Abbotsmoore
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By Stuart WatkinsonSelf PublishedOSELevels 1-3 What was once a sprawling
expanse of magical innovation is now a few scattered buildings covered in
muck. Ye...
Pre-Order - Castles & Crusades Starter Kit
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I'm a huge fan of* Castles & Crusades* and have nearly every printing of
the *Player's Handbook* and the *C&C White Box*. I'm all in on the *Castles
& Cr...
Happily Never After
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Watching this REC 3: Genesis has become one of the only Valentine’s Day
traditions I have. I originally reviewed this one for the October Horror
Movie Chal...
ShadowDark of Strahd - Game 2
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If you're new to this series about running Curse of Strahd as a sandbox for
ShadowDark, there have been a few other posts (here). The previous post
rela...
d100 Ways to Get Dragged Into an Isekai
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My hand has been forced. Layla is to blame for this.
These work very well as PC backgrounds
How'd You End Up in Another World, Anyway?
1. Visited by ...
A Dungeon In Two Parts
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The shadow crypts are marked on many a scholar’s maps – a complex of long
halls of decaying stonework that …
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Greyhawk: Ket
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Ket sits astride a major route of commerce between the Oeridian East and
the Baklunish West. Its people are a mixture of those cultures, though the
rulin...
Bad Things Happen: Unknown BFGs, Twits and Witches
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As a father I have become reacquainted with the books of Roald Dahl, most
of which I haven't read for well over thirty years. One of the things I
have been...
The Sisters Carnifexa and The Skarabasca
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Two more factions and organizations you can drop into a Krevborna game.
Look, if you think I wasn't going to add battle nuns you don't get the
setting at...
Under the Plateau of Peril
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*Under the plateau of peril, behind the great cliff waterfall is a vast
cavern where Underland folk and monsters dwell.d12 Cav...
Players Companion for Shadowdark
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*This post includes affiliate links. *
A grabbed a copy of Greg Christopher's Player Companion for Shadowdark a
while back. And since then it has been ...
The Clue Trail - Dead, Dead, Deadski (GUMSHOE All)
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Beetlejuice
Once upon a time I discussed the Clue Trail and recommended, among other
things:
*Rule of Four. There are Four ways in: Academic, Technical,...
The Three Prongs of Art's Dilemma...
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Okay, so the title's a bit misleading. There's lots of great artwork in the
gaming hobby, with something good for everyone, whether old school's amateur
...
A Brief History of Ukrasia
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This post provides a rough overview and timeline for the World of *Ukrasia*
(the setting for my “*Against the Court of Urdor*” campaign). The history
is ...
MOP-HEAD
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MOP-HEAD
"The thing called Mop-Head was not an animal or plant or rock, although, by
now it was a little of each. It had no definite body, and it longed f...
Check out this fashionable fellow.
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I was looking at the *Tunnels & Trolls* stuff on the ebays and stumbled
across this guy. I love his visor, though I think it would be better if it
was p...
HEAVENLY FRAGRANCE SESSION 21
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This was the twenty first session of my Heavenly Fragrance Campaign, a
living adventure for Wandering Heroes of Ogre Gate, prepared using tools
and proc...
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 ...
Bat in the Attic Games and 2025
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Happy New Year Folks!
This would be a good time to update everyone on what has been happening
with me and my plans for the upcoming year.
Personal
I ...
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...
Blue Sky Temple, Revised
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Last week, we made a crowdsourced dungeon on Bluesky.
It was fun and it yielded a cool dungeon with a lot of good ideas mashed
together.
This week, I ...
10 new metal Darkmaster passions
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Alright, so here's a bunch of examples Passions for Against the Darkmaster
based on some of my favourite metal acts.
"Burn too bright and you'll burn aw...
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...
The Apocalypse Archive 43-48
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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...
The State of the Metal Earth and What's to Come.
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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...
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...
Troika! review/overview
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As an avowed Advanced Fighting Fantasy fan, I've been a big fan of Daniel
Sell's Troika!, even though I've STILL not got it to the table. It's a
really te...
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...
Landsknecht Link Roundup, July/Aug
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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...
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...
And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon
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It's self-styled Throwback Thursday and *having just released the 34-page
draft booklet of Hill Cantons news to my Patreon backers* I am going to
indulge m...
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 ...
They growl
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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 ...
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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