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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
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Dungeon Sounds for Redbrick - Your party bickering about rules or a mapping detail or telling some crap story about their lives? Just throw in a few o...
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I Think She Is Trying To Seduce Me Into A Jumanji - https://www.instagram.com/andyraecosplay/
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Isles of the Dead: Twine Edition - Remember when I entered the One-Page Dungeon Contest with a dungeon that was meant to be run after a TPK? A fellow named David Sky has made it into a Twine...6 hours ago
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While most Star Wars fans are familiar with the once-obscure,... - While most Star Wars fans are familiar with the once-obscure, half-remembered Star Wars Christmas Special, the equally embarrassing and fully lic...8 hours ago
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Palladium - The Uninviting - Kevin Seimbeda no Longer Gaming Guest of Honor at Capricon - I guess failure has consequences. How many *Robotech Tactics *backers were left out in the cold? Ah well, I'm sure Gareth is available. Or even Kenny if t...
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Funny Stuff Two-Fer: "Now and Then" by Skeates and Cardy and "A Perfectly Crazy Crime" by Skeates and Aragones - Steve Skeates again, Groove-ophiles? Sure, why not? After all, Sir Steve is an old pal and one of the greatest writers of the Groovy Age (an award-winning ...
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The Terror And the Ice-Gripped Sandbox - The AMC drama *The Terror* is based on the novel by Dan Simmons which in turn is a fictionalization of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. The even...
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vintagegeekculture: Frank Hamilton’s mid-to-late 1970s... - vintagegeekculture: Frank Hamilton’s mid-to-late 1970s illustrations and covers for Doc Savage fanzines. Of all the fanzine illustrators, h...10 hours ago
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[Q&A] Daniel Watters & John Geddes (Syystem) - [19:35] <+Daniel_Cactyys> Ok. I’m Daniel Watters, president of Cactyys Totem Entertainment, LLC. [19:36] <+Daniel_Cactyys> Our current project is called...10 hours ago
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Fragments of the Great Inflorescence - Evlyn has sent out a bunch of these game-fragment objects What are we to make of this? There are three elements. - The Guilds themselves. - The Hexes. -...
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Pulp Era OSR Make Over For Advanced Dungeons & Dragons's Modue N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God By Douglas Niles - I was asked to do a Pulp era make over for N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God By Douglas Niles so let's dive right in. " Terror by night! The village o...
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Happy Birthday Superman! - Today DC is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Superman's debut. To honor him I've got a low level golden age Superman you can add to your Light City game...
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Return to Quasqueton – Map 2 of 3 - My revised map of the main level of Quasqueton (from the classic B1 module “In Search of the Unknown) just … Continue reading →20 hours ago
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JOURNEY TO THE SOUTH CHAPTER TWO: KUNG FU, RITUALS AND NEW MONSTERS - This chapter describes the Kung Fu techniques from the previous chapter and rituals. It also describes a new system of Kung Fu in the game; Unorthodox Kung...
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The Bishop’s Secret - By Mark Chance Spes Magna Games Swords & Wizardry Level 4-6 Bishop Pausanias, gray haired with merry blue eyes and respectable girth, has long been one of ...1 day ago
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A Giant is an Accumulation of Ambitions - *Campaign:* The Excruciata (Umberwell, *5e D&D*) * Characters:* *Raymondo Cortiz* (human assassin rogue); *Grumli Fellhammer* (dwarf path of the ancestors...
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Kickstarter: Wightwood Abbey - Soon there will be a Trilemma Adventure for which you can get actual 3D printed terrain. Read on! I'm walking the halls of Breakout Con when I stumble acro...
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Skepticism in the Age of Magic... - Skepticism is alive and well in the real world, where evidence for the supernatural is remarkably elusive. In ten-thousand years of history we've seen one...
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Slaying the Beast (With Apologies to Grendel) - You know, I really wanted to like Beast: the Primordial. Like, I *really* wanted to like it. It was a fresh departure from White Wolf's usual setup... a cr...1 day ago
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D&D 5e Player's Handbook on the cheap, $21 on Amazon. - If you haven't already picked up another copy because of price, or looking to pick up your first copy, now is your chance, as this book is at an all time ...2 days ago
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Ancient Epochs of the Fantasic World - +Arnold K said: *"HEY How come all these D&D settings have the same assumed evolutionary paths. Like they have weird shit like dragons evolving from jealou...3 days ago
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Military Sci-Fi Oddities: VOLTRON: Defender of the Universe - After President Reagan altered the relationship between the media and advertising around 1983 came the deregulation that was the genesis of most our of th...
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The Exorcist (NBA, Dracula Dossier) - Exorcism is on the rise, according to this Guardian piece. The Vatican set up a new training scheme for would-be Von Sydows, claiming that reported insta...
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He-Man booklet (1985) with illustrations by Bruce Timm - He-Man booklet (1985) with illustrations by Bruce Timm3 days ago
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The Return of Tome of Tomes - I just realized it's been way, way, waaaay too long (as in over two years!) since I last posted some Tome of Tomes stuff. That's just crazy. Below are 8 to...
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Wheels within wheels: clockworkers and scrap mechanics of the Wicked City - Compared to its state a century ago, when it stood at the zenith of its prosperity, the Wicked City is a shadow of its former glory. Its streets lie in rui...5 days ago
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A Lyonesse FRPG is coming! - Exciting news from the good people at the Design Mechanism: they will be producing a freestanding RPG (using the *Mythras* rules) based on Jack Vance’s c...
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Life in the Unremembered City - The Unremembered City bears that name because, in all of the worlds inside the crocodile's mind, it is the only place which is made not of the stuff of mem...5 days ago
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On the Crypt Contents - I'm not exactly angry about this, but more like I don't understand it. There's a crypt. Inside there are lots of coffins and places where they put dead pe...6 days 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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Revelore Press on the Magi and Scandinavian Magic, with a Note on Hutton - Some quick updates: Revelore Press is a new publisher that has taken up the mantle – and some of the back catalog – of Rubedo Press, especially their Cypri...6 days ago
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Hungry Ghosts + Frostbitten & Mutilated Unboxing - click to enlarge Some hungry ghosts are pathetic, some are scornful, all feel they are owed something—by their living descendants or by others who failed t...
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Magic item - The Tantalon crown - In the second age of the serpent the sorcerer Tantalon stole the light of the stars and moon. First the elves mourned, for the moon provided them with t...
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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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The Value of a Penny - What can a single copper piece buy in your game? *Adventure Gaming* was the generalist game nerd magazine that Tim Kask started after he left editing *Th...
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Details on Faeries for the Majestic Wilderlands - Two years ago I made a post how I got a handle on how faeries work in my setting. The basic issue is that there are multiple interpretations of why faeries...
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Small Details: Stairs - Stairs are a simple form of transportation. In dungeons, stairs often mean a transition. In many dungeons the deeper you go the more terrifying and dead...
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spaceshiprocket: Hannah Dundee by Mark Schultz - spaceshiprocket: Hannah Dundee by Mark Schultz2 weeks ago
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Dragon by Dragon – February 1982 (58) - The Clyde Caldwell cover to the February 1982 Dragon Magazine is chock-full of fantasy tropes. You have the warrior woman in weird, revealing armor and a g...2 weeks ago
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cantstopthinkingcomics: Nick Fury by Darwyn Cooke - cantstopthinkingcomics: Nick Fury by Darwyn Cooke2 weeks ago
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Warts and All - Back at the turn of the century, I took a gig as part of the Living Greyhawk triad for the Texas/Oklahoma region (the notorious Bandit Kingdoms). I learne...3 weeks ago
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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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On the Radar: Jovian Chronicles in a Bundle of Holding - And, as if in answer to my plan of ships in the same fleet having different tech levels, there's a Bundle of Holding for Jovian Chronicles! The bundle cov...
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Balance, Challenge & Antagonism when Running Dungeons & Dragons - D&D Cartoon Dungeon Master - pretty friendly*CHALLENGE RATING AND D&D AS A CONTEST:* *The concept of Challenge Rating in D&D, a means of balancing encount...
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Black Space: Pursuing the Bomber - A group of spacers on Fist Star 18, a space station known for offering robot gladiator matches, decided to go bounty hunting together. Duncan Golas (Brian ...1 month ago
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UNFATHOMABLE PDF OUT TODAY - CLICK ON THIS DriveThruRPG LINK It's an old school Underworld setting and adventure location in the form of a 108 pg PDF, souped up with hyperlinks (inc...
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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. ...3 months ago
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Hex Session XXI – 5th Edition Actual Play – “The Angel’s Eye” - 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...3 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...3 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...4 months ago
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The Wine List of The Welcome Wench - *What follows is a reply to a thread at theRPGsite in which I put forth my idea of what's important in preparing a game-world that's meant to be played, as...4 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...7 months ago
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To Battle in Hell - L'Mercenaire! - *A brief plug before the main entry: the Hydra Cooperative is participating in a Hurricane Harvey relief bundle on DriveThruRPG, running through 9/12/2017....
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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 ...7 months ago
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Dragon Warriors is FREE! - Well, seems like I don't post much on here other than shopping recommendations, but that *will* change. For now, though, it is important that I bring to e...
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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...9 months 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...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...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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