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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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Towards a Complete List of Excellent Medieval/Fantasy Combat Scenes - Like, I suspect, 99.9% of my readers, I love a good film combat scene. Some non-fantasy favourites include the big gun battle towards the end of *Heat*, ...
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Loopy Tombs - This poast was inspired partly by reading James Holloways 'Tome of Tombs' - a zine of Tomb creation which you can find here; https://james-holloway.itch...
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You Should Unchain Creepy Dolls Right? - I saw a clip of this horror comedy short online and decided to check out the full film. I thought it was really funny and a nice addition to the cursed dol...
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MONSTROUS BAT - MONSTROUS BAT "She affirm'd, and her good neighbours likewise, that it had been borne to her, and took oath that she did not know by what manner it had co...
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Scavengers’ Deep – Map 20 - The Scavengers’ Deep is a reminder of the amount of work that went into underground structures during the great war. … Continue reading →9 hours ago
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Three Witches - By Michael RobinsonRutibex"OSR"/5eLevels 3-5 Greetings Adventurers! Embark on an exciting hex crawl adventure in the new module – Three Witches! Explore a ...13 hours ago
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The Case for Planetary Romance - Richard HescoxI feel like planetary romance (sometimes called Sword & Planet, though I think *that* might be better thought as a subgenre or sub-subgenre...
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Brigid Fane and Bram van Gheist - Two NPCs in Krevborna who couldn't be more different: Brigid Fane, a rage-filled barbarian who approaches all challenges with murder in her eyes and a sw...
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Where do I get my alignment oaths? - I'm rewriting my homebrew rules on alignment again. At each level, a character can take an alignment oath, which gets them a gift and makes them more fan...
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Free OSR - The Metallic Tome (Modren Day OSR Sourcebook) - I had to check. I have a hardcover copy of the *Metallic Tome *on my bookshelf :) So, what is The *Metallic Tome*? It's a modern-day OSR sourcebook hark...
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[Q&A] Brandon Verhalen (Savage Phase World) - [1:03 PM]Star Anvil- Brandon: Hello! My name is Brandon, if the Discord tag didn’t give it away… I’m the owner of Star Anvil Studios, the maker of games li...1 day ago
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OSR Review & Commentary On Grindhouse Red Rpg By The Red Room Crew - "Grindhouse Red is the MicroRed version of Wretchploitation, one of our earliest Wretched titles. It plunges players into the gritty, blood-soaked underbe...1 day ago
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NSFW Working on adaptation of The Jewels of Gwahlur - If you have been here a few times before, you will know that I have been struggling with a graphic novel for years. I realized last august that I would h...
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Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, Last Day! - My Kickstarter for Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: the Northern Marches is now in its last day! Link to the Kickstarter Random Party Generater Everyb...
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On Flash Moresloth - There are uplifts in Sinless. You may have noticed there are a lot of population crashes world-wide. In Sinless, the prion plauge, the plunge, the quicke...
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Curse of Strahd Campaign (ShadowDark) - Mid-Campaign Update - Our ShadowDark-based *Curse of Strahd* (COS) campaign ("Holiday in Barovia") has been motoring along at a fine pace. We're very consistent, playing mos...5 days ago
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Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms Kickstarter: 3 days left - I don’t support many kickstarters these days but I’m making an exception for this one: *Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms, the Northern Marches*. I almost...
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Canadia and Many Mansions - Just a very quick note to remind folks that, first, I shall be in haunted Toronto - for the first time in my life in Canadia, God help me - this weekend ...6 days ago
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August Derleth was an Accidental Genius - Think about it. The neat, overly-tidy cosmology that doesn't quite make sense. The leaps in logic required to fit elements into an organizational schema ...1 week ago
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LADY WITH A SWORD REVIEW - You can check out my review of *Lady with a Sword* over at easternKicks. This was quite a good movie. It starts out with a terrible crime committed again...
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Excavating My First Fantasy... - I've been a fantasy buff going way back; but my introduction to the genre came by way of a non-fantastical source: dinosaurs and prehistory. Not surprising...
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What to do on a Gaming Break - It's summer again. Well it's supposed to be but with temperatures lingering around 40 it doesn't feel like it. Most summers I take time off. A couple mon...
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I come from the land of the ice and snow - So I got a wild hair and created 81 pages of demographically accurate random birthplace charts covering every hamlet, village, town, city, castle, and...
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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.3 months ago
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The Hungering Dark - Go into the earth, and reality will walk alongside you. Walk further, and you will eventually be walking alone. The world is plastic down there. Tar Lat...
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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 ...5 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...6 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 ...7 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...10 months 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...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...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...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...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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Troika! review/overview - 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...
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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...5 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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Starstone - A Mediaeval FRP Campaign (1982) - This is indeed VERY rare. Follow *THIS* path.5 years ago
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And Now the News Draft Download on Patreon - 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...6 years ago
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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 Timm6 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...8 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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About Me
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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.