://chaudronchromatique.blogspot.ie/2014/10/goblin-enchantress-with-shaman-and.html] *Some time ago,+Samuel Guillon's character managed to convi...
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2018: I Yam What I Yam And I Don't Give A Damn - Time for another year-end beatdown.Time to roll another one out. This past holiday season I resolved to be more mellow than previous years, which I met w...
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New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex Zisch, a...
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Random Encounters Shaping Campaign Choices: Emergent Story - This is what you get when you open your game up and have no expectations; what happens when you present a problem to the player characters that can’t be ...
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Numenera - The Devil's Spine - Session 12 - Once Upon a Time in the Ninth World Welcome to our group's campaign log for *The Devil's Spine*, a mega-adventure by +Monte Cook for the *Numenera* cam...
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Behold Beyond Dread Portals now has a cover! - Our upcoming release of Paul Mitchener's Dimension Hopping Fantasy Adventure game, Beyond Dread Portals, now has a cover courtesy of Jon Hodgson. Continue ...7 years ago
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10 More Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios - Last year I shared a list of 10 Random Zombie Survival Intro Scenarios based on my ad-hoc zombie survival/horror game (which is kinda like a DCC Funnel b...
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...
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Here Be Monsters 4: Out of the Primal World voting booth - The Top 5 have been revealed and now it's time to vote for your favorite monster! For those who need one last look to make their decision, the finalists...
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Dolmenwood: The Book of Monsters So Far - Since the announcement of the work on the Dolmenwood book of monsters in *Wormskin* issue seven, I've been meaning to write a quick blog post about it. Fi...7 years ago
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Puerto Rico and Caribbean Hurricane Relief Bundle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/220574/Puerto-Rico-Hurricane-Relief-Bundle-BUNDLE “Puerto Rico was devastated by Hurricane Maria a few short weeks ...
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More Kesmai Corporation Isle of Kesmai images - Sorry it's been so long since I've blogged here guys. Here's some more fun Isle of Kesmai images showing the various stages of creating the Isle of Kesmai...
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Goblins of Mount Shadow - a low-level adventure for C&C - Next Sunday, I run the Castles & Crusades adventure: *Goblins of Mount Shadow *for my new roleplaying group :) While the basic plot isn't too bad, there ...
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Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...7 years ago
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(Video) Game Review: Crawl - So my gaming group all hang out together and one of us had this new video game, Crawl from Powerhoof We got so distracted we didn't even play out sched...
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Happy Gygax Day! - July 27th was Gary Gygax's birthday, and now it's Gary Gygax Day. I think that's a worthy thing for the RPG community; Gary didn't create RPGs but he wa...
7 years ago -
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
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A Book Review: Jean Lafitte, The Pirate Who Saved America - As a cousin of Jean Lafitte, I'm always interested in publications that detail his life and I thought I might find this book interesting. Alas, neither the...
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Moving Day! - I’ve decided to start blogging on Blogger. I’ve written a more detailed post over there. For now everything I have previously written will be archived here...7 years ago
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A Goblin Wedding - *Sometimes*, goblin weddings. (Lots of inspiration from Arnold K and Zak S, shhh) Yes, I have a Goblin King. I guess he's David Bowie. *The wedding takes...
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It's hard to do horror in D&D - I love the Ravenloft setting, but I have to admit that it is really hard to pull off horror games with Dungeons & Dragons. The biggest issue is clerics. Th...7 years ago
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New Adventure for AZ on the Way - So, Adventure Locale #1: White Star Trailer Park is coming soon! It's a location based adventure for my zombie apocalypse game, AZ: After Zombies. When it'...8 years ago
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The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber - The Big Time was originally serialized in Galaxy Magazine in 1958 (A two-parter featured in the March and April issues). Gutenberg link: http://www.gutenbe...
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And thus, the Gibbering Gamer passes into obscurity... - I mentioned a while ago that I was probably going to get rid of this blog. Turns out, I'm not a very good blogger. The "identity" never stuck, probably b...8 years ago
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[Patreon] Dwarven Stronghold + Bandits + Wizard Tower of Toerd + Alia(k) of Wizard Tower - Thanks to my Patrons, here is new content for you to enjoy! If you like stuff like this, you can support me to create more, and more, and more! *DWARVEN S...8 years ago
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The King Arthur Pendragon RPG is free to download - Hop on over to the nice people at DriveThruRPG and you’ll find the classic 1st Edition of the King Arthur Pendragon RPG by Greg Stafford available as a fre...8 years ago
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[LPJ Design] Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super Powered by M&M Now available FOR FREE for a limited time!!! - Louis Porter Jr. Design, has released Template: Avatar of Vengeance for Super-Powered by M&M at LPJDesign.com. Here is information on this product: In c...8 years ago
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I Missed the LL Box Set News - Now I know I’ve been out of the RPG circles for quite some time, but how did I not hear of a freakin’ *Labyrinth Lord BOX SET*…and when can I *get* one (m...
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Notes from the Nystul campaign - In pursuit of further knowledge of the Restenford realm, I was wandering around over at the Dragonsfoot Archives the other day and found this old issue of ...
8 years ago -
Daily Monster Art- Anhkheg - Again, I don`t think I`ve ever used these in a game.They are pretty gross gribbly beasts. Spitting acid and chomping and such. They kind of make me think...
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Mapping doors - Doors are driving me a bit batty. I should explain. Architecturally, one of the things old-school dungeon mapping has gotten right, I tend to think almost...8 years ago
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How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
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A little playing around - So, I've been going through some of my older work and giving it the colour treatment. Daisey does most of my colour work but I do like to play around with ...
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Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...8 years ago
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DM Lessons: Mea Culpa - I play a fairly house-ruled version of D&D 5e with lots of more old-school elements to it. One of the most noticeable elements is my Modified XP and Levell...8 years ago
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Grammaton training (Savage worlds) - The character is trained in quickly calculating shooting angles and committing rigorous gun kata to muscle memory. The character is an expert in snap shoo...
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D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...8 years ago
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Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
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Giambattista's Megadungeon - Doing some organizing in my D&D folder on my computer today I came across this incredible megadungeon map drawn by Giambattista Nolli in 1748. I think I c...
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Dog Food Coupons and Promo Codes - Over the years it seems as if Pet Food have been get more expensive. There has definitely been an increase in people looking for Dog Food Coupons, probably...8 years ago
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Encounter Inspiration #16 - Beware the Back Alleys - Be cautious at night traveler, for the darkness brings a life of its own. Murderers and thieves prowl the inky black alleys of Ravendale seeking victims...
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The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...8 years ago
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More Little Treasures - Well. My tentative plans to actually post this year were well and truly derailed over the last few months by everything from surprise renovations (ongoing...8 years ago
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Appendix N: May 2016 Edition - I've been looking for some decent bookcases for about four years. I finally came across the bookcases, above, which a used bookstore were getting rid ...
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House Rule Updates for my OD&D Game - Back in February, I presented my players with some updates to my house rules. I handed them a paper at the start of a session and asked everyone to read ...8 years ago
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AD&D Troll Sculpt WIP - Troll sculpt nearing completion, I've done some more detail work since taking these photo's. He just needs his right arm/hand completed. 50mm to top of...
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Delicious, exploratory campaigns in Mythosa by Bruce Gulke - Mythosa is a system agnostic game setting with a consistency and depth that comes with years of honing. It has recently made the welcome transition from w...
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Another d66 Item Chart - For TOON or whatever gonzo thing you're into... 11. Sword 12. Laser Gun 13. Can of Fart Spray 14. Net 15. Pet 16. Guitar 21. Candy Bar 22. Fire Extinguisher...9 years ago
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Two years before the dice. - * GROGNARD SPEAKS TO YOU !!!* So, I've been gone for a while, and while it's traditional to make...
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In Memory of Steve - This is Steve's wife Jenn. I am sorry to say that Steve passed away on December 21. My love for him will live on, as will his art. Steve's art can be seen...9 years ago
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[DIY] Faux-parchment - Have you ever thought about doing old looking paper for fancy handouts or for kids’ scavenger hunts, for example, but felt like its too much work? Me too! ...9 years ago
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The Ramparts of Tharrenton Deep -- Almost There - My Kickstarter campaign was a success! In the next 4-5 months, I will officially become an 'author' with a novel available on Amazon. And a few short mon...9 years ago
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Review: Otherworld Fantasy Skirmish - Since the untimely demise this year of the Warhammer Fantasy setting, and thus the three decades of games that it spawned, one might have expected the edi...
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The Horus Supremacy - *It is the 41st Millenium. For ten thousand years, the Emperor has led his grear war-fleets from the Silver Throne of Luna. He is the master of mankind by...9 years ago
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In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers - [image: B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland] B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland In a classic D&D adventure, characters in search of adventur...9 years ago
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A Hi-Res Copy of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide Map - Thanks to Extra Life, this hi-res version of the map from SCAG has been posted online and I thought I might share it here for convenience. While I like t...
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Picking Up Where I Left Off - It's been a bit since I have posted to The Sandbox of Doom. In the intervening time, a lot of things have changed, most of them good. - I have been ga...9 years ago
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Stonehell Dungeon: Into the Heart of Hell On Sale Now - *The day many undoubtedly believed would never arrived is finally here! The sequel to the original *Stonehell Dungeon: Down Night-Haunted Halls* is availa...
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MONSTERPARTS ADVENTURE/IN THE WOODS - IN THE WOODS In The Woods is a Monsterparts adventure. The PDF is for sale here. It has all the rules you'll need to run the game. Is designed to make ...
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Poker Tables For Sale - Last night, March 15, on an all new "Comic Book Men" on AMC, "Star Wars" actor Billy Dee Williams of The Stash with the rest of the crew and they take a ...9 years ago
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A new rpg blog - https://ropeblogi.wordpress.com/ This one is old and feels cluttered. Rather than try resurrecting this I decided to start a new rpg blog. Some content is ...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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Independent Languages - Overview Westron Family Casta Family Thulian Family Khoisa Family Independent Languages Cants & Argots Nonhuman Languages Scholarly...9 years ago
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Back from the Dead! - Yet Again! - I have never stopped playing RPGs but I have been extremely slack about updating this blog. No posts for over three years? Uggh... I am running a campaign ...9 years ago
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Giant squid + giant squid - So much is happening that it's hard to write about any of it. My drafts folder is littered with abandoned proto-ideas, each dropped when the next came into...9 years ago
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Mage the Awakening: No Mean City - Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start DMing a...
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Twenty Questions for the Sewers of San Draso - Jeff’s twenty campaign questions for my Sewers of San Draso campaign, part one. 1. What is the deal with my cleric's religion? You’re probably a p...10 years ago
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setetes info - http://goo.gl/H4qGNi http://goo.gl/zzWiKL http://goo.gl/39DUWK http://goo.gl/UCWyHF http://goo.gl/oBN1OG http://goo.gl/4pboks http://goo.gl/kYn86p http://g...10 years ago
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Fin. With an update - *Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge life project come upon me, it was time to put my energy into something else. I ...10 years ago
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Episode 30: The Conclusion - ‘The Conclusion’ is the 30th episode of a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG actual play podcast. Additional information can be found at http://irontavern.com/po...10 years ago
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Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land - This is pretty accurate... http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw *CATEGORY* Adventure *WHAT* The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...10 years ago
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Exploring the BigDungeon - I haven't been making much use of this blog lately. Plans come and go. I've been playing with programming some of my own tools lately as I mentioned a whil...10 years ago
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Mad Wizards and Demented Godlings - *Achaierai:* "Though the foul motives which caused these loathsome birds to be first summoned from the infernal depths are now lost from memory, remnants ...
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New supplement plus thinking out loud. - Go get it Tons of options for your characters and scenarios in FiveCore games. Balancing on ledges, pick pocketing and taming wild animals, we got you cove...10 years ago
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TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You! - [image: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137077/TrollsZine-8?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2238] *TrollsZine!* #8 is waiting for you! The eighth issue o...
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Fiction: A Disruption - *Another fiction post everyone. Same character as before.* I lay on the chaise in my long formal dress I wore to a few events in the late '20s. I have no...10 years ago
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New Campaign 2014 Update - We've been playing 11 session now into the new campaign. The players had some hairy encounters with Proud, Spider-eye Goblins and Quill Wolves (along with ...10 years ago
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Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...10 years ago
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Support My Friend's Patreon Page Cause He's Awesome - Hey guys, if you like supporting independent artists / musicians and creative types then please check out my friend Mike TV of the band Get Set Go's Patreo...10 years ago
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Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e) - Figure out the point buy value of your character for the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition role playing game with this calculator. STR 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...10 years ago
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DC Gameday XIV: Casino Karnstein - DC Gameday XIV is coming up on the weekend of March 29th-March 30th and player registration is already open. After a grueling couple of months of real-worl...
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North Texas RPG Con 2014 Lineup - Well it's time for the 6th Annual North Texas RPG Convention! The NTRPG Con focuses on old-school Dungeons & Dragons gaming (mainly OD&D, 1E, 2E, or Bas...
11 years ago -
Prepping for Success - Last week, I wrote about working with success. By leaning into the players' success, you make your campaign more engaging and exciting. When you put your g...11 years ago
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Happy New Year! - First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Mine was okay, and I'm kind of glad it's all finally over. T...11 years ago
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Still alive and more useless crap - I wonder if anyone still reads this blog. Anyway, things have been changing at the speed of light in the last few months so I feel like a little update is ...11 years ago
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ACKS: Sorcery! - In a previous post, I'd expanded the ACKS "caster types", and thereby the categories you can spend build points on in custom classes, with the Ovatic type...
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[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
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Check It Out... - And speaking of building new worlds...I've been a regular reader of Rob Conley's Bat In the Attic blog for a while now. He's a dedicated gamer with an ext...11 years ago
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Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...11 years ago
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Meet the Party - I'm back in Poland for a few days. Which means it's time to move my D&D campaign a bit. I have little time left to the session, so just take a look at the...
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The Perfect Answer to All the Financial Problems - Today loans are playing an integral part in the normal lives of people. Gone were the days where availing loan of any kind was considered to be a taboo. ...
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[Article] Dwarves - A notably prominent demi-human race in *Dungeons & Dragons*, dwarves no doubt owe their popularity to the success and mythology of Middle Earth. Whilst ...
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Other than the vanished empires, ancient manuscripts, and armed rebellion, this post has nothing to do with gaming - Last month, this article showed up in The New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda . It describes how a team of librarians, archivist...11 years ago
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I should call this blog 2d6 h-town - Just got dungeon world.Liquid awesome on a stick. Waiting to play before making any final conclusions but this what I have been waiting for. I still dig me...11 years ago
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Palace of the Wind Sultan, Part 1 - Maps for Wednesday's heist game. 2 more maps coming tomorrow afternoon. *Outside* * Level 1* *Level 2-3*
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Lets Read Mythus pt 25 - *Mythus* spell lists: my face when. Last section of the *Advanced Mythus* spell lists sample castings, which so far have been boring enough to make a Ch...
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RIP Druid - Back in late autumn I began running a Dungeon World game with some friends. They've been ever so patient with me over the past two years - we played Labyrin...
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Charging Wands in Dungeons & Dragons - Looking through the rules in original D&D, wands and staves can apparently only be made by Wizards (Magic-Users of 11th level) or higher. It also says that...12 years ago
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The Wilderlands - Four Dwarves seeking adventure and excitement crawled from there hole into the grander world. There first two days away from the humble mines that there fo...12 years ago
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Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...
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Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
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Guest Post: Setting Out for the Lost City - Originally posted on Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog: Earlburt is my closest gaming friend, and has done more than any other person to help bring the games I’ve ...12 years ago
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New Website & Blog Live - Finally the pieces start to come together. The new website is up (not much on the front page to look at yet) and the blog is located on the second tab at t...12 years ago
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Rental Equipment As a Business Strategy - During stock tracking, you might normally want to sell off rarely used and even underused equipment. Turn these obligations into resources instead. Create ...12 years ago
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New Site - I won't be using my Livejournal much more, I'm afraid. All of my new blog posts can now be found at montecook.com. Hope to see you there! Thanks!12 years ago
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Gnomes, Svirfneblin and the family of illusionist trickster Wee Folk - Gnomes are the only demi-human race in 1e who can become illusionists. Gnomes are remarked as being cousins of the dwarfs, but just as equally, they appea...
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Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...12 years ago
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Significance of Beginning Child years Health care and Education - According to developing psycho therapist Jean Piaget, he indicates that the sense of kids is absolutely different from that of grownups. He considered tha...
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Review: John Carter - This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was announced some...13 years ago
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Closing Today - The Underdark Gazette will go Down, sometime after 11:00 PM, Central Time, this evening. Please, if you would be so kind, update your links to my new blog ...13 years ago
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The Iron Court - So, to celebrate the TPK-related end of the first (shortish) Zu campaign, here's the map AND the key to the Iron Courts, the place where the party has met ...
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After-action report: Tomorrow's War - After a supply ship was brought down by Neo-Soviet recon elements on the desert world Fornacis V, the decision was made to send in a retrieval squad from ...
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Dark Dungeons has Moved! - Dark Dungeons is no longer alone. It now has a sister game – Darker Dungeons – and another one on the way. Because of this expansion, I’m moving from this ...13 years ago
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Review #14: Farman - Jason Farman is an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland, who has used Pervasive Games as material on his courses. He has published an academic rev...13 years ago
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Infinite Stars - Well, it’s here. I’m sorry but I haven’t gotten the time before now. http://www.burrowwolf.com/infinitestars/13 years ago
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Quick comic recommendations and reviews - There are a lot of really great comics out there and with the changes at Marvel & DC there is a lot to be excited about for comic book fans. Here are a few ...13 years ago
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Blog Has Moved ! - I have reboot and moved my blog. In all reality it is a new blog, but I will explain that shortly. The new address is: http://sylvaeon.blogspot.com/ The ...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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Khurasan down! Suggest a 15mm force for me?? - Image (cc) revoincubus Just heard that Khurasan minis has closed down until the autumn ... so much for the Vespulids for our homebrew wargaming rules then...
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Elminster's Jock - Yeah, this will drive traffic to the site. Well, you can blame Brian, the creative genius over at d20monkey for this one. He posted THIS COMIC, and I could...
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Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...
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THAC© - *THAC0* is an acronym for "to-hit armor class zero" in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, published in 1989. It represents the minimum target numbe...
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Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...14 years ago
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Dungeon Magazine Indexes - So the other day I was thinking to myself about how it would be good to have the various Dungeon Adventures organized not only by level, but also by topic,...14 years ago
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New Blog - As promised, here's a link to my new blog. It's rather bare at the moment, but I'm planning to ramp up content over the next few weeks.14 years ago
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Finding My Way - As mentioned in my last post I will continue blogging and I'll expand the scope to include other facets to my life and interests. So it is with great pleas...14 years ago
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Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...14 years ago
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Fables of Camelot – Beta - Fables of Camelot is a roleplaying game I wrote with Sami Koponen this last summer; Sami had been thinking of the problem of introducing roleplaying to new...14 years ago
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[LOCATIONS] Some of the City-States, Settlements and Ruins of Sumer and Akkad - Ur: (pop. c. 15,000) here dwells Nanna-Sin in his shrine E-kishnugal; ruled by the undying ensi Shulgi, who seeks by recording all things to become a god. ...14 years ago
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Pallas Cat - I am fascinated with the Pallas cat. If you notice, the pupil of their eyes are round, not slit-like other cats. Since it is Monday, here is a random beh...
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In the Land of Ooo - As a Dad I get to watch plenty of cartoons created for kids. I have been enjoying Dexter's Laboratory, Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Marvelous Misadven...
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New Game and System - I've recently discovered Microlite20, a "stripped down" version of 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons. To give an idea, the core rules- including character creatio...15 years ago
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D&D was a Wargame - I have been giving this one some thought recently. I was first introduced to wargames, and it was only afterwards that I started into D&D. The concept of t...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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