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Sunday, September 15, 2024
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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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Digging through splatbooks 85-92 skills and kits - Rewriting my home brew also check out this collage architecture https://socks-studio.com/2012/10/07/atemporality-at-work/ I'm making lots of first-level...
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October Horror Challenge - The Visit (2015) - Day 5's prompt was "What a Twist?!" so I decided to go with a flick from the master (?) of the twist, M. Night Shyamalan.PlotTwo siblings go to spend the w...
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Slang Terms of the Rational Occultic Scale - Echoing Stars - The Dark Trades of the Cold Worlds can catapult crews into lives of luxury and status, for the few who survive. For them, and for Humanity as a whole, arte...13 hours ago
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Free RPG Resources - FlexTale Infinite Adventures Volume 1: Western Realm of Aquilae - As I said with yesterday's *Deal of the Day*, I appreciate the various *FlexTale* releases series for ease of use and inspiration for running sessions. ...
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[Q&A] Josh Simons (Paragons: The Roleplaying Game) - [7:32 PM]Josh Simons | Broken Door: Hey folks, I’m Josh, the founder of Broken Door Entertainment. We’re a brand new tabletop game publisher and our first ...19 hours ago
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The Autumn Lands – Hex Map C - The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This is the map that connects the two together … Continue reading →20 hours ago
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Sale on issues 1-14 of Fight On! - As recently announced here, the Old School Renaissance fanzine *Fight On!* has returned to publication after a long sabbatical. If you are missing PDF v...
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Horror on the Hill - New Maps and a Report - My youngest son's football team had a "bye" this weekend so I had some extra time Saturday and put together a few maps for our Horror on the Hill Shadowd...
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Killing Grounds - By Eduardo Raffo CarozziBreeding CalamitiesGeneric/Universal Year after year, the monks meditate and pray with the desire to get closer to enlightenment. T...1 day ago
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Pulp Readings: The Spider: Corpse Cargo (1934) - Volume 3, Issue 2 of *The Spider* magazine (July 1934) is as clear an indication as any that Norvell Page (writing as Grant Stockbridge) is not going to...
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The Knights of the Helsing Vow and the Knights Labyrinthian - Below are two "knightly orders" in Krevborna that are nothing like knightly orders in practice. *The Knights of the Helsing Vow* The Knights of the Helsi...
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Five More Forgotten Fictional Fantasy Novels - Kurt Vonnegut once said in an interview that he invented Kilgore Trout so that he could provide pithy, entertaining summaries of books without having to ...2 days ago
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OSR Commentary On The Darker Rpg By The Red Room Crew - My Red Room Wretched rpg campaign dried up several weeks ago due to scheduling conflicts with two of my players who are long haul truck drivers. That's sc...2 days ago
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Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook 2024 - I am the first person to get one of these, on-island. This according to the store owner, who ought to know. Short version: this is about 60 pages longe...2 days ago
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THE BRIDE OF LIAO MANOR - Playtesters: Ryan Turner, Elliot Nicoll, Joel Clark, and Adam Baulderstone *THE BRIDE OF LIAO MANOR * This adventure for Strange Tales of Songling is int...
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Old School Enabled (While Disabled)... - Yours truly is disabled. Not by birth, but by war. I had to rebuild my self image from the ground up after decades of able-bodied existence, which wasn't...
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COMMONPLACE BOOK & STORE RESTOCK! - Hey folks! I have a store inventory update but most importantly I have Deluxe Editions of my fully illustrated edition of The Commonplace Book! Each o...
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They're Eating the Apostrophes - Patrick Stuart has a new Kickstarter in the offing - and he has managed to reveal himself as having the testicular fortitude of a leviathan in the proces...
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Lessons from Elden Ring, Part II - This is a continuation from this post. Anyway, here are some more things you can do to make your tabletop game more like Elden Ring. DO Give Players The ...
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FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships - 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...
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Concerning the Future of Traveller - I have been a fan of Traveller for a long time and have bought various books over the years from just about every Traveller licensee, as well as from Ma...1 month ago
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#RPGaDay2024 for 27 August: Marvellous miniature - Today's prompt: *Marvellous miniature* I loved the concept of the Ral Partha three-stage mini: a set of three minis that represented your character's arc...
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More Moria - 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...1 month ago
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Far Away Land 2nd Edition Kickstarter is Amazing - Fay Away Land RPG Ed. 2 is now Kickstarting! It funded quick and has 22 days remaining as of this post. It is a unique setting and RPG that reeks of fun....
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Pre-order The Terror Beneath - Folks, I have a new game coming out on October 24th with Osprey Games. The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror is base...
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Some Clark Ashton Smith obscure stuff (not in english!) - Those who read this blog know that i am a follower of the aesthetics conjured by Clark Ashton Smith. I am not just a "fan", or a "huge fan", that woul...
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A Bargain at Any Price: Unfathomable Bundle in Progress - This impecunious Underworld Otter knows a good deal when he smells it. If you crave* deep*, almost ridiculous discounts for your RPG materials, look no fu...
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A Groovy Guest Post: HORRORS FOUND IN ATTIC WERE A HOAX! - *(Jasper Bark is a rascal. And a bit of a genius. He's also a long-time Groove-ophile, a top-notch author, historian, and a pal. Yerz trooly was in ...
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Improvised Awful Lights Missions - Asking about The Awful Lights, a commenter asks: *I'd love to hear about how this is run - with the Handler determining mission location and objectives ...6 months ago
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Teeth Among Shadows - Cyberpunk Red. January 2024 IRL, 1/20/2045 IG PART ONE (1/20/2045) Glitch, Smith, and Adams were on a rooftop in the Vintner Court Collective neighborhood,...7 months ago
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Ave Atque Vale, Jennell - Jennell Jaquays passed away two days ago, and it's hitting me hard. I had a chance to meet Jennell at NTRPG 2016 (and '17), and even get into a playtes...
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Sex-Crazed Falling Stars, Free Weather Magic, and Adventures: News of the Hill Cantons - *Grandma Gaya, the Rav-Witch of High Kezmarok*, seeks the stout of limb and humble of mind in the *obtaining of fallen stars* from an upcoming prophesied ...
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Profitez des offres de bonus exclusives: Découverte de l’offre de 200 tours gratuits et 75 € - Êtes-vous un amateur de jeux en ligne et à la recherche de nouvelles opportunités excitantes? Alors, préparez-vous à découvrir une offre qui va changer v...1 year ago
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Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies - 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...1 year ago
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The Apocalypse Archive 43-48 - 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...1 year ago
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The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come. - To begin with, I'm still here and still doing stuff. The good news, I suppose is I have had a change in the way I approach game design. In the past I...
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Dungeon23 February Retrospective - 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...
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There Were Dice - 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 ...1 year ago
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how to be erased - They will stand forever. *The villages of the dead are 4 in number, arranged thus:* *First is Hemlock-All-around, where from every branch on every tree a...
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GAME REVIEW: Four-Color Heroics - Before we get started, here are some disclaimers: - I am reviewing a comp copy provided by the author - The author and I are friends, and have bee...
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Master Treasure Seeker: A Dungeon23 MegaDungeon - Introduction - Sean McCoy, author of Mothership, posted an article on his substack titled Dungeon23 and it's taken the indie RPG scene by storm. So, I'm throwing my hat...
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Legends of Law: Von Hoff - 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...1 year ago
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John Jeanneney – A Visionary Leader Driven by His Passion - by Jolanta Jeanneney Dachshund Club of America Newsletter, Summer 2022 On July 5, 2021 my heart was broken when John Jeanneney, my husband of 26 ye...
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Notes on a semi-successful skill system - 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...2 years ago
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Trying Something New - 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...2 years ago
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oldschoolfrp: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs The Roleplaying Game –... - oldschoolfrp: *Cadillacs & Dinosaurs* The Roleplaying Game – In 2020, Earth was devastated by geological catastrophe – Ad in *Challenge* magazine 49, GDW...3 years ago
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I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke - dirtyriver: I, Zombie #1, July 2010, cover by Darwyn Cooke3 years ago
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Revised Prison of the Hated Pretender Release - A revised, updated, edited, illustrated and annotated version of my 2012 Prison of the Hated Pretender is now available for purchase and download at Dr...
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Its time to move this blog. - 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...3 years ago
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Blood Sundown Review - I've actually been running games recently! Bully for me. I decided that I'd start reviewing the products I actually use - this was my first review on Driv...
4 years ago -
Esoteric Enterprises (plus character sheets) - So it's been a while. I don't really want to address that in any significant way right now, as every time I try, it ends up in a spiral of excuses, despera...
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Discontinued - 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...5 years ago
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D&D Sling Damage vs. Large Targets - In many early editions of D&D, weapons were assigned two damage values: one for small/medium targets (i.e. man-sized) and one for large targets (giants and...
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Iain Lovecraft, 3D Sculptor - Nope, it's got nothing to do with Cthulhu. I just did a video conversation with Iain Lovecraft, who designs 3D miniatures and terrain. If you're not doi...
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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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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 years ago
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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...7 years 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...7 years 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...8 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...8 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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About Me
- Uncle Sam
- I am thought to be exiled gentry, a vagabond, a scandalous rogue, a troubadour, armchair tactician, amateur grifter, self taught mechanic, would be author, adventurer, rogue scholar, traveler of strange lands, and an all round near do well.