Oh Father...
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Amazon's The Boys ended this week and while I've seen several critiques, I
thought the series finale was satisfying. A character prominently featured
this ...
[Q&A] Daniel Cross (Terminus RPG: Coherence System)
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[1:14 PM]DHCross [FEP], : okay! I am a game designer and musician and long
time fan of TRPGs in general, like I’d assume anybody reading this. I’m the
orig...
Cyberstyle 8.3
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Two more character illustrations for BLACK POLISHED CHROME, my cyberpunk
RPG/setting that never was. Again, working with a strong focus …
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SPAWN OF YOG-SOTHOTH II
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SPAWN OF YOG-SOTHOTH II
"They's prints in the rud, Mis' Corey - great raound prints as big as
barrel-heads, all sunk dawon deep like a elephant had ben ...
Local Experiences Tables
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One idea for my new campaign I'm working on that I'm borrowing from the
Japanese rpg *Sword World *(or at least its unofficial translations into
English...
Seriously, Gnolls Are Creepy as Heck
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Gnolls in AD&D are more than just hyena men with axes. They sit in this
strange place in the game where people underestimate them right up until
the m...
Under the Caustic River Ahnd
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By Dale HoustonDuck & Crow PressOSRLevels: Low/"Rookies" Under a raging
river of turbulent, caustic water that melts organic material in moments
lies the d...
Ornamental Women is Now Available!
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After a long, long road to get to this point, I can now say that Ornamental
Women, my first novel, is *available now at Amazon as a trade paperback and
e...
Faerie Tale Edgelord Background Table Fables
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*My players in my weekly club game *
Burned a freakshow down and freed mutants in Greywater
Then killed village leaders performing a cult ritual, leaving Bu...
50 More Alternate History Divergence Points
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First installment
THE TROUSERS OF TIME HAVE SPLIT AGAIN
1. Aleister Crowley successfully summons his guardian angel at Boleskine
House; it imme...
The DOOM of the DARK is a success!
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Praise be to Hekaton and the children of Old Night, the *Doom of the Dark
Kickstarter* smashed its initial funding goal within a few minutes and made
ten...
STAR-CROSSED BLADES OF THE GREEN PEONY SESSION IV
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This is the fourth session of our Star-Crossed Blades of the Green Peony
campaign for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate (session I can be found HERE,
session...
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...
Wild Wild West (Bookhounds)
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Last post before I fly. I'll be offline for two weeks; won't see you again
till the beginning of June.
Reminder: I'm one of the hosts of a Friday panel a...
AD&D's Demi-Foot Forward...
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AD&D's demi-humans are primarily known for their multiclassing abilities.
After all, what adventurer doesn't occasionally dream of casting spells
from th...
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 yout...
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....
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...
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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