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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 1
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Page Updates for Felltower - I updated some of the Felltower pages today: Known Entrances http://dungeonfantastic.blogspot.com/2016/12/df-felltower-known-gates-gate-facts.html Monster...1 hour ago
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New worlds to plunder - I've been considering what kind of RPG I'd like to run next and I'm definitely doing a fantasy game. My recent Game of Thrones readings, and the D20 book I...1 hour ago
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The Carcosan Algorithm - *Author's Note: I'm sure this post is due in equal parts to the classic *World of Darkness* plot about Clan Tremere infiltrating the Mormons to compile hum...3 hours ago
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Wednesday Comics: Storm: The Seven of Aromater - *My exploration of the long-running euro-comic *Storm*, continues with his adventures in the world of Pandarve. Earlier installments can be found here.* *...3 hours ago
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Greyhawk A-Z: People Part 2 - I thought I'd take another crack at this fun listing article. Check out my last one posted three years ago! This is just some descriptions with quick comm...10 hours ago
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The Humans of the World of Samoth (Part 2) - While looking over my notes for my campaign world, I discovered a few items from my ancient Yahoo! Geocities website, and found the write-up for the Druid...15 hours ago
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Index Card RPG: Cave Squig - *CAVE SQUIG* for the Index Card RPG Core *Rolls: +3 Dex, -2 Int* *1 Heart* *ACTIONS* *ATTACK - BITE:* Weapon Effort with their teeth. *UNPREDICTABLE...17 hours 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...20 hours ago
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Bright Flash: A Tales from the Loop Mystery - In honor of the *Stranger Things* Season 2 trailer dropping, let's revisit *Tales from the Loop*. When I ran three sessions of *TftL* at Origins I used my ...20 hours ago
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The Holy City of Guerras-El-Essat - Guerras-El-Essat is built up around a massive temple dedicated to the living (or unliving?) eight-armed vampiric deity-demon El-Essat who stalked … Contin...21 hours ago
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Publishing Supplies Deal - Calling all those home publishers and zine creators! Great cardstock deal in coming. I ran out of white cardstock over the weekend. The Staples and Walm...21 hours ago
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Game of Thrones and OSR Domain Play - I remember being so excited in 1984 when the D&D *Companion Set* at last came out. I'd been promised it for years. Well it wasn't really that long, give...1 day ago
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One-on-One Campaign Background - I have mentioned elsewhere that my co-worker T and I have been planning a one-on-one White Box campaign during lunch hours at work. Here is the background...2 days ago
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Excerpts From Punkinberg - *Excerpts From Punkinberg * *the up and coming* *Supplement * *for* *the* *DUNGEONPUNK* *RPG* DUNGEONPUNK PUNKINBERG *NOTE: You the Game Master are now on ...2 days ago
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Killing Each Other Over Shrubbery - Up until last week, the last time I played Warhammer 40,000 was in 1997ish. I had a Genestealer Cult army and when the third edition of the game came out G...3 days ago
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Frightful Fridays! Krakitten - Hello, and welcome to another Frightful Fridays! I'm going to say that jet lag still makes it Friday. The family trip to Europe was awesome, and I saw a lo...3 days ago
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Dungeons of Doom III Kickstarter + Dragon Slayers - *Delvers Lost in the Dungeons of Doom III. They're back! More delvers lost in the Dungeons of Doom! This time they're hunting The Dragon!* The Long, Sa...3 days ago
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Etiquetando Rol - En la entrada de hoy os hablaré de la iniciativa... Etiquetando Rol que ha nacido en los círculos roleros de la red social Google+ y más concretamente de l...5 days ago
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Fabled Lands rules, old and new - *Recently Jamie and I had a chat about the forthcoming FL book 7 with Paul Gresty (who wrote it) and Richard S Hetley (who is editing it) and an often-ask...5 days ago
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The Innsmouth Project - In terms of Lovecraftian investigative horror, salt-sodden Innsmouth is an outlier, a place where the Mythos walks wild, its true batrachian nature hidden...6 days ago
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Blackmoor as a CHAINMAIL Campaign - Rob Kuntz: "No one knew what to call it so we have a "place-holder" for it. However, people today are quite literal-minded. So the sentence could or would ...6 days ago
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Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne Kickstarter is live! - Heya folks, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up, Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne Kickstarter went live yesterday and was funded 2 1/2 hours after ...1 week ago
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Swords & Wizardry Campaign At Dragonmead. - Well, after a successful week last week, I have decided to return to The Loaded Die's Board Game Night at Dragonmead in Warren, Michigan this Thursday nigh...1 week ago
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It Doesn't Matter Who Plays Dr Who - I have never understood the appeal of *Dr Who* - in my view its rightful place is surely alongside repeats of *Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em* and *The Brittas E...1 week ago
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Valar Morghulis - Like 99.9% of the global fantasy nerd community, I am looking forward to the seventh season of *The Game of Thrones*, due to start tomorrow evening. Since ...1 week ago
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Iteration 2: Hero Plus Minions - This is related to the idea I posted the other day, where this one turns into a combination of card and skirmish game. You pick out a hero and then you get...1 week 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...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Nightwick News Catch Up - My Nightwick players have been so busy with things in the dungeon that I have neglected the news for several months (since January!). Here is a short summ...2 weeks ago
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The Cursed Chateau Maps : ENNIE AWARDS NOM NOM VOTE - So The Cursed Chateau got an ENnie Awards Nomination for Best Cartography. If you're wondering what the maps looked like here you go. Hopefully, when yo...2 weeks 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 weeks ago
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Kindle Unlimited: Old School Fantasy Picks - Join Amazon Kindle Unlimited 30-Day Free Trial With Prime Day coming up, Amazon recently did a bit where if you were a prime member, you could subscribe t...2 weeks ago
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The Wasteland of Gath: Part 3 - I was lucky enough to get in another session in Christian's Wasteland of Gath Campaign. I'm using the Labyrinth Lord rules for my foray and having a blast ...2 weeks ago
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A Book Review: Jean Lafitte, The Pirate Who Saved America - As a cousin of Jean Lafitte, I'm always interested in publications that detail his life and I thought I might find this book interesting. Alas, neither the...2 weeks ago
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Friday Gaming Report: Subplots galore - As I mentioned in an earlier post, my last session of *Bash *had not gone as well as I liked because my single story, which I had hoped to fill the entire ...2 weeks ago
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The Nervous Part of Writing in Someone Else's IP - I've been working on a series of short stories recently. More correctly, I've *resumed* writing on a series of short stories. I wrote the first short sto...3 weeks ago
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OSR Encounter Contest winner - I have just finished listening to the last episode (#13) of the Hobbs & Friends of the OSR podcast. Yes, right out of the oven exclusively for Patreon sup...3 weeks ago
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Vecna Reborn Review - During the unpacking from my recent move, one my older modules floated to the surface. Thematically it seemed somewhat linked to the upcoming Tomb of Annih...4 weeks ago
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Stellar Adventures is out! - Arion Games have published Stellar Adventures. I've yet to read it all, as yet, but it'll very likely be my go-to game for all kinds of science fiction ad...5 weeks 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...5 weeks 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!1 month 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 ...1 month ago
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Rotogawa Part III - Been a while. Anyway, been working on the Free City of Rotogawa, City of the Seven Lakes, Eastern outpost of the Empire (in name if not in practice), and t...1 month ago
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My Current 5e Game - The Edition Wars Continue5e aint old school. Let's just get that right out of the way up front. Yes, yes, with all the proper caveats and clarifications. ...1 month 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...2 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 ...2 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 ...2 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...2 months ago
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Gnolls (per B/X) - "Gnolls are rumored to be the result of a magical combination of a gnome and a troll by an evil magic user." - Tom Moldvay, Basic Rulebook How did I forg...3 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...3 months ago
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A Pseudo-Shakespearean Rant - Thou ice-hearted harpy, incessantly prattling on, whose tongue drips with honeyed promises, then turns to fire with outward blame for all the world when co...3 months ago
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Implicit Settings and Welcoming Voices - Firstly, a shoutout of thanks to Trey Causey for creating the badass blog banner above. I've gotta do a full site redesign at some point. Secondly... I wa...4 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...4 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 ...5 months ago
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Quantum Difficulty, An Example - Orcs of Brimstone Pass - I've had a whirlwind travel schedule the past week (Chicago, LA, then London, then Kent, back to London tomorrow...) so it's taken me longer than I'd like ...5 months ago
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Coming Out of the Box - If you liked this project, you'll love 2017's project.Completing Castle Meatgrinder, a large wargaming project from start to as-near-to-finished-as-any-war...6 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...7 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...7 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...7 months ago
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Wormskin goes Fourth - Did we not hear the people clamoring for more serpentine husk? Why yes, I believe we did. What will you find inside the pages of Wormskin issue 4? Only mad...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 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...8 months ago
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Lemmy! - Here's one of the Ral Partha Ogres I finished up. I decided to go full Lemmy on him by sculpting long hairs as well as the stache. I think I'm going to ...9 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...10 months 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...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...10 months 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...10 months 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...11 months 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...11 months 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...1 year 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...2 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,...2 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...2 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...3 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 ...3 years ago
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 2
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Five Random & Unusual Spicy Finds Table For Dark Albion & Your Old School Campaigns - As the War of the Roses brews in Albion a raider sights an unusual ship of the French frogmen bound for the ports of their demonic home. The battle is fier...4 minutes ago
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REVERSE TWIN - REVERSE TWIN “This buck is your reverse twin. he will haunt you until you remove your skin and hands as a screaming, broken man.” “When you’re at the stor...29 minutes ago
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Cthulhu Fhtagn! Shima Edition. - Cthulhu tiki mugs aren't really my cup of tea, no pun intended, but I really like this piece from Chris Shima. It's a great sculpt without the cheesiness ...4 hours ago
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Civilians from Blue Moon and Artizan - Still painting civilians. First off are the final two from Artizan Designs’ *Department of Paranormal Studies II* pack. I bought the pack to get the prie...5 hours ago
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Which is More Dangerous to a Campaign - Over Planning or Lack of Planning? - Which is worse? The meticulously planned campaign that has details for every obscure NPC or the one where the local towns don't even have a name until t...17 hours ago
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Thor's got one hell of an adventuring party - Your bank account is going to hate this movie as much as you and/or your kids will love it. :PI finally watched the trailer for Thor: Ragnarok and as soon...19 hours ago
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The Sword of Goujian - A new relic for your Raiders! game. *The Sword of Goujian* In a tomb among more than 50 other tombs in Hubei, China lies a near air-tight wooden box held i...22 hours ago
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Dalluhn: Wizards' Guilds and Fellowships - If you don't know the history of the document called, alternately, Beyond This Point Be Dragons and the Dalluhn Manuscript, the best thing to do is read ...23 hours ago
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New in Print: Mail-call Edition - When I get games or game books together; either via a con, or an auction, 2nd hand sale, or whatever I tend to think of them as "linked" products whether t...1 day ago
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Zvezda 1:144 Hurricane - This will be some air support for my poor beleaguered 15mm 1940 BEF. Not that they're ever likely to see much of it, but that's life in 1940 France. It's ...1 day ago
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The Colony - Turn 30 - Lost - The main party is definitely, positively, completely unsure of where they are. Start Date: August ? Start Status: Which Way? Start Location: Lost Adventu...1 day ago
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Tweaking Yesterday's Paladin Variant - Thinking about it more, the Paladin in my variants yesterday didn't seem sufficiently different from the normal cleric. I've tweaked it to look like this: ...2 days 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...2 days ago
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Second Edition AD&D Is Only 3/4ths Of a Game and Even Though I Love It, We All Have to Acknowledge That - On Friday, the Swords of Stock (formerly Fenrus' Very Best) were in the Tomb of Queen Serenavalla, last of the Golden Age Queens of Tailmisia, seeking her ...3 days ago
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Return to the Tower of Zenopus - As I wrote in my last post, this weekend marks 40 years since Origins III in 1977, the first known public release of the Holmes Basic Set. How I am celebra...3 days ago
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Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - Around about 1929, a German architect by the name of Herman Sörgel came with an idea he called Atlantropa. The idea was simple (no, not really) - he was go...3 days ago
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[398] The DM as Oracle vs. The DM as Author - *There is a bit of talk in the blog-o-sphere about the stories we want to tell in our games. Should there be a literary quality to it? A message? Just ente...4 days 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...4 days ago
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Blackmoor as a CHAINMAIL Campaign - Rob Kuntz: "No one knew what to call it so we have a "place-holder" for it. However, people today are quite literal-minded. So the sentence could or would ...6 days ago
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Review: Castlevania Netflix Series - I just finished watching the four episode Season 1 of the Netflix Castlevania series. Seeing that it was written by Warren Ellis, who I've heard does good...6 days ago
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New Old School Sunday Game Campaign Coming Together - [image: Pizza Meeting]Yesterday was the first meeting of what will hopefully soon become my next Sunday Game. Six potential players and myself met over all...1 week 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 week ago
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Advanced Adventures line hits 40 modules... - Breaking proverbial ground on Advanced Adventure #40: The Horror of Merehurst which should come out early next year. Yep, *FORTY*! Still got several betwee...1 week ago
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Middle East & West - Like Oil & Water - One day there will be a moment when the penny drops for the leftist loons who bang on about 'Islamophobia' and support Sharia Law within the UK (and elsewh...1 week ago
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Death is Still Boring - This is insightful: *Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory* is like a Saw movie for kids: it matches grisly fates to the sins of the children who enter the...1 week ago
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How To Guides Galore - How do you write a great adventure? Anyone who has ever put pen to paper in this hobby knows that is the $1,000 question. It would be the million dollar ...1 week ago
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"I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain." - This is fun: a martial arts blogger analyzes Wesley and Inigo's duel with respect to the sword-masters they reference during the iconic scene in *The Princ...1 week ago
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Player-Controlled XP Allocation - A friend of mine asked me to give a talk on DMing, so I've been writing and rewriting endless cycles of notes on that. One theme that I know I want to hit...2 weeks ago
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Off Blogger (see ya'll soon) - It's Monday and my goal is to clean the house top to bottom but first, lemme show you what I wrote. Double Chocolate and Cherry Vanilla. So flippin' yum. R...2 weeks 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 weeks ago
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"Quill Quest: The Warlord's Downfall" Now Available -- New Quill RPG Scenario Supplement - A year ago, I wrote a review for Quill: A Letter-Writing Roleplaying Game for a Single Player. In my positive review for this enjoyable game, I mentioned t...2 weeks ago
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d30 Feature of the Week: d30 Mummy Variations - Last week, the d30 Ghoul/Ghast Generator was the winner of the "Which Undead d30 Chart Do You Want to See" vote by a slim (single, tie-breaking vote) margi...2 weeks ago
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Chaos on the Old Borderlands - 20 Questions, Part Three - *Continuing the description of the Old Borderlands, here's the next instalment of answers to Jeff Rients's famed 20 Questions.* *9. Is there a magic guild ...2 weeks ago
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Basic/Expert Core Rules: Looking for Proof-Readers - *Edit: the response has been much quicker than I expected and I think I have enough people helping out now. Thanks to everyone who's offered their assistan...3 weeks ago
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Tenth, Fifth, Half, Whole - I’ve got a vague inkling of an idea I’d like to muse about. You may have noticed that, in the Highlander Mage post, I wrote that these magic-users gain t...3 weeks ago
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Links to All of Paizo's FreeRPG Day Stuff -- Updated! - Here's all of Paizo's past FreeRPG Day releases, except for any cards. *Some of these require an account at paizo.com*, but the PDFs are free. I don't play...3 weeks ago
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Dwarven Forge Kickstarter 5 Snakes and Jade (and corrections) - More beans have been spilled and a big reveal is coming later today. First a correction, the blood red in the previous post was (to quote Darkest Dungeon's...3 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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Session LXXXVIII: Two Ettins Too Many - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Torvin Fulvousmith* (Dwarf) *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Centari*...3 weeks ago
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CLICKERS VERSUS KHARRN - Now it can be told. Brian Keene has released the finalized table of Contents for *CLICKERS FOREVER: A TRIBUTE TO J.F. GONZALEZ. *My story BLEEDING THRO...5 weeks ago
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Dungeon Mug on Sale Now! - I've just received a batch of my new Dungeon Mugs. I intend to take these to sell at conventions, but when they arrived I was so pleased with them that I d...5 weeks 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...5 weeks ago
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MUTANT BASTARDS! - Well Tarnation! Them fast movin' freaks was all runnin' to get their copy of the newest retro-mutant RPG to hit the ol' information superhighway like an a...1 month ago
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Markets of the Ethonggobees - The Ethonnggobee Matriarchy is keeping an isolationist policy and is wary of those involved in external struggles. Prices are based on the worst standing ...1 month 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 month 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...1 month ago
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AD&D Player's Handbook part 38: 1st-Level Magic-User Spells - *Notes Regarding Magic-User Spells:* Before the spell descriptions begin, there's a short section that mostly deals with magic-user spell components. The m...2 months ago
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Iron Rangers of Stonefist: Hockey in Oerth - I'm just sayin'... Coat of Arms of the Iron Rangers, a semi-professional hockey team based in the upper Midwest during the 1970s Coat of Arms of the Hold o...2 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 ...2 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 ...2 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...2 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...2 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...3 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...3 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 ...3 months ago
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Implicit Settings and Welcoming Voices - Firstly, a shoutout of thanks to Trey Causey for creating the badass blog banner above. I've gotta do a full site redesign at some point. Secondly... I wa...4 months ago
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Hyboria: A few NPC's - *Amzi Sayid*, 23 Turanian Warrior-3/Raider-1 Str- 13, Con-13, Int-13 Hp: 28 Ac: 5/14 (mail) Attack: F4 Save: F4 Special Abilities: ⦁ Warrior: +1 to melee att...4 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.4 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...7 months ago
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Wormskin goes Fourth - Did we not hear the people clamoring for more serpentine husk? Why yes, I believe we did. What will you find inside the pages of Wormskin issue 4? Only mad...8 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...8 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...8 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...10 months ago
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Bowing Out - I have decided to lay this blog to rest. Looking back over my posts, it has been a *long* time since I have posted anything of any worth. I hit a new low r...11 months 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...11 months ago
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Geographic Wonders Compilation - Years ago I made a series of posts about geographic wonders players exploring a fantasy world might find. I promised to make a compiled list of these whe...11 months 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...11 months 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,...1 year ago
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Sturgeon vs. Bradbury - I would be hard pressed to define classic Sci-fi Lit. any better than simply referencing Theodore (Ted) Sturgeon who was a Pulp Era Sci-fi writer and earl...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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Space Combat House Rules, v2 - After playing a little with the house rules posted previously, there's some problems I want to address. In no particular order: - Consistency & Complex...2 years ago
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ZAP! BOW! BIFF! Comics Aren't Just For Kids Anymore! - Hey folks. Just wanted to point all of you to my new blog, Marvel '84, which is where I'll be posting about comics and the MSHRPG, including information ...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 out3 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...3 years ago
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- UK members of the Order - get your D10000 here
- Your One-stop Shop for Eldritch Goodness
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- Otherworld Miniatures
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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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