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- Team Adventure - Fun and Fungus
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- An Adventure for Every Monster - Succubus
- An Adventure for Every Monster - Axe Beak
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- An Adventure for Every Monster - Beholder
- Hooks Apocalypse
- An Adventure for Every Monster - Crayfish, Giant
- Art on Friday - Anders Finer
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 1
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What Part of the OSR is Old School? - Ask a dozen old school gamers what old school is and you'll get two dozen answers. Because much of the time they aren't even sure themselves. Perhaps for t...9 hours ago
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Being a List of Odd Names - We did our first session of *Pigsmoke* last night, the PbtA magical academia rpg. I'll write that up after I've run both sessions (spoiler: I'm digging it...17 hours ago
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Frightful Fridays! Giant Hell Ant - Hello and welcome to this week's Frightful Fridays! on the second Friday in a row. I'm doing something wrong. This week's monster is a giant ant--pretty mu...17 hours ago
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Hritlà, The Smugglers’ Cove - On the mysterious southern continent there are two competing colonies from the major powers in the north – Linyaró (which … Continue reading →19 hours ago
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DF-to-DRFRPG game conversion: Additional Rules List - Here is the list of additional rules I think I need to list and summarize in a document for my players to refer to: Charging Foes (Obstruction only) (Marti...20 hours ago
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The Decapus for D&D 5e - The Tortle Package from DM's Guild includes information on a region in *Tomb of Annihilation*, stats for the Tortle race, and a couple of assorted bits and...23 hours ago
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Dungeon Fantasizing - I was talking with some guys on G+ about running *GURPS Dungeon Fantasy* (as the boxsets just made in out to backers last week). I don't know if I will, bu...23 hours ago
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Latest news on Fabled Lands book 7 - *The internet is buzzing (quietly) with gossip about the forthcoming Fabled Lands book, *The Serpent King's Domain*. But why make do with hearsay when you ...1 day ago
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Remix of the Snow Witch - Last weekend I again endured the lottery that is Southern Rail and visited my friends Courtney, James, and Liam in That London. You remember them; they wer...1 day ago
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Novel Update - So a quick update because I haven't updated often enough. I've heard back from the Atlas Games and they said I could publish my novel as fanfic with no pro...1 day ago
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How He Started His Sandbox - +Michael S aka Chgowiz who writes Chicagowiz's Blog wrote an interesting post about how he started his long running sandbox game. I found this not only he...1 day ago
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Airlines Suck - I returned home to Pennsylvania a few days ago, after visiting my father in Colorado. I had absolutely *no trouble* with the Transportation Security Adm...2 days ago
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There'll be no accusations, just friendly crustaceans... - On G+ somebody asked about an underwater campaign setting I was supposedly writing, called "Unit Swim" or "Union Swim" or something. This tickled me trem...2 days ago
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What's Shiny? September 2017 Edition - Continuing the occasional series of shiny stuff that is capable of distracting me... The fortunate thing is there's a new edition of *Astonishing Swords...3 days ago
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45th Birthday Week - Ahoy Greyhawk scum! Last week was my 45th birthday (groan) and while I didn't get anything useful done, I did have a good old time. My friends and I went t...3 days ago
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Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...4 days ago
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Product Development: Stat Blocks - I'm stepping back into the publishing arena and am developing a product for the OSR and DnD 5th Edition. At the moment, as I work out stat blocks I'm pon...4 days ago
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Down the Rabbit Hole - To get the obvious out of the way, the supplement, *Kefitzah Haderech: Incunabulum of the Uncanny Gates and Portals* has absolutely nothing to do with the...5 days ago
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An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle. - An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's *Society of the Spectacle*. Instead of writing tabletop games or kludging together an rpg-making software system int...6 days ago
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Summer of Gaming and Exploring Gathox! - Greetings all! I haven't posted in quite awhile. I've actually been doing a good bit of gaming. I finished grad school and this allowed my school enforced...6 days ago
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Housing Development - I don't know about this. In an effort to save some money, I bought resin houses for my fantasy villages that came in six flat pieces. The guilty manufact...1 week ago
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The Red Knight and the Art of Making NPCs - The Red Knight Book One of the Traitor Son Cycle Written By Miles Cameron $11.80 at Amazon When making Non-Player Characters in Dungeons and Dragons, the q...1 week ago
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Basic Back to the Dungeon RPG - Basic Back to the Dungeon RPG Pay What You Want http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198101/Basic-Back-to-the-Dungeon-RPG-Players-Guide1 week ago
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To Battle in Hell - L'Mercenaire! - *A brief plug before the main entry: the Hydra Cooperative is participating in a Hurricane Harvey relief bundle on DriveThruRPG, running through 9/12/2017....2 weeks ago
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Music-Movie-Fantasy Crossover Images - Over the years I’ve acquired a few cool ‘nerd’ shirts and hoodies (or at least *I* think they’re cool; my wife seems to disagree). For the most part, the i...2 weeks ago
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Unfocused Thoughts on the 5th Millennium - A Traveller thing I've been working on to fight the Blues. - It's a homebrew Traveller setting that keeps as many of the assumed setting elements ...2 weeks ago
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Reseña de Recuerda el mañana - Hoy os ofrezco la reseña de Recuerda el mañana, la edición española del juego Remember Tomorrow de Gregor Hutton (de quien ya reseñé en 2014 3:16 Masacre e...2 weeks ago
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Duero's Tower, Chuck Monson's early 1970's Campaign and more... - More from my discussion with Chuck Monson, in his own words: "My D&D campaign of this time was known as Duero's Tower, a old keep off in the countryside u...2 weeks ago
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Hints & Tips - Running A Sci-Fi Game Setting Well: 8 Tips For New GMs - *On the first Monday of every month, read a new hint or tip from Jonathan Hicks, as featured on www.rpg.net and available on Kindle as 'The Book of Rolepla...2 weeks ago
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Bree - A Review - Hey folks, I'm back with yet ANOTHER The One Ring review! *Bree* was recently released in .pdf format and I believe that the dead tree versions are cu...2 weeks ago
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U-Con Event Submission Extension! Submit today! Need more Role Playing, OSR and Tekumel Events! - *EXTENSION NOTE GM GAMES REGISTRATION FOR U-CON 2017 TO BE INCLUEDE IN PRE-REG WILL CLOSE IN MID SEPTEMBER!! PLEASE HAVE YOUR GAMES SUBMITTED BY THEN! THE ...3 weeks ago
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SHIT RPG CRITICISM IS JUST SHIT. - It's ok to not like this. *SO*...... ... there's a blogpost that came out while I was at GenCon that had a really good go at shitting all over the rece...4 weeks ago
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B/X: Ability score adjustments - This is kind of an interesting idiosyncrasy of B/X. Its also one of those odd rules that seemed to make it's way informally into a lot of the 1E campaig...5 weeks ago
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Getting caught up on things - First of all, I switched out the "new" fancy theme of the blog, because I wasn't really caring for it. Back to the classic layout, I say! Second, I haven'...5 weeks ago
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Dungeons of Doom III + Runequest Durulz Duck Knight - Greetings Fellow Delvers! Here we are in the final week. What can I say, the support for this Kickstarter has been amazing! Here is the main Dragon Slayer ...5 weeks ago
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Dragon Warriors is FREE! - Well, seems like I don't post much on here other than shopping recommendations, but that *will* change. For now, though, it is important that I bring to e...1 month ago
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Trickster in the Stone: Micro-Adventure - Just so you know, I had this post finished yesterday and it went away. Like vanished. Gone. I swore a little. But only a little. And now I'm here to try ...1 month ago
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[RPGaDay 2017] Day 4: Which RPG have you played the most since August 2016? - I've mostly played Classic Traveller. I actually ran The Bospor Incident at PAX East back in March. I've got some feedback, and I need to print some more D...1 month ago
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The God of Death, reimagined - I've been thinking a lot about magic and gods and things you need for a home-brewed setting. I've got the big things in place, actually for many years, but...1 month ago
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Bonus issue of the Hobbs & Freinds of the OSR zine - Now you can find my entry to the contest run on 'Hobbs & Friends of the OSR' and 'Gaming & BS' on the bonus issue of the 'Hobbs & Freinds of the OSR' zine...1 month ago
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The Radiant Grove: Broken Earth module - Post apocalypse? Check A wayward spaceman? Check Damn dirty apes? Check Mutant tree and seedling offshoots? Check All this condensed into a 8 page advent...1 month ago
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Hawk and Moor Vols 1 and 2 review - I picked up Kent David Kellys Castle Oldskull bundle a couple of months ago. Included in were Kelly's histories of Dungeons and Dragons "Hawk and Moor" (I ...1 month ago
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The Horseclans Series - My first exposure to fantasy and science-fiction, other than fairy tales found in kids books, was Star Wars, as I've talked about before, both the movies ...1 month ago
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20 Leagues Under My Belt - Living Statue - [image: Image may contain: 1 person] While technically not an entire league, I wanted to post this latex adversary paint-up. This is a plastic stone or cla...1 month ago
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Cortex - Wheel of Time - I was disappointed in the D20 version of the Wheel of Time, so a small group of friends and myself decided to make out own using the Cortex rule system fro...2 months ago
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Where have I been? - Hello gentle reader I noticed I've gone some time now in failing to update this blog I have regretfully been busy getting involved with local and state pol...2 months ago
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You shoulda been there when I kicked Satan in the Jimmies: A new way to level up - I'd eyed a lot of goal-based and accomplishment-based systems of late to include in Quest for It, but none of them were sitting quite right with me, so I c...2 months ago
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Drawing Practice (Vaults of Vyzor) - +Jeff Rients recently ran some D&D for +Mike Davison , +Zak Sabbath , and me. A play report can be found here on Jeff's Gameblog. I had so much fu...3 months ago
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Temple of the Moon Priests - No Text - As it's been requested a couple of times, here's a version of "Temple of the Moon Priests" with text tags removed!3 months ago
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The Collapsing Column Conundrum - In this post I talked about a friend's game where we found ourselves in a room filled with granite columns falling all about us. I was contrasting one of ...3 months ago
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Weird Map: Moo Mesa - A map of Moo Mesa from the 90's animated series *The Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa. * All pun-based names aside, this makes a fun map for a small west...4 months ago
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60 years of Hammer Horror - I missed an important anniversary yesterday -- it was on that date, May 2nd, 60 years ago, that *The Curse of Frankenstein* was released by Hammer Film ...4 months ago
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ICONS: Nuke the Fridge - In Indiana Jones and the *Kingdom of the Crystal Skull*, Indy survives a nuclear explosion by hiding inside a fridge and riding the shockwave within ...4 months ago
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On Erecting a New Campaign - Do you smell that? It's the smell of a new campaign. New players, new dynamics, new adventures! Here's how this goes: Suggest a couple of games to play...4 months ago
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The fortress formerly known as Tyrant’s Hill - This map was going to be my version of the fortress known as Tyrant’s Hill, from the The One Ring game. Going to be drawing a new version for my actual gam...5 months ago
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Young Superheroes - I have decided to try a superheroes game with one of my groups. To that end, I've told the kids that each superhero has the following traits: a mundane ide...6 months ago
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Stonehell 4 February - Last weekend, I met with most of my regular group for a Stonehell session. They began by using one of the magic books they discovered in the Hunter's Hall ...7 months ago
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Curse of Strand - Death House: our experience - First **spoilers** warning. I will try not to give it all away but if you are going to be a player in Curse of Strand do not continue reading. Death hous...8 months ago
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So I Started Running a Game at a Local Library :) - It's a blast! A couple months ago I was at the library in a small town next to mine, and there was a flier about gaming night, a couple Thursdays a month...9 months ago
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A is for ... - I'm going to try to publish a post a day during December and base it around a single ingredient beginning with a different letter each day. Probably my fav...9 months ago
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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 months ago
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Crap Armor House Rule - Armor in BX DnD is hella cheap. Why? Because it's old and crappy. On any successful hit against a PC that does 6+ damage the player must roll a D6 and sub...9 months ago
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A&A Design: Monsters! - Since editing and re-editing a book will sometimes drive you mad it's always good to get a fresh burst of creativity and throughout the development of this...10 months ago
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Tollandor - Political Map - The erstwhile Kingdom of Tollandor, situated in south eastern portion of the continent of Fayrenneth is one of the group of young kingdoms which sprang u...10 months ago
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Romans... in Space (The Whole Thing) - It's been a busy couple of weeks, and much of my writing time has been devoted to completing this essay, my submission to the Southern States Communication...1 year ago
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Adventures in the City of the Dead - I am trying a new approach to dealing with sessions that multiple players have to miss in my new Waterdeep campaign. If I know in advance that multiple pl...1 year ago
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Back in the Saddle - I haven't posted here in a while because I haven't been DMing for a while -- we added a friend of a friend to our gaming group and aside from being an awes...1 year ago
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Apeocalypse, Wow! - The esteemed Trey Causey, Official Friend Of The Field Guide, is running a nifty 1970s ape-thang. Here is my character, created as a Pure Human with the *M...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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On the Workbench after Rock Opera '79 - *Rock Opera '79* is nearing publication -- the Rockiverse has so many adventure possibilities that I keep seeing more locales to flesh out, factions to dev...1 year ago
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The OSR News - July 12, 2016 - A Tekumel/Black Hack Edition - Brett Slocum has released something I needed. Ok, something I didn't know I wanted, at the very least.[image: The Petal Hack] *The Petal Hack *by Brett Slo...1 year ago
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Bang vs. Whimper - Perhaps you're wondering when I'll be posting the next Rifts session recap. Unfortunately, it looks like there won't be one. Our campaign has sadly succu...1 year ago
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Fat And Manky Orcus - Redux - Six years ago, I posted an image of a fat and manky Orcus illustrated by Todd Lockwood, of Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 fame. The image above was taken from...1 year ago
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My New Blog - I have started a new blog to cover my adventure into fiction writing. spencerhartwriting.wordpress.com Feel free to join me over there.Filed under: bloggi...1 year ago
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The Great Host - It took all Gruffydd had not to say "I told you so" to Lars. Instead, he offered some advice. "We've traveled this way many times", the dwarf said. "We have ...1 year ago
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Privateer Press and Mark III - So things don't happen in a vacuum. On one hand, Privateer Press announces a policy to handle online discounters to grow the hobby. On the other, they sho...1 year ago
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Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...1 year ago
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The Beast of Beverly Hills - I am currently sitting in room 231 of The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, drinking black coffee, contemplating a nightmare. It must be a nightmare. I can no...1 year ago
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Wanted: Citadel Uruk-Hai - I am looking to buy or trade for these Citadel Uruk-Hai orcs (not X-ed out). Can you help me out or know someone who can?1 year ago
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Temple of the Underworld: Adventures on the Planes - I have been playing a new campaign for a few months now. It is 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons rules in a campaign world of my design. It is focused on a ...1 year ago
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Body Armour - I think that armour is one of the hallmarks of civilisation. I speak here of civilisation in the classic sense: agrarian, stratified, complex societies in...1 year ago
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Augmented Reality Sandbox - I recently received a call from an outdoor education school looking for help in creating an "augmented reality sandbox"... Now that was a voicemail that go...2 years ago
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Vanity, thy name is "A New Blog" - *"Don't call it a comeback. I've been here for years..."* - apologies to LLCoolJ for the use of his lyrics. I've started a new blog. It's not the "OSR" blo...2 years ago
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Deep Dungeons - Hello.............. Life changes and things get hard. I no longer play in a band and I am not dating Amy anymore. I have spent time fixing up my game room a...2 years ago
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Gorgonmilk: PETTY GODS AGOGO - PETTY GODS an Old-School Role-Playing Community (ORC) project that has been years in the making is finally out now. Some of my artwork is scattered through...2 years ago
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No Mean City Session 1.1 "National Express" - Session 1.1 THE NATIONAL EXPRESS * Take the National Express when your life's in a mess It'll make you smile All human life is here...2 years ago
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Castle Keepers Guide - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Overview - A new printing of the Castle Keepers Guide for Castles & Crusades is soon to be released by Troll Lord Games.Once upon a time this book seemed like vapour...2 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...2 years ago
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Spell Casting Under Fire - This probably has been thought up before but I've been considering easy ways to factor in casting spells while taking damage that don't require lots of fuc...2 years ago
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Brief update - Just looked in on the blog. A quarter-million hits. Who would have thought? Technology moves fast. I recall agonizing over learning to blog. Now if you...2 years ago
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Is this the End? Maybe for a While. - Some of you are probably wondering why there hasn't been any updates on the website for a while? Well, it's because I'm winding down Lead Legion Painting S...3 years ago
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Menoth Avatar Conversion with Scourge of Heresy Sword - I've been working on improving the Avatar of Menoth to make it look a little more threatening, as it should. I want to get this thing on the table, though,...3 years ago
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Consolidating - Readers of this blog will know that I'm into heavily homebrewing my campaign. If I were running games right now, I'd be running a weird cross between S&W a...3 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 ...3 years ago
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Anyone need an OD&D cover? - For those who know the dark places to look for such things, there are a couple of versions of the OD&D booklets combined into a single letter-sized volume....3 years ago
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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...3 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...3 years ago
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The Ferrowar - Sometimes the most fierce denizens of a dungeon are the smallest. The Cat-taurs (a name the Ferrowar loathe) are a clannish breed of fae who dwell in tun...3 years ago
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Happy birthday, Pat - Today Pat would have been 78, although she never seemed that old. The Knights are blessed with very young looking skin so I always forgot that she wasn't a...3 years ago
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Classic Traveller redux - We haven't had a game in a few weeks and this weekend someone couldn't make it (2 players out of a possible 4 is too few). We tried rolling up Classic Tra...3 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...4 years ago
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Why Ethereal Jaunt? - Hello, this is Anthony, the guy who's been doing some RPG blogging over at Once More Unto the Breach for a few years now. So, why would I set up another ...4 years ago
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 2
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The Kolchak Files: OSR - Kolchak stats (Yes I'm going to do a short revision, mostly clarifications and slight mod of skills/abilities listed, of the OSR Survival Horror Rules soon...3 hours ago
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'The Pnakotician Echoes' - More Swords & Strangeness - Actual Play Adventure Event Commentary - The PC's are about to enter the lands of Lomar & they've had their first glimpse of a Gnophkeh skull in the alchemist's shop last week. This brings up the...3 hours ago
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Mount Anthracite – finished (probably) - Photos may be clicked upon to embiggenate.Now I've finished flocking Mount Anthracite, and photographed it out in my rather overgrown back yard. The 15mm ...7 hours ago
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OSR Picks for the RPGNow September Setting Sale - 33% off select PDFs - Part IV (Stoneheart Liberation of Perilous Pantries) - *RPGNow is running a September Setting Sale* with thousands of titles in the mix. That's a lot to sort through. I'm going to try to pick out some of my per...7 hours ago
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NPC Interaction Bingo - I’ve long been interested in taking existing parlor games and absorbing them into D&D. The idea is that if the game has existed forever as something peopl...16 hours ago
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End-of-Week Elmore (9/22/17): Wasteland Warriors - I would like to have posted about my joy that today is the autumnal equinox...but it doesn't feel like fall at all here, in the shadow of Philadelphia! M...16 hours ago
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Gary Con Game Approved - I'm registered for next year's Gary Con X and just had my game proposal approved. Here's the 'long' description, which per the submission form will appea...20 hours ago
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ZIPHIUS - ZIPHIUS "The Ziphius was said to have the body of an enormous fish. However, its head, which had grotesque eyes and a wedge-shaped beak over a vast, gaping...20 hours ago
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Kickstart Your Weekend: Adventures at End of the World Collection - Well according to the latest Doomsday theory tomorrow is the end of the World. Again. But hey don't let that stop you! There are some great Kickstarters to...22 hours ago
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Servant of the Pharaoh - The upcoming "Assassin's Creed: Origins" video game is set in ancient Egypt. The main character is a proto-assassin, one of the Medjay that served the Pha...1 day ago
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Weird Magic: Sorrows of the Sea - This spell uses the Weird Magic System described in Jim Raggi's Free RPG Day book. (I'm not squeamish, but I'm writing this at work during my lunch break s...1 day ago
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Now just in time for Fall: Female Character Name Generator! - I had so much fun with the RPG Character Name Generator that I made a second name generator for female player characters. We want gender equality in our RP...1 day ago
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[CRYPTWORLD] "Burial Plots" Origins Of Horror Part 1: "Forget-Me-Not" - As the Kickstarter for Goblinoid Games' CRYPTWORLD adventure compilation "Burial Plots" is underway, I thought it'd be fun to explain where each of these h...1 day ago
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Chanbara: The end draws nigh! - I have the final bits of feedback I need from my editors. I'm in the process of revising and editing based on it. I should have that done soon. So it's tim...2 days ago
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Conan - Bossonian Guards - Another large batch of Conan minis finished! This time the 15 Bossonian Guards from the base box of the Conan game. Not so very funny to paint, as they are...3 days ago
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Advanced Adventures #38: White Dragon Run II Preview - This follow up to White Dragon Run contains all of the village information of the original module as well as four new adventure locations in the Skatherne...3 days ago
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AD&D Players Handbook part 41: 4th-Level Magic-User Spells - There are 24 4th-level magic-user spells in AD&D, up from 16 in OD&D (all of which made the transition at the same level). Of the eight spells unaccounted...3 days ago
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Session XCII: The Half-orc and the Fire Giant - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) *S...4 days ago
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Lamentations Bundle of Holding +2 - Bundle of holding is running a second lamentations bundle and this one includes "Lamentations of the Gingerbread Princess" by yours truly. It also suppor...4 days ago
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Sofia Vergara's Husband Plays Dungeons & Dragons - Hello folks, it's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd come back with this little tid bit. Sofia Vergara Says Husband Joe Manganiello Is a ‘Nerd’ ...5 days ago
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New Site, New Blog - For anyone checking this out: I've moved to a new site for my Starfinder campaign and blogging activities. You can find my new blog at http://www.rpgcampai...5 days ago
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Many Interesting New Old School Games at RPGNow - [image: Forbidden Caverns Cover]When I go out to RPGNow there's generally only one or two new games that get my attention, so I was surprised to discover a...5 days ago
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Home Again, Home Again - I've explored caves, castles, ruins, tombs, and cities. Scotland is a beautiful country, and if you are ever given a chance to go, you should take it. *N...5 days ago
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B/X Essentials: Classes and Equipment -- Draft Text - One Sunday in August, I announced the second book in the *B/X Essentials* line: *Classes and Equipment*. Since then, a huge amount of progress has been mad...6 days ago
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The Colony - Turn 43 - River Rafting - Start Date: August ?+5, noonish Start Status: What floats in water? Start Location: Lost Adventuring: Rennard, Jinx, Mendel, Aaron, Maarek, Xon At the Tulip...1 week ago
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Rules are the compromise you agree upon ... (discussing "Rules vs. Reality" again, are we?) - *Time to write a post, I think. Work has been killing me, but that shouldn't be an excuse, right? Main problem is, that I'm really fresh burned out of idea...1 week ago
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Background Solutions: The Elves - As the Swords of Stock leave Tailimisia behind, encamped on the step of a feral, juvenile, white dragon, the question remains: what will become of the roil...1 week ago
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To Battle in Hell - L'Mercenaire! - *A brief plug before the main entry: the Hydra Cooperative is participating in a Hurricane Harvey relief bundle on DriveThruRPG, running through 9/12/2017....2 weeks ago
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Deciphering Maps and Scrolls - Continuing with adapting the 2d6 reaction roll table to thief skills, I thought I’d move on to deciphering treasure maps and magic scrolls. Unlike removin...2 weeks ago
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AD&D Rules I've Overlooked or Misunderstood: Spell Recovery - Today's installment is about a rule that I simply always overlooked, at least in its details: spell recovery. For some reason I never noticed this one, and...2 weeks ago
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Duero's Tower, Chuck Monson's early 1970's Campaign and more... - More from my discussion with Chuck Monson, in his own words: "My D&D campaign of this time was known as Duero's Tower, a old keep off in the countryside u...2 weeks ago
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Atlee Ink - About 6 months ago I moved to traditional drawing tools in order to concentrate on form. Digital is great, but it tends to make let me ignore crucial are...2 weeks ago
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5ogues - I recently had a chat with a friend who’s running 5e for the first time after pretty much sticking with 2e since the ‘90s. One of his players was playing a...2 weeks ago
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To battle! - Artist: Pierre Joubert. Found on Tumblr.There's a lot about this that I like: The dude hacking away at the chains, the other dude who's either going to get...3 weeks ago
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Happy St. Cuthbert Day - I missed St. Cuthbert's beer-drenched festivities back in March but, thanks to the Episcopal Church in the States, we get to celebrate his saintliness on ...3 weeks ago
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Black Pudding 3 Print Edition Out Now! - Printed editions of *Black Pudding* are now available to order. They can be ordered using the Paypal buttons below (if all you want is a single copy then t...4 weeks ago
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Apple is Rotten - Here is a video for those who are frustrated to the point of screaming at their Apple devices due to their diminishing performance after each so-called 'up...4 weeks ago
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The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...4 weeks ago
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Adventures in Primeval Thule - Over the last month, I've delved into a new campaign setting that I vaguely heard about a few years ago: Primeval Thule from Sasquatch games. The setting i...5 weeks ago
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PATREON PREVIEW: The Alienist presents: The Aglæca - *This is a preview of what my patrons are getting access to this month: * *Buried under fields, entombed in roots, or burbling under marshes, lurks the *ag...1 month ago
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Thank you, Reaper Miniatures. - For finally producing a decent owlbear miniature. This fierce lookin' fella is rolling out with the next Bones Kickstarter. While I am a bit tight in the wa...1 month ago
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The Radiant Grove: Broken Earth module - Post apocalypse? Check A wayward spaceman? Check Damn dirty apes? Check Mutant tree and seedling offshoots? Check All this condensed into a 8 page advent...1 month ago
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We Reap What We Sow - Please bear with me as I digress from the normal RPG content that graces this blog, in favor of a post that I just felt like I needed to write. Let me go b...1 month ago
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Further Obvious Thoughts on Wilderness - My prep for Dungeons and Discourse continues. Also, I had lunch with one of my ACKS stalwarts a week or two ago, and have been re-reading some old posts (...1 month ago
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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 was...1 month ago
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Who's the Law in this Town? - d12 1. Constabulary of the Lord: clerics of state religion use detection magic, blunt instruments to maintain adherence to byzantine regulations, raid es...1 month ago
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[Uncharted Worlds] Pets in SPAAAACE! - A few weeks back Sean Gomes released the long-awaited *Far Beyond Humanity* supplement for his *Uncharted Worlds* RPG. *FBH* contains—among other things—ru...2 months ago
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Director George Romero passed away. - http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...716-story.html Hard to believe he's gone. I've seen all of his movies. He's the man who made everyone know what a zo...2 months ago
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Wave of Mutilation - After a year and a half I have completed my Greenskinz army and am now having a little break from the paintbox. From the first unit of Orc boyz I have im...2 months ago
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Curious Riverine Fauna - Some notes from Sergeant Puppybones, a boxtoon bodyguard, sellsword, and amateur naturalist, based on his recent stint as security on the *Fabulous Finger...2 months ago
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Narrative Rebellion: Dark Universe - The Mummy - You know, I think Universal are doing this whole Universal Monsters Shared Universe Reboot backwards: we're thinking of the classical Universal monsters...3 months ago
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2017 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge - Ok, the year is almost half over, and I just discovered this reading challenge. It's still not too late, as the Challenge only requires one book, fiction...3 months ago
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Hommlet: Let He Without Sin Cast The First Stone - *In the Temple of Elemental Evil Gygax wrote “If [the heroes] need more seasoning before continuing to the greater challenges, you may – and should – desig...3 months ago
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The Axe Lands Volume 1: Men & Magic - I have updated my old Blessed Realms of Normandie campaign rules for my Axe Lands setting, and created a new document with new layout and art (well public ...4 months ago
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One Page Dungeon 2017: Worm Scramblers of the Deep Dire Door - No matter how inactive my blog, I have been trying to come up with something for the One Page contest every year since 2013. This year I was going to post ...4 months ago
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May DAY and a promise .. - It's MAY the 1st and I thought it apt, now my internet is working again [laf] to keep a promise. Well, two actually, one to Joe and Paul, and one to myself...4 months ago
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Looking forward - For reasons apparent to anyone that follows this blog, or checks my posting schedule, I'm very wary of making any future commitments, statements, or pretty...4 months ago
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Photos: "Legion of the Petal Throne" Game At Gary Con - I had intended to get this out a lot sooner, but Real Life™ and ADD keeps getting in the way. Last month at Gary Con, Victor Raymond refereed a game of "Le...5 months ago
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Tested by the Elements - TLOD S07 E10 - *As she gasps for breath the catgirl Ai-Nyx is pulled out from under the hulking corpse of the Giant. * Searching it's huge corpse Wulf finds a two handed...5 months ago
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Don't Yeerk Your Head-- A Don't Rest Your Head hack for Animorphs - I know, I know. This isn't the OSR and/or 5e content you came to expect from me. That'll come too, one day. But I actually did something else I'm actually ...5 months ago
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Death - New Chapters added to my new cancer diary every Friday. Click here.6 months ago
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Daily Monster Art- Axe Beak - This art series is more like the monsters I've never actually used in a game series. I think the axe beak is pretty cool, I mean, it is weird dumb creat...8 months ago
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What's In The Drawer or On The Desktop? - It has been some time since my last post but I was just overloaded with work commitments and other things. Things seem to have slowed down and I took an ex...8 months ago
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Stupid Monk Tricks - If you have monks in your DnD game, here is a Stupid Monk Rule! The idea is that it’s a self-contained add-on ability that balances itself internally, so t...8 months ago
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Comixology - I don't know why this escaped me for so long, but Amazon has it's own site for selling comics in digital format and it's awesome. Comixology offers all the...9 months ago
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Swords & Glory, Vol. 2: Tekumel Player's Handbook - Hello, 14 year-old me...I stumbled across this post on the Tekumel Foundation blog early this last week, on Facebook (I think I traced that back correctly...10 months ago
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Tollandor - Political Map - The erstwhile Kingdom of Tollandor, situated in south eastern portion of the continent of Fayrenneth is one of the group of young kingdoms which sprang u...10 months ago
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Back in the Saddle - I haven't posted here in a while because I haven't been DMing for a while -- we added a friend of a friend to our gaming group and aside from being an awes...1 year ago
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[CR] La Tyrannie des Dragons - Depuis quelques mois, je mène cette campagne à notre table de jeu avec la 5ème édition de D&D. Pour mes joueurs, j'édite avant chaque session de jeu une pe...1 year ago
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Thanks, Cedric Plante - I hear Cedric Plante is taking a break. That's OK; I hope he feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed his work, and I feel bad for not taking the oppo...1 year ago
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My Online LL Group is a Treasure - *Members of my "home" Labyrinth Lord group in fall 2010. * I recently wrote about experiencing DM burnout and consequently placing both my Labryinth Lord ...1 year ago
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A Character Record for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls - Ever since I started playing Tunnels & Trolls, back in November, I've been on the lookout for a good character sheet, and to date I haven't found one that ...1 year ago
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Privateer Press and Mark III - So things don't happen in a vacuum. On one hand, Privateer Press announces a policy to handle online discounters to grow the hobby. On the other, they sho...1 year ago
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The Beast of Beverly Hills - I am currently sitting in room 231 of The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, drinking black coffee, contemplating a nightmare. It must be a nightmare. I can no...1 year ago
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Interview - Shane Ward has a posted a lovely interview with me. Check it out when you can.1 year ago
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In Search of the Unknown: Evadne Moon-touched, Part One - [image: Beverly Marshall Saling] Beverly Marshall SalingBeverly plays Evadne Moon-touched, a character originally created in 1995 for Mike Ryan's AD&D Seco...1 year ago
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Spinning my Wheels on Systems - Just throwing this out there to see what kind of feedback I get. I've got a couple of projects that I'd really like to work on. One's fantasy and one's sc...1 year ago
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Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...1 year ago
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Memorial - Today would have been Millie's 3rd birthday. The funds we raised to dedicate an acre of ancient woodland and a memorial bench has now been completed, and t...1 year ago
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Cara Hack Facebook Terbaru 2015 - Meng-hack Facebook memang nggakboleh dan illegal, apalagi dengan tujuan untuk yang tidak baik. Contohnya untukmenjahili teman, iseng, atau mengambil alih b...1 year ago
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Colecţia de primăvară-vară la echipamente de protectie! - Acum că a început să se topească gheaţa de pe drumuri încep să ni se dezvăluie tendinţele din evoluţia craterelor şi gropilor răsărite şi dezvoltate pe ...1 year ago
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Wasteland 2110 - Session 1 Summary - (Summary by Pedro) The game starts with three figures emerging from the wastes: the thrill seeking motor-head Dean McQueen, the quick-handed scout August,...2 years ago
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Go Vote!! - Remember that poster I worked on a while back? Help us out, and help put my knowledge of classic D&D to good use! http://www.cinecoup.com/advancedwizardsan...2 years ago
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Population Density of Hunter-Gatherers - I realize I haven't posted much in forever. I've been busy with other games and with life in general. However, as always, I like generating worlds. Toda...2 years ago
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One Last Adventure with Manly Wade Wellman - The good news is, while I had thought there were only five Kardios sword & sorcery stories by Manly Wade Wellman, now I know that there are actually six...2 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 ...3 years ago
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TESC: Closer look at the Ceraan Sea Region - Aztakh *Government(s): *City-states with factional influences *Description: *The desolate deserts of Aztakh are no paradise, but a paradise of the mind ca...3 years ago
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Faces of Pretomournon:The Dwarf with the Eye-patch - Ibbo A strange-looking creature, small and stocky, but broad and strong. Maybe it's a small man, or maybe a large gnome. Maybe it's a member of an unknown ...3 years ago
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My FIVE favourite house rules - Two more rules added and then republished to my last 'Three favourite rule' post. 29th August 2013: "Long time no post. Life, work, other priorities. But ...3 years ago
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NPC: Weekly Roundup No. 3 - Asop van Galgen, prosecutor at the Reichshandelsbureau, is very much the image of the new generation of Wezellian technocrats, carrying his authority wi...3 years ago
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My Dungeons & Dragons Miniature Journey Starts Again!! - I've FINALLY started painting some Miniatures for D&D to replace those lost years ago in an electrical fire, I finally got sick of running games and using ...3 years ago
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Superheroes don't get their due - *It should come as a shock to no one that I'm a huge fan of superheroes.* In fact, I've often thought about retooling this blog to be more of a "spells and...3 years ago
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Apprentices - Cohorts and Apprentices. Useful in so many situations. You just need to use your imagination and suspend your code of morality. LooneyDM out4 years ago
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AnyDice Website - For those concerned with the statistical considerations of role playing games, often one of the most frustrating thing is determining the statistical distr...4 years ago
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Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...4 years ago
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About Me
- Daddy Grognard
- Over halfway to 90, I started playing AD&D when the Police were a cool band and Punk was wild. I am a father to a ten-year-old Junior Grognard and have now managed to establish a five-strong gaming group made up of him and four of his friends, ages ranging from 10 to 11. Solidly Old-School. High fives and natural 20s to you all!
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