A storehouse of thoughts on RPG's and other non-sense.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Lebowski Fest
I have found the coolest gathering in the world. Lebowski Fest. Bowling, white russains, everything Lebowski. Go to the site. Better yet go to Lebowski fest. Thank me later.
50 Things You Heard Online About Aklo
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One would be hard-pressed to find a language more beset by crankery than
Aklo. For over two hundred years it has been the cornerstone of an entire
subgen...
[Q&A] Michael Robinson (Power Scale)
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[8:14 PM]Rutibex: I am Michael Robinson author of the superhero TTRPG
Powerscale https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/546113/power-scale [8:14
PM]Rutibe...
Best of 2025
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*Bad Books for Bad People, Episode 90: Best of 2025*
Jack and Kate look at what they've read and watched in the year that was
2025 and make some recommen...
THE GOLDEN SWORD REVIEW
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*The Golden Sword* is one of the more impressive Cheng Pei Pei and Lo Wei
films. Wei directed a number of glorious wuxia movies starring the actress
from ...
Estates of the Eliari
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By Leon AtkinsonBasic Fantasy ProjectBasic FantasyLevels 3-5 What Secrets
Lie Mouldering in the Estates of the Eliari? Long ago, the enigmatic Eliari
merch...
Wednesday Comics: DC, April 1985 (week 2)
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I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) through
*Crisis*! This week, I read the comics released the week of January 10,
1985.
*Batm...
Mainstreaming's Trade-Off World...
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There's never been a better time to be a gamer. It's our golden age. The
mainstreaming of the hobby means we're no longer dismissed as nerds (not a
pejor...
When Did Action-Packed Prologues Begin?
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Without further ado, let us commence the Great Monsters & Manuals Group
Research Project 2026.
The 'prologue' as such is a concept that goes back at leas...
On a Happy New Year
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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...
More Reading in 2026
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I need to feed my brain more. I used to eat up books like Cookie Monster
ate...cookies. I've gotten out of the habit. My reading time has been
replaced ...
May the Dice be Kind to You in 2026
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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...
Secret Santicorn 2025: Two Forges
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The Forge of Yakul
Yakul was obliterated, and his temples were sunk. Memories of the dead god
were struck from the souls of men. A heavy punishment was ...
Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
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An overwhelmingly sad book about the worlds most heroic dude. A study in
ressentiment. Rome’s summer in the east, before its very slow descent,
produces an...
Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am
fascinated with 19th century Lon...
Operation Lamplighter Hub Page
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"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...
Mutants and Wizards
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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...
Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards
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10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons
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Name
Description
1
Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer
Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
Experience with Python
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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...
What is the point of the OSR?
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Over on Reddit, Kaliburnus asks What the point of the OSR is? He concludes
his post with some questions.
So, honest question, what is the point of OSR?...
The Earwight
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The sinister little insects known as earwights are thought to have once
been earwigs who fed on the decaying flesh of revenants or other matter
suffused wi...
B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished!
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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....
COLOURED GAS BEING
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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...
The Crypt of Atan-Thu
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I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising!
Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link:
htt...
And Now For Something Completely Different
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I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day
Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller*
character each ...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Inspectres in Grifton
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On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the
Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly
pulled out and ...
FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships
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Often one of the set pieces for high space adventure and tragedy is those
spacecraft that go where no one has gone before and may never go again if
the ou...
More Moria
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Thanks to Free League's Moria: Through the Doors of Durin sourcebook for
their Lord of the Rings RPG The One Ring, we have an updated & official
map, guid...
Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies
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It’s delightful when D&D-isms sometimes converge with ancient wisdom, even
accidentally. I was watching a video from Jonathan Pageau earlier today
concerni...
Dungeon23 February Retrospective
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Another month, another section of Alhamra put to bed. But before February
gets too far behind us, I wanted to post my thoughts on the month that was.
I’m n...
There Were Dice
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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 ...
Legends of Law: Von Hoff
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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...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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When I finished my Team Tsathogga campaign back in 2019, one of the things
that I noted afterwards was the extent to which fighters had struggled to
keep...
Trying Something New
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Based on what I said last time, I’m going to try out something new. Check
out my posts at Medium – one test you can ignore, one discussion of why I
chose t...
Its time to move this blog.
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So tired of Blogger changing things. I've been using this since 2008 or
2009 and its this new interface they forced us to have has been driving me
crazy...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
Discontinued
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Friends,
I'll make it official. I will stop this blog.
A lot has happened last year. And my interests have moved in a different
direction.
Thank you for...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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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...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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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...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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Well some of you may have noticed this blog has been down, restricting
access for some time. For various reasons I've decided to step away from
the OSR...
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea]
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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...
Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints
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So there s a couple of things you need to adress, if you want to get rid of
Hitpoints. These are not fully formed rules, this, like much of the stuff i
pos...
The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C
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My gut started bothering me a week or so before the last GenCon.
I had a previously set appointment for Aug. 21st and told my Family Dr.,
who recommended a...
Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day
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Thor von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a brother to our Tuesday and Darren Doran's
Theo, has had a great tracking season so far. He helped hunters to recover
their de...
Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest
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Thrantrix the Ineffable, that lovable whirling-ball-of-snakes Chaos
Godling, has demanded that her worship grow. So we’re running a contest! We
want to see...
Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
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This post is an opinion piece, done to express my disappointment in Under
Armour as a company and make clear my intention to stop purchasing any of
their...
Godbound: Freedom of Strife
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• The plan was for the group to Liberation, sneak into the prison, and
then get out with Strife. Turns out the complication was Hope and Bones.
Bones ha...
Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde
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Just above the ranks of the criminal underworld but falling just short of
respectability, there exists a shadowy, ill-defined "half-world" populated
by a ...
They growl
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A man and a dog
*Each day the dogs chased the women from the house, and each day they dug
clams on the beach. This was all the food they could get; the ...
I am thought to be exiled gentry, a vagabond, a scandalous rogue, a troubadour, armchair tactician, amateur grifter, self taught mechanic, would be author, adventurer, rogue scholar, traveler of strange lands, and an all round near do well.
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