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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
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Xena Warrior Princess Cosplay By Nerdy Nereid - https://www.facebook.com/NerdyNereid/
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Current Projects: Umberwell and Cinderheim - Krevborna: A Gothic Blood Opera was well-received enough that I've been putting in work to get two of my other settings into publishable form. As you can...
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Random Reads: "Primate Patrol" by Kashdan, Landgraf, and Simons - Check it out, Groove-ophiles! Is it any wonder that during the Groovy Age, DC's line of war mags were among their best sellers? I mean, editors like Paul L...
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[Q&A] Lee Garvin & Greg Porter (Killing Lee Garvin) - [19:36] <+GregPorter> Hey, Greg Porter here. I run a one-man outfit called BTRC games. I also do freelance work, but I’m here tonight with a project that i...2 hours ago
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Pits & Perils Reference Sheet - I made this for Bryan Mullins. I didn’t ask for permission. For Pits & Perils by James & Robyn George. Enjoy! Pits n Perils Reference Sheet Advertisements3 hours ago
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Six Unexpected Monsters & More From Advanced Dungeons & Dragons's The Monster Manual That Would Fit A Post Apocalyptic Setting - Today I was having a friend over after work for a beer & we got to talking about the recent release of Gamma World Fourth edition back into print. Now for ...
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The Tavern's Patreon has been Updated - Erik Tenkar is creating Old School Gaming News and Community Building - Yep, the overhaul of *The Tavern's Patreon* was long overdue, as *The Tavern* is not about content creation (though there is some of that). Instead, it'...
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A Review of The Gardens of Ynn by Emmy Allen - [image: Click to buy, its literally three bucks.] By Emmy Allen Her blog, Cavegirls Game Stuff is on the right. Click through image to buy. Ynn is a Tea...
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Class: Carvergirl - To.M Class: Carvergirl They kill unicorns. *Hit Dice:* d6 *Saves: *As halfling *Weapons and Armor:* - Cannot wear anything heavier than light armor. ...
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He Knows Where To Stick Things - Art's one thing: Design is another: Click to enlarge Those of you who've been paying attention to the blog recently may have noticed the one-man-force-multi...
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On Megadungeon #3 - Finally, after two months of dealing with the horrible RPGnow print on demand, I present: Megadungeon #3 in print and .pdf! What is Megadungeon #3? ...
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Joseph Seed (SURVIVE THIS!!) - As I mentioned yesterday, I wanted to do some game stats for the Project at Eden's Gate. While Dark Places & Demogorgons has crazy religious types nailed w...
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The Vanilla Adventure - By Wind Lothamer Knight Owl Games OD&D Level 1 As the players arrive in Boson Bay, it should be assumed that they know nothing of the particular culture of...18 hours ago
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Wednesday Comics: Batman by Grant Morrison - I'm laid low by sinusitis, but I wanted to at least nominally honor my (self-imposed) Wednesday comic book duties. *Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Volu...
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bearmanbeast:Some lady warriors just because. - bearmanbeast: Some lady warriors just because.1 day ago
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The Perfect Storm - So the complications are stacking up in my friend Dwayne's Middle Earth campaign using his 3d6 house system. At one particularly dramatic moment a NPC rece...
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Forthcoming visual history of D&D - I am curious about this forthcoming book: *Dungeons and Dragons Art and Arcana: A Visual History*. One thing that it reveals is that many iconic D&D monste...
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Ruins at the Three Pillars of Ssa-Tun - Along the blighted coast, beyond the lands of snow and ice and the adventurers’ boom-town of Gravelthorpe there is an … Continue reading →2 days ago
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FWS Topics: The Lost Star Wars Prequels - In the 2000 film *Gladiator*, Marcus Aurelius said to General Maximus: "*There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more th...
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Have Fun Storming the Castle (RPG All) - In fantasy and in other genres the castle is something armies attack. Occasionally a band of plucky heroes sneak in before the army arrives, but as a gener...3 days ago
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d100 Feral kids for Murder Highway - These are stray children to find in the wasteland of my roadwar game. Aparently i did too many urchins for my dnd game...
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Dispatches From KantCon - I've run my five games this weekend. They all went swimmingly and the players heaped praise 'pon me. I gamed with some utterly delightful and clever player...3 days ago
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My English Excursion, Part 3 - (Part 1 and Part 2) The next day saw my parents, C—–, and I repair to Boscastle, to visit the Dew of Heaven conference at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magi...4 days ago
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Quill paperback available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble - Quill is finally out there in the wild in paperback form. Yay! Barnes & Noble Amazon US Amazon UK (currently out of stock) Lulu
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Hex Session XXV – 5th Edition Actual Play – “The Hexad Council” - The characters in this session were: Alabastor Quan, a gnome rogue-turned-illusionist and failed circus ringmaster; wielder of a cursed dagger and member o...6 days ago
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WHAT WE RELEASED - So the Ennies are coming up and there is an open vote for Fan Favorite Publisher (HERE). I just wanted to clarify for anyone thinking of voting for us, wha...
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A Classy, Old-School Debate... - Character classes. Some love 'em, others hate 'em. But most, I suspect, are willing to go either way with the understanding that each has something to of...
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25% off of Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4! - I've put up a 25% off sale at Lulu for our two latest products, Malevolent & Benign II and Advanced Adventures Compendium 4! Both are the hardback versions...
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The Problem of Sport - I play a lot of sport, I watch a lot of sport. With the sole exception of golf, I can enjoy almost any sporting activity you could name. But I've never pla...1 week ago
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Gaming Insurgencies in a Galaxy Far, Far Away - So. Stuff is *awful* in the real world. Hell, between the time I started this blog post and the time I'm writing this sentence, things have gotten worse. ...1 week ago
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From the Diaries of Mr Alfred Tennyson, 1848 - This blog's been a bit quiet because the Team Tsathogga campaign is on hold for the summer, and I'm trying to finish a book on poetry and insanity in the e...2 weeks ago
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wondrousyears: Aquaman and Mera by Darwyn Cooke, from a variant... - wondrousyears: Aquaman and Mera by Darwyn Cooke, from a variant cover to *Aquaman* vol 7 #372 weeks ago
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Do it for the Beast - *Then the strange man, still holding my wrist, drew his knife across the palm of my hand. Before the pain could set in, the most wondrous thing happened! A...2 weeks ago
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Amulet of Spell Immunity - Here's a full write-up for an item mentioned in passing in Supplement IV: *God, Demi-Gods & Heroes *by Robert Kuntz and James M. Ward. *Amulet of Spell Imm...
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Happy 40th, AD&D 1e Player's Handbook! - 40 years old this month! Happy Birthday! Just wanted to drop a little note that according to the history timeline of our little hobby, TSR released the Ad...
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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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Bruce Timm: Homage to the cover of Batman:The Dark Knight... - Bruce Timm: Homage to the cover of Batman:The Dark Knight Returns (*Source*)5 weeks ago
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Dinosaurs Fuck Off - So settings have a prehistory--the stuff that happened way before the common era. They're usually either: (a) tediously enumerated with faux-mythology, or...1 month ago
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Kickstarter: Chose Your Own Sci-Fi Stock Art! - James Shields has a Kickstarter, Chose Your Own: Sci-Fi Stock Art, that I've never seen done before. A mix and match collection of stock art that can be ...
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Gathox Vertical Slum – A Review - I have recently been given the priveledge of perusing Gathox Vertical Slum by its author and artist, David Lewis Johnson. For readers of this blog who also...1 month ago
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UNFATHOMABLE NOW IN BOOK FORM (PLUS COMICS) - JUST LOOK AT THIS STUFF Pretty Sexy GO HERE: Operation Unfathomable on RPGNow AND HERE: OU Players Guide AND HERE: OU Print Pack AND THIS JUST IN A bunc...
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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...1 month ago
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Metroplex RPG Expo - Hey DFW friends! Whether you are an experienced tabletop role playing gamer or you’ve only watched an episode of Critical Role, this is a great chance to t...2 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. ...2 months ago
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Review: For Coin and Blood - I remember hearing vaguely about *For Coin & Blood* some time ago, but it seemed to pass me by before I got a chance to investigate. Then Diogo Nogueira, a...
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Bifrost: individual abilities & other stuff - I am beginning to post the content of Bifrost, volume 1, in sequence. Bif1 - Cover, Acks, Intro, Setting Up Game Bif2 - Game Content, Seq Actions, Choice...
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BX Combined Rule Book Printed and Bound - Just put this together this morning. I had printed the pages long ago, but had never bothered to bind them. Talking with +Gothridge Manor and +Rob Conley...
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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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Friday Grab Bag: Spores Of The Sad Shroom, Dungeon World Playbook List, Game Mastering Advice, A New Solitaire Game, Tournament of Daolu - This week offers tons of free/PWYW stuff for old-school gaming, Dungeon World and story games material, brilliant game-mastering advice and some tools. ...5 months ago
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Mars Monster Gallery and drivel. - I'm not dead, I just went dark a couple of months ago in order to focus all my efforts in one direction. BX Mars. I will attempt to keep you updated a lit...
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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...6 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...7 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...10 months 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 ...10 months 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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government-trash89: Mary Jane Watson by Bruce Timm. - government-trash89: Mary Jane Watson by Bruce Timm.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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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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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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