Cleaning out the hard drive. You benefit from my house keeping. Here's a brace of pics.
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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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No Man's Land Trek Prep Nov Pt 1 - Rolling some stuff from Chagrinspire Vol1-3 & My Great Weird War book as session prep I went through a bunch of tables and made these specifically for th...
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Review & Commentary on The Player Aid for HOSTILE Solo By gamesbyfelix.com For The Zozer Games Hostile Solo Rpg - "This player aid helps you on your adventures in Zozer Games' amazing "HOSTILE Solo" sci-fi horror RPG. Please let me know your feedback! I'd be happy to ...3 hours ago
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The Greywater Temple - One of the streams feeding this cavern pool runs grey with clay sediment, giving the location its name. A small … Continue reading →5 hours ago
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[Q&A] Chris Falco (Paranormal Freelancing) - [8:37 PM]Falco: Hey all! I’m Chris Falco, of Falconian Productions and the Far Horizons Co-op, been developing for about 6 years and writing for games for ...17 hours ago
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No One Rivals Doom! - Marvel Rivals is a new hero PVP shooter. Unlike Overwatch (which it's getting a lot of comparisons too) this one is is third person. The game will be free ...
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Deal of the Day - Woeful Barrows And Other Places for Shadowdark RPG - *Shadowdark* holds a special place in my heart. It's an old-school chassis with an engine built off of *5e*. The ecology of high-quality releases from ...
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OPALESCENT THING - OPALESCENT THING "It resembled nothing so much as a star-shaped blob of transparent jelly that shimmered and changed color like an opal. It appeared to be...
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The Greatest Book in the History of Books - Do you know about the Japanese kids' book phenomenon, *Kobito Zukan*? Literally translated it means something like 'dwarf encyclopedia' or 'gnome encyclo...
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He Cooked – Zaan, Olo Malan. - *Hugh Cook’s Chronicle of a World of Darkness, Part 2* I return to you for the end of the tale. Hugh Cooks intended-sixty, planned-twenty, published-ten F...
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High Trust - Okay, read this first. Now look this over: Are you with me so far? This reminds me of a systemless adventure published in issue 10 - 'The Cowboy Issue' -...
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A Walk in the Harwood - By HilanderSelf PublishedOSELevel …? I guess we don’t use levels anymore? The Big Bad is 10HD. The folk of Almsville enjoyed a quiet existence far from the...2 days ago
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Wednesday Comics: DC, February 1984 (week 2) - I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at the comics released on the week of Novenber 10, 1983. ...
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Capitalism: A Horror Story - To be fair and spell out one of my biases at the outset of this post on my thoughts about Jon Greenaway's *Capitalism: A Horror Story*, I've long been sk...
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Twilight of the Warriors (film, 2024) (Night's Black Agents) - How do you make a Shaw Brothers film without actually being a Shaw Brothers film? You make this. Highly recommended to all fans of action cinema. Sel...
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I remember a friend of mine had some LPs that were Star Wars themed disco albums, and it brought back a very weird memory from back in the 70s (yes, I’m old!) of listening to a Star Wars disco mashup on the radio. What was all that about? I also remember something like that for Close Encounters, too. - You remember correctly, and this went on for a long while. In 1983, disk jockeys around the country played a record that involved an Ewok rapping the plo...1 week ago
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Positively Unhinged Elden Ring Theoryposting: Part 2 - Yes, these are my hand-written notes. My descent into madness continues apace. Check here for part 1. PART 4: SECRETS OF 1.00 Digging through this...
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Bitterblossom: The Small-Press Supremecy... - Our hobby has always been a small-press thing. Even now, with modern, corporate D&D, the pastime remains in the capable hands of the hobbyist, empowered ...
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HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE SESSION NINETEEN - This was the nineteenth session of my Heavenly Fragrance Campaign, a living adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, prepared using tools and procedu...
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Trail of Cthulhu 2e and Broken Empires - I try not to back funding projects (on Kickstarter and the like) that often these days. This is because I backed a few in recent years that I now kind of r...
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The Werewolf Rule - Ever since the nose-blind apes succeeded in driving them away, wolves have carried their hatred in their guts, like a cold embryo. Humans are slow, stu...
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The Pillories Have Been Death Frost Doomed - Herein lies the tale of our abrupt and terrifying end to *Death Frost Doom*. As if it could end any other way. When we last met with The Pillories, thei...4 weeks 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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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...2 months ago
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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...2 months 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 ...7 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,...9 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...2 years 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...4 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...
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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...8 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.
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