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That's what Old School means to me
Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 1
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[Preview] 'Forbidden Lands' from Fria Ligan - I have been perusing the new Forbidden Lands roleplaying game by Fria Ligan, a fantasy game where you play *'raiders and rogues bent on making your own mar...3 hours ago
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Wednesday Comics: Cosmic Tales! - I'm proud to announce friend of FtSS Michael "Aos" Gibbons has released his long-anticipated space-faring superhero comic Cosmic Tales Quarterly, availab...6 hours ago
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Zombie! - Following up with yesterdays Halloween post I'm going to talk about a bit about the Zombie monster design. Zombies are meant to be dangerous cannon fodder...13 hours ago
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GURPS Sale - 23% off - SJG / Warehouse 23 is having a sale on some GURPS items: 23% Off Sale Items It's not everything, but it does include some good ones: GURPS Banestorm: Abyd...17 hours ago
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Two Old School D&D Character Sheets - As my cleric in the Monday night games levels up, I experiment with new character sheet designs. At level 6 … Continue reading →19 hours ago
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Dungeons & D100: The Fighter - I've been working on a system, primarily for new players that replaced the D20 with D100. Your base to hit in combat would be your opponents AC modified ...19 hours ago
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Paraelemental of Magma - This is the only official paraelemental that TSR created. It comes from a Planescape Montrous Compendium. I will make minor tweaks to fit with the setting,...21 hours ago
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Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants! - This was my response to the current Non-troversy surrounding the OSR logo. I haven't been personally involved in the OSR in years mostly due to the way p...1 day ago
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I've Started a Patreon to Support The OSR News and other works! And a Map! - After listening to suggestions from some of my readers, I've started a Patreon to help support The OSR News and Dreams of Mythic Fantasy. A typical News po...1 day ago
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Setting Night Below in Greyhawk - Thank You Carl Sargent - After learning that Carl Sargent passed away I began looking over some of his work and was reminded that Night Below was a masterpiece. Not only do I fee...2 days ago
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Wilderpeople of the City State of the Invincible Overlord - This is kind of a rehash of this post but that one was made with some notable gaps for the current campaign because it was written for a different region o...2 days ago
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SJWs, Alt-Right, and Fascists, Oh My! Real World Horrors in RPGs - There's a lot of controversy going on with the latest incarnation of *Vampire: The Masquerade*. Apparently, in the new Camarilla book Vampires are posite...2 days ago
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PBS Great American Read - Release the Kraken - I've been doing a lot for a couple friends that got married last weekend, and that's taken me away from doing much with gaming lately. I've put a bit of pa...2 days ago
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Lovecraft City - The year is 1937. At the prestigious Miskatonic University, a pernicious Communist criminal conspiracy operating out of the Orme Library has been smashed ...2 days ago
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Podcast Episode 7 is up! OSR Drama, plus voicemails, what is the OSR, and some other goodies. - Episode is here on Anchor! Voicemails! A bit on the latest controversy What is the OSR? What we play v. what we want to play What we buy v. what we use or f...3 days ago
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OTE Decks 2: Big Government, Mad Science!, Atlantean Baboon Cannon - This is the second post about On The Edge CCG decks, specifically, what is in the ones we were using the last several CCG Days I held. The format is the ...3 days ago
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The HP nomenclature problem - Embedded in this post is a link to my four-page RPG, *Something Something 2d6*. You can read it on google docs if you can't see it here. While play-testing...3 days ago
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Dungeons + Dominion II: The Domain Game - Firstly: a salute to Evlyn M, an artist who was formerly a vibrant part of the online OSR community, but who has since withdrawn as a result of toxicity in...4 days ago
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Here Be Dungeons 21: Ataaz Muhahah - My final draft design of Ataaz Muhahah - the "Laughing Gorge" - developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation". Oh, how I wish I'd come up wi...5 days ago
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Tetsubo is coming - We've signed the contract. After thirty years, it's finally going to happen. It -- I should really start at the beginning, shouldn't I? Tetsubo is a Japan...5 days ago
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A Brand New TFT Adventure - It's here! The first official adventure for *The Fantasy Trip* in decades! What? Me excited? The description says that *The Chaos Triads* by Steven Mar...5 days ago
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New 5E Module: Lost Laboratory of Kwalish - Greeting Greyhawkers! Before this week's live *Legends & Lore* show featuring *Anna Meyer* and guest *Joseph Bloch*, I'd like to inform you all about a ne...5 days ago
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Hiatus; Or, Becoming Jaded; Or, Toys, Pram, Thrown - I am taking a hiatus from the blog and all online discussion of RPGs. There are a couple of reasons. First, I think I am becoming jaded. When I look around...1 week ago
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Creating a Catacomb Hoard - In a recent session the party came upon an ancient burial. Each of the eighty bodies had a weapon, wore armor, shield and each one had a coffer under the...1 week ago
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Frightful Fridays! Majesticat - Hello and welcome back to Frightful Fridays! I got the chance to do a mashup critter (inspiration image), but I went with fey for the creature type. The ma...1 week ago
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Don't look at this trap! - I was drawing a map on the table, extemporaneously from a source online. My players had predictably wandered off course. Not having thoroughly prepared, I ...1 week ago
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The Dave Arneson Memorial Dungeon - So the last time I posted a shelfie picture on here was... ye gods, nearly five years ago. Well, it took some doing, but the whole collection is currently...2 weeks ago
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Moving - For the time being, I've moved my blogging here: https://strangevistas.wordpress.com/2 weeks ago
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In the Forest of Broken Dreams - In the Forest of Broken Dreams I’ve had this idea in my head for a long time, and keep coming back to it, but I’ve never really done much with it. Over the...3 weeks ago
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G+? Isn’t that worse than an F? - The imminent end of Google-plus is now old news. For some interesting thoughts on this development and its potential impact on the role-playing community (...3 weeks ago
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Invisible Sun Unboxing - Since Monte Cook is launching a reprint Kickstarter, I thought this would be a good time blog my impressions about the Invisible Sun Box set I received in ...3 weeks ago
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White Plume Mountain! - So, I felt like running a nostalgic game with my childhood friends (some of whom have children of their own by now...). Here is how it went: *The Cast:* ...4 weeks ago
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Pathfinder 2 (Playtest) Session Zero - *After a long hiatus I've decided to return to writing here on my blog. Tabletop role playing has been a favorite hobby of mine for years. Even though ...5 weeks ago
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Mecenazgos de Sturm und Drang y Tesoro y Gloria - En la entrada de hoy os hablaré de dos mecenazgos que estoy seguro que serán de vuestro interés: Sturm und Drang y Tesoro y Gloria De hecho no es la primer...5 weeks ago
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Gamma World 1st edition P.O.D. - This is the one that started it all for me. I started gaming back in 79, yeah I'm that old. The first game I ran was Gamma World not D&D, sure I played D&...1 month ago
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The Halfling's Kitchen Part 1 - *Cabbage, Tasso, and Sausage* Take a head of cabbage and chop it up. Put it in the pot. Add some water just below the surface. Add some portabella mush...1 month ago
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Octhorrorfest, Ghost Stories: 1D12 Hauntings Tables For OD&D and other RPGs - Octhorror is here again! That means, of course, several supernatural posts and game aids for your help get your game in the spirit of the season! You shoul...1 month ago
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Meet the Baron of Blackmoor - David Fant, Baron of Blackmoor [image: Inline image 1] *Questions in italics by Daniel Boggs* Yes, I am that David Fant. I was a very good friend of Dav...1 month ago
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Hagglethorn Hollow on Kickstarter - Greetings Delvers! I am very excited about this! It may have been something you are following already but I thought I should mention a project begun here i...1 month ago
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Megadungeon Slum Encouter Table I - An encounter table with 10 options to flesh out encounters in a megadungeon slum. *Megadungeon Slum Encouter Table I * *1d10* *Encounter* *Description* *Fu...1 month ago
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5e cultures - What if, instead of just selecting a race, you selected both a race and a culture? For example, I've decided that I want to play a Dwarf who survived...2 months ago
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Lost in Translation - the Fighting-Man - I've been pondering a lot lately about the LBB fighting-man. No shock there. I have several posts in draft form that I'm working on addressing this. Hopefu...2 months ago
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Age of Ravens Now at The Gauntlet Blog - Exciting News and a major change in the blog going forward. Starting today I’ll be posting *Age of Ravens *as part of *The Gauntlet Blog*. I’ve loved runn...2 months ago
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Under the Mountain Art is live! - Heya folks! My new site is finally live! I'm selling prints of my work, stop on by and see if there's anything that might look good on your wall! I'll ...2 months ago
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New Comics Wednesday: Recent Reviews - ™ and © 2018 Simon Spurrier and Matías Bergara This is a splash page from *Coda *#1. Today is Wednesday, and that means it's *New Comic Book Day* - the day...2 months ago
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CoC, SWN, Fairfax Comic Con and R. A. Salvatore - Tonight, I finished my CoC adventure for my friend's 'zine. It wound up being quite a bit longer, and taking more effort, than I originally estimated, bu...2 months ago
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Wolfheart by Richard A Knaak - Wolfheart Written by Richard A. Knaak World of Warcraft $7.99 in Kindle Format I'm a fan of Richard A. Knaak from way back in the 80's. I read his Legend ...3 months ago
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Gen Con 2018 Loot - I didn't have a big shopping list this time. In recent years I've been more on the lookout for limited items not available later or stuff that is heav...3 months ago
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The Depth of Zero Charisma - I AM Scott Wiedemeyer!! I've talked about Zero Charisma before, and if you want my short review of this movie: Zero Charisma is an amazingly insightful pie...3 months ago
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"E" is for "Eelwolf" - *Eelwolf* *No. Enc.:* 2d6 (3d6) *Alignment:* Neutral *Movement:* 180' (60') * —Swim:* 120' (40') *Armor Class:* 7 (See Below) *Hit Dice:* 4 *Atta...3 months ago
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The Fantasy Trip Kickstarter: A Good Deal? - After 35 years, Steve Jackson of Steve Jackson Games has finally re-acquired the rights to The Fantasy Trip, the tactical fantasy combat and light rolepl...3 months ago
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The One Shot Dungeon - Tried out Roll20 for the first time this past weekend. Not for any of the functionality, just for the video conferencing feature. Two new friends had a w...4 months ago
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One Page Dungeon Contest 2018 - I have sent my submission for this year's One Page Dungeon Contest. It is called 'Long Before the Sands Came' and it's inspired on the early World of Greyh...4 months ago
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Star Wars D6 Character Sheet (5 pages) - [image: Star Wars JezD6 Character Sheets PDF link] Seems like a good day to upload the latest version of my 5 page Star Wars D6 Character Sheets. Two page...5 months ago
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Bonelord-A Villain for Light City - This is a Light City version of a character I created for Icons 8 years ago! Enjoy! *Bonelord* Real Name: Clinton Darnell First Appearance: Mike’s Amaz...6 months ago
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...other than fantasy - Not posted for a while. Not done all that much gaming, to be honest. Not much roleplaying, not much boardgaming, not even any significant computer gaming. ...6 months ago
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OSR at War (In my Eyes) - I practice martial arts. (I'm going somewhere related to RPGs with this, bear with me.) I'm certainly no expert and while I'm in better shape than I w...7 months ago
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The Fungus that re-visited Blackeswell - Hi Reader! Do you remember a little module by the name of *The Fungus that Came to Blackeswell*, first ambulant around 2013? Yes? Then sadly the mind-bore ...7 months ago
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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 ...7 months ago
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Dikes Fall, Session 5 - *Tower of Babel* by BrueghelThe party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly"....7 months ago
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Regarding ACKS and Autarch LLC - One of the few RPG products that carries my name in the credits is the core *Adventurer Conqueror King* rulebook. I helped out with editing and proofreading...7 months ago
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Mernoth - Political Map - A map of the Kingdom of Mernoth situated within the southern central portion of the continent of Fayrenneth. The Realm of Mernoth is one of the oldest n...8 months ago
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Gary's Visit - Gary visited me last night. Or rather, I had a dream where I went to Gary's house for the weekend. It was a shack in the woods, half a mile up a pitted di...9 months ago
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Gonzo Sci-Fantasy - What is it? - Hello all, It's been a bit since I blogged on gaming in general. Life has taken over and I am pretty sure that blogs have been relegated to a bit of an o...1 year ago
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From Tragedy to Gaming - On Monday, I had the opportunity to speak at a memorial for two students, majors in my department. One was a veteran with PTSD. He took his own life. The o...1 year ago
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Stir-Fried Kale with Mushrooms, Garlic and Ginger - Yes, it's been a while since my last blog post. I've not stopped cooking or eating but lots of other things have happened over the last 18 months. First I ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 year 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...1 year 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...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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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?2 years 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 ...2 years 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...3 years 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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,...4 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...4 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 ...4 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....4 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...4 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...4 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...5 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...5 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...5 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...5 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 ...5 years ago
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 2
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Reminder - Tavern Chat - Tonight - 9PM Eastern - Gobble Gobble! - Tonight is a Wednesday Night, and that means its time for our weekly *Tavern Chat*. If you've been following events in gaming for the past week or so, y...11 minutes ago
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Random table: Who is that Drunkard part 3 - This random table was submitted to a contest in Fight On! Magazine. Part 3 tavern patrons #41 through 60: 41 - A chimney sweep covered in soot. 42 - A ped...15 minutes ago
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The Weird Apocalypse: The Dross Rifts - This is Part 2 of my Weird Apocalypse setting. You should read Part 1 found here first. *The Dross Rifts* The Dross Rifts, as they are now called continue ...6 hours ago
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Heavy Metal - In honor of Fallout 76, Wasteland Weber brings us the factory made helmet from the Power Armor edition of the game and his custom-made classic version .7 hours ago
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OSR Commentary - The Alko Option Arthur Machen Mythological Campaign Madness - “We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?” ― Arthur ...20 hours ago
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Happy Thanksgiving - Headed out to various Thanksgiving celebrations. See you all next week!1 day ago
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Sabot Bases for 15mm Infantry - I like to base my 15mm figures individually for flexibility, but it's usually much more convenient to move them when they're mounted on multiple-figure b...1 day ago
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Cleaning House - Today I divested myself of a chunk of my gaming collection. On the chopping block: *Dungeons & Dragons*, 5th edition. You know... D&D5e is fine. It's okay....2 days ago
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The Aglaeca Stalks Again - *Buried under fields, entombed in roots, or burbling under marshes, lurks the aglæca...* A new creature for your D100 or GUMSHOE-based horror mystery RPG...3 days ago
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Elmore's take on the Sutherland Dragon - *Click for a larger view* This illustration by Larry Elmore is from a fairly obscure product, the manual for the 1982 adaptation of TSR's boardgame *DUNGEO...3 days ago
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Dungeons + Dominion II: The Domain Game - Firstly: a salute to Evlyn M, an artist who was formerly a vibrant part of the online OSR community, but who has since withdrawn as a result of toxicity in...4 days ago
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Old School Player Manifesto: Further Commentary - In the comments on the Old School Player Manifesto, two people suggested additional rules. Will Douglas suggested “*Listen to the referee, but don’t argue ...5 days ago
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KLANG-UTANG - KLANG-UTANG "It was," said Woodhouse, "more like a big bat than anything else in the world. It had sharp, short ears, and soft fur, and its wings were leat...5 days ago
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3D printing - Hot off the printer – fountain, bridge, outhouse and more - The printer is a bit over a month old now and is happily chugging along. Much of it is dungeon terrain from *Printable Scenery* (more on that in a later po...5 days ago
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Garadur's Plateau Megadungeon Poster Map - I've just received a very limited print run of this giant megadungeon map by Charley Phipps. The prints are B1 sized (1000 x 707mm 39.4 x 27.8 inches) and ...5 days ago
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Chainmail Arena Update - Still puttering around with this idea, but I've been a bit busy with work (lots of student writing to grade this semester), Netflix (watched Daredevil Seas...6 days ago
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A long time coming. An infinitely-sized "Thank you." - So this post is a long time coming. At the NTRPGCon, many of you have had the distinct pleasure of meeting my beautiful, funny and eternally-patient wife ...6 days ago
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Cheat Sheets - Did your gongfarmer just become a wizard? Is your elven chandler now a 1st level elf? Want to know what you need to do to make the transition in an easy-t...1 week ago
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This is not goodbye (introducing Ø2\\‘3|| - A Dystopian RPG) - *I read an interesting post the other day that we only blog to show expertise, but we publish to gain an audience. I always thought blogging was some sort ...1 week ago
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PBE Games - Product Update - Here's a quick update on PBE Games titles released in September, October, and early November, starting with a new Hexed Places: Sangha Jungle lies at the h...1 week ago
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Leveraging Warlocks for Campaign Greatness - Warlocks are one of the great post-TSR additions to D&D. Their relationship with their patron is much closer than that of a cleric's deity, and yet they c...1 week ago
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Happy Godzilla Day! - Today in 1954 the movie "Gojira" saw general release in Japanese theaters. What a long, strange trip it's been... And for an extra bit of giant radioacti...2 weeks ago
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1 on 1 Adventures November Sale - 80% off! - I've put all the 1 on 1 Adventures PDFs up for sale at drivethrurpg for 80% off for all of November. If you've needed Pathfinder adventures for 1 player an...2 weeks ago
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A ghost story - *Happy Halloween!* So I've been thinking about starting a Patreon for writing short stories (which then have an adventure about the site or monster they i...3 weeks ago
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OSR on Reddit - With the imminent demise of G+, where much of the OSR had found a home in, a lot of the discussions have been moving to other platforms. I've been checking...3 weeks ago
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The Lareth Conspiracy Cont'd - [image: Image result for lolth laveth] Dark Hope Jr... Breaking News from the obnoxious jerks in the "I Told You So" dept. here at DiceChucker Enterprises...3 weeks ago
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Top Twats - Brexit Edition - I have always been of the general disposition that national referendums are not the most cunning of alleged cunning plans. Indeed, since the 2016 EU refere...3 weeks ago
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Birthday Loot - Hit the big 5-0 today. My wife got me a three-volume French-language edition of all Robert E. Howard's Conan stories. Oliver (our cat) got me a tribble.3 weeks ago
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Why They Put Trails Through Forests - So, with Win10 they send me pictures every few days. Some of them are pretty great. This one is a perfect example of somewhere your DnD character does NOT ...3 weeks ago
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[GameHack] Pulp Heroes For Pulp Detective By AV Studio Games - I recently reviewed Pulp Detective by AV Games, a clever little dice-rolling game of 1940s private eyes and gumshoes. (Click here for said review!) Althoug...4 weeks ago
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MeWe, YouWe, WeAllWe for WeWe - So a lot of the DIY/OSR RPG folk & funsters are moving to MeWe. I created an account to check it out, but decided it is not for me and deleted my profile a...4 weeks ago
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Figuring out Morrowind - When I was a kid playing Morrowind, I thought its leveling system was horribly slow and convoluted. So I downloaded mods that changed how it worked and it...4 weeks ago
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My new blog: devilghost.com - For months, I’ve been slowly moving entries from my old blog (here) to my new blog. I want to escape Blogger both because of technology preferences (I li...5 weeks ago
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For the Fabled Lands 7 and couple other bits - This is just a quick update of work produced privately for Fabled Lands 7 and a couple of other bits. First some other bits... Svirfneblin originally done...5 weeks ago
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HistoScotInktoberFest, Day 11: Margaret, Queen of Scots, ca 1070 AD - Let me speak first of all about her prayerfulness. In church no one was so silent and composed as she, no one so wrapt in prayer. Whilst she was in the h...5 weeks ago
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Photo dump: The amazing photography of Douglas Herring - I came across one of his pictures several weeks ago on Tumblr and absolutely loved it. Check out his Twitter and Tumblr accounts for more. Model: Dawn Vice...1 month ago
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Meet the Baron of Blackmoor - David Fant, Baron of Blackmoor [image: Inline image 1] *Questions in italics by Daniel Boggs* Yes, I am that David Fant. I was a very good friend of Dav...1 month 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 megadungeo...1 month ago
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Second Edition of Microlite78 First Edition Lite Now Available - Interested in the First Edition of the world’s most popular tabletop fantasy roleplaying game, but put off by its seemingly random mechanics and design ele...2 months ago
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THANKS, GUYS! - Hey All! I'm trying to get my dot.com to work. When you click this post, does the address show TheHappyWhisk.com or does it show, TheHappyWhisk.blogspot.co...2 months ago
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Life and its happenings - I am slowly and gradually getting back, I think, into a writing sort of headspace. I've been separated from my wife for 2+ years now, and we are amicable. ...2 months ago
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The Kolchak Files OSR: They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be... - AKA UFO. Continuing the Kolchak files found: http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-kolchak-files-osr.html http://theosrlibrary.blogspot.com/2017/10/t...2 months ago
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Celebrate HPL’s 128 birthday with Eldritch Tales! - After dwelling in primal darkness for countless aeons, the stars aligned properly and Joe Salvador at Raven God Games has just released *Eldritch Tales: L...3 months ago
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Scylla: Henry Justice Ford Monster Manual - [image: Henry Justice Ford Henry Justice Ford Tales Of Troy 1 Flickr Photo] Another contribution for Eric Nieudan's project. This classical creep is to me...4 months ago
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AD&D Players Handbook part 59: Appendix IV - The Known Planes of Existence & Appendix V - Suggested Agreements for Division of Treasure - *APPENDIX IV - THE KNOWN PLANES OF EXISTENCE* The final stretch of the *Players Handbook* brings me to the penultimate Appendix, which gives the most deta...5 months ago
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Photobucket Finds Head, Removes From Ass - So I was pleasantly - and profoundly - surprised to discover all my broken photo links were restored both here on RBE and on my Obsidian Portal campaign wi...5 months ago
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Hirelings for my Barrowmaze campaign - I have been creating a random generation spreadsheet for hirelings for my new Barrowmaze campaign, which is set in my Japan-like setting called Oyashima. ...7 months ago
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The Fungus that re-visited Blackeswell - Hi Reader! Do you remember a little module by the name of *The Fungus that Came to Blackeswell*, first ambulant around 2013? Yes? Then sadly the mind-bore ...7 months ago
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The Orchid Club - Bral caters to almost every vice, from grand scale corruption, via most types of imaginable gambling, to lotus addiction, with each sin having its own v...7 months ago
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Dikes Fall, Session 5 - *Tower of Babel* by BrueghelThe party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly"....7 months ago
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A History of Giants, as told by Parthemos the Mason - In the time before men and elves came north, there were four great stone giant kingdoms. These were Ulhame, Umbrinol, Rhûn, and Arhame. In all, there was w...7 months ago
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Moving to a New Title and URL - Adulting is hard, and it's really killed my posting frequency on the blog. But I want to keep doing it, and I think a change of brand is a good way to ma...7 months 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 months ago
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Prog 6 - Vive La Resistance - *A continuing series of session reports from my current Judge Dredd game using Starblazer Adventures rules. * Moma Fratelli courtesy of Brian Daigle on Dri...8 months ago
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Mernoth - Political Map - A map of the Kingdom of Mernoth situated within the southern central portion of the continent of Fayrenneth. The Realm of Mernoth is one of the oldest n...8 months ago
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Infinite Third - Once more I am proud to present to you Billy Mays III's excellent musical voyage. His music is hard to define as it explores avenues, rhythms and concepts ...10 months ago
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Harbinger - Since I last checked in I have played some *Labyrinth Lord* off and on, but not for quite awhile, and my online group has basically fizzled out -- the cam...11 months ago
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Happy Christmas! - *Fat Albert* *Grimgor Ironhide and the Immortals* *Balthus the Eviscerator* *Woomungus, Lord of the Blighted Plain astride Gnasher* *The Bastard Sq...11 months ago
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Migration - A note to anyone checking this blog: I've moved my blogging activity to http://necrotic-gnome-productions.blogspot.de/. This blog will remain indefinitely...1 year ago
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The Warlock's Tower - *F*or over eighty years, the Warlock lurked in his tower of stone, crafting all manner of trinket and bauble for the many curious novice and veteran travel...1 year ago
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Comic Review: Legion of Super-Heroes #270 (Dec. 1980) - As a lad, I didn't read DC comics. I grew up with Adam West as Batman and Christopher Reeves as Superman, what more did I need to know about the two DC mai...1 year ago
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Crossword Spell Research - I've always loved playing magic-users, loved finding and searching for books in D&D, and the open-ended possibilities that being allowed to make your own s...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years ago
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Interview - Shane Ward has a posted a lovely interview with me. Check it out when you can.2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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...3 years 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...3 years 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,...3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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 ...4 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...4 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 ...4 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 ...4 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 ...5 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...5 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 out5 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...5 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...5 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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