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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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Great Lakes Avengers Assemble ?! - Yesterday I introduced my supers resurrection house rule so for today I thought I'd give stats to a character that will never need it. I really like Mr. Im...
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Thursday Comics: DC, March 1984 (week 3) - My mission: read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to *Crisis*! This week, I'm looking at the comics Santa might have stuffed in a stocking ...
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OSR Christmas 2024 - Help Me Santa, I'm Hyperboreaing! Day 4 - Yep, it is *OSR Christmas Day 4 (Christmas Day itself!)*, and we have EVEN more goodies goodness for all to partake in. I want to thank the generosity o...
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OSR Commentary On Agents of W.R.E.T.C.H. – Second Edition Rpg & The Tainted Conception Adventure - Agents of W.R.E.T.C.H. – Second Edition Rpg goes deep into the setting the city-state of Eisenstadt, a fictional locale poised on the delicate border betw...1 day ago
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Graxworm – Exterior View - The Graxworm Megadungeon. The Graxworm itself is a massive dead dragon of mythic scale, fully miles long and large enough … Continue reading →1 day ago
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Zjelwyin Fall - By Anthony HusoSelf Published1eLevels 2-3 Sages assume Shodredh Dhachod, the Gringling Lich who conceived and constructed Zjelwyin Fall, must rest inside, ...1 day ago
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Enabling Curse of Strahd as a Sandbox - One of the most important things I needed to do for myself to simplify Curse of Strahd (COS) is related to the book's presentation. It's presented as a ...2 days ago
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Gamelog: Inside the ruined offices of the ancient ones - I doubted a pre xmas game would happen but everyone seems to be starting early, having more smaller events we ended up ...
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RayMen - VotE Remastered Development - The RayMen, slight and fast, aged-but-ageless, backs inherently stooped, with bright, intelligent eyes. At the edge of the comprehensible world, where d...
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The Fiction Becomes the System for Advancement; Or, Something Needs to be Heavy - In the comments on a recent entry, the subject of rules-lite games and level advancement came up. It has always been my position that problems with rules...3 days ago
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[Q&A] Damien Harris (52: A Roleplaying Card Game) - [1:01 PM]D.A.M.I.-Donfather Games: Hello everyone. You can call me DAMI and I am the creator and writer of 52 a roleplaying card game. This game is as clos...4 days ago
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#19 Winter's Tax - The party is split. Not of their own doing, but split none the less. Last session found the spellcasters Bloggah and Dremont in an undisclosed destinatio...
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Hind Horn (Bookhounds) - Last post before the holidays! No post next week. Next post will be the first week of January 2025! Hind Horn is a Scottish traditional ballad with many,...
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Fight On! has a new website - FYI: The original Old School Renaissance fanzine *Fight On! *has a new website.
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VENUSIAN MIMIC & NIGHT CLOAK - VENUSIAN MIMIC "A girl arose genie-like from the yawning opening of an enormous shell. Her shapely body was—perhaps—human. Tentacles intertwined nervousl...
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A History of Horrible Experiments - The hunt for Patchwork Jack continues! This session brought some horrific revelations about the site they had been lured into by their quarry and the mys...
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On Manifestos - The paid media was instructed to not print this. To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a leng...1 week 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 week 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...2 weeks 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 ...2 weeks 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...3 weeks 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 ...5 weeks ago
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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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- 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.