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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
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Your Asshole Dad's Castle, Dracula Illustrations, the Allure of Gothic Horror - Your Asshole Dad's Castle is Back Again - Eva Problems, *Medium* Undead, Undead: John Coulthart's beautiful illustrations for Bram Stoker's Dracula - *Da...
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Making a Splash: Ghost Rider--the First 13 - What it is, Groove-ophiles! How about a look back at the stunning splashes from the first thirteen issues of *The Most Supernatural Hero of All*? *Ghost Ri...
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dieselpunkflimflam: obsidian-sphere: Dunlop ad from the early... - dieselpunkflimflam: obsidian-sphere: Dunlop ad from the early 30s. From ‘The Illustrated London News’, October 21, 19338 hours ago
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Awarding the Squarehex Sampler Pack Giveaway to... - Yep, it that time. Let's see, 19 entries, so that is a simple d20 roll that rerolls 20's. and the rolls is: 5 *V.A. - congrats!* V.A. - email me at te...
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The Cursed Galleries - Supposedly once home to a demented prince of alien demons, the walls of the cursed galleries are decorated in mad … Continue reading →17 hours ago
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Why GARGOYLES Was One Of The Greatest Cartoon Series Ever - Director Jordan Pele is interested in making a live action GARGOYLES movie which is one of the best ideas for a movie I have heard today. Pele has a lot ...
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You Probably Want To Make Yourself One or Two Of These - *A Digital DM Screen* Ok, so using Angus Warman's new toy, you can turn a page of your blog into a custom DM screen for any setting or module you happen to...
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October Horror Movie Challenge - C.H.U.D. (1984) - Synopsis: Working on a story about the large colonies of homeless beneath the streets of NYC, photographer George Cooper discovers something is happening t...
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BX Mars Previw: The Dragon Keepers - THE DRAGON KEEPERS: Stewards of the last dragon clan. Places of Power: The Dragon Towers; the Dragon Garden Leader/Hierarchy: the thirteen dragon riders ...19 hours ago
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Sword & Planet Character Name Generator - *Art by Clyde Caldwell*After way more intensive review of Barsoomian names in Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars books and adding a dash of Gardner Fox's Llarn nov...
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[Q&A] Ray Machuga (Slasher) - [19:33] <+RayM> I am the apparently innocuous, pervasively infamous Ray Machuga and my game is Slasher the RPG (or Slasher (Revised) if you go by the title...1 day ago
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Legacy of the Bieth Appendix N (Revisited) - James Introcaso, over at Worldbuilder Blog, released his own Appendix N a while back, and asked folks to contribute theirs. Attentive readers will recall t...
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Going is easy but returning is not - A lot of pedestrian crossings in Japanese cities play the haunting children's lullaby "Toryanse" to let you know when to cross - something which says more ...
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COEURL - COEURL "He stopped short. Tenseness flamed along his nerves. His muscles pressed with sudden, unrelenting strength against his bones. His great forelegs—t...
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Kellerin’s Rumble - By Malrex Merciless Merchants Gold & Glory Level 3-5 Congratulations!! Someone in your party won/found/bequeathed a deed to a warehouse inside the protecti...2 days ago
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Rereadings & Commentaries On Judge's Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy By Bill Owen and Bob Bledsaw - Wilderlands of High Fantasy By Bill Owen and Bob Bledsaw "Wilderlands of High Fantasy is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Gu...
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Leveling Up: What Does It Feel Like? - Leveling up is a big deal for the players. They roll up additional hit points by class and assume whatever powers and abilities are due to them. Points a...
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An old school British roleplaying retrospective - I sometimes find the OSR a bit too stars and stripes, which makes sense considering patient zero was D&D. American fantasy has always interested me in it...
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Dungeon Master Journaling, my step by step brainstorming process. - I've been asked a few times how I do my planning for any of the games I do, whether it be AD&D 1e or Marvel. I did a video on what steps I take, but a fe...
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Guns and Kung-Fu for Knaves of All Sorts - Arky FitzwaterGunsThe bones of this are stolen wholesale from Luke Thomson and Ben Milton (again!) Firearms come in two basic categories. - Pistol - d...
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Greg Stafford RIP - Greg Stafford passed away on October 11th. Stafford was the founder of Chaosium—one of the most important companies during the early days of role-playing ...
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Dungeon Zine 6 Arcadia - Here is my last dungeon zine I did It is a ruined post apocalypse game arcade for Planet Psychon, MCC or Gammaworld Some extra details here to include...
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Holywell Horror (Bookhounds of London) - Image taken from Wikipeida I haven't had as much time to work on this as usual, as I've been assisting backstage at the local Gilbert & Sullivan's produc...
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Bringing Down the Hammer Part 11: WFRP 2 in retrospect - Over the last ten and a half posts, I've surveyed the entire line of WFRP 2nd edition books produced by Black Industries and Fantasy Flight Games. Now, hav...4 days ago
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OSR Vision, activate! - So the last item on the questionnaire that Zak has been circulating asks you to share "The OSRest picture I could post on short notice." Here are a bunch ...
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Mucking About with Layers in Hex Kit - Trying the same map with different solid background layers, and using only "transparent" geography and site tiles, just to see what I can do with the syste...
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Physical Initiative and Query Initiative - Thinking about Davids post on Initiative brought up some ideas. The first part is a silly list, the second part is less immediately useful but more concept...
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Hex Session XXVII – 5th Edition Actual Play – Chainbreaker - The characters in this session were: Caulis, a homunculus warlock liberated from its master; has made a pact with certain Faerie Powers. Cephalus T. M...6 days ago
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Game Report: Cleansing of the Temple - This post has nothing to do with MeWe. You are welcome. *Cast of Characters* *Finikas Snotrags*: The youngest son of a well-to-do merchant halfling family...
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MotW Season 1, Monsterhearts 2, the Empty Game Table in My Basement - So after six sessions and the utterly serendipitous convergence of a number of elements in the game, we decided to call "Season 1" of Monster of the Week w...1 week ago
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The King is Dead; LONG LIVE THE KING! - Friends! Companions! Compatriarts, adversaries, and villains! Google Plus is Dead! In ten months, the field we have sown blood and tears on; the field upon...1 week ago
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thebristolboard: Hannah Dundee by Esteban Maroto. - thebristolboard: Hannah Dundee by Esteban Maroto.1 week ago
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Some bad news about Google Plus - Google Plus was Google's answer to facebook. It never got widespread adoption but among specific niches of internet it was heavily used compared to facebo...
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Review: Tiny Dungeon 2e - After reading *Eorathril *and *For Coin & Blood*, Gallant Knight Games has really become a publisher I respect for their OSR work. Seriously, they do OSR r...1 week ago
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30% of Compendium Sale at Lulu! - I've put all our compendium products up for sale at Lulu for 30% off. That includes all four of the Advanced Adventures compendiums for old-scholl/OSRIC/1e...
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LONG ROAD TO GALLANTRY AND LOVERS BLADES - We ended Kara Hui month with Long Road to Gallantry, but also did a surprise episode on Sunday to talk about another Kara Hui Film, Lovers Blades. It was f...2 weeks ago
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Challengist - Words matter, and I may have come up with a term I could put into my game books. DM, GM, Storyteller, then all the more fru-fru titles. None of them seem t...2 weeks ago
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artverso: Darwyn Cooke (in memoriam) - Justice League: God and... - artverso: Darwyn Cooke (in memoriam) - Justice League: God and Monsters3 weeks 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 megadungeo...
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Rainbow Fantasy III – The Champion - I wind up my little Rainbow Fantasy series of tributes to children’s TV fantasy action shows with a class based on probably the two best such shows, He-Man...3 weeks ago
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Dungeoncrawls in 7th Sea - This started out as a response to Matt Wandcow’s post on the 7th Sea Reddit where he was gracious enough to convey his experience with running a “dungeon a...3 weeks ago
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Top 10: The Most Iconic Warships of Sci-Fi - One of the most important elements in most science fiction works that contain a combat warship that will take a starring role is the design/style of that ...
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An English Excursion, Part 6, Plus That Little Part in Wales I Didn’t Mention Before Now - Sunday was a special day, as I met up with the wonderful Ben Fernee of Caduceus Books for some exploration of Bristol and points north. On a previous trip ...4 weeks ago
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The Slow Creep of Night - There is a world tidally locked to its sun. One side faces the sun; it is warm, lush. The other side is permanently dark. Tidally locked except—not quite. ...
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The Plant Kingdoms - *Common Knowledge* The *Shendru* are a species of omnivirous tree. Their branches are subtly articulated, and they have a toothed maw atop their barrel-li...
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Back in the Saddle Again - Hey, I'm back. I plan on posting regularly, albeit less frequently that before my absence from this blog. You might notice that the post is authored by "A...
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Blog Is On Unplanned Break - As you might have noticed, I haven't posted new articles since January. I still maintain the site and the link lists but I'm currently unable to write ne...2 months ago
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omercifulheaves: Red SonjaArt by Bruce Timm - omercifulheaves: Red Sonja Art by Bruce Timm2 months ago
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Bifrost (volume 1, complete). - [image: Risultati immagini per bifrost rpg skytrex] I am sorry that i post so rarely, but today i'm going to give you something that will keep you busy for...2 months ago
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series Blu-ray DetailedNEW... - * Batman: The Complete Animated Series Blu-ray Detailed* - *NEW REMASTERS OF ALL EPISODES IN THE SERIES* - *REMASTERS* of *Batman: Mask of the Phant...2 months ago
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Data Scan: Cyberpunk 2077 E3 Trailer - If you're one of those Cyberpunk / Cyberpunk 2020 fans that have been looking at getting that late 80s cyberpunk fix this side of the 21st Century, I'm sur...
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Goodbye and Good Luck - 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 ...
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Photobucket Finds Head, Removes From Ass - So I was pleasantly - and profoundly - surprised to discover all my broken photo links were restored both here on RBE and on my Obsidian Portal campaign wi...4 months ago
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...other than fantasy - Not posted for a while. Not done all that much gaming, to be honest. Not much roleplaying, not much boardgaming, not even any significant computer gaming. ...5 months ago
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John's last training line - *by John Jeanneney* You young trackers have many good years ahead of you, but eventually things wind down. As old tracker, I can give you a preview of wha...
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Growing the OSR if you want: part 2 - So, based on the various realizations I talked about in the last post, what are the things I'm trying to do in 2018 that will boost the signal of the OSR a...9 months ago
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We’re Moving! - Well, its the end of the year and I just can’t justify the expense on this hosting plan. Don’t worry. We’re not dead yet. The content has already been move...10 months ago
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Illyria Game Two - Against the Cult of the Reptile God! - Illyria Game Two picked up back in the waterside city of Fraus, on the northwest of Lake Laconic. The players met Nicodemus, the thieves' guild master, a...1 year ago
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The Migration Has Begun - It was inevitable - whether Sarmaks, swallows or Indo-Europeans, folks have to migrate eventually. Thus, the good old Land of Nod blog is making a move to ...1 year ago
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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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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...1 year 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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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...1 year ago
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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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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...1 year ago
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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...2 years 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...2 years 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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