He’s The Boss, Baby
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Another of my fav background heroes created for Invincible is Business
Baby. Like Two Punch Man little is known about him. Despite having the body
of a tod...
The Lowward Gaol
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Every month going forward, I will post at least one map that I’ve
underpainted like this one. Starting in March, …
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Eastern Spark
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By Greg DaleyTarichan Games1eLevel 1 There’s work a-plenty at the edge of
civilised lands. Can young adventurers help a local community and forge new
ties?...
Wednesday Comics: DC, April 1985 (week 4)
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I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This
week, I read the comics on sale on January 24, 1984.
*Detective Comics #549...
Menoch, Morokain, Nergazu
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Three more patrons for cults and weird warlocks in Krevborna. This time
we've got an eldritch scholar of horrid secrets, a biblical lord of murder,
and a...
Slushpile 18
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Tis the season, the season of slush. I'm pretty sure this is the biggest
one yet.
Slushpile Index
1. Salt in food has made it much harder for demons...
Map Attack #2 & Secret Doors
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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...
Help us republish a very obscure fantasy rpg
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On X, author *Colin Glassey* is considering republishing his alternative
version on early Dungeons & Dragons rules that he wrote in 1978.
You can rea...
Games Workshop Against Satanism
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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 ...
Heading out to PAGE
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Packing up and heading to the Philadelphia Area Gaming Expo.
I’ll be running Scourge of the Demon Wolf and The Deceits of the Russet
Lord on Friday and S...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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
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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...
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...
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 ...
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