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- Solo Dungeon - Session One (and some handy charts)
- An Adventure for Every Monster - Beholder
- An Adventure for Every Monster - Succubus
- Holy Hooks
- Today's helpful message
- Art on Friday - Anders Finer
- An Adventure for Every Monster - Bugbear
- Hawkwood’s Voyage by Paul Kearney - Review
- Hooks Apocalypse
- DM Palpatine's Guide Part Seven
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 1
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GenCon Stuff I Missed - Heya Greyhawkers! I didn't go to GenCon and after seeing news on *ENWorld*, I'm really regretting seeing the *GenCon50 Museum*. I had no idea it was going...2 hours ago
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#RPGaDAY: Which RPG Features The Best Writing? - I have a confession to make: I'm not that big a fan of the TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer. There was lots about the series I really enjoyed, but there wa...6 hours ago
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Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game: Brief Review - Here is a brief look at the PDFs from the DFRPG boxed set. *Adventurers* - The one-book character generation part of the boxed set. All a player needs to m...13 hours ago
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Four Pagodas of Kwantoom - My love of Kabuki Kaiser’s solo D&D masterpiece “Mad Monks of Kwantoom” isn’t much of a secret. So when I … Continue reading →1 day ago
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Weird Revisited: The Stalker - *This post is originally from late August 2011. I don't think this monster made it into *Weird Adventures o*r into one of my games, but conceptually it's o...1 day ago
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Mined Out - Bloodstone Temple - Lead Mountain is tapped out. There's no more gold in them thar hills. How does that happen? I mean, sure there are a few mounted Musketeers and an odd b...1 day ago
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Star Wars D6 Lives - On August 11, when describing the Dead Game I'd Most Like to Return I nominated the original D6 Star Wars. Yesterday, just five days later, while waiting...2 days 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...2 days ago
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"Murder Your Darlings" (1890s scenario) - *Here’s a Victorian-era roleplaying scenario - and before I say another word, I’d better point out there are spoilers throughout. If you’re going to play i...2 days ago
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#RPGaDAY 2017: Day 16 - Which RPG do you enjoy using as is? *Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition. * *It's pretty close to what I would have designed for my perfect version of DnD.*...3 days ago
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What Might Have Been - From a very recent biography of Tolkien by Raymond Edwards: "In the late 1960s, the Beatles were keen to make a version of *The Lord of the Rings*, with...3 days ago
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Getting caught up on things - First of all, I switched out the "new" fancy theme of the blog, because I wasn't really caring for it. Back to the classic layout, I say! Second, I haven'...3 days ago
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RPGaDay 2017 Pt. 2: Reviews to Slaadi to Mutants - *I continue to cannibalize content by pulling together my "RPGaDay" answers. You can see Part One here. * *Day 9: Alt Question: What do you look for in a ...3 days ago
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BEYOND THIS POINT BE DRAGONS: Mystery Solved, Mystery Deepens - It was a nice story and a pretty slick bit of deductive reasoning, the series of posts I wrote introducing the existence of *Beyond This Point be Dragons* ...3 days ago
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MASSIVE SALES OF DUNGEONPUNK RPG! and an attack by The Holy Zion Southern Women's Baptist Association! - HOLY CRAP! MASSIVE SALES OF DUNGEONPUNK RPG! I have set all sales records! I am trying to sell 1.5 million copies! AND I GOT ATTACKED BY NONE OTHER THAN...3 days ago
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Comitatus - A filler image for Wormskin#7, coming soon. Again I'm messing around with colour, in an attempt to become a bit more confident with it.4 days ago
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Wonder Woman (2017) - The last DC movie I saw in theaters was Man of Steel. If you see a preview clip for the upcoming Justice League, there's this whole bit about how Superman...4 days ago
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A nice tribute to the art of David Trampier - I’ve mentioned my longstanding adoration for the art of David A. Trampier (‘DAT’) in this blog a few times. One early post features the iconic ‘Emirikol th...4 days ago
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Return of the Son of the Unknown Armies Fan Club - I haven't mentioned this in a while, and there might be more eyeballs passing this page, particularly since the new edition is out in the wild. If you're a...5 days ago
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Dungeons of Doom III + Runequest Durulz Duck Knight - Greetings Fellow Delvers! Here we are in the final week. What can I say, the support for this Kickstarter has been amazing! Here is the main Dragon Slayer ...6 days ago
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Personal Update - Two items of news: 1. Have not heard back from Atlas Games on getting permission to write in their IP since the initial inquiry. I'm hoping sending...6 days ago
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Flat Plastic Miniatures - and GenCon - I'm off to Gencon in a couple of days after taking a couple of years off. I don't have a rigidly structured agenda; a friend registered us for a bunch of...6 days ago
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The Eighth Doctor - With the publication of *The Eighth Doctor Sourcebook*, Cubicle Seven Entertainment’s celebration of *Doctor Who’s* fiftieth anniversary for the Ennie-awa...1 week ago
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Dragon Warriors is FREE! - Well, seems like I don't post much on here other than shopping recommendations, but that *will* change. For now, though, it is important that I bring to e...1 week ago
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Trickster in the Stone: Micro-Adventure - Just so you know, I had this post finished yesterday and it went away. Like vanished. Gone. I swore a little. But only a little. And now I'm here to try ...1 week ago
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Hints & Tips - 7 Tips On Creating Moments Of High Drama - *On the first Monday of every month, read a new hint or tip from Jonathan Hicks, as featured on www.rpg.net and available on Kindle as 'The Book of Rolepla...1 week ago
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Frightful Fridays! Elemental Swarms (air and earth) - Hello, and welcome to another (slightly late) edition of Frightful Fridays! I have two semi-related monsters for you this time, thanks to a discussion whe...1 week ago
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[RPGaDay 2017] Day 4: Which RPG have you played the most since August 2016? - I've mostly played Classic Traveller. I actually ran The Bospor Incident at PAX East back in March. I've got some feedback, and I need to print some more D...2 weeks 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...2 weeks ago
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Bonus issue of the Hobbs & Freinds of the OSR zine - Now you can find my entry to the contest run on 'Hobbs & Friends of the OSR' and 'Gaming & BS' on the bonus issue of the 'Hobbs & Freinds of the OSR' zine...2 weeks ago
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The Radiant Grove: Broken Earth module - Post apocalypse? Check A wayward spaceman? Check Damn dirty apes? Check Mutant tree and seedling offshoots? Check All this condensed into a 8 page advent...2 weeks ago
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Hawk and Moor Vols 1 and 2 review - I picked up Kent David Kellys Castle Oldskull bundle a couple of months ago. Included in were Kelly's histories of Dungeons and Dragons "Hawk and Moor" (I ...2 weeks ago
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Swords & Wizardry Metro Detroit Tap Room Tour! - I find myself with some extra time this Wednesday and Thursday night. After having a few successful nights at The Loaded Die's Board Game Night on Thursday...2 weeks ago
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The Horseclans Series - My first exposure to fantasy and science-fiction, other than fairy tales found in kids books, was Star Wars, as I've talked about before, both the movies ...3 weeks 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...3 weeks 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...3 weeks 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...4 weeks 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 ...4 weeks 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...5 weeks 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...5 weeks 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...5 weeks 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...5 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...5 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...5 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 ...5 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...1 month 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...2 months ago
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Temple of the Moon Priests - No Text - As it's been requested a couple of times, here's a version of "Temple of the Moon Priests" with text tags removed!2 months ago
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The Collapsing Column Conundrum - In this post I talked about a friend's game where we found ourselves in a room filled with granite columns falling all about us. I was contrasting one of ...2 months 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. ...2 months ago
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Weird Map: Moo Mesa - A map of Moo Mesa from the 90's animated series *The Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa. * All pun-based names aside, this makes a fun map for a small west...3 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 ...3 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 ...3 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...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...4 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...5 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 ...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...8 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...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...9 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...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...11 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...11 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...11 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...11 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...1 year ago
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On the Workbench after Rock Opera '79 - *Rock Opera '79* is nearing publication -- the Rockiverse has so many adventure possibilities that I keep seeing more locales to flesh out, factions to dev...1 year ago
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The OSR News - July 12, 2016 - A Tekumel/Black Hack Edition - Brett Slocum has released something I needed. Ok, something I didn't know I wanted, at the very least.[image: The Petal Hack] *The Petal Hack *by Brett Slo...1 year ago
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Bang vs. Whimper - Perhaps you're wondering when I'll be posting the next Rifts session recap. Unfortunately, it looks like there won't be one. Our campaign has sadly succu...1 year ago
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Fat And Manky Orcus - Redux - Six years ago, I posted an image of a fat and manky Orcus illustrated by Todd Lockwood, of Dungeons and Dragons 3.0 fame. The image above was taken from...1 year ago
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My New Blog - I have started a new blog to cover my adventure into fiction writing. spencerhartwriting.wordpress.com Feel free to join me over there.Filed under: bloggi...1 year ago
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The Great Host - It took all Gruffydd had not to say "I told you so" to Lars. Instead, he offered some advice. "We've traveled this way many times", the dwarf said. "We have ...1 year ago
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Privateer Press and Mark III - So things don't happen in a vacuum. On one hand, Privateer Press announces a policy to handle online discounters to grow the hobby. On the other, they sho...1 year ago
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Green Devil Face 3D Printed - This feature is LEGENDARY in the infamous S1 Tomb of Horrors by Gary Gygax. Now you can print (a version of) it for your own game. Derived from OpenForge...1 year ago
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The Beast of Beverly Hills - I am currently sitting in room 231 of The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, drinking black coffee, contemplating a nightmare. It must be a nightmare. I can no...1 year ago
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Wanted: Citadel Uruk-Hai - I am looking to buy or trade for these Citadel Uruk-Hai orcs (not X-ed out). Can you help me out or know someone who can?1 year ago
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Temple of the Underworld: Adventures on the Planes - I have been playing a new campaign for a few months now. It is 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons rules in a campaign world of my design. It is focused on a ...1 year ago
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Body Armour - I think that armour is one of the hallmarks of civilisation. I speak here of civilisation in the classic sense: agrarian, stratified, complex societies in...1 year ago
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Augmented Reality Sandbox - I recently received a call from an outdoor education school looking for help in creating an "augmented reality sandbox"... Now that was a voicemail that go...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,...3 years ago
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Consolidating - Readers of this blog will know that I'm into heavily homebrewing my campaign. If I were running games right now, I'd be running a weird cross between S&W a...3 years ago
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Point Buy Calculator for D&D Next (5e) - Figure out the point buy value of your character for the Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition role playing game with this calculator. STR 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ...3 years ago
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Anyone need an OD&D cover? - For those who know the dark places to look for such things, there are a couple of versions of the OD&D booklets combined into a single letter-sized volume....3 years ago
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North Texas RPG Con 2014 Lineup - Well it's time for the 6th Annual North Texas RPG Convention! The NTRPG Con focuses on old-school Dungeons & Dragons gaming (mainly OD&D, 1E, 2E, or Bas...3 years ago
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Happy New Year! - First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Mine was okay, and I'm kind of glad it's all finally over. T...3 years ago
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The Ferrowar - Sometimes the most fierce denizens of a dungeon are the smallest. The Cat-taurs (a name the Ferrowar loathe) are a clannish breed of fae who dwell in tun...3 years ago
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Happy birthday, Pat - Today Pat would have been 78, although she never seemed that old. The Knights are blessed with very young looking skin so I always forgot that she wasn't a...3 years ago
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Classic Traveller redux - We haven't had a game in a few weeks and this weekend someone couldn't make it (2 players out of a possible 4 is too few). We tried rolling up Classic Tra...3 years ago
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Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...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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Making History - My very first issue of DRAGON magazine was #74, an out-of-nowhere gift from my brother while we were on summer vacation. That issue is still magical to me...2 hours ago
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BX Advanced: A Draft Barbarian Class - [image: BX Advanced Playtest 0.1 Cover]One of the most requested classes so far for *BX Advanced* is the Barbarian. It's not found in either *Labyrinth L...6 hours ago
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Swords & Wizardry Light lands at RPGNow - Let's Make it a Best Seller! - *Frog God Games* has uploaded the *Swords & Wizardry Light* files for "sale" at RPGNow / DriveThruRPG. I'd like to see *Swords & Wizardry Light* trend a...9 hours ago
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Starfinder - Got my copy of the new Starfinder Core Rulebook and... I am super excited to play! Trying to find a group of players in Seattle, surely that won't be to...9 hours ago
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Zatannurday: Going Back to School with Zatanna - Tip O' the hat to JasperAK for this! *Zatanna Is Going To Magic School in Her New Comic Series* http://io9.gizmodo.com/zatanna-is-going-to-magic-school-in-...12 hours ago
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Long Live the King - This intriguing take on The King in Yellow comes to us from the Fell and Fair cosplay group. They normally specialize in recreating Tolkien's Middle Eart...16 hours ago
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OSR Commentary - High Level Play, AD&D Dieties & Demi Gods, & Operatic Old School Campaigns With 'Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)' - So another GenCon is on us & social media is a buzz with the latest Con news, numerous pictures, etc. All my best to my young friends & family that are the...1 day ago
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Carden-Loyd MG Carrier (15mm) - These are some of my 15mm (1:100 scale) 3d-printed 1930s British Carden-Loyd MG carriers, printed by Shapeways in FUD resin. This really was just a machi...2 days ago
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Hey Boogerbutts (please help) - This morning, I made a video for my friend Holly, and now I'm sharing it with you, because I need a wee bit more help. YouTube dictates that I reach at le...2 days ago
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B/X Essentials: PDF Preview! - Work continues on the *B/X Essentials* project! (Introduction to the project here.) 1. As you may perhaps have noted, the project now has an official n...2 days ago
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The Colony - Turn 36 - Search and Rescue - Start Date: August ?+2, morning Start Status: Dungeon delving Start Location: Mountain Ruin, lost Adventuring: Rennard, Jinx, Mendel, Aaron, Maarek, Xon At ...3 days ago
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BEYOND THIS POINT BE DRAGONS: Mystery Solved, Mystery Deepens - It was a nice story and a pretty slick bit of deductive reasoning, the series of posts I wrote introducing the existence of *Beyond This Point be Dragons* ...3 days ago
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Adventures in Primeval Thule - Over the last month, I've delved into a new campaign setting that I vaguely heard about a few years ago: Primeval Thule from Sasquatch games. The setting i...3 days ago
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Kickstarter Watch - My Last Sunrise - Gothic Horror 28mm Miniatures - Annie at Bad Squiddo Games is running a super-short kickstarter for her well timed vampire line. It just went live and will end in five days (on Sunday Au...4 days ago
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What About that Old-School Art Book? - Back in March I announced a plan to publish a sketchbook that featured art inspired by old-school 1970's DnD with fully statted characters, creatures, an...4 days ago
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D&D on Barsoom art by Chris Holmes - *Dungeons & Dragons on Barsoom, artwork by Chris Holmes, 1980* This fantastic artwork by Chris Holmes shows John Carter battling a Thark, perhaps Tars Thar...5 days ago
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NECRONOMICON 2017!! Part 3!! - NecronomiCon 2017 starts this week I think it'll be hard to miss me there. I'll be vending, on two panels and in the Ars Necronomica art show. Here are som...5 days ago
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[400] State of the game, state of the blog (400th post!) - *I wondered what I should do for my 400th post and I decided to muse a bit about what makes this blog tick right now and where it is headed. The short of i...6 days ago
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Offline for a Bit - *As of this moment, I will be offline until mid-September. * *Scotland bound!*1 week ago
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Satanic Panic and the AD&D Player's Handbook - So today, just for the heck of it, I read the "Foreword" to the first-edition Player's Handbook. I came across this line, which I never noticed before: "D...1 week ago
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PATREON PREVIEW: The Alienist presents: The Aglæca - *This is a preview of what my patrons are getting access to this month: * *Buried under fields, entombed in roots, or burbling under marshes, lurks the *ag...1 week ago
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Session LXXXIX: Emerson, Frank and Tor - Continuing our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Centari* (Elf) *Wolfheir* (...1 week ago
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Sketchbook Of Grotesqueries Updated -- Now With 21 THINGS For Cryptworld - (Today's my birthday, but YOU get a present!) I have updated The Sketchbook of Grotesqueries yet again, and it now contains 21 unique monsters for your Cry...1 week ago
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The Riders of A Thousand Names - One of the expeditions in the land of Xan Than Du managed to track down the riders of a thousand names to their secret fortress. The riders of the divine ...1 week ago
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Bingham Art for AA 36 - John's done several pieces for the upcoming Aerie of the Cloud Giant Strategos and here's one that perfectly captures the moment. Really like this piece a...1 week ago
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Dice Chucking in Hommlet: A campaign gone awry - *[This essay was written ages ago but deemed unworthy of publication by the DiceChucker editorial Board. Given the lack of content lately, they've relaxed ...2 weeks ago
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The Antiquarian - Thumbnail Class Sketch - When I forget my phone at home, I usually spend lunch writing in a little notebook rather than reading. Today I had a few ideas for a class, which I presen...2 weeks ago
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Thank you, Reaper Miniatures. - For finally producing a decent owlbear miniature. This fierce lookin' fella is rolling out with the next Bones Kickstarter. While I am a bit tight in the wa...2 weeks ago
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The Radiant Grove: Broken Earth module - Post apocalypse? Check A wayward spaceman? Check Damn dirty apes? Check Mutant tree and seedling offshoots? Check All this condensed into a 8 page advent...2 weeks ago
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We Reap What We Sow - Please bear with me as I digress from the normal RPG content that graces this blog, in favor of a post that I just felt like I needed to write. Let me go b...2 weeks ago
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Lasers & Feelings & Assorted L&F Mods - I have a soft spot in my heart for *Lasers & Feelings*. I use it in my Digital Narratives class to introduce narrative design to my cRPG-loving students w...2 weeks ago
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On the Fly Spell Research - Carrying on from the starting spells post: I’ve repurposed two columns from the Intelligence table in *Greyhawk*: *Minimum # per Level* as the base numbe...2 weeks ago
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Further Obvious Thoughts on Wilderness - My prep for Dungeons and Discourse continues. Also, I had lunch with one of my ACKS stalwarts a week or two ago, and have been re-reading some old posts (...2 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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A Brief Hiatus - Yes, I know it's been a while since I've posted here, but rest assured that the blog is not dead. I still want to post, but the last couple of months have...3 weeks 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...3 weeks 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...3 weeks 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 weeks 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...4 weeks 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...4 weeks 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...4 weeks 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...5 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...5 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...1 month 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...2 months 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...2 months ago
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Narrative Rebellion: Dark Universe - The Mummy - You know, I think Universal are doing this whole Universal Monsters Shared Universe Reboot backwards: we're thinking of the classical Universal monsters...2 months ago
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2017 Witches & Witchcraft Reading Challenge - Ok, the year is almost half over, and I just discovered this reading challenge. It's still not too late, as the Challenge only requires one book, fiction...2 months ago
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Hommlet: Let He Without Sin Cast The First Stone - *In the Temple of Elemental Evil Gygax wrote “If [the heroes] need more seasoning before continuing to the greater challenges, you may – and should – desig...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 ...3 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 ...3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 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...5 months ago
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Death - New Chapters added to my new cancer diary every Friday. Click here.5 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...7 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...7 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...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...9 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...9 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...11 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...1 year 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...1 year ago
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Thanks, Cedric Plante - I hear Cedric Plante is taking a break. That's OK; I hope he feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed his work, and I feel bad for not taking the oppo...1 year ago
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My Online LL Group is a Treasure - *Members of my "home" Labyrinth Lord group in fall 2010. * I recently wrote about experiencing DM burnout and consequently placing both my Labryinth Lord ...1 year ago
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A Character Record for Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls - Ever since I started playing Tunnels & Trolls, back in November, I've been on the lookout for a good character sheet, and to date I haven't found one that ...1 year ago
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Privateer Press and Mark III - So things don't happen in a vacuum. On one hand, Privateer Press announces a policy to handle online discounters to grow the hobby. On the other, they sho...1 year ago
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The Beast of Beverly Hills - I am currently sitting in room 231 of The Avalon Hotel in Beverly Hills, drinking black coffee, contemplating a nightmare. It must be a nightmare. I can no...1 year ago
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Interview - Shane Ward has a posted a lovely interview with me. Check it out when you can.1 year ago
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In Search of the Unknown: Evadne Moon-touched, Part One - [image: Beverly Marshall Saling] Beverly Marshall SalingBeverly plays Evadne Moon-touched, a character originally created in 1995 for Mike Ryan's AD&D Seco...1 year ago
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Spinning my Wheels on Systems - Just throwing this out there to see what kind of feedback I get. I've got a couple of projects that I'd really like to work on. One's fantasy and one's sc...1 year ago
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Dynamic Grappling - Before I say another word, let me direct the reader to Douglas Cole and Peter V. Dell'Orto's article on grappling in *The Manor*, issue #8 ( http://www.rpgn...1 year ago
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Memorial - Today would have been Millie's 3rd birthday. The funds we raised to dedicate an acre of ancient woodland and a memorial bench has now been completed, and t...1 year ago
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Cara Hack Facebook Terbaru 2015 - Meng-hack Facebook memang nggakboleh dan illegal, apalagi dengan tujuan untuk yang tidak baik. Contohnya untukmenjahili teman, iseng, atau mengambil alih b...1 year ago
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Colecţia de primăvară-vară la echipamente de protectie! - Acum că a început să se topească gheaţa de pe drumuri încep să ni se dezvăluie tendinţele din evoluţia craterelor şi gropilor răsărite şi dezvoltate pe ...1 year ago
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Wasteland 2110 - Session 1 Summary - (Summary by Pedro) The game starts with three figures emerging from the wastes: the thrill seeking motor-head Dean McQueen, the quick-handed scout August,...2 years ago
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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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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
- RPG Advocacy
- Sense about Science
- Greyhawk Maps
- Planetocopia
- Otherworld Miniatures
- Julie Dillon's Art
- Science Daily
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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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