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Gary Gygax
Father of "the game" you'll be missed.
Smokey, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
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Music Monday - Rivals 'Til The End - I've been playing Marvel Rivals regularly since it dropped a few weeks ago. I think it's pretty fun and fast paced. My favorite vanguard to play as is Thor...
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[Q&A] Brandon Verhalen (The Secret World) - [7:51 PM]Star Anvil- Brandon: I’m Brandon Verhalen, Founder of Star Anvil Studios. The Secret World is one of several TTRPG products we have created. The S...5 hours ago
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The Trilobite and Vodyani Isle - Two final adventure locations on the Judas Sea. The Trilobite adds a mobile location and a different spin on "mad scientist" and "fearsome captain" as fo...
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Help Kitties and Have a Chance to Win some Weird Frontiers - *Folks - David does a raffle every Christmas season to help stray cats. As a cat person myself (my current feline daughter walked in our back door just ...
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Vagabond Voyaging (RPG all) - I've been reading the saddest book. It's not the book's fault. It's meant to be a jolly romp, all about holidays and where you can go, how much you're li...21 hours ago
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Review & Commentary On Primordial Chaos: Gonzo Like A Fucking Boss! By Venger Satanis For Your OSR campaigns - "Unformed, omnipotent, oscillating, undulating, chromatic, prismatic, and ultra-telluric. Primordial Chaos is the throbbing gristle of our hobby, the pal...1 day ago
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CSC Campaign Report 3: The Library - Now we're cooking with fire: the downtime investigation clocks roll out in full force here, and it was the best move I ever made in the game. You get to ...1 day ago
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Chagrinspire Adventure Seeds by Tier - *Blogger not showing many any other ppls blogs - just kill it with fire and a few others from 9 years ago - this stu...
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Wall-Top Lair - By Nickolas Zachary BrownFive CataclysmsFive CataclysmsLevel ... 5? 8? The carcass of a dead city is to many, a ruin. But to others, it is an opportunity. ...1 day ago
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The Autumn Lands – Hex Map E - The Autumn Lands lie to the south of the Midsummer Lands. This map sits to the left of map C … Continue reading →2 days ago
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What I Would Do If I Owned D&D - Since in my previous post I raised the question, it is only fair that I deliver my own thoughts on the important matter of what *I* would do if I owned D...2 days ago
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The Hidden Religions of D&D: Druidism - This one isn't so much hidden, but hey, when you've got a series title, you gotta stick with it. Unlike with the Church of Law which has been obscured b...
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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...4 days ago
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Ælf-Adal - VotE Remastered Development - Their Origins in Dream They come from out of Nightmare, though whose, or why, no-one remembers now. They may have been the dying dream of a coma-locked god,...4 days ago
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I assumed they ate grass or herbs or something like that. - from "Ten Days in the Arena of Khazan" by Ken St. Andre, *Different Worlds* #7
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One of the greatest twists in comic book history was in Wong Luk Long’s “Weapons of the Gods” (神兵玄奇)… - One of the greatest twists in comic book history was in Wong Luk Long’s “Weapons of the Gods” (神兵玄奇) a 90s Kung Fu and fantasy comic from Hong Kong where...6 days ago
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Blue Sky Temple, Revised - 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 ...1 week ago
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Against the Court of Urdor - Part 4 - *The Broken Temple, the Dread Wolves, the Tower of the Morning Star, and Soggy Fields.* *February 1000 2AH* (Second Age of Humanity)*: 1st – 12th. * (A rec...
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On the Coming Bounty - ------------------------------ *Hack & Slash* Follow, Twitch, Support, Donate to end Cancer (5 Star Rating) sinlessrpg.com
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GREENFACE - GREENFACE "[The legs were] each about six inches wide and perhaps six feet long, they seemed attached in a thick fringe all around the lower part of the ...1 week ago
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Games, Grinches, and Good Ideas... - As we enter the holiday season, yours truly can't help but remember what was doubtless the most important (and consequential) Christmas gift to ever grac...
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10 new metal Darkmaster passions - 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...1 week ago
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City of Scorn - City of Scorn is one of the centerpieces in my current Shadowdark Campaign. I've never spent the time to draw each sector. Each of those black squares i...
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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 ...3 weeks ago
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Curse of Strahd - for Shadowdark - I started running a game with my neighborhood gang for *Horror on the Hill*, a classic module from the 1980's. Meanwhile, my high school group voted to ...
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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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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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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...3 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...3 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...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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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...2 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...4 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...5 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...7 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...8 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...8 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.
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Great blog I enjoyed reading it.
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