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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
My Blog List
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Youtube - Tim Kask on TSR - From GaryCon 2016 - This video popped up in my NTRPG Con Facebok feed yesterday and it shocked me that I hadn't seen it before. Tim Kask talks about the early days of TSR an...
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NPC Card#4 Brax - I asked my patrons what they wanted to see next, and a resounding response of three or four folks said NPC cards! Who am I to argue? So Brax was born. Br...
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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...
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New Acquisitions - I've mentioned in previous posts how I stupidly gave away and/or sold just about all of my D&D stuff a few decades ago when I was in grad school. So the la...
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1d6 Random Legendary Lovecraftian Hoards Table For Your Old School Campaigns - Between the time when the oceans took Atlantis, the seas have tasted many treasures from across the empire itself. From the hand of outlaw to renegade ther...
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Blades in the Dark: Audacity - Previous adventure: Soulsword. Adventure two! Everyone returned but Ashes the Spider. Here are their preferred vices: Echo. (Iris) An Akorosian Whisper. Op...6 hours ago
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a handout for raw recruits - Running a demo game somewhere? Luring some nice, normal people into the sordid world of elves and orcs? In my experience, one of the hurdles newbies ofte...9 hours ago
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The Coward’s Crescent - Built into a stony hillside, this small dungeon was originally constructed as a storehouse for important, magical, and often illicit … Continue reading →9 hours ago
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Every 90's Commercial Ever (Uncensored) - I grew up in the 90's and find this hysterical. And because I can... Liquid Slam Big Game Monstrosity Armor: 14, HD: 4 Movement 12, 1 claw (1d8 damage) o...
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Dungeon Magazine #144 - The Muster of Morach Tor By Russell Brown Level 4 I have no idea. Simple? Overly-complex? Bob, the right-hand man of a towns leader, went to go review an o...11 hours ago
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HOW TO DO A CREEPY VOICE (also, last day of Ennie voting) - Don't breathe through your nose while talking. Flatten your tongue. Place the tip of your tongue about a half inch behind your upper teeth, try to touch y...21 hours ago
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Friday Grab Bag: Free Zines, Goodies for 5e, and Mad Lib Dungeons - Bookkeeping Notes: I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post. OSR Black Pudding #3 is a PWYW artistic OSR zine. Paying for Safe Passa...1 day ago
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Valerian - Luc Besson's new film *Valerian and the City of A Thousand Planets* is based on the French comic book series *Valérian et Laureline* by by writer Pierre C...
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Star Trek Adventures -- The New Star Trek RPG - On the Radar: Star Trek Adventures Star Trek Adventures is the latest Star Trek RPG to come out, and it's full of promise. I've written some things on Star...1 day ago
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Making a Splash: Star-Lord - Man, does Ol' Groove ever love *Star-Lord--*but I'm sure I'm not the only one! Created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan for Marvel Comics way back in 1975,...
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The Rise of the Forgotten Fangs - *Campaign:* The Forgotten Fangs (Scarabae, *5e D&D*) *Characters:* - Kaldwyn Nessilnor, half-elf sorcerer - "King" Rance, cactusoid fighter - Nestor, shada...
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Making Comics 2, Learning sucks. - I am late on my CTQ update, I've been sick and I am in a shit mood. So lets get the worst of this behind us. Disclaimer: despite my salitness here, I lo...1 day ago
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“Eerie, Indiana.” It is as good as you remember and definitely... - “Eerie, Indiana.” It is as good as you remember and definitely holds up.1 day ago
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Held Kinetic Energy in Old School Combat Arenas - So you're running an old-school game and you want a set-piece fight. The rule-set doesn't like that. The complexity is dumped into set design, chunky monst...
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VOID WORM - VOID WORM "The most common type of worm in The Void is about the size of a human arm, and resembles a tentacle that you would find connected to a large squ...
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Xor and Ideas for my next version of my home rules - Had last session of Xor with LOTFP rules in Sydney. Im off to Adelaide to welfare again and hopefully I can bet some g...
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That Rule Ain't Old-School! (Not!) - Nothing too big, folks. Yours truly is sleeping off a weekend at KantCon, where we play tested an upcoming adventure for Diceless Dungeons. We had a grea...
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Bumpkins of Evil - No one remembers why they made a town here. d12 1. Bachelor farmer: wears an evil sword, solitary for too long in isolated vale, speaks aloud to not-quite-...
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It Doesn't Matter Who Plays Dr Who - I have never understood the appeal of *Dr Who* - in my view its rightful place is surely alongside repeats of *Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em* and *The Brittas E...4 days ago
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Don't buy the Scourge of the Demon Wolf! (Issue Resolved) - At least not from Noble Knight Games. Now some authors would be all up in arms about somebody obviously price gouging their own products. Especially when ...
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WEB OF DEATH DISCUSSION - Join me, Kenny, Lady Cao Feng and Adam for the latest Bedrock Talk podcast discussing Web of Death, a classic wuxia film directed by Chow Yuen. This one br...5 days ago
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FWS Topics: Are Military SF Video Games in Trouble? - In 1977, sci-fi received an earth-shaking boost in popularity and respectability that still echoes on onward even to this day. At the same time, video game...
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The Vampire's Heart - Night's Black Agents, Dracula Dossier - There are several different classifications of vampire in Pelgrane's Night's Black Agents game, and this time I want to talk about the Damned variety, desi...5 days ago
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Advanced Adventures line hits 40 modules... - Breaking proverbial ground on Advanced Adventure #40: The Horror of Merehurst which should come out early next year. Yep, *FORTY*! Still got several betwee...
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Valar Morghulis - Like 99.9% of the global fantasy nerd community, I am looking forward to the seventh season of *The Game of Thrones*, due to start tomorrow evening. Since ...
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Agents of D.O.F.I.E. - Now and then, I make notes for some game-thing-or-other, then forget about it. Then I'll find it again, and laugh at my own jokes, then forget about it aga...
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Halfway through 2017, what does Trollish Delver Games look like? - Where does the year go? We're more than halfway through so I thought I'd take stock and share what has happened in TDG towers over the past six months. ...
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CONFERENCE SEASON IS UPON ME - The summer conference season is a kind of passive-aggressive ritual in which the academics within a specific discipline stalk around the world in rotation,...1 week 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...1 week ago
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Hacking the Cleric for Mutant Crawl Classics - So this is my final class hack before starting up my own little Mutant Crawl Classics game. I’ve messed with the Warrior and the Wizard. As I said before, ...1 week ago
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From North Texas to the Apocalypse - Thanks to the amazing generosity of the OSR community (lead by +James Shields and his sneaky GoFundMe), I had the pleasure of attending North Texas RPG Con...2 weeks ago
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HMS Apollyon Viking Character Generation Rules - Below are some rules I wrote up to run Viking seafarers in the HMS Apollyon setting to run some one shots of a few new areas. A friend ran a game at NTRPG...
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Hex Session XVII – 5th Edition Actual Play – “Troll Country” - Alabastor Quan, a gnome rogue-turned-illusionist and failed circus ringmaster; wielder of a cursed dagger and member of the Ravenswing Thieves’ Guild. Arma...2 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...3 weeks ago
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failed-mad-scientist: Minutemen - Darwyn Cooke - failed-mad-scientist: Minutemen - Darwyn Cooke3 weeks ago
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Brief Notes - I’ve been spending a good amount of time researching Elizabethan and Jacobean England for the next book. This means I’ve been finding other areas to keep ...3 weeks ago
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Saint’s Blood, a review - Last week, I finished Sebastien De Castell’s novel, Saint’s Blood, the third book of the Greatcoats. Like the previous two, it was a fun (well, okay, most...4 weeks ago
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SCRAP PRINCESS ENGINEERED THE ST. PIERRE SNAKE INVASION - I'm not saying that she bred all of the snakes personally, but she definitely was in St. Pierre, throwing snakes at children. ANYWAY Dinosaur *Psychosaurs...4 weeks ago
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Stellar Adventures is out! - Arion Games have published Stellar Adventures. I've yet to read it all, as yet, but it'll very likely be my go-to game for all kinds of science fiction ad...
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sorcerersskull: Dejah Thoris by Mark Schultz - sorcerersskull: Dejah Thoris by Mark Schultz1 month ago
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Hydra Cooperative Brings (Mild and Curated) Anarchy to North Texas - Teetering on the edge of a new, start-now, well-paying political job (i.e. demanding AF) I get one last reprieve of gainful unemployment this weekend: Nor...
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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...2 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...
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TBH Rules Dev - Armor, Shields - Currently Armor is damage reduction through a pool of additional 'fake' HP called ArmorPoints. There are various semi-official ways of doing it differently...4 months ago
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government-trash89: Mary Jane Watson by Bruce Timm. - government-trash89: Mary Jane Watson by Bruce Timm.5 months ago
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Quantum Difficulty, An Example - Orcs of Brimstone Pass - I've had a whirlwind travel schedule the past week (Chicago, LA, then London, then Kent, back to London tomorrow...) so it's taken me longer than I'd like ...5 months ago
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Looking back at 2016 Part 1: Our dogs - We wish all our friends and readers a Very Happy New Year! We hope that the 2017 brings you many occasions to laugh and enjoy life. Since we have posted...
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Wood Trekker Update - Hey guys. I know I have been absent for a while. For those who have reached out in concern, no need to worry. Everything has been going great, I’ve just ...
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - 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...8 months ago
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Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest - 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...8 months ago
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Maps: The Known Dungeon of Montporte After 60 Sessions - Elementalist Monastery Level 1 Elementalist Monastery Sub-Level 1 Elementalist Monastery Level 2 Elementalist Monastery Level 3 Elementalist Monastery Le...
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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...10 months ago
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In the corner pocket... - I think it shows how tired people are of political wrangling that the absolute most-active post on my facebook page is about cargo shorts. If you're going...
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The Hunted: A gonzo racial class for OSR-style games. - Originally published in the People section of Secret Santicore 2014. *Lore* Those who have ventured into the deep forests often speak of the songs of the gi...1 year ago
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Godbound: Freedom of Strife - • 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...1 year ago
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Hilarious new series - SuperMansion - I Just caught this via CBR News . Funny as hell. It's a preview episode of a new series on Crackle streaming video coming out on October 8th. It's def...
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Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde - 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 m...
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They growl - 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 ca...
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