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I finally started watching the Spawn animated series from the late 90's.
I'm surprised I don't see more folks talking about it.Anyways, check out
this fast...
Dungeons: Bottom-Up Balance...
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Balancing encounters is an ever-present concern for GMs not wishing to
slaughter the party before gameplay even gets started. Danger abounds,
whether at ...
[Q&A] Jeff Martin (Big Robots, Big Feelings)
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[7:34 PM]RentAThug: I’m Jeff Martin, a game designer and illustrator from
Edmonton, Canada. I’ve been working in the comics industry professionally
for 13 ...
The Howling Tomb
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By Andreas WilleMedora GamesOSRLevels 2-3 Endless is the punishment of
those that dare challenge divinity… Deep within an endless steppe, a
weathered mauso...
A New World
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With our Land of Azurth campaign nearing its conclusion, I've been thinking
about what might come after. Or more truthfully, I've thought of several
thi...
Total Skull: February, 2026
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Things that delighted me in February, 2026:
*T. D. Cloud, Ossuary*
In T. D. Cloud's *Ossuary*, a group of government "Curse Breakers" venture
into the ...
Campaign Design Night's Black Agents: Burn Stakes
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OK, last post for this series.
Let's talk about the opening scenario and what it means to play Burn Stakes.
I'm going to try to avoid scenario spoilers b...
Pokemon isn’t OSR (but I wish it was)
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Warren over at Prismatic Wasteland recently made a post titled: “Pokemon is
OSR”, and in the storied tradition of bloggers everywhere I am writing a
resp...
Scavengers’ Deep – Map 28
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The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into
underground structures during the great war. …
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CONVERTING THE BRIDE OF LIAO MANOR
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Shortly I will have a more thorough update on our latest release, Strange
Tales of New England, here on the blog, but in the mean time I want to talk
abo...
As Requested, a Retraction
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On January 16th, 2026, Chris Stodgill posted a post regarding Ken Whitman.
Ken has objected to the post in question on the grounds that, and I will
quo...
Worldbuilding Thru Play
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So here's my plan. I am running two duet games (1-on-1 games), soon to be
three. This in addition to playing in another. I took a break for a few
months....
"And next year.. Queen Mab.."
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Man this took a long time. My earliest development notes date back to July
2020. This was originally meant to be an adventure.
The idea came in at almost t...
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 yout...
Gender Among the Elves
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There are only two genders: male and female.
Men are strong, stoic, brave. They protect the weak and build great things.
Women are sensitive, kind, and ...
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...
Mutants and Wizards
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Heya folks, long time no see.
I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's
going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...
Ten Friggin Hill Cantons Wizards
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10 Wizards of the Hill Cantons
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Description
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Magister Dobromil the Cauterizer
Specializes in magical “cleaning” of reality leaks. Wears fou...
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....
COLOURED GAS BEING
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COLOURED GAS BEING
"He had learned much of the Other Gods in distant parts of space,
especially in that region where form does not exist, and coloured gase...
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...
More Moria
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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...
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...
Dungeon23 February Retrospective
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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...
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...
Its time to move this blog.
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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...
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.