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Meditations on the classic In Search of the Unknown (Module B1, written by Mike Carr in 1978) module Adapted To OSR Rpg systems especially The Adventurer, Conqueror, King Second Edition - Part Four - In ACKS II, Level 2 of Quasqueton transitions from a military fortification to a hostile subterranean wilderness. Wandering encounters here are not just c...
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[New Spell] Harvested Echo - Harvested Echo Jaundo and Uzeb the Wise both jumped as they heard the dragon’s loud roar.‘Could there be a dragon down here?’ Jaundo asked, obviously shake...9 hours ago
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How I read “theory” - Over the past couple of years I have lacked the time to write long blog posts that really work out my thoughts on a topic, so I have not blogged. Which is ...10 hours ago
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[Actual Play] Stonehell Delve XII (AD&D 1e); Enter Stonehell - Year 1869 of the New Imperial Calendar, Senectus 13 After the destruction of the Withered the time had at last come for Brother Gunnard to fulfill his obl...10 hours ago
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Punk Song of the Day- Motorbike Song- Amyl and the Sniffers - Motorbike Song- Amyl and the Sniffers #PunkSongOfTheDay Whole playlist here: Amazon Music/Spotify What is PSotD Punk Song…
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Calm & Charm - Far out in the ocean lies a land of peace and tranquillity, where the people live in harmony with the spirits and the spirit world, and each other. Where...
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[Acoustic+] - 💖My Ground, Your Skies(C) 2026 Kyrinn S. Eis All Rights Reserved Worldwide14 hours ago
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Flocking Flock - I'm trying to make some modelling flock, with only limited success. This is made from bits of a kitchen sponge, whizzed up in a blender, coloured with ...
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They Met in a Tavern 29: Misadventures in Freya's Shrine - Welcome back to another installment of Fun In the Badlands. This week we had a full table: - Rick: Bjorr, 1/2 orc Paladin - Chris: Thorn, dwarf Wiz...23 hours ago
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Betting, Racing, and Other Means of Chaos - BETTING ON THE RACE What follows is a simple approach a GM can use to adjudicate betting results, and by extension, race results for any given race. Thi...
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Convention Report 2026 North Texas RPG Convention - [image: Convention Report 2026 North Texas RPG Convention] Last weekend was my 10th North Texas RPG Convention....unfortunately my 1st NTXRPG was in 2016,...
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The Golemist - WotC has released a new book about Ravenloft (how many time must we publish this setting?) with new/updated subclasses. One of these was the artificer r...
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Runespire Academy (Tricube Tales one-page RPG and mini-campaign guide) - I've sometimes heard people say the Tricube Tales one-page RPGs aren't suitable for campaigns, so I decided to show how I'd do exactly that. As well as t...
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Cyberstyle 8.5 - Three more illustrations for BLACK POLISHED CHROME, my cyberpunk RPG/setting that never was. “Sexual Prosthetic”Digital GreyscaleMay 27, 2026 The following...1 day ago
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Theatre: Life in Wartime - * Wish You Were Here* by Sanaz Toossi, Directed by Nagmeh Samini, a co-production with Seda Iranian Theatre Company, Arts West, through 5 July. There's a...1 day ago
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Weapons: An Informal Review - I’m considering this post to have been co-authored by my partner. She had seen the movie closer to when it had come out, and she told me it quite frustra...1 day ago
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Language Dungeon Spitballing - I've had an idea floating around in my head for a puzzlebox dungeon (system and setting indeterminate) centered on decipherment of the dungeon-builder’s ...1 day ago
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6-Room Dungeon redbrick revision 1 - These are extra details for my 6-room dungeons I think compiling all this in a PDF to be a manageable project I see if i can set up as a charity thing in a...
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Bad vs Not For Me - I say all the time that horror and comedy are the two most personal areas of life in terms of taste. They both prey on expectation to make their impact. Th...1 day ago
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Review – Shadowrun: Running A La Carte - Shadowrun: Running A La Carte is an e-resource book, providing information on food and eating in the Sixth World. While it is a nice introduction to the su...1 day ago
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The Lost Tomb of Kazcuk Mot the Undying - By Greg GawronAdvanced Fantasy GamesOSRICLevels 2-4 Hidden within a long-forgotten cemetery stands an abandoned mausoleum, once a place of grand splendor a...1 day ago
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Theory review #270 - - *Drepum allt sem hreyfist!* by Þhorsteinn Mar suggests what to do if player characters have a tendency to kill everyone in modern Dungeons and ...1 day ago
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New GM Workshop May Be Back, Baby! - Yesterday, a member of the Busan Gaming Discord server was asking for advice on how to start running games. Several of us chimed in. Then another player...
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X2 - Castle Amber 2026 - Session 6.1 - Curses and Boons - [image: We Were Promised Jetpacks] We Were Promised Jetpacks are from Scotland. This statue is cursed. In my last post, I didn't detail what each party me...
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"Medusa," Anthrax - I was driving my John Deere around my lawn last weekend... cutting the grass of course, not just driving it around, though just driving around on a John ...
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The Goblin Riddle Trap - Here’s another fantastic goblin trap I will need to use. You can check out the last one I shared here.To break the flimsy bar I’d say it’s a DC 12 Strength...
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[OSR/Fantasy] What else a Mimic may look like - Mimics. I only know them from D&D, and I love them as much as I hate them. Mean little cases of shape-changing pure-GM-malice-reasoned-into-existence-by-ma...2 days ago
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RPG Retrospective: The Adventures of Indiana Jones RPG - [image: The Adventures of Indiana Jones RPG] On this day in 1981, 45 years ago, I went to see the newest George Lucas/Steven Spielberg collab called "*Ra...
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Frightful Fridays! Probability Wave - Hello, and welcome back for another Frightful Fridays! This week, I wanted to design an elemental, and I almost went with a gigantic spiky earth elemental ...2 days ago
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Memoirs of a Lich: Arcane Bonds – June 12, 2026 - As my imp familiar, you are the only individual other than myself even remotely likely to ever read my diary. So I wanted to set aside this personal hear...2 days ago
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Stonehell B Team: Fairy Magic, Keep Out! - Session 320 was played on 2/15/26 Sonara, Wizard (Rob) Adorellen, Elf (Me) Glimmer, Kobold (Lanse) Kessaren, Cleric (Cindy) Loahn, Halfling (Josh) 5 Kob...2 days ago
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Two Great Losses - This week we lost Jane Yolen and David Hockney. Jane Yolen was a brilliant fantasist with a delightful sense of humor, who was a powerful influence on my r...2 days ago
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[Parsulan] The Durendine Heads - *Photo by Paul Glazzard* The head of Vorlas is on display in the Revolutionary Museum in Kingshead, shielded from the ravages of time by magic so that it ...
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Portal fantasy - In the first six seasons of *Doctor Who* (that's the First and Second Doctor episodes, if like me you had no notion at the time about TV seasons) the TAR...
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Thursday Night AWBO S3: Post Apocalyptic Parenting - I decided to write out the intro to the next session. Maybe it made it easier to jump into the session. #ApocalypseWorld #TTRPG
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Ask the Alexandrian #25: Feral Weirdos - B. asks: I just finished the first session of a new campaign. One of my players pitched a character who was “very strange, but in a charming way.” In the f...2 days ago
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Satan Helps Elucidate Skywalker's Rescue Plot - To cut a long story short, I was recently on a long-haul flight and ended up watching *The Empire Strike Back *and part of *Return of the Jedi *on the in...3 days ago
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My first NTRPG Con! - After a couple years of putting it off, I finally bit the bullet and headed out Dallas way for my first North Texas RPG Convention. As I discovered, it's w...
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Krátká Lidová Republika: A Brief Account of the Republic of the Short Peoples - For centuries the Wee Peoples of Zěm have occupied a peculiar place within the Overking's domains. Too useful to exterminate, too numerous to ignore, a...
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Pornographic Woman - [image: https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/13/92/67/13926761c4e31009f7ff273eb9ebd582.jpg] André Masson A monster for Lost Girls. A cascade of images and snippe...3 days ago
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"Serious" fumbles I can enjoy - As I’ve said before, I usually don’t like fumbles or critical failures in combat, at least in more "serious" campaigns; they make fighters look foolish. ...3 days ago
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Tim's Outlanders: Flight of the Yardbird, Session 16 – November 12-15, 18 IC - *[Return to Freegate and defending the ritual from attack.]* *[This session took place May 17, 2003. We were playing Champions 5th Edition with the Seco...3 days ago
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Have Folks Forgot T$R??? - There is much wringing of hands, clucking of tongues, and vapours regarding statements by Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks planning to move D&D to a live service m...
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When it’s NOT time to Railroad - This quick post offers an adventure idea that works with almost ANY campaign, almost ANY genre. 2 1/2 weeks ago, I started a quick little article, 5-10 par...3 days ago
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The Doomed Yee-Haw Roundup - We've been doing group watches of Weird Westerns over on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server. To keep it varied, I've tried to run...
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Reconsiderations - Toward the end of his life, St Augustine began a project called in Latin the *Retractationes*. Often mistranslated as "retractions," the title actually i...
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GURPS Ring of Fire - There is a new GURPS book in the offing over on BackerKit. GURPS Ring of Fire. Sadly, it's not about the Johnny Cash song or the Wall of Voodoo cover of sa...4 days ago
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[BLOG] News on the March! Episode XV. - 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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Greyhawkery Comics: Cultists #39 - Welcome back to the ongoing adventures of the *Cultists of Tharizdun*. The dismal duo has been locked in a struggle to root out a rival cult in the town ...
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Five Solutions to the Birthday Paradox in Tables - When you are using a random table more than once, you are likely going to run into repeated results. Here are five ways to deal with that problem, particul...4 days ago
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A Wee Mechanic: Levelling up by alignment - I like little bespoke mechanics. Here’s one: Levelling up by alignment If you’re good, you get XP for giving gold to benefit the poor or needy. For example...4 days ago
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Factions Without Borders - *Intergalactic *is going to be the first game I make that actually has a canonical map. Not that this is the whole galaxy, of course, but it’s a start. ...
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Aersalus E-Team: Season 1, Session 3 – The Lady of a Thousand Eyes - Aersalus E-Team: Season 1, Session 2 – The Gi’able and Open Sands Dramatis Personae Arsham uru Kajj damu Arasti (Played by Chris A.): Arsham experienced ...4 days ago
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GACKS AAR: Session 4 - GACKS AAR: Session 4Due to health reasons, there were no sessions the next two weeks. However, the game world wasn’t standing still. Isn’t that wonderful? ...4 days ago
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Using Treasure Hunter Adventures Material in the World of Indiana Jones - Once again it seems like June has snuck up on me. I had good intentions to watch some bad movies--the treasure hunter films that came out forty years ago...5 days ago
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Beneath Ahknoor - Thu Group - The Sword of the Whojamajigs - Group 2 | Session 3: "The Sword of the Whojamajigs" Previously: Three strangers stood at the entrance of a buried library and went in three separate direct...5 days ago
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Summer Issue Update: Cover Reveal, Taking Ads, Release Date TBA - I am so incredibly far behind in everything right now, I don’t even actually know when the Summer Special will come out, but it WILL come out in Summer! Ma...6 days ago
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Turf War (OSR Vampire: the Masquerade) - When I was first getting into Vampire: the Masquerade, it seemed like the perfect setting for an urban sandbox campaign, but as I learned more it seemed ...
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Want to Roleplay Masters of the Universe? - You just watched the new Masters of the Universe (MotU) movie and are excited about the possibility of playing a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) set in t...6 days ago
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Announcing Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster! - For the past year I've been working on a new book. I've kept it somewhat quiet, only more recently showing chapters (and eventually the entire second draft...6 days ago
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Pain, Exhaustion, and Morale in D&D BECMI - There isn’t an explicit set of mechanics handling pain and exhaustion for PCs, but there are decent mechanics for Morale that could be useful. Morale Che...1 week ago
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[Quick Review] Steadings & Followers - For those players and gamemasters interested in a quick and easy system for building settlements then I would take a look at Sibling Dex's *Steadings & F...1 week ago
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DEGRADER As Extraction Shooter - DEGRADER is a weird little play-by-post wargame by the wonderful Louis, who is great. It is stealth-based - player characters assemble webs of interlocki...
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Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1) - As a crusading force moving into hostile lands, castles were essential for the Teutonic Order’s survival in Prussia. Undeveloped and swampy, there was only...1 week ago
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Increasing Appreciation for Old-School Essentials - Laat night I managed to get our Friday group to start a classic B/X D&D campaign using a blend of the Erol Otus edition Basic and Expert rulebooks, with...1 week ago
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CLAWING FIEND - CLAWING FIEND "Ghastly shades of bygone gladness, Clawing fiends of future sadness." H.P. Lovecraft, *Cycle Of Verse* This one is the same but I really w...
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How to Set Up Factions So They Can Be Toppled - I've been waffling on the intro to this post for a while. In the interest of ever actually getting it onto the blog, I'll hit you with a couple of bul...
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A space ettin! - I realise that I've had this fellow in the works for more than three years (!) now, but he's finally done. He's a converted ettin from the Descent board...
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I am Dr Rotwang! - I am NOT the fella who goes by "Doktor Rotwang" on Substack. I've never met him. I'm not a Navy veteran. We are not the same guy, no matter what Google AI ...1 week ago
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John Blanche 1948–2026 - [image: Sister of Battle by Blanche] I am sad to learn about the passing of John Blanche. My friend Tim has written a nice article about him for Wargamer...1 week ago
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Pocket Dark Sun: Dune Reaper & Gaj - * Dune Reaper:* *"The reaper prowls the sandy wastes in wild packs, leaping from dunes to ambush and impale its prey on its scythe like limbs."* *Combat ...1 week ago
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The Alignment Octagram - For those who like the moral ambiguity of the Law-Neutrality-Chaos alignment system but pine for the complexity of the ninefold alignment system introduc...1 week ago
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The Alignment Octagram - For those who like the moral ambiguity of the Law-Neutrality-Chaos alignment system but pine for the complexity of the ninefold alignment system introduc...1 week ago
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Gnomecast 238 – Teaching New Rules - https://polygamero.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GC_238_teaching-new-rules_final.mp3 Join Ang, Josh, and JT as they talk about how to teach new rules to you...1 week ago
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"JB's Mailbag" Returns! - The "Q" post in my A to Z series is on the way, but it needs a bit of a re-write (it's just overlong and "over-meander-y"). So in the meantime, I thought I...1 week ago
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BEHOLD AND BE NOT AFRAID: The Mistaken Divinity Of The Beholder - The Eye from *The Baleful Gaze of Tabaldak's Geas* my 2025 Appendix N entry *This post by Gus L. over at *All Dead Generations* dovetails with a thou...1 week ago
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Off to North Texas Con - So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three sand...1 week ago
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The Backrooms: Terrifying Dungeon Crawl - SO I had an early cancellation this morning, and lots of errands to do but like a wide spot between when I had to do stuff and pick up my kiddo, and then a...1 week ago
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My 2025 in Review - Continuing my annual tradition, here are some of my favorite things from the last year. I think this is the first year where I've had to decide not to shou...
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The Chosen of the Script (SETTING) - *There is no single form of the Blasphemous Script. It can be a pamphlet fluttering in the wind, a sinister looking tome tucked away in the back of some ...1 week ago
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Punth: City of Compartments II - * Following on from last time...* *Presence* As might be imagined, there are two major groups in the City of Compartments other than the Hydraulic Dwarv...2 weeks ago
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I think Gilligan's Island helped inspire my Superhero Setting - I mentioned once or twice that my Futuristic supers/cyberpunk setting HAVEN was based in large part on the Pacific island techno nation described in ...2 weeks ago
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Fifth Fantasy Revised Classes - I fiddled with these ones a while ago but they never got typed up. Not playtested but I like them better. Fighter Paladin Journeyman A Link type *Skil...
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What I'm Up To - I'm sure it has been missed by no one that I have been having trouble finding time for this blog. And it's anniversary has just rolled past. So I wanted...
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Dead Wizards Ground Zero - Going on 10 years ago I got inspired by various sword and sorcery things to create a game called Dead Wizards. It's set in a sandy desert city. Very muc...
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Inspiration From Bodyless Sea Slug - This popped up on my Facebook feed and rather than feed Meta’s algorithm, I found other sources to share this. Here is a link to a Wikipedia article and a ...2 weeks ago
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40K Friday: More Orks - Progress was slow this week but I have another Grey Knight Terminator squad *almost *ready to go in the case. I'm still fighting the stupidly fiddly na...
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Shadowdark Carousing: Boosting Campaign Themes and Player Engagement - Welcome back, Dear Readers! I’ve been meditating on a feature of Shadowdark that I don’t think gets enough attention: the carousing tables and how they fun...
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Undead Programming and You! - The only thing an Undead will do of its own volition is defend itself from an aggressor. The spirit binding the corpse prefers to do nothing. The only hig...
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How do we start in the Realm? (A Mythic Bastionland luck roll to unlock the open table) - I’ve been running Mythic Bastionland as an open table game. Each session, I put out a call for players from a pool of eight to see who has availability to ...
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Wvyerdown vs Irontree: An Example of War (part 3) - The war between Wyverdown and Irontree continues! I know I said I was writing this to demonstrate the rules, and that mission is pretty much accomplished, ...2 weeks ago
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The DOOM approaches! - THE FINAL HOURS! THE COUNT-DOWN BEGINS! The Kickstarter for Doom of the Dark, the nightland adventure from Patrick Stuart (me) and Amanda Lee, is nearly o...
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Patrick Stuart & Amanda Lee Franck Interview: The Doom of the Dark - This is my second interview with Patrick (and first with Amanda!), this time about his current Kickstarter The Doom of the Dark. Unlike my previous inte...
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Corrupted Inventor for Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars - *A lawn mower thought turned into form. . .* Michael Grabowski: Corrupted Inventor, 10th level for *Night Shift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars* *Fi...2 weeks ago
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A Different Way to Look at the AD&D Hardcovers - Yesterday on my *YouTube Channel*, I published a video about the *"Mid-1980s Shift" in Advanced D&D* 1st Edition. Its received a lot of great and insight...2 weeks ago
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Hoo'z Dat Lot? A d100 Warhammer-Inspired Greenskin Tribe Name Generator - Dere'z some proppa ugly lookin' gitz comin' up da way, boss. I fink it'z da... It’z Da… d100 Furzt Part Zekund Part 1 ‘Ard Arrerz 2 ‘Arda-den-’Ar...2 weeks ago
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al-Alam al-Wasat Classes - The classes detailed below represent a series of editorial choices. Some options are unused (or to be precise, sometimes shunted to the "foreign classes"...
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The Expense Post - *The Expense Post (Or: Why I Stopped Posting My Numbers)* I was at a game convention yesterday, hanging out with industry friends, talking store numbers....3 weeks ago
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What if we Nimble-ified DCCRPG - Nimble has some good rules for interesting, speedy combat. It's still a skirmish-game that requires minis, but so is DCC, on paper. Attacks: - Melee ...
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Mythic Weapons - I love the idea of specialist weapons and how this is used in Mythic Bastionland. Here are d100 such weapons. by Wayne Reynolds *This weapon is...* ...
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Maze Master Hank Chapter 3: “Unnormal Norman” - “Welcome to my DEAD TALK!” said Unnormal Norman. Unnormal Norman was a skeleton man, but instead of old rags like the rest of the Skeleton Boy Bonez Brigad...3 weeks ago
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Submissions are now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition - Hello all! Submissions have now closed for the 2026 Lindenbaum competition. We have had slightly more than 10 entries this year, so entries will be av...3 weeks ago
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Pass of the Thorn Crowned - An ancient path from a forgotten age, the old stone path leads through a rocky pass. Barely intact, fallen old structures are scattered throughout ...
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ArcGIS Pro Layout Redesign volume 2 - We geographers can dig pretty deep in the weeds of data collection and analysis, reveling in the fun of precision, process, statistics, even visualization....3 weeks ago
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Paralysis Analysis - We all know how paralysis works in early *Dungeons & Dragons*, right? You get hit with an attack that causes paralysis, you make a saving throw, and if ...3 weeks ago
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My New Campaign: Jaded Prophets and Pesky Gods - Creating pantheons has always been an interest of mine, to the point I wrote a book about creating pantheons. I’ve got another one in the works about devel...3 weeks ago
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Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
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5 Pillars Game Designer Profile* - James “Grim” Desborough There are tabletop designers who create systems. There are designers who create worlds. Then there are designers who leave behind a...4 weeks ago
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d100 - Where Does That Lamp Oil Come From? - Sometimes, I like to confront a few of the curious questions that occasionally come up in various Settings. This time I decided to tackle that ubiquitous...
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Dirty door tricks - Doors, the lifeblood of the dungeon, or something. They show up all the time in our fantasy dungeon crawling games, yet are often underdescribed. Most of...4 weeks ago
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In the Foothills - The wind was cold on Yurelalte's face, cold enough to numb her lips and sting her cheeks even with the golden sun shining down from a blue and glorious...4 weeks ago
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THANK YOU! THIS BLOG IS NOW CLOSED - A heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported Farsight Blogger since June 2009, through the streams of conciousness, articles, reviews, interviews and gam...
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D&D Did You Know’s: Sitting and Kneeling in Third Edition - Being prone is a fairly common condition in D&D 3.5, as well as related iterations of the d20 System such as Pathfinder 1E or d20 Modern. From martial char...5 weeks ago
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Resonances and Dancing Babies - In *"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote,"* Borges sets up a fascinating thought experiment. Can someone stretch their mind far enough to be able to re...
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Lords of Chaos! Free League also producing a Stormbringer game? - Well this is a bit confusing. Just two days ago I mentioned that Goodman Games announced that they will be producing material based upon Michael Moorcock...
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Immersion is not what you think, player - *Here we go, another post on the Substack. I think I can claim that I'm back at it. There are already two new essays lined up, and I'm aiming at one a we...
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Adventure Game on Cardboard - Here is the game I have been running most recently, that was written on cardboard, in scanned PDF format: https://mraston.itch.io/adventure-game-on-ca...1 month ago
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Moldvay Basic finally available in Print on Demand - Great news: The "B" of "*B/X*", the rulebook of *the 1981 D&D Basic Set*, commonly known as the *Moldvay Basic*, is finally available in print-on-demand...
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House Rule: Sharing Potions - Something my players have tried (off and on again) is splitting potions—particularly if many in the party are in need of healing. In furtherance of my...
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DaveCon 2026 happening this Weekend - DaveCon 2026 takes place this weekend, April 24th-26th. Organised by its founder Victor Dorso, the list of special guests include Blackmoor alumni such...1 month ago
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The Corruption of Power - I read The Man Who Was Thursday recently. I'm still not sure what I think of its answer to the question of theodicy, but there was a bit that seemed ACK...
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Abstraction in My Liege, - I think the aspect of *My Liege,* that could potentially put off the most people is its lack of accounting granularity. It does not track Court wealth in...1 month ago
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White Box Dungeon Adventures is out! - Out now! Go grab your copy!https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/560236/white-box-dungeon-adventures
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Spell Research - Been awhile... Cool way to mix random spell determination with choice... When you level up (or even at character creation) and are gaining new spells, y...
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Draw Steel Monsters on a Credit Card - Click to get it full-sizefront and back! I’m the guy who does “monsters on a business card” posts, and I just started at MCDM, so I should probably do a Dr...1 month ago
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Flooding Dungeon Complex | Surprise Easter dungeon play report - I don’t usually do play reports, but what the heck … I discovered that the youngest Henchling had invited his friend over (his friend’s older brother decid...1 month ago
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Resurrecting the PSEUDO-UNDEAD - Part Four: Mummies - Afflicted! The Leper from *Darkest Dungeon. *Of course. A *Pseudo-Mummy *is *Afflicted* with *a horrible rotting disease*. The common characteristics of ...1 month ago
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Something old...something renewed? - Finally getting around to doing what I meant to start doing back in January... As some may recall, I had a long spate of self-publishing, both fiction a...1 month ago
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Castle Greyhawk Four New Dungeon Level Maps Revealed - CZ Act 1 "Alpha Preview" Map TLG published a Castle Zagyg "Alpha Preview" to CZ1 backers on 2 April 2026, showing one-quarter of The Cellars, level 2 of C...
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Christ is Risen! - *Hades took a body, and met God face to face. It took earth, and encountered Heaven. It took that which was seen, and fell upon the unseen. O Death, where...
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Cthulhu Dark: The Watcher in the Valley – Session 3 - Our fourth and final session of Cthulhu Dark, continuing from session zero, session one, and session two, running through the classic Call of Cthulhu modul...2 months ago
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Campaign ‘26, Session #09-10: Exiles of a Thousand Islands - THE CRUELLEST MONTH IS UPON US! Cruel, but by no means less loved: all this fecund florabundance and accompanying cloying scent is energising, no matter...
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Haven: Strange Magics and Animated Alembics - On December 18th, with Gobblebob otherwise occupied, the party returning to the dwarven ruins is no longer inclined to return to the many doors in the hall...2 months ago
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The Competent Traveller - I have written much about Classic Traveller skills in the past decade. However, a recent discussion on the Traveller Discord server took me back to this...
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26.Q1 Hobby Update - Despite being rather busy with work, the first few months of 2026 ended up being surprisingly fruitful on the hobby front. Role-playing games - I r...2 months ago
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Mothership: Alternative Trauma Responses - My current weekly drop-in game of Mothership: Gradient Descent is now twelve sessions and thirteen characters deep. The extant four (or six, if you count...2 months ago
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How to Talk About Difficulty - Artist credit: Jeffrey Hummel Gamers suck at talking about difficulty. It's one of those topics that somehow never produces a good conversation. It's mire...
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Consolidated AD&D Weapon Characteristics List - Having spent the last few days down a research rabbit hole, I ended up compiling a chart of AD&D weapon characteristics, adding some "missing" entries an...2 months ago
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One Guard Always Speaks - One Guard Always Speaks: In Harsh Truths In Pretty Lies In Convoluted Charades In Obscure Riddles In Interpretive Dance In Long Winded Soliloquies In Morse...2 months ago
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Cabinet of Curiosities, my old school module (anniversary repost) - I wrote an 87-page module and it is for sale! (CLICK HERE to check it out on DriveThruRpg) WHAT THIS MODULE HAS: - Two urban heist adventures (*Cabin...2 months ago
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Alternative *Alternative* Combat System - What was the purpose of the original Alternative Combat System outlined in the first booklet of original Dungeons & Dragons? The common explanation by t...
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Real History: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong - Another interesting article about the Maya, their past and current struggles. Two paragraphs that are of most relevance to this blog. "Subsequent large-s...2 months ago
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What WOULD Conan Do? - I can finally answer that question. He would move his blog to DSell.me. Reasons! 1. Google is both generally evil and liable to suddenly cut se...2 months ago
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Still Alive... really. - Real Life has been rough and impacted my creative and gaming schedule quite a lot. Adapting to the new schedule has been a trick but my creative juices a...2 months ago
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Death Moon Hallucinations - Gibberish stuff for the game I currently work on. Yup, I shifted my posting duties from here to Substack - but I do not plan on giving up on this blog. Ha...2 months ago
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Happy Tolkien Day - So, Happy Tolkien Day, for those who celebrate with a cup of tea, old books, and the good green things of the earth. --John R --current reading: MacDon...2 months ago
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Guest Post! Monotheism & D&D (2 of 2) - In the first part of this thought experiment, I focused on how the setting’s true God would function within a monotheistic campaign setting. In this second...2 months ago
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Thoughts on Autocrats of Night & AD&D Dungeon Guidelines - My Autocrats of Night campaign, wherein the players were to delve the enemy megadungion and steal a Dragon Orb to break the power of the nasty dragon-ri...2 months ago
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The Reset Button Isn’t Redemption - WotC is presenting us with a new turning point. Legacy names are back in the spotlight, and the messaging leans heavily on a return to roots and closer t...
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Wheel…of…fortunes! - Fontaine’s Golden Wheel Fortune-Teller, and Dream Book (published by Dick & Fitzgerald, in 1862 and 1866) claims to reproduce a list of 100 fortunes associ...2 months ago
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Referee Sabotage - It is an old saw that players are bad at executing their plans. Imagine this common scene: the party have some big job that requires planning; perhaps robb...2 months ago
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The Company Bloodhound - *The Hunter * Hendrick “Bloodhound” Van Daalen works indirectly for the Dutch West India Company. He is not technically an employee of the company, rather ...2 months ago
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D6 State of Orc & Goblin Clan Relations - Roll every day, keep if higher, resetting on a 1. 1. Orcs kill Goblins on sight because one looked at the clan chief wrong, Goblins fled into warr...2 months ago
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The Dungeon Hates You! - The Dungeon is *alive*. The Dungeon considers the monsters that reside in it to be its children – if they are not, in fact, its “children” via some eldrit...2 months ago
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Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
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3d20 Fairytale Character Creation Tables - This was the original method of character creation that I was going to use for my Weird Wanderings game. I had initially envisioned this game as another ...
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Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
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"I Share My Dreams with Ghosts" - Espionage Mechanics for Star Wars d6 - I've been running the Andor Game for nearly 20 sessions (19 as of this past Saturday), and I've been *really *happy with the results so far. I've been st...
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A funny thing happened on the way to the Roach God… - The last few sessions of my Reach of the Roach God campaign have been a great example of why I choose to run games this way.3 months ago
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2026-02-26 Clone a virtual machine from inside it - 2026-02-26 Clone a virtual machine from inside it I want to move my virtual machine from hoster edis.at to hoster hosting.de. I’m using Debian stable/13/T...3 months ago
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Alternates to Hit/Miss Defense for Dex-Based Characters in RPGs - Path of Exile does it, Diablo 2 does it, Torchlight does it, Last Epoch does it, Titan Quest does it, Grim Dawn doesn't do it but kinda but that's game w...
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GO VOTE IN THE BLOGGIES OR ELSE - HI HELLO HI I'm posting this like a day late but that's okay that's whatever. My unnecessarily long-running post series Goin' Through the Fiend Folio ha...3 months ago
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Bad Unicorns and 2026 - Hello all – it is the second month of 2026 and I haven’t yet posted anything here – so here is at least something. We have been struggling with S.A.D. and ...3 months ago
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The March 1636 Lantern is Published - Okay, The March Lantern is available. Those fast on the draw may have noticed that I mistakenly published it as free access for 56 minutes. I was just so ...3 months ago
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Cepheus/Traveller: Blake’s 7 Crew - Wherein your humble scribe presents stats in Cepheus Universal (which isn’t Classic Traveller, but is close enough for a BBC budget) for some universally c...3 months ago
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Sunset Realms Diss Track - Thanks, Wizzz I am currently playing in my *9th* campaign of the illustrious Wizzzargh of the DMiurgy blog since joining their server in 2018. I wanted to...
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Review: GURPS Gun Stats - Imagine the following situation: you want to feature a certain gun in your campaign, but you want to do it “properly”. You’re not the kind of GM who woul...3 months ago
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RPG Campaign Tour Challenge 2026, Day 9 - The Big Bad™ - Rolling on with Barking Alien's RPG CAMPAIGN TOUR CHALLENGE... *Day 9 - Who's in charge here?* *Who are the major movers and shakers in the campaign?* As t...3 months ago
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Mapping the pre D&D Dungeon Adventure From May 25 1972, Part 1 - Earlier (Here) we looked at the oldest dungeon dive preserved in Arneson's write up as found in *Blackmoor Foundations*. Turning now to the second dunge...
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Sickle & Torch - For many of us, 0-level play was our first experience with DCC RPG. Throw a bunch of nobodies into an awful situation, and see which ones come out alive....
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GURPS Witch World - I had no idea SJG had done a licensed sourcebook for Andre Norton‘s excellent Witch World series. It feels awesome to crack open a book from 1989 — my sala...4 months ago
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The Sacrament of the Minotaur - This is the first of a small series of posts which will be about how I am running Luke Gearing’s *Gradient Descent *in my Mothership home campaign. This ...
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Nordheim: Runes as Dice in D&D - [image: Black dice and runes with gold lettering] Chessex polyhedral dice and rune set by Arcturus Publishing I've been digging in some old rpg sandpits I ...
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TSR's module A2, Secret of the Slavers' Stockade (Fort Level) - TSR Module A2: Secret of the Slavers' Stockade Harold Johnson with Tom Moldvay At a couple of climactic points in module A1, Slave Pits, the adventurers ...4 months ago
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STRANGE AEONS - LIMA - Alright I'm doing this and the next one and then I'm going to stop. Poetess Magda Portal is secret agent for revolutionary party. Sits in corner of Lima...4 months ago
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World-building using stuff I found in my bathroom - This is a foolproof and highly untested world-building exercise where you only need a bathroom and some imagination. The more people you share the househ...4 months ago
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Book Notes: The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction - I've been reading *The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction*. It's a collection of mythological, spiritual, moral, hist...
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Classic Railroad Adventuring: How to Roll Dice on a Train - After many days in the wilderness, hounded relentlessly by the vociferous demons of Blogger OCD, I came across a railroad track and managed to hop on a p...4 months ago
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How to Hexcrawl, The Easiest Way - There are many creators [1] [2] [3] [4] detailing in great detail or simplified form, their unique ways to play a hexcrawl, in terms of travel. I have dabb...
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Return to Returned Blackmoor - At the end of the prior year, Threshold Mystara released Issue 37. Within it, there are various articles about villages and settlements. And within is a “l...4 months ago
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THW Football on Wargames Vault Deal of the Day - 50% off for tomorrow's Deal of the Day at Wargames Vault. Just in time for the playoffs. 😀 Scroll down the Vault page to see the how to video. https://...4 months ago
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Arneson Gaming Solo ~ The Village of Aberford - Here are notes on my solo game using Matt Jackson’s Arneson Gaming. I’ll be using Mythic GME and other oracles for the game. I’ve created my PC, Sir Mathia...4 months ago
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The Reassembulation Will Be Messy - I’m reassembulating wizardthieffighter.com on a different platform, in a different format and style. This reassembulation will be messy. Most links will di...5 months ago
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The Road to Splashdown - Earlier today, I read Patrick Stuart's newest post 'Spider is a Mushroom Now', and immediately found I had to write something about it. I recommend you rea...5 months ago
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2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...5 months ago
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2025 Gaming Summary and 2026 Plans - I didn't blog at all in 2025 because I was too busy gaming. I was playing in two weekly 5e (2014) campaigns and running a weekly Imperium Maledictum camp...5 months ago
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On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
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The Return of Fairwind - A while back devoted listener Snickersnax pointed out that Fairwind denied herself and her daughter the accompaniment of ladies-in-waiting and personal m...5 months ago
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I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.
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RPG Design: How a Roleplaying Game like D&D Could Make Rounds Play Better - Since D&D dropped the declaration phase in favor of cyclic initiative, it has let one round blur into the next without any phases that trigger between roun...5 months ago
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It just needed a thump! Or so I thought... - My power unit fan had been wobbly and noisy for a while. Then the other day a new Mod for a game caused a total panic crash and shut down on Turn 7. Since...5 months ago
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...5 months ago
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Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...6 months ago
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The Captive Cervantes and the problem of history - The recent Spanish film The Captive (trailer) is difficult to review because it tells a very streamlined story that is very deeply situated in a complex hi...6 months ago
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Under Gallax Hall - Level 4 - Monastery - *"I'm challenging myself to try and write at least 1-3 rooms per day to crank this thing out in like... 3 months, maybe?"* -Me, about 5 years ago. Been ...
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Soul in Shadows (The A.I. D&D Campaign) Session 4 - *SESSION 4 — ENTERING THE CENTRAL PASSAGE* *Dane finds the last soul shard. Art prompt by ChatGPT, Art by Krea AI. * Time for more solo D&D run by ChatGP...
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1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...6 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...7 months ago
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A New Review of “The Uncanny Highway” - [Review] The Uncanny Highway: Blue-Plate Special Edition7 months ago
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The Sky Scions: Part 2 - The Sky Scions: Part 2 Friday, November 7, 2025 Are you ready for our 40th Paizo blog report across the past ten years? Here it is, with the newest rele...7 months ago
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Cauldron Con AAR: Day 3 & Final Thoughts - Hello Blogland. The spine-tingling conclusion to my European adventure at Cauldron Con is here!! *DAY 3* I awoke feeling not too worse for wear consideri...
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Discovering Mausritter: OSR Adventures for Brave Little Mice - Mausritter stands out in the crowded landscape of old-school revival games by shrinking the scale of heroism down to something delightfully intimate. Rel...7 months ago
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Short Fiction: A matter of priority - A M A T T E R O F P R I O R I T Y CAPTAINS LOG STARDATE 2093.5 The Marie Curie is the first of the Warp 2 Colonial Medical Frigates. A week i...7 months ago
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Pack it up, we're moving! - I have been side eyeing blogger for about a year now. While nothing is inherently broken right now, the website feels like it is abandonware. I've been ...7 months ago
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Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
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Gormand's Larder is back - Hello, I made a 36 pages extended edition of my old zine Gormand's Larder. You get the digital version here: https://evlyn.itch.io/gormand-larder
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I’m Moving! - I did a lot of soul searching and talked to a lot of people. The blog will be going away but I’m not. I’m moving my posting over to Substack. If you are em...8 months ago
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KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya Dengan Permainan Mudah Maxwin - Agar bisa menemukan KPK5000 Situs Slot Gacor Mudah Maxwin, banyak bettors yang rela melakukan berbagai cara. Karena salah dalam memilih bandar pada game ...8 months ago
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New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.8 months ago
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Escape, Engagement, and Eucatastrophe - Artwork from GRIDSHOCK 20XX by Grey Wizard A sentiment that I've been seeing often lately is wanting to avoid games that take place in post-apocalyptic...8 months ago
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How do you do piracy… in SPACE!? - Interstellar space travel in Iridium Moons was always going to be a form of hyperspace jump like in Star Wars or Traveller. Simply because it’s the one for...8 months ago
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
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Rolling Dice - Greetings from the Edge! That's right, been rolling a lot of dice, as in running my homebrew on a fairly regular basis since February of this year. It's d...9 months ago
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Cimmerian September 2025: A Scotalogue - In researching Conan of Caledonia, I scoured through my collections of Robert E. Howard's work for anything even vaguely related to Scotland & the Scots....
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Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...
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Take Stock of my Stock Art :) - Sorry for the really bad pun. OK, not really. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I've got things up and running with both my Ko-fi and DriveThruRPG shop...
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Fantasy RPG Video Game Project - Long time, no blog! Life treated me poorly, and life treated me well. I went dark on YouTube and most certainly here due to the fact that, put simply, I...10 months ago
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Angstone: A Magical Substance - I came up with this magical substance for one of my homebrewed settings, and maybe you can use it in a game. Angstone Recipe: Every cubic yard of the s...
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Defiance Of Darkness Campaign Journal I - DEFIANCE OF DARKNESS SESSION 17/12/25 @ Mythic Games Santa Cruz Our Heroes:Sylvia, Half-Elf Female CLR-1 / RNG-1 (Brandon)Kale, Human Male MNK-1 (Brandon)T...10 months ago
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Alma Mater / OSR Mash-Up - I recently ran a one-shot games day for a group of friends I rarely get to game with in person anymore. After a friend’s initial suggestion I’ve been think...10 months ago
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The AD&D Experience Point System - *Roger Moore battles to the death with the AD&D XP calculation rules, Dragon #89* *Update 20 July 2025 to fix va...
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A Wraithblade to Bind a Murderer’s Soul - Wraiths are the restless souls of brutal murderers. They cannot find rest in death, and keep on tormenting the living, leaving behind a long trail of pain....11 months ago
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Critical Role Hires Two Worst D&D Designers of All Time - The Critical Role / Daggerheart people have hired the two men most responsible for the least successful edition of D&D. What a lot of people have missed...
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Unto The Cruel (campaign setting, GLOG classes, gamerunning musing) - This is information for a semi-successful, semi-abortive campaign I ran off and on for a handful of denizens of the double-concealed exclusive invite-onl...
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Roll Windows - These days I mostly post on my Substack, but I thought I’d share this one here. Three months ago I ran a poll over at Questing Beast looking how GMs actu...1 year ago
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Deep Space & Derelicts: Basic/Xenotech version, an idea for a game - here's a little idea for a game that's been floating around my head for a while. what if early D&D had been based around classic scifi rather than cl...1 year ago
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Worlds Funsome and Free: Understanding Open Role-Play Adventures - *The following is mainly available in various pdf and text formats on my itch.io page, but some folks also like having it available in blog form, so here t...
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OSR: Spectacle Fighter - This is a new variant of my Fighting Man class. It is designed to be the anarchic sister to the Free-Form Wizard, to lend that same air of gleeful unpredi...1 year ago
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Observations on Onboarding - The few chances I had to crack open the dusty ol' tomes and partake in adventure gaming has been on the refereeing side of the table. Normally with some ...
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The Mygnskerö Unleashed! - Out latest set of paper minis - The Attack of the Mygnskerö - three fearsome Fungoid invaders, alongside three craft working defenders, hand-drawn in old s...
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Playing at the World 2E V2 Arrives - With the release of its second volume, the second edition of *Playing at the World *is finally complete. The two books combined total well over 1,000 ...
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Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...
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I Want Magic Weapons to Matter - There’s part of me that wants to put monsters that can only be hit by +1, +2 or even +3 weapons back into the game. And you’re wondering, “Why do you hat...1 year ago
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THE WOUND LOGIC - THE WOUND LOGIC These are not commandments. They are fault lines. Pressure responses. Sacred malfunctions. Each one is a site of tension, and some are ...1 year ago
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Giants of the Middle West - When summer comes, and the heat hangs in the air, the giants appear low on the horizon matching ponderously from some distant sea. Chimes hang over man...
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Trench Crusade Warband: Sisters of the Sable Geisslerlieder - So I have become absolutely *fixated* upon Trench Crusade. Maybe it is the aesthetics, maybe it is the fact that I'm a huge WWI fan (Second Yrpes ...
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A "special" review of my book "Game Design," with a twist (the book is NOT the point) - A special book “review” of my book Game Design [ Note. This was submitted as a column for “Worlds of Design” on enworld.org. I’ve written more than 200 ...1 year ago
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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 year 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...1 year ago
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.1 year ago
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Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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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Why Did Natural 20's Become Automatic Hits? - Here's an observation I just made, that came up from a friend's question about the 1E AD&D rules for a big project they're working on. Ultimately this hi...
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Table This Discussion - Roll a d6 to see which table to roll on: Table 1 (roll d8): Why does this dragon hoard treasure? 1. In debt to a loan shark - possibly a literal shark,...1 year 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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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 year 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 year ago
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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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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??? - So…social media is kinda going to hell. Bluesky is pretty nifty, but I hate Twitter-like experiences. Maybe I’ll just revive the old blog.1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...1 year ago
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Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement - Alternative Experience Awards and Advancement (I started thinking about this as a way to make XP awards in 5e come from all three “Pillars of Adventure” r...1 year ago
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Pirates and Necromancers, a Play Report - Over the Thanksgiving weekend we did a lot of gaming ranging from “off-table” domain level stuff to some solo adventures to spell and magic item rese...1 year ago
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Zombie Survival Escape USA - Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure as you navigate through a city overrun by the undead in Zombie Survival Escape USA. In this heart-pounding game,...1 year 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.1 year ago
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Remembering the Master: An Inelegant Eulogy for Kory Heath - Kory was an auteur game designer in every sense.1 year 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 ...1 year ago
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Knave 2e Alternate Attributes - Sometimes, I'm exactly in the mood for the classic simplicity of defining characters entirely by D&D's six attributes, as Knave does. But sometimes, I want...
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Broke my Previous Wordpress Site, New Wordpress Site. - https://blog.gi7b.org/ slowly migrating to this blog. Whats so special about it: Now I can put all the pictures relevant to the Product in its page as part...1 year ago
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Exploring the Wilderness - Life with Rocs - *More solo play with post background after the jump. Next time they should be at the tomb.* Vineyard’s Bounty, 8th Rising. On the Old South Road in the ...
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Delta Green #5 — Project Anthropocene / An Item of Mutual Interest - Part six of a series of reviews and notes on the scenarios I ran for my Delta Green group. Project Anthropocene (shotgun contest 2016, Ethan Cordray) tur...
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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...2 years 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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A Bevy of Beyond the Supernatural Sheets - I don't know if anyone out there is still playing *Beyond the Supernatural* ("BtS"), Palladium's fun* little game of proto-super heroes hunting the para...
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Last move - to self-hosting! - As my vote regarding Substack in the “marketplace of ideas”, I’m moving to self-hosting. I’m now at (and hopefully staying for a long time at) Blog: ht...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years ago
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Falkrest Abbey Review - Hello All – It has been quite some time since we talked. There was this little pandemic that happened, and life got all crazy. I played a hell of a lot o...
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today concerni...2 years ago
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I used 'Satan' to generate illustrations for someone's setting! - It is a known fact that Noism consider AI to be SATAN. I've got my own intensely mixed feelings on the matter, especially when it come to who control the...
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SORCERER (Afterword) - Hi there. I'm sure you, astute reader, have noticed that this blog isn't very active anymore. That's because I don't quite have the inspiration for it. N...
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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!3 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 ...3 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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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...3 years ago
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to keep...3 years ago
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Wild Dwarves (race-class for Old-School Essentials) - This is the first of a handful of race-classes I've made for my Wengemerlin campaign. Dwarves feature heavily within the first part of the setting, the H...4 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...4 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 ...4 years ago
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Brick Architecture, Hall Houses, Monasteries and more – A Tour of Stralsund's Old Town - The town of Stralsund was one of the leading members of the Hanseatic League and thus one of the few German towns that still carry the denomination in offi...4 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...4 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:...4 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...4 years ago
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It's 2021 and the Dream is Dead - So reads the cover caption of Mayfair's *Underground*, published in 1993. Taking place in 2021, *Underground* is unusual in terms of genre; perhaps “dys...
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My FREE RPG 12v12 Is Out Now!!!! - I hope everyone is well. I am very excited to be able to share a little game I have been working on for a while. 12v12 is a D12-based multi-genre RPG, an...
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Cultural Influences on early British Role-Playing Games - If you’re interested in early British tabletop role-playing games (particularly from the 1970s and ’80s), I recommend keeping an eye on the #BOSR (British ...4 years ago
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"Things to Find" tables and Velonia - So in my Lost Carcosa supplement something I did was have an encounter table as well as a "Things To Find" table for each region. I initially assumed th...
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Short Shelf of Picks - Vol. III - Blood in the Roots This is a packed little half fold pamphlet. Evocative in a way that I appreciate. I am aware of Trollish Delver Games (Scott Malthous...
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The Visitor Royal Telepath - I have taken a little break from blogging to set up the Ravens Purge campaign for Forbidden Lands for my friends on Discord for a bit of a change of pace. ...
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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." ...5 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...5 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. ...5 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: ...5 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...5 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...5 years ago
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Time Management and the Role of Caller - Last week was the first session of my Wednesday night Roll20/Discord group’s new B/X campaign (a continuation of a long-running AD&D campaign that went o...5 years ago
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Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#752005 years ago
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ボンズカジノの本人確認の方法 - ボンズカジノで本人確認する方法を解説します。本人確認が完了しないと出金することができません。また同時に入金不要＄40ボーナスも本人確認が完了したら、もらうことができます。では早速、本人確認していきましょう！右上のボタンをクリックです。プロフィールをクリック。メールアドレス認証は登録時に行ってますので、ここでは電話...6 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...6 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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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 (...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 years ago
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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...6 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 ...6 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...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 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.6 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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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...6 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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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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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...6 years ago
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The Faithful - An Optional Archetype for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells Revised Edition - Work on the revised edition of Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells is moving along. This will be a hefty tome, with a LOT of tools and new options to customiz...6 years ago
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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...6 years ago
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Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...
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Wargaming Wednesday: The Pure Insanity of Warhammer 40,000 - NOTE: Cross-posting this from my Post Modern Pulps Blog, going to post one of these a day until I get caught up, and then I'm going to cross-post Wargaming...
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TFH&P Release Notification Signup - Dear Friends, This game is very near to completion, and there has been a flattering amount of interest in the game since the kickstarter campaign ended. So...6 years ago
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Knights and their Towers - Knight's towers were fortified self-standing buildings, several-stories high, most often erected on a plan similar to a square. They contained both livi...
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Echoes of Prohibition - Prohibition is a nearly forgotten time in Maryland history, despite the still-visible paint on the side of a Fell’s Point building urging residents to “Vot...6 years ago
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Elsai Overview - Elsai is a small planet and the only inhabited one orbiting its star. From its spaceport—nothing more than a flattened chunk of rock used by stellar scum—E...
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Tomb of the Serpent Kings: Session 1 - Finally got around to running a session using my in-development Yoon-Suin Lamentations of the Flame Princess hack. I decided on using Skerples' Tomb of the...6 years ago
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Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...6 years ago
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This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...
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New Website! - Sorry I haven't been posting, have been adjusting to a new job and dealing with personal things. Now I get to show you one of the things I've been working...
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Spire: The City Must Fall, or, “Menzoberranzan Writes Back” - I am probably late to the party on this, but just this past week I discovered the game Spire: The City Must Fall. It looked absolutely fascinating, so I th...6 years ago
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Friendly Advice: Finding Inspiration - This past week I spent my days in the verdant mountains of Pennsylvania near a small town called Bedford. It was a farm that went by Fort Royal where a mus...6 years ago
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Another way for Udemy to screw things up - Udemy now expires all free coupons older than 30 days. This is to prevent "coupon abuse", though they don't say what that actually is. It's in Udemy's inte...6 years ago
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100 curious thing for a setting. - As your genial host let me welcome to lovely "insert place holder name" world. It is a wonderful place to have a vacation during this part of the aeon. As ...7 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...7 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...7 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 ...7 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...7 years ago
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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...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 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...7 years ago
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MIDDLE DUNGEONS LEVEL FIVE 158 STAIRS. - 158 STAIRS. These stairs descend thirty feet to Area 79 on Level 6.7 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...7 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...7 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 ...7 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...7 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*...7 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...
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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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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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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 ...8 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...8 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...8 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 ...8 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...8 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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DUNGEON#3:TOTALT JAVLA MORKER - PDF here It's a simple 13 room dungeon I've ran for new players to figure out how OSR is played. The dungeon can be easily adapted for your purposes b...
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New Free PDF Module: The Hyqueous Vaults - A new dungeon module—written in celebration of OSRIC's 10th Birthday—by Rebecca Dettmann, Allan T. Grohe, Jr., Jimm Johnson, Matthew Riedel, Alex Zisch, a...
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Random Encounters Shaping Campaign Choices: Emergent Story - This is what you get when you open your game up and have no expectations; what happens when you present a problem to the player characters that can’t be ...
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Numenera - The Devil's Spine - Session 12 - Once Upon a Time in the Ninth World Welcome to our group's campaign log for *The Devil's Spine*, a mega-adventure by +Monte Cook for the *Numenera* cam...
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Behold Beyond Dread Portals now has a cover! - Our upcoming release of Paul Mitchener's Dimension Hopping Fantasy Adventure game, Beyond Dread Portals, now has a cover courtesy of Jon Hodgson. Continue ...8 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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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...8 years ago
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(Video) Game Review: Crawl - So my gaming group all hang out together and one of us had this new video game, Crawl from Powerhoof We got so distracted we didn't even play out sched...
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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...
8 years ago -
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...
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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...9 years ago
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Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...9 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...9 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'...9 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...9 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...9 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...9 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...9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago -
Mapping doors - Doors are driving me a bit batty. I should explain. Architecturally, one of the things old-school dungeon mapping has gotten right, I tend to think almost...9 years ago
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How-to: Under-bed Play Board - Happy Holidays everyone! This year, for Christmas, I undertook my first *real *woodworking project- meaning one that starts with boards and ends up with ...
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Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...9 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...9 years ago
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Grammaton training (Savage worlds) - The character is trained in quickly calculating shooting angles and committing rigorous gun kata to muscle memory. The character is an expert in snap shoo...
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D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...9 years ago
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Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...
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Giambattista's Megadungeon - Doing some organizing in my D&D folder on my computer today I came across this incredible megadungeon map drawn by Giambattista Nolli in 1748. I think I c...
9 years ago -
Dog Food Coupons and Promo Codes - Over the years it seems as if Pet Food have been get more expensive. There has definitely been an increase in people looking for Dog Food Coupons, probably...9 years ago
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Encounter Inspiration #16 - Beware the Back Alleys - Be cautious at night traveler, for the darkness brings a life of its own. Murderers and thieves prowl the inky black alleys of Ravendale seeking victims...
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The curious anger against The Forge - I read a post earlier this week that was one of those that makes you wonder what world the poster lives in. The thrust of the argument was that The Forge h...10 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...10 years ago
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House Rule Updates for my OD&D Game - Back in February, I presented my players with some updates to my house rules. I handed them a paper at the start of a session and asked everyone to read ...10 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...10 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...10 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! ...10 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...10 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...10 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...10 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...10 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 ...10 years ago
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A new rpg blog - https://ropeblogi.wordpress.com/ This one is old and feels cluttered. Rather than try resurrecting this I decided to start a new rpg blog. Some content is ...10 years ago
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Current Portfolio - If you’re looking my current portfolio, please head over to www.chrishuth.com. If you’re looking for gaming-related writing or updates on some other gaming...10 years ago
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Khoisa Family of Languages - Overview of Language Mechanics The Khoisa Family: An ancient language of poets, warriors, and mages, the languages of the Khoisa family are uniformly beaut...10 years ago
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Back from the Dead! - Yet Again! - I have never stopped playing RPGs but I have been extremely slack about updating this blog. No posts for over three years? Uggh... I am running a campaign ...10 years ago
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Giant squid + giant squid - So much is happening that it's hard to write about any of it. My drafts folder is littered with abandoned proto-ideas, each dropped when the next came into...11 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...11 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 ...11 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...11 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...11 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...11 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...11 years ago
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TrollsZine! #8 Is Waiting For You! - [image: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/137077/TrollsZine-8?filters=0_0_0_0&manufacturers_id=2238] *TrollsZine!* #8 is waiting for you! The eighth issue o...
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Fiction: A Disruption - *Another fiction post everyone. Same character as before.* I lay on the chaise in my long formal dress I wore to a few events in the late '20s. I have no...11 years ago
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New Campaign 2014 Update - We've been playing 11 session now into the new campaign. The players had some hairy encounters with Proud, Spider-eye Goblins and Quill Wolves (along with ...11 years ago
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Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus - Alagon dived into the pool, using his ability to breathe underwater that he had acquired in the Tomb of the Holy Avenger. Alurax joined him and they invest...11 years ago
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Support My Friend's Patreon Page Cause He's Awesome - Hey guys, if you like supporting independent artists / musicians and creative types then please check out my friend Mike TV of the band Get Set Go's Patreo...12 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 ...12 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...
12 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...12 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...12 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 ...12 years ago
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[Campaign Analysis] Deadlands Reloaded: Lost in the Maze - My *Deadlands* campaign wrapped up yesterday. As is my wont, with the closure of another campaign it's now time to take a look at "[w]hat worked, what di...
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Check It Out... - And speaking of building new worlds...I've been a regular reader of Rob Conley's Bat In the Attic blog for a while now. He's a dedicated gamer with an ext...12 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...12 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...13 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...13 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...13 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...13 years ago
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ACKS Half Value Spellcasting - The Strategic Review and 1E Ranger (I don't recall a Basic DND Ranger?) would gain spellcasting in later levels as both a Cleric and a Magic User (Druid an...
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Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...
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Les Essarts : A draft map of my Dodecaedron World - This map is intended for the publication of the second opus of my Dodecaedron world.
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Guest Post: Setting Out for the Lost City - Originally posted on Jeffro's Space Gaming Blog: Earlburt is my closest gaming friend, and has done more than any other person to help bring the games I’ve...13 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...13 years ago
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Rental Equipment As a Business Strategy - During stock tracking, you might normally want to sell off rarely used and even underused equipment. Turn these obligations into resources instead. Create ...13 years ago
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New Site - I won't be using my Livejournal much more, I'm afraid. All of my new blog posts can now be found at montecook.com. Hope to see you there! Thanks!13 years ago
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Gnomes, Svirfneblin and the family of illusionist trickster Wee Folk - Gnomes are the only demi-human race in 1e who can become illusionists. Gnomes are remarked as being cousins of the dwarfs, but just as equally, they appea...
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Your Money or your Life! - The Lamentations of the Flame Princess adventure campaigns at Indiegogo are now live! 19 adventures by really famous RPG blokes, such as Vincent Baker, Mon...13 years ago
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Significance of Beginning Child years Health care and Education - According to developing psycho therapist Jean Piaget, he indicates that the sense of kids is absolutely different from that of grownups. He considered tha...
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Review: John Carter - This weekend I undertook a trek to the cinema to catch John Carter. I understand there was a lot of derision aimed at this film when it was announced some...14 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 ...14 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 ...14 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...14 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/14 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 ...14 years ago
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Blog Has Moved ! - I have reboot and moved my blog. In all reality it is a new blog, but I will explain that shortly. The new address is: http://sylvaeon.blogspot.com/ The ...14 years ago
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Kingdoms of Kalamar Play Report: Session III - Mopping up Bandits - Last night's session went off well for the most part, though there was a disagreement as to the procedure for treasure division amongst the players. All sh...14 years ago
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Khurasan down! Suggest a 15mm force for me?? - Image (cc) revoincubus Just heard that Khurasan minis has closed down until the autumn ... so much for the Vespulids for our homebrew wargaming rules then...
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Elminster's Jock - Yeah, this will drive traffic to the site. Well, you can blame Brian, the creative genius over at d20monkey for this one. He posted THIS COMIC, and I could...
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Interesting Places: Tomb of Yekelil - Today's map is dedicated to all my Internet friends who hate blue maps. This map revisits last year's map of the Tomb of Yekelil, one of the many levels w...
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THAC© - *THAC0* is an acronym for "to-hit armor class zero" in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, published in 1989. It represents the minimum target numbe...
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Under-rated items of adventuring equipage. - *Never dungeoneer without your oily rag. * Among the many uses of this inexpensive and over looked, but vital piece of equipment are; The oily rag is an...15 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,...15 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.15 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...15 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...15 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...15 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. ...15 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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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...16 years ago
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D&D was a Wargame - I have been giving this one some thought recently. I was first introduced to wargames, and it was only afterwards that I started into D&D. The concept of t...16 years ago
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This Is The End…My Only Friend, The End - This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Well folks, this is the very last post on this particular web address. Everything...17 years ago
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That's sad, but understandable. Someone in your line of work cannot really say that work should come second to gaming.
Heh - as my only follower...thanks for understanding.
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