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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
My Blog List
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Deal of the Day - Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms (System Neutral) - Yes, *WotC* HAS produced system-neutral material for its settings. A bit of a surprise, I bet ;) Normally 14.99 in PDF, *Ed Greenwood Presents Elminste...
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So so very many updates about the Hill Cantons - I have been busy, busy in both real world and Hill Cantons-y writing. An update on where things are: Slumbering Ursine Dunes Omnibus This has been i...
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THE BLACK BUTTERFLY - I have a new review up at easternKicks of *The Black Butterfly*. This was a very interesting Lo Wei film, with a very classic feel. It stars Lisa Chiao C...
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Wednesday Comics: DC, December 1984 (week 3) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at comics that were published on September 20, 1984. *Leg...
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[Q&A] Adam Blumenau (All the World’s Prey) - [7:34 PM]Radmad: Hi everyone! I’m Adam Blumenau, online handle everywhere Radmad. Longtime ttrpg player, been developing games for the last five years or s...21 hours ago
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d100 Shifty goods sold from a coat in an alley - You know the script, a guy in a coat in an alley, sells stuff, perhaps he should not Escape routes 2-3 are usually part of the location Some have an acco...
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Vivica Fox as Mr. Freeze’s henchwoman, Miss B. Haven, in “Batman and Robin” (1997). Though she… - Vivica Fox as Mr. Freeze’s henchwoman, Miss B. Haven, in “Batman and Robin” (1997). Though she notably attracted to Arnold’s Mr. Freeze, he did not recip...1 day ago
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The Hollow Abyss - An oppressive silence hangs over the Hollow Abyss, broken by the faint, almost imperceptible tremor of silk strands vibrating in … Continue reading →1 day ago
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OSR Commentary On SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide: The Roleplaying Game & Nightshift: Veterans of the Supernatural Wars rpg - What Shadows Hide Cthulhu Sourcebook - Session III - "Created by Eric Bloat & Josh Palmer, SURVIVE THIS!! What Shadows Hide is a standalone roleplaying game and does not require any additional gaming materi...1 day ago
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The Expedition 33 Review Post - Belsprout I am going to spoil the shit out of this game. There's your warning. ** Expedition 33 opens with a moment of sublime cosmic horror. Across t...
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BONESAW IS (ALWAYS) REAAAADDDYYY! - First he body slammed his way into Vigilante City/SURVIVE THIS!!. Then he did a diving elbow in 5e. Now Bonesaw gets the three for Evolved and other DCC su...
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Extruded Fantasy Fiction - I expect others have pointed out that Dungeons & Dragons has gone from explicitly drawing on external references - from history, legend, and classic fant...
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Tserberon Falls and Vulture House - Two final locations of the Vespermark. Tserberon Falls has a bit of Ravenloft's Mists in it, mixed with Stephen King's "The Mists." Vulture House exists ...
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Death Mask 2 - Exploring the Building - *The Building: Egypt in general, Cairo in particular, various dig sites scattered across the desert, Cyprus, smuggling ships, and the Museums of the Worl...
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - 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....
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First Steps – Descent into Madness - By Nickolas Z BrownFive CataclysmsOSRLevels: "Low to Mid" Deep within the Sunken Fort is a stairway. This stairway leads into an unknowable and chaotic und...4 days ago
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On Manon Quarterly Kickstarter Youtube! - Check it out. I talk about Sinless, canceling, and the future. https://www.youtube.com/live/YmEnK8-sh6M?si=MnBE1E6dS4xaUJTN www.kickstarter.com/projec...
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Red Ochre & Ruins: The OSL Returns... - Well, there's an Open Supplement License for Epoch, allowing those so inclined to publish original content for the game. Interested parties can *visit ou...
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Un-American Activities - I am halfing prices for all False Machine books held outside the U.S.A. This discount will last until sales the the U.S. are re-started, OR until the ...
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COLOURED GAS BEING - 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...
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Against the Starmaster: Playtest materials available - I thought that I would mention that there is a space opera version of *Against the Darkmaster* coming out. It’s called (somewhat unsurprisingly) *Against ...3 weeks ago
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Tomb of the Blind and Deaf Dead - So the cat is out of the bag thanks to Tobias Schulte-Krumpen, who posted the above image to the Lamentations of the Flame Princess facebook group. I ...
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How to run a slasher. 1 of 2 - I ran a summer camp slasher game not too long ago. It went pretty well. Here's some of the stuff I used to make it happen Plan for one or two sessions t...
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Eyes of Idola, Part 2 - This is Part 2. Here is Part 1. *Concept 1: Entering the Dungeon* Descending the stairs into B1, the party reach rooms that are dark, crowded, flooded, a...3 weeks ago
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The 'I Want' PC - Readers who do not live in the dank earth beneath rocks with only woodlice and earthworms for company will no doubt have heard of something called *K-Pop D...
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GM Companion for Shadowdark - Let's talk about Mr. Chubby Funster. Greg. If you go on RPG DriveThru and check out the Shadowdark section you'll see he had three books in the top ten....
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Rulings, Not Rules: A Foundation, Not an Oversight - There's been a lot of discussion over the years about how Original Dungeons & Dragons handled (or didn't handle) the common situations you'd expect in a ...1 month ago
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The Crypt of Atan-Thu - I was one of the first backers for this adventure. It looks so promising! Kickstarter ends on 26th August. Check it out at the following link: htt...1 month ago
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Trollish Delver moving - In an effort to get away from the shadow of Google this blog can now be found at www.trollish-delver.writeas.com.6 months ago
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And Now For Something Completely Different - I'm participating in another blogging challenge this month, the 31 Day Character Creation Challenge - I opted to make a classic *Traveller* character each ...8 months ago
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The Tarot of Pips - 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...9 months ago
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Inspectres in Grifton - 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 ...9 months ago
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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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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 year ago
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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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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...2 years 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...2 years ago
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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 ...2 years ago
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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...2 years ago
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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...3 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...3 years ago
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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...4 years ago
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More Arden Vul Art - Another great piece from Del, this one's the Forum of Set: a place that the PCs may spend quite a bit of time within.
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Strange, Dangerous, and Inhuman: The Fey and Fairie - 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...5 years ago
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In the far, far future of mankind...they apparently remember Flans. - I'm developing a space opera setting for SF RPG shenanigans, and this is the 'map' of the known, inhabited star systems. It's a map that I created, so it l...
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balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke - balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke5 years ago
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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...6 years ago
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Landsknecht Link Roundup, July/Aug - Ba Chim seal of approval! (Art by Dreadbeasts) I posted this on RPG.net but it bears reposting (and expanding) here: - Not *quite* RPG related, but H...
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Ravensburg Reboot: Streamlined City Map - 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...
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Please, I don't do paid advertisements - don't ask. - 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...6 years ago
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How can We Destroy this Campaign World? - 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...
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omercifulheaves: Red SonjaArt by Bruce Timm - omercifulheaves: Red Sonja Art by Bruce Timm7 years ago
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Goodbye and Good Luck - 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...
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Eurafrika Attacks! [Campaign Idea] - 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...
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Additional Things - Doing Away with Hitpoints - 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...8 years ago
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The Cosmic Gobsmack: Me and Mr. C - 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...8 years ago
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Bob and Thor track and find three deer in one day - 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...
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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...8 years ago
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Why I No Longer Buy Under Armour Products - 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...9 years ago
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Cardinal Spider--Montporte Dungeon Campaign Critter - *CARDINAL SPIDER* Cardinal spiders travel in small roving bands made up of 2-8 males and 2-4 females. The males are the smaller of two (about 60 pounds in...
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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...9 years ago
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A short review of every post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read. - The other day I was thinking about post-apocalyptic novels, and how many of them I'd read. So I sat down and created a list of as many of them that I've re...9 years ago
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Adventures on the 7th sea – Campaign specifics Part I - In any rpg campaign there will be "home rules" reflecting The flavor and tone of the campaign, the specific rule changes and, (of course) a Dungeon Master...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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- 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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