'On Guard'
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I am doing proper work, but all for things I cannot show. Here is a very
basic concept for a kind of quiet, still, ‘para-venture’ made up of quiet,
strange...
On Bounty, Jax
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Astonishing Heroes of the Public Domain Kickstarter
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Y'all know I'm a fan of using public domain superheroes and villains.
Almost all of my New Punverse posts were 5e adaptations and updates of
these classic ...
Turn It Off
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By Sean AudetSelf PublishedKnave 2eLevel 1 Drawn to the light of the St.
Peter’s Rock Lighthouse, a vast and ancient eldritch abomination has
awoken. One n...
Urska
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Did you know that Krevborna has bear people as a playable race? It's true.
Below are the *Savage Worlds* stats I've cobbled together for them; I think
I ...
Monster Manual Deadlly 60
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Do Americans know about *Deadly 60*? This is a kids' wildlife programme
that has been aired on the BBC since 2009; the conceit is that the
presenter, Ste...
A New Epoch: Stone and Spell...
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Why does fantasy have to be medieval? It doesn't, and our hobby provides
numerous examples (Call of Cthulhu comes immediately to mind). Great stuff;
but ...
100 Lost Books of Appendix N
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Following in the footsteps of Rook over at Foreign Planets, I have delved
into the mists of pulp fantasy history to cobble together even more lost
books ...
Spelljammer Like This
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To my mind, the these works and works provoke an impeccable *Spelljammer*
vibe:
*Don Lawrence* (*Storm*)
*Al Williamson*
*Magnus* (*Milady 3000*, *I ...
GM Companion for Shadowdark
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Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and
check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top
ten....
Some thoughts on superhero RPGs.
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I wrapped up a supers game last night. We played with Savage Worlds and
its Supers companion. It’s all very solid and playable, but I made a bunch
of mi...
Maids of Honor Row (Bookhounds)
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From London Cameos (A.H. Blake):
*This extremely fine row of houses, built in 1724, flanks one side of the
green at Richmond, once the old tilting-ground...
Against the Court of Urdor – Part 5
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*Misty Vale, Queen Blàithnaid’s Elfstone, and the Warden’s Pendant *
[Map of the Cursed Lands]
Our heroes – *Einar* *Quicksilver*, the Green Elf rogue of...
Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight
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There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons
& Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in
a ...
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...
FINGER OF DOOM REVIEW
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You can check out my new *Finger of Doom* review at easternKicks HERE. An
excellent movie starring Ivy Ling Po, it was released in 1972 but has a
unique ...
Stargazer (A New System)
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I haven’t had a regular over-the-table tabletop game in years. In that
time, I’ve wandered pretty far afield. Time for a new system, methinks.
Inspira...
TOMB TAPPER
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TOMB TAPPER
"Tappers are tall and humanoid, with very hard, blue-gray skin and great
claws which can dig through solid rock. They are sometimes called “the...
I come from the land of the ice and snow
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So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate
random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city,
castle, and...
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...
The Apocalypse Archive 43-48
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Map Close-Up Soundtrack for areas 43-48 Combat Music Overview
Previous: Areas 1-6, Areas 7-12, Areas 13-18, Areas 19-24, Areas
25-30, Areas 31-36, Areas 37...
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...
Troika! review/overview
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As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel
Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a
really te...
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...
Landsknecht Link Roundup, July/Aug
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Ba Chim seal of approval!
(Art by Dreadbeasts) I posted this on RPG.net but it bears reposting (and
expanding) here:
- Not *quite* RPG related, but H...
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...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
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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