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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 1
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Character Creation Challenge 2026 Day 24: Quantum Starfarer - This month I've created a character for *Classic Traveller* with its full life-path character creation system. I've also created a character for *Retro S...10 hours ago
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Mystery & Monsters? - One of the great things with the Dragonbane: Mirth & Mayhem Roleplaying – Core Box from Free League Publishing is that it comes with everything necessary ...12 hours ago
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Druids of the Latter Age - Contrary to the popular entertainments of the Latter Age, there is no cohesive group known as the druids. Rather, there are individuals and networks of...1 day ago
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An ulcer on the big toe - ‘People whose minds are—like [Arthur] Machen’s—steeped in the orthodox myths of religion, naturally find a poignant fascination in the conception of thin...2 days ago
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ATARI'S ADVENTURE - A SEED FOR NOSTALGIC ADVENTURE - This early open world adventure game is just begging to be made into an OSR style adventure module. While the story for the game was that an evil wizard s...2 days ago
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Greyhawkery Comics: Under #24 - Greetings Greyhawk explorers. Today is a new installment of my short story *Under*. Follow the links below to catch up if you are just arriving. Last we ...3 days ago
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Session One-Hundred Twenty: The Blue Shrine - The group could not leave and decided that resting in this place might be dangerous. So, they decided to continue searching the strange cavern they were ...4 days ago
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Map Attack #2 & Secret Doors - Here is the second level of the dungeon map. This time I just drew it with pencil while watch The Blacklist. Then went back over everything with Micro...1 week ago
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Testing Settlements - Coldwater Bend Part 5 - [image: Marcus Gheeraerts I - Map of Bruges - Fisherman] Finally A Hamlet! I'm testing my settlement system by telling the story of Coldwater Bend, a bran...1 week ago
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Games Workshop Against Satanism - An interesting theme is developing as the AI revolution unfolds: people don't have much of a problem with AI use in things they don't care about, but they ...1 week ago
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FUTURE JUICE - Fancy alchemists call this concoction "The Potential of Futures Yet to Come" but everyone calls it "Future Juice" so there it is. The magic in this potion ...1 week ago
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Hexenburg Session 3: A Megadungeon for Shadowdark - The session opened with the characters take a bit of time to check on "astrological frequencies" after their weird trip to another Plane last session. ...1 week ago
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Lands of Cantona - Session 3 - Happy New Year! This is the recap of Session 3 of my new campaign "Lands of Cantona" that I am running for my two nephews, my son and my wife. The party is...1 week ago
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Hello 2026 - I didn't post a lot last year and looking through my lists, I have a lot of unfinished and barely started posts to work on. The seeming slowdown however...2 weeks ago
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Megadungeon Lingering Table Final Form! When you stay too long, what happens? - I started posting ideas about what happens if you stay too long in a megadungeon long ago, 2021 maybe. And I am still trying to thread the needle and squa...2 weeks ago
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Year in Gaming 2025 - Here we are in 2026, recapping 2025. How was it for gaming for me? *Running Dungeon Fantasy* I GMed 17 sessions of DF Felltower this year. Session 203, Br...2 weeks ago
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The Cycle: Movements VII-IX - Movement VII — The Fracture of the Archetype Thesis The first structural fracture in OD&D occurs when the game begins to incorporate classes whose identit...2 weeks ago
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2025 Kickstarters - My Annual update on the Kickstarters I have signed up for. Note that for some, which I have marked (pdf), I have received the final pdf although the fin...2 weeks ago
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On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...3 weeks ago
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May the Dice be Kind to You in 2026 - Me, when some of my graduate students tell me that they are into role-playing games: Me, when it becomes clear that by "role-playing games" they mean ex...3 weeks ago
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Taking the Next Two Weeks Off - I'm taking the next two weeks off, so no blog posts until the first full week of January 2026. Enjoy the end of the year and see everyone in the new year!4 weeks ago
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Operation Lamplighter Hub Page - "Berserk!" by caesar120 for West End GamesI'm making a single reference page for Operation Lamplighter (my Andor campaign) that will be updated with desc...5 weeks ago
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Sharpened Hooks: The Bloody Contests of Tanadara - The real-life Frank Dux of *Bloodsport* fame claims that the Kumite is a secret 60-round single-elimination tournament held every five years. A sixty-rou...1 month ago
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Terror Target Gemini - Awhile back I picked up the Terror Target Gemini RPG. A fun little rules-lite game that I would call OSR adjacent. I finally had time to read thro...1 month ago
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Epic Encounters: Local Legends - Berserker - Steamforged Games makes products for use with the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. These come under several flavors, but most fall under the Epic En...1 month ago
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1d100 Church & Temple Whispers - *1d100 Church & Temple Whispers *by Sable Quill *Miracles, misdeeds, revelations, conspiracies, and holy gossip…* *1**.* A priest claims their refle...2 months ago
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Whitehaven Citadel Dungeon Level 1 - The first level under Whitehaven Citadel is a fairly normal storage area, with a few goblins hiding down there after the reclaiming of most of the surfa...2 months ago
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Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...3 months ago
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FREE TTRPG games! - Every one of my D12-based TTRPG releases are now Pay What You Want over at DrivethruRPG - from space to horror to post-apocalypse to fantasy to mystery t...3 months ago
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New Website/Blog Space - We will be using this site for regular news and updates from here on out.4 months ago
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How I Use Henchmen and Hirelings - In early Dungeons & Dragons, adventurers usually didn’t go into dungeons alone. They brought torchbearers, treasure-carriers, mercenaries, and loyal lieu...4 months ago
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Escape, Engagement, and Eucatastrophe - Artwork from GRIDSHOCK 20XX by Grey Wizard A sentiment that I've been seeing often lately is wanting to avoid games that take place in post-apocalyptic...4 months ago
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Classic D&D TSR Modules - Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth 1976 What is a "classic" module? Taking the definition from the Six Cultures of Play article we can say that modules made during...4 months ago
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....4 months ago
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"U-G" Is For "Urban Gargoyle" - *XCrawl Classics* is the new hotness 'round these parts, so here's the newest beastie from my table! — Like their backwoods cathedral-dwelling cousins, ...4 months ago
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Appendix N: September 2025 Edition - It's long-since-past the time that this Appendix N list needed to be updated. Several additional books have been added to the collection, including s...4 months ago
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Holmes1to3 [general guidelines] - Notes on playing a D&D campaign using only the Holmes Basic set of rules with level 1 to 3 being the only levels achievable by Player Characters. 1st...4 months ago
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Mecenazgo Universo de rol Solarpunk - En la entrada de hoy os presento el mecenazgo Universo de rol solarpunk y a su autora, Paula “Alien” (blog, mastodon, itch.io), que con esta campaña quiere...7 months ago
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Cringe Ye Be Lest Cringe Ye Become: A Nightwick Miscelany - Here's some random stuff from the long running Nightwick campaigns that doesn't really fit in the book and doesn't really have a coherent enough theme...8 months ago
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Process Book - The Brief For this assignment my brief was to design a Process Book, and have it printed. This book shows my process, from initial ideas, through research,...10 months ago
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Design Notes: Adventures in Fantasy for ArneCon 2 - I'm posting this after I run the game at ArneCon2. So though I'm documenting this as I go, by the time anyone reads this these steps will be behind me. *...11 months ago
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Kanoodle as In-Game Puzzle - Part 1 - For a very long time, I've been interested in integrating real puzzles into my tabletop games. I know that some folks prefer to keep character skills separ...1 year ago
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Traveller : Session 53 - This session was run on January 18, 2024. *220-1118* In the morning, they decided to take the Gerald Masters interview job. Marvin was still...1 year ago
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When did the OSR begin? 2008. - I was looking through a box of some of my old gaming stuff and I ran across a bunch of old OSR zines and DIY supplements from 15+ years ago. I thought, w...1 year ago
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Gwenevere (2023) - Poster by Sarah McIntyreBanished from Camelot, Queen Gwenevere (Laura Frances Martin) must travel across wild country to the abbey where she is to live out...2 years ago
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The Great Migration - One way or another, this blog is not long for the world. The great and powerful Goog is a capricious and fickle technical wizard. To cut him off at the knees...4 years ago
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Classic Rock Artists as D&D Character Classes and Tropes - Which classes would various classic rock artists be? Inspired by a podcast over on Gothridge Manor by Tim and Ivy called "Three Chickens and a Whisk." ...4 years ago
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Ghost Riders of Geoff - http://www.canonfire.com/cf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=75200&sid=00c143114e4349c0351533c72b14bd6c#752005 years ago
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Mold lines are the bane of my existence - This afternoon I was putting some models together, cleaning mold lines, and doing some basing. Mold lines are a long-running antagonist for my hobby activi...5 years ago
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Still here, part 2 - As mentioned in Part 1, I've been posting more elsewhere and I need to refresh this neglected blog. Along with more gaming content, I want to update the H...6 years ago
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Mine Playset Finished - Boy, it feels good to see a project through to completion. The color scheme looks really good. It was a good first run, especially in getting an idea...6 years ago
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Dungeons & Dragonmead Fall Schedule - *As you know, I run public classic Dungeons & Dragons games at **The Loaded Die**/Metro Detroit Game Night's Board Game Nigh at **Dragonmead**, in Warren...6 years ago
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Star Hat Miniatures for DuckQuest Fantasy Role Playing Games - DuckQuest Fantasy Roleplay! *Time to explore **Duckwyrld**... where four valiant **Heroes of Quackmoor** have been summoned by **Mandrake**, founder of t...6 years ago
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Can't Stop Thinking About Weapons - Predictably enough, when I set down to whittle the 5e rules down to something that I'm interested in running, one of the first things that I take a look at...6 years ago
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Hearts of Wulin Kickstarter - *Hearts of Wulin*,* an RPG of wuxia melodrama, funded in less than an hour.* Driven by the characters’ duties, desires, and entanglements with other chara...6 years ago
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James's Celebration of Life - We could not have asked for a prettier day for James's service. It was a bit chilly and windy but gorgeous. A heartfelt thank you to all that joined us tod...6 years ago
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Dick Dale - I'm sad today because one of my personal heroes has passed away today. Dick Dale was 81, and to me that's too young for a man who was such a giant talen...6 years ago
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Human Infravision - Gizmodo reports "By injecting nanoparticles into the eyes of mice, scientists gave them the ability to see near-infrared light—a wavelength not normally vi...6 years ago
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FLINTLOCK FANTASY: Episode II Play Report! - The second session kicked off with the aftermath of the Machetza showdown and monstrous attack at the Welcome Arms *(which you can read about HERE)*. The p...6 years ago
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Wots All This Then - Having two posts in a row being like "I'm back!", three years apart, is ah, not such a good look. Thankfully, when you get down to it, it doesn't really ma...6 years ago
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A Sojourn Among Antediluvian Archæotheria - This started with nomenclature, as so many things do. I started writing a response to Scrap Princess's post about Dinosaur naming conventions in the fantas...6 years ago
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Call of Cthulhu Actual Play: Against the Cthulhu Cult of Boston - I'll be making a small adjustment for this actual play. I'll be focusing less on what happened during play - though I will cover that - and more discus...6 years ago
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Frightful Fridays! Opportunistic Griffons - Hello and welcome back to the first post of 2019. I hope the new year has started well for you. I'm making up for lost time with five monsters for you this...7 years ago
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The giant giant adventure - I wasn't in the mood to run any games today, so instead I decided to exploit the brains of ten kids in order to create a campaign. I quite like what this r...7 years ago
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Turkey Tarrasque - In honor of Thanksgiving I present to you the Turkey Tarrasque, Turkeysque for short. He'll be utilizing the basic framework I discussed earlier for unive...7 years ago
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Here Be Dungeons 20: Camp Righteous - Click to make big My final draft design of Camp Righteous and the House of the Crocodile, developed for Wizards of the Coast's "Tomb of Annihilation".7 years ago
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Pathfinder 2 (Playtest) Session Zero - *After a long hiatus I've decided to return to writing here on my blog. Tabletop role playing has been a favorite hobby of mine for years. Even though...7 years ago
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The West is Dying: Book 1 Fall of the First World - The West is Dying Book 1 Fall of the First World Written by David C. Smith $2,99 Kindle $19.99 Paperback I read a few of David C. Smith's books back in...7 years ago
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The One Ring RPG Documents - Don't mess with Dain. Heya folks! I've been away for a bit, busy with life and all that. I'm currently involved in an ongoing The One Ring campaign tha...7 years ago
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Bonelord-A Villain for Light City - This is a Light City version of a character I created for Icons 8 years ago! Enjoy! *Bonelord* Real Name: Clinton Darnell First Appearance: Mike’s Ama...7 years ago
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The Fungus that re-visited Blackeswell - Hi Reader! Do you remember a little module by the name of *The Fungus that Came to Blackeswell*, first ambulant around 2013? Yes? Then sadly the mind-bore ...7 years ago
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Thouls - Thouls are undead abominations. Patchwork creatures, they possess a strangely refined version of the canibal cravings of ghouls. They will chew off a part ...7 years ago
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What Happens to Joe the Farmer Now? You Tell Me - So I made a post about a simple farmer finding a Vorpal Sword in the woods the other day. It was to discuss certain aspects of magic items in a campai...7 years ago
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Dikes Fall, Session 5 - *Tower of Babel* by Brueghel The party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly...7 years ago
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Summer's Gone, and the World's a Darker Place - This isn't a gaming post, but a memorial. I found out this morning that a student of mine passed away. Her name was Summer, and she was one of my very favo...8 years ago
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Stir-Fried Kale with Mushrooms, Garlic and Ginger - Yes, it's been a while since my last blog post. I've not stopped cooking or eating but lots of other things have happened over the last 18 months. First I...8 years ago
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Adventure Lookup - This looks like a handy resource : AdventureLookup.com Looks like more than 200 1e/B/x/osr adventures in the database so far. Should come in handy next tim...8 years ago
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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...8 years 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...8 years ago
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Playing Curse of Strahd on-line - Due to some real life issues, my regular game is on hiatus and my son has stepped in and is running The Curse of Strahd, the adventure from Wizards of the ...9 years ago
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Still Out There, a Short Update - I'm not gaming right now and not working on anything GURPS or OSR related Reason is pretty simple, I'm mostly interested in GMing and while I'm willing to...9 years 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 ...9 years ago
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D&D Competition August 27, 2016 at Boise Public Library - I'm running half of the tables of D&D 5e at the Boise Public Library Comic Con. Check it out: Can you win Dungeons & Dragons? Can you hold on to your wit...9 years ago
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Dungeonteller: Beyond the Core Books - FYI for all of you who snagged free copies of Dungeonteller Fantasy RPG during the "Happy Birthday '2' Dungeonteller" giveaway a few weeks back: add to you...9 years ago
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Giambattista's Megadungeon - Doing some organizing in my D&D folder on my computer today I came across this incredible megadungeon map drawn by Giambattista Nolli in 1748. I think I c...9 years ago
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Episode summaries, by Marsha/Seph - I put this together for my reference, but am sharing in case you're interested too: Episode Summaries, 1-69 years ago
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Old friends - The body was that of a man. Stripped, and staked to the ground. He had been eviscerated, and his guts left strewn about. What was left of them. The vulture...9 years ago
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Eureka! Password Recovered - Gee, that only took forever. First, I would like to apologize from my prolonged absence from this blog. There are several reasons. I had some major life up...9 years ago
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A thief, a priest, and two barbarians walk into a bar. - Last night was the 3rd session of my *Ancient Aliens*-inspired 5e game. We played in the upstairs lounge of the Mexican restaurant/bar next door to my ap...9 years ago
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Time For A New Adventure? - This is not the post I had originally thought of for post #150 of this blog. Every so often in life, a person realizes that they are just going through the...10 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...10 years ago
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Mage the Awakening: No Mean City - Way, way back in 2011 I spoke about starting a Werewolf: The Forsaken Game chronicile in Glasgow. It kind of fell through, but I've about to start DMing a...10 years ago
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Fin. With an update - *Updated 2/24/15* - So when I wrote this over three years ago, I had a huge life project come upon me, it was time to put my energy into something else. I ...10 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...10 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...11 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...11 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...11 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...11 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 ...11 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....11 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...11 years ago
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Happy New Year! - First of all, I hope everyone had a great Christmas, and a happy New Year's Eve celebration. Mine was okay, and I'm kind of glad it's all finally over. T...12 years ago
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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...12 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...12 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...12 years ago
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Megadungeon Bindings! - When I used to game all the time, most of my GMing took place in Waterdeep and Undermountain in the forgotten Realms. In order to keep everything organize...12 years ago
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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 ...12 years ago
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Probably the largest blogroll in Yorkshire part 2
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North West of Earth By C.L. Moore - Orbital Decay (MicroRed version) From The Red Room & The New Flesh Rpg - The "Alendar Contract" Encounter & The Shambleau - This d100 table blends the atmospheric, weird-pulp horror of C.L. Moore’s Northwest Smith stories with the industrial, desperate sci-fi of The Red Room’s ...23 minutes ago
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Let’s Convert the Monster Manual: Wight, Will-o-(the)-Wisp, Wind Walker, Wolf, and Wolverine - This is the penultimate post before the *Monster Manual* is completely converted. Let us take a moment to stop and look back. We now have all of the *Fie...3 hours ago
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Decision Points - The current iteration of Missions & Mayhem has much simpler character generation than its parent game, d20 Modern. That was the big impetus for me to cre...4 hours ago
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Character Creation Challenge: Day 24, Elena the Fair Witch Queen of the Daughters of Baba Yaga - [image: Elena the Fair, Witch Queen of Summer, Daughter of Baba Yaga] We are getting to the part of the Challenge where my high-level characters come out, a...15 hours ago
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Tome of the Third Eye - The gifted Mille Cuirs returns to our pages with this Tome of the Third Eye, featuring a hand-tooled leather cover and inset green glass eye.1 day ago
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DM Screen for AD&D2e - I've printed out and assembled my new DM's screen for AD&D2e. Structurally, it's 2mm grey-board covered with some of my home-made book-cloth. I didn't ...4 days ago
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So, you wanna play Destiny 2 in 2026? - You can do it! You may have heard, the latest Destiny 2 DLC is Star Wars themed. I've noticed more new players since this content came out at the beginni...5 days ago
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Crunching the Numbers on OD&D's Random Dungeon Treasure Distribution - I've been putting some thought into the design of my mega-dungeon. My plan is to rely fairly heavily on the tables in the original *Dungeons & Dragons* ...6 days ago
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Here's Something You Won't Read Often: Thank You Ken Whitman - [image: Here's Something You Won't Read Often: Thank You Ken Whitman] Hello Tavern Patrons, long time no read. Christopher Stogdill (Frugal GM) here with ...1 week ago
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Hello 2026 - I didn't post a lot last year and looking through my lists, I have a lot of unfinished and barely started posts to work on. The seeming slowdown however...2 weeks ago
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2025: A Year's Reading - Here is the list of books that I read for pleasure in 2025 (my sixth such list since 2020). The books are listed in the order I read them, with new favor...3 weeks ago
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On the run - I've taken shelter for the night in a cave on the lee side of a mountain ridge. The wind and rain are howling outside, not even the Demons of Blogger OCD...3 weeks ago
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I have joined the cool kids on substack - So you can now follow me on substack if you are so inclined.4 weeks ago
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Thirdstone - Ep02 - N Gauge Arduino Turntable Project - Since returning to the hobby I have been impressed with the number of layouts which feature turntables. I want one of those I thought... An evening of eBa...4 weeks ago
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Operation Lamplighter Hub Page - "Berserk!" by caesar120 for West End GamesI'm making a single reference page for Operation Lamplighter (my Andor campaign) that will be updated with desc...5 weeks ago
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Downtime - Yeah, I know... I said "I will have to get back to blogging" and then nothing since October. But the last few months of the year always seem to be a time...1 month ago
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Shadowdark: Trolls are Dangerous Again - If you were paying attention to this blog (unlikely) then you know that both of my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns stopped abruptly a little over three yea...1 month ago
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Epic Encounters: Local Legends - Berserker - Steamforged Games makes products for use with the 5th edition of Dungeons and Dragons. These come under several flavors, but most fall under the Epic En...1 month ago
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TSR's "A" series of adventures in unusually unruly strongholds: Introduction - Illustration from Slave Pits of the Undercity (1980) by David S. LaForce D&D was born in the castle. The Castle and Crusade Society of wargamers brought G...2 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...2 months ago
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Metal Minis based on the Holmes Basic Set Cover are Forthcoming - *"Computer-generated" mockup from the Sirius Miniatures website.* Enworld reports that a set of metal miniatures based on *David Sutherland*'s cover for t...2 months ago
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Defining Full Telepathy vs. Limited Telepathy - I've been working on a pretty significant new d30-related book—well, really books... plural (more to come in future posts). And I realized I was assignin...3 months ago
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My Supernatural Encounters (not recommended for night reading). - Everyone has a story or two to tell when it comes to the 'supernatural' and the unexplained. I'm no exception. So for today's post I thought I'd re-tell my...4 months ago
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Cimmerian September 2025: A Scotalogue - In researching Conan of Caledonia, I scoured through my collections of Robert E. Howard's work for anything even vaguely related to Scotland & the Scots....4 months ago
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COLOURED GAS BEING - COLOURED GAS BEING "He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space, especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...4 months ago
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Castle Blackeagle Sessions 1-3 - Never finished the writeup, but here's the take for the first expedition to the Dolmen of the Hounds: Foes Defeated 3 death-hounds, 3 berserkers, 1 ...6 months ago
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Introducing: The Amplitude Engine - I've finally made something with Fudge, though it may not look like it. Core Mechanics The Amplitude Engine relies primarily on *Fudge Dice (dF)*, a specia...6 months ago
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Lexicon of Klarkash-Ton, Hierophant of Atlantis: Lupanar - This time, we follow the good High Priest to the far future, to the final continent of Earth, Zothique, for a a tale of ennui and love: Morthylla. Witho...10 months ago
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STILL ALIVE BITCHES - Well. Here we are again. It's been a while of sickness, needing a wheelchair, and being mostly bed-ridden. SO I do have time for games when I'm not too ...11 months ago
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Against 2d6 - The players from my Classic Traveller one-shot last week started asking whether there would be more adventures for those characters. I felt a certain un...11 months ago
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DM Style Questionnaire: What are you playing like? - *Hey folks. Quick little post here since I had a discussion with a good friend about the different types of rpg out there and what that means (please tra...11 months ago
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Forever unto the breach, dear friends... - Sorry, I haven't been around. But it's for all the right reasons. My roleplaying card is constantly filled, these days. I started Once More Unto the Brea...11 months ago
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2024 Reading Recap - I thought it would be fun to look back at what I read last year in fantasy. 2024 was a bit of a disappointment because I only read five things: four book...1 year ago
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And Now For Something Completely Different - I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller* character each ...1 year ago
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Monster Entries Inspired by Dragonbane - As I compile information for my fantasy setting into a document for tabletop use, I find inspiration in the *Dragonbane* Bestiary entries. Instead of mer...1 year ago
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The Savage AfterWorld -- From Gaming Blog To Publishing House - Although The Savage AfterWorld (TSAW, for short) has fallen silent for a while, it's never gone away. Folks still stop by to read old reviews of different ...1 year ago
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There Were Dice - I started my Spelljammer game last weekend. It was my first time DMing since December 2021. I wasn't as rusty as I thought I was going to be, but I *was ...2 years ago
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Legends of Law: Von Hoff - Wampus Country has had its share of heroes, both in antiquity and in the modern era, but perhaps none is held up as the flower of knighthood quite as mu...3 years ago
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Abiørn's Satchel - This weathered leather satchel is tooled in nautical designs and is full of rose-colored salt. Rubbing the salt on a sea creature will dry it out and sh...4 years ago
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Skalag's Secret Sight - Level: 3 School/sphere: Divination Range: Caster Components: V, S Duration: Inst. Casting Time: 1 minute Area of Effect: 10 foot radius Saving Throw: Yes (...5 years ago
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Squarehex 2019 Review and 2020 Plans - 2019 was a good year for the business. The two highlights for me were getting *The Black Hack Second Edition* rewards sent out to our Kickstarter backers ...6 years ago
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Pulp Alley AAR – Tomb of the Serpent Campaign – Cairo Caper - I teased about this game more than a month ago and I think it is time to tell the world of what the CSSS (Corpo di Spedizione della Santa Sede, or The Ex...6 years ago
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Dark Crystal TV Show - *Edit: I have changed my mind drastically about this show. I plan on writing a follow-up sometime soon, but after watching the rest of episode 1, I watched...6 years ago
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The Infernals - Soooo,the beholder ended up sucking to the point where I don't even want to post pics until I paint it again. However, work has been a bit light this week ...6 years ago
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Wargaming Wednesday: We're Back (for the Motherland!) - Well...it's been a loooooong time since we've posted on the old blog. Too long, in fact. Something like almost three years since a serious post, not merel...6 years ago
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Whence the Labyrinth? - Dungeons are probably the most common adventure locale in role playing games; they were the cornerstone of every adventure in the early days, and remain po...6 years ago
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots of redu...6 years ago
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This is only for followers ...with thanks! - Thank you for following and here are a few newer [ish] pieces which I do hope you enjoy. They are in no particular order and if some appear to be 'older' i...6 years ago
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[CR] Aventures au Taldor #2 - (univers : Golarion - système : Pits & Perils - scénario : L'Injonction du Dragon) Avec : - Kwamidele « Crush » Opademijokem , guerrier humain mwangi - Ka...6 years ago
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The Forbidden Wilderlands Calendar - One of the big efforts I'm trying to make in my Forbidden Wilderlands campaign is to keep proper track of time. I'm using a modified version of the Wilder...6 years ago
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Helgacon 12 - Stay Frosty - The second game I was in for the Premium segment of this recent Helgacon was "Stay Frosty" run by Paul. This apparently was an adaptation of James Raggi...6 years ago
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Wots All This Then - Having two posts in a row being like "I'm back!", three years apart, is ah, not such a good look. Thankfully, when you get down to it, it doesn't really ma...6 years ago
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PBE Games - Belated New Year's Update - Well, I've finally gotten around to providing a year-end wrapup of PBE Games releases. I think this listing covers everything released since the last post ...7 years ago
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Mudwarren Zine! - A project I had a hand in was released yesterday. Evyln Moreau has released the *Mudwarren Zine*, a final compilation of a community project started on two...7 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - d12 1. You must trick a bard into strumming the *Chords of Fate* on the *Lute of Annihilation* 2. Legends tell of thermonuclear weapons beneath megadunge...7 years ago
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FREE Version of Microlite20 Comprehensive Edition Now Available - The Pay What You Want/Free (no art) version of the *Microlite20 Comphrensive Edition* is now available. *Microlite20* is a tiny version of 3.x designed to ...7 years ago
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The Fungus that re-visited Blackeswell - Hi Reader! Do you remember a little module by the name of *The Fungus that Came to Blackeswell*, first ambulant around 2013? Yes? Then sadly the mind-bore ...7 years ago
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Dikes Fall, Session 5 - *Tower of Babel* by Brueghel The party approached the central spire and see an enormous wooden gate. Mangus pushed the gate open "respectfully but firmly...7 years ago
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Comertul online si lenjeriile de pat - Avand in vedere amploarea pe care a luat-o comertul electronic in ultimii ani in tara noastra, putem intalni pe intreg internetul magazine online care ofer...7 years ago
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Hinterverse, a Glossary - Antikytheron, the Core prognostication device of the Great Machine, origin unknown. Arcturean Arm A minor spiral arm of the Hinterverse. Argos The birth...7 years ago
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Happy Christmas! - *Grimgor Ironhide and the Immortals* *Balthus the Eviscerator* *Woomungus, Lord of the Blighted Plain astride Gnasher* *The Bastard Squad* *The ga...8 years ago
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Session XCIII: One Pissed Off Dragon! - Our ongoing Swords and Wizardry sandbox campaign... *Current Player Characters:* *Thenus* (Ranger) *Wang Du* (Monk) *Wolfheir* (Viking) *Arg* (Half-orc) ...8 years ago
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New Site, New Blog - For anyone checking this out: I've moved to a new site for my Starfinder campaign and blogging activities. You can find my new blog at http://www.rpgcampai...8 years 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 wa...8 years 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...8 years ago
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Dolmenwood: d30 Encounter Tables - I wrote a few posts with ideas about Dolmenwood encounter tables ages ago. I wasn't really satisfied with those big d100 tables, though, so the topic which...8 years ago
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It's hard to do horror in D&D - I love the Ravenloft setting, but I have to admit that it is really hard to pull off horror games with Dungeons & Dragons. The biggest issue is clerics. Th...8 years ago
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Daily Monster Art- Anhkheg - Again, I don`t think I`ve ever used these in a game.They are pretty gross gribbly beasts. Spitting acid and chomping and such. They kind of make me think...9 years ago
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Comixology - I don't know why this escaped me for so long, but Amazon has it's own site for selling comics in digital format and it's awesome. Comixology offers all the...9 years ago
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Rumors about Froghemoths - Just thought I'd come up with some ideas for everyone's favorite giant three-eyed alien monsters. Roll a dice or whatever to find out which ones are true. ...9 years 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 ...9 years ago
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Thanks, Evlyn Moreau - UPDATE: Evlyn is back! Cool. I hear Evlyn Moreau is taking a break. That's OK; I hope she feels better soon. But I've really enjoyed her work, and I feel...9 years 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...9 years ago
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Episode summaries, by Marsha/Seph - I put this together for my reference, but am sharing in case you're interested too: Episode Summaries, 1-69 years ago
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A thief, a priest, and two barbarians walk into a bar. - Last night was the 3rd session of my *Ancient Aliens*-inspired 5e game. We played in the upstairs lounge of the Mexican restaurant/bar next door to my ap...9 years ago
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2015: The Year D&D Paid - THANK YOU!!! To all my blog readers, compatriots on Google Plus and especially all my customers, you have made 2015 an amazing year for me. My sales at ...10 years ago
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In Search of the Unknown: How the Party Gathers - [image: B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland] B1: The party gathers by David Sutherland In a classic D&D adventure, characters in search of adventur...10 years ago
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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...10 years ago
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Memorial - Today would have been Millie's 3rd birthday. The funds we raised to dedicate an acre of ancient woodland and a memorial bench has now been completed, and t...10 years ago
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Cara Hack Facebook Terbaru 2015 - Meng-hack Facebook memang nggakboleh dan illegal, apalagi dengan tujuan untuk yang tidak baik. Contohnya untukmenjahili teman, iseng, atau mengambil alih b...10 years ago
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Wasteland 2110 - Session 1 Summary - (Summary by Pedro) The game starts with three figures emerging from the wastes: the thrill seeking motor-head Dean McQueen, the quick-handed scout August,...10 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...10 years ago
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Monster/Adventure: Apisastes [S&W] [5e] - I'm experimenting with dual-stat blocks for monsters. This is a first draft, so expect changes and feedback is strongly desired. *Update: Revised stat block...10 years ago
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Deep Carbon Observatory: The Flooded Land - This is pretty accurate... http://youtu.be/icVt30uiagw *CATEGORY* Adventure *WHAT* The always provocative and endearingly arcane Patrick Stuart at Fal...10 years ago
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(SW) Fearsome Critters: Cake Walk - *Savage Worlds* is the role-playing game that bills itself on being "Fast, Furious, and Fun." Over the years I've played elvish warriors, pulp adventurer...11 years ago
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One Last Adventure with Manly Wade Wellman - The good news is, while I had thought there were only five Kardios sword & sorcery stories by Manly Wade Wellman, now I know that there are actually six...11 years ago
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New Campaign 2014 Update - We've been playing 11 session now into the new campaign. The players had some hairy encounters with Proud, Spider-eye Goblins and Quill Wolves (along with ...11 years ago
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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...11 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...11 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 ...12 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 ...12 years ago
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Final chapter of Clandestinauts web comic comes to a close... - Minneapolis-based comic artist and dungeoneering raconteur Tim Sievert announced earlier this week that his beloved *Clandestinauts web comic* would be w...12 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 out12 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...12 years ago
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Murderous Menagerie: The Hounds of Skaith - *I am Flay.* He was big. The ridge of his spine would have reached Stark's shoulder. His withers were high and powerful. The thick neck drooped with the we...13 years ago
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About Me
- Daddy Grognard
- Over halfway to 90, I started playing AD&D when the Police were a cool band and Punk was wild. I am a father to a ten-year-old Junior Grognard and have now managed to establish a five-strong gaming group made up of him and four of his friends, ages ranging from 10 to 11. Solidly Old-School. High fives and natural 20s to you all!
To you as well. Cheers.
ReplyDeleteAnd to you, too.
ReplyDelete'Twas the Night of the Harpy, and all through the vale
ReplyDeleteBehind bolted door and windows, the Villagers did quail...
The shields were rested by the chimney with care,
ReplyDeleteIn despair that the dragon soon would be there.