A storehouse of thoughts on RPG's and other non-sense.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Lebowski Fest
I have found the coolest gathering in the world. Lebowski Fest. Bowling, white russains, everything Lebowski. Go to the site. Better yet go to Lebowski fest. Thank me later.
Why Build Worlds?
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The creation of a world - mapping it, populating it, chronicling its
history - is in itself a hobby. I suspect for a lot of DMs it is indeed
actually ...
Let's Do the GRIDSHOCK Again!
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Paul Vermeren's game of futuristic, super-powered resistance fighters on
the run is back in a new edition! The standalone game GRIDSHOCK ZERO,
powered a...
Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Alien 3
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An accurate description of Alien 3
Blogger ate this post too, which makes me think that something in the
formatting went fucked as I copied it in.
- A...
Oz Orc Con Games 12/9/26 part 3 Long Stairs
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Long stairs is based on a gaming thread i came across bed ridden in abour
2012 where creators did some world-building to create a setting of ...
Ahidl’s Keep
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By Jeremy FarkasTroll Lord GamesCastles & CrusadesLevel ... 3? Dare you
cross the vast desert and seek out the great red mesa where the
near-mythical mine ...
The Elves of Krevborna
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Are you even playing a fantasy game if there aren't a million different
kinds of elves running around?
The current campaign has no less than three diffe...
Zero Company and Villainy (RPG All)
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Zero Company final trailer
I've never been a huge Star Wars fan. Saw the original when it came out,
loved the first three films, and after that just d...
Development of the Majestic Fantasy RPG, Part 4
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Sandbox Campaigns often fail when players feel they lack information and
that their choices are little better than throwing darts at a board in the
dark....
STAR-CROSSED BLADES OF THE GREEN PEONY SESSION XV
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This is the fifteenth session of our Star-Crossed Blades of the Green Peony
campaign for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate (session I can be found HERE,
sess...
Upgrading the Common Orc...
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The common (some might say lowly) orc is ubiquitous in fantasy gaming, and
while clearly dangerous in numbers, they can become stale with repeated
use, e...
One Year before the Comms Array
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I just realized that it's been almost a month since the one-year
anniversary of running Operation Lamplighter. I think this is the longest
I've been runnin...
Ol' Groove LIVE on YouTube!
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Ol' Groove will appear LIVE on Silverline Comics "Silver Sunday" broadcast!
Check it out on Silverline Comics' YouTube channel Sunday night, August 23,
a...
Shadowrun 2E: Why Every Runner Needs Contacts
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In this video, I talk about why contacts are important in different
situations and what makes them valuable. I explain how players can use
these rela...
DÜRER DEMON
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DÜRER DEMON
"Riding steadfastly through a dark Nordic gorge, Dürer's knight rides past
Death on a Pale Horse, who holds out an hourglass as a reminder of ...
The Common Store of Monsters
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I am slowly grinding my way through the re-writes for Veins of the Earth.
As part of the re-write I have re-organised the ‘Pariahs of the Earth’
monsters ...
Back to the Basic (and Expert)?
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I have recently been dabbling in D&D once more. I picked up Old School
Essentials and also began rummaging through my D&D 5E (not 5.5E) rules to
run a smal...
The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance
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Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are.
For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of
Marlinko, Kezmaro...
I am Dr Rotwang!
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I am NOT the fella who goes by "Doktor Rotwang" on Substack. I've never met
him. I'm not a Navy veteran. We are not the same guy, no matter what Google
AI ...
Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS!
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Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to
handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard
in a t...
Setting a new course: 7th Sea Third Edition
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There aren’t a lot of good opportunities to come out of cold storage these
days. Honestly, finding time for work, family, gaming, and game prep
doesn’t lea...
ignore all previous instructions
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[image: UNDER THE SKIN]
*We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is within us.*
*Hᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ* *was furious. So loud and discordant were these youths ...
On a Happy New Year
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We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization.
What will that look like in sixty years?
Sinless is starting it's third yea...
Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide
As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am
fascinated with 19th century Lon...
Experience with Python
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Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.)
But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so
high for 1980s f...
The Earwight
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The sinister little insects known as earwights are thought to have once
been earwigs who fed on the decaying flesh of revenants or other matter
suffused wi...
B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished!
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After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished
Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of
2024....
And Now For Something Completely Different
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I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day
Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller*
character each ...
The Tarot of Pips
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Somewhere in your dice collection is a die like this one, the humblest of
dice. Although you don't know it, this small white die carries with it a
secr...
Inspectres in Grifton
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On November 8, we played a one-off Inspectres game set with the
Starkweather monster hunter tradition, based in Grifton. My Setup I quickly
pulled out and ...
FWS Ships of the Line: Explorer and Science Ships
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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...
Angels, Demons and Subtle Bodies
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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...
There Were Dice
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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 ...
Legends of Law: Von Hoff
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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...
Notes on a semi-successful skill system
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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...
Trying Something New
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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...
Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie
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When I was a boy I loved fairy tales. Jack and the Beanstalk, Puss in
Boots, Rumpelstiltskin - I devoured all of it. My fascination that there
was a strang...
Discontinued
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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...
Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map
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I mentioned in my last post how I was tweaking and reworking parts of my
Ravensburg setting. Today I streamlined the city map. The old map had lots
of redu...
Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask.
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A little note since people have asked me about this. My video channel's
*not* an advertising platform, so I'm not available for hire if you want to
promote...
How can We Destroy this Campaign World?
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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 megadunge...
Goodbye and Good Luck
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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...
Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea]
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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...
Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints
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So there s a couple of things you need to adress, if you want to get rid of
Hitpoints. These are not fully formed rules, this, like much of the stuff i
pos...
The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C
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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...
Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day
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Thor von Moosbach-Zuzelek, a brother to our Tuesday and Darren Doran's
Theo, has had a great tracking season so far. He helped hunters to recover
their de...
Thrantrix the Ineffable Contest
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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...
Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products
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This post is an opinion piece, done to express my disappointment in Under
Armour as a company and make clear my intention to stop purchasing any of
their...
Godbound: Freedom of Strife
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• 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...
Illyrians of Note: The Demimonde
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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 ...
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.
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