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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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Ravenloft Hawksmire - Had a good game of my Ravenloft setting where my Domain Hawksmire has been the real campagn setting all along. Now all party have dark gifts. Our youngest...
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Punch A Nazi Week - Maniac of the Opera - Hans Shroder was a German spy who used the legend of Noric, a Phantom of the Opera-like in Washington DC to serve as an assassin. Noric, The Maniac of the ...
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OSR Commentary - Breakdown & Details of Using or Playing Stars Without Number With The Cepheus Engine Rpg - Stars Without Number (SWN), designed by Kevin Crawford of Sine Nomine Publishing, is a sci-fi tabletop RPG built from the bones of old-school fantasy gami...19 hours ago
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[Q&A] Daymon Mills (Whitewyrm Reforged: A Fantasy RPG) - [7:30 PM]Drifter/Shadow Drifter Games: Hi, Daymon Mills from Shadow Drifter Games. One of the games we publish is Whitewyrm Reforged: A Fantasy RPG. It uti...20 hours ago
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WHAT'S REAL IN STRANGE TALES OF NEW ENGLAND - *Strange Tales of New England* features an abundance of locations and foes, many based on genuine New England Lore. But mixed in with that is my own lore...1 day ago
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Yes I am still alive. And Happy Canada Day! - The first half of 2026 was a bit overwhelming as I frequently had piles of (soul crushingly boring) administrative work to do. (Sorry for mentioning this a...
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Recommend Me and Your Fellow Readers Some YouTube Actual Plays - What is the state-of-the-art when it comes to Actual Plays on YouTube? If you are reading this blog you are likely familiar with my tastes, and your own ...2 days ago
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Bugbears in the Mountains - By Fabricio GarciaKobold KingOSRLevel 3 Bugbears are attacking the dwarfs on their way up the mountain to make offerings to their god. A group of elf schol...2 days ago
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Wednesday Comics: DC, October 1985 (week 1) - My mission: to read DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of *Crisis*. This week, I'm looking at the comics that were on stands in th...
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Totaly Skull: June, 2026 - Things that brought me delight in June, 2026. *Johanna van Veen, Bone of My Bone* I enjoyed Johanna van Veen's haunting novel *My Darling Dreadful Thi...
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Woldbridge - This series of releases is new to my Patreon – these are adventure locations based on maps I’ve drawn for … Continue reading →3 days ago
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INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVELER - INTERDIMENSIONAL TRAVELER This one is a bit different than my usual posts. There's no literary, folkloric or mythological source material. My friend Alan ...
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I Hate Drawing (RPG All) - OK, that might be exaggerated. Hear me out. I'm not a visual thinker. If I want to describe a scene I don't picture the far-off hills or the shadowed...5 days ago
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Northern Marches Livestream - My friend Joe the Lawyer and I are having a live discussion about the Northern Marches, along with other OSR and RPG topics, tomorrow, Sunday at 5 pm Eas...5 days ago
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Quick, where's this NPC from? - This started as list of replacement mission control nationalities for *60 Years in Space*, which is why the distribution is uneven. Roll 1d6, then again ...6 days ago
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Back to the Basic (and Expert)? - I have recently been dabbling in D&D once more. I picked up Old School Essentials and also began rummaging through my D&D 5E (not 5.5E) rules to run a smal...1 week ago
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Tucker’s Kobolds, Why Weak Monsters Still Scare Players - In today’s episode of the podcast, I decided after a suggestion from a listener, Christian , who asked if I give my thoughts about Tucker’s Kobolds. Be...
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A Review of Forgotten Realms; Underdark - By Bruce R.Cordell, Gewndolyn F.M. Kestrel and Jeff Quick. Art direction by Robert Raper. Graphic Design by Robert Raper and Robert Campbell, Cartography ...
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The Old School (Hyperborean) Renaissance - Are these poorly-masked adventure hooks? Yes, yes they are. For the last century a peculiar fever has gripped the learned societies of Marlinko, Kezmaro...
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The building best known for the finale of “Adventures in Babysitting” is actually the Crain… - The building best known for the finale of “Adventures in Babysitting” is actually the Crain Communications Building in Chicago, who’s windows are slanted...2 weeks ago
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The Player's Handbook Pulse... - Dungeons & Dragons has gone through many iterations, and its cover artwork has always encapsulated the state of the hobby at any given time. But it was t...
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I am Dr Rotwang! - I am NOT the fella who goes by "Doktor Rotwang" on Substack. I've never met him. I'm not a Navy veteran. We are not the same guy, no matter what Google AI ...4 weeks ago
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Micro-Adventure - #114 RATS! - Dungeon tropes are a thing to embrace, not to dismiss. It's simple to handwave the storm the orc infested tower to save the princess, evil wizard in a t...
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Setting a new course: 7th Sea Third Edition - There aren’t a lot of good opportunities to come out of cold storage these days. Honestly, finding time for work, family, gaming, and game prep doesn’t lea...3 months ago
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Why Open Tables Work So Well for Old-School Campaigns - *It was suggested that I turn my YouTube transcripts into blog posts. Consider this an experiment for now - Tenkar* If your campaign lives and dies by...
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Divine Patronage: A Separate System for Party Advancement - In the past, I've written about why parties should have their own character sheet. The party sheet can track reputation, how noisy they are in the dungeon...
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"I Share My Dreams with Ghosts" - Espionage Mechanics for Star Wars d6 - I've been running the Andor Game for nearly 20 sessions (19 as of this past Saturday), and I've been *really *happy with the results so far. I've been st...
4 months ago -
ignore all previous instructions - [image: UNDER THE SKIN] * We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is within us.* *Hᴇᴀᴠᴇɴ* *was furious. So loud and discordant were these yout...
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Underkeep: a new game reminiscent of Dungeon master - *Underkeep* is a game which is currently in development, it is reminiscent of the old "Dungeon Master" which many of us used to play on Amiga 500 back i...4 months ago
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On a Happy New Year - We are about to experience the most social upheaval since industrialization. What will that look like in sixty years? Sinless is starting it's third yea...
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New Diversions of the Groovy Kind Posts Twice Monthly at Blue Moon Comics' Ko-fi Shop - New, FREE posts from Ol' Groove twice a month at Blue Moon Comics Group's Ko-fi Shop! Don't miss out!
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Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide - Review: Cthulhu by Gaslight, Keeper’s Guide As anyone who spends ten minutes in my presence knows- I love CoC and I am fascinated with 19th century Lon...6 months ago
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Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk… - Fiendish Monsters: The Horror Art of Bruce Timm cover revealed! Available December 2nd on Flesk...7 months ago
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Mutants and Wizards - Heya folks, long time no see. I've just started working on something new called Mutants and Wizards. It's going to be an OSE/OSR post-apocalyptic game t...7 months ago
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Experience with Python - Well, it amused me to make it. (Inspired by my Facebook ads.) But it did get me thinking about how Conan the Barbarian set the bar so high for 1980s f...
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The Earwight - The sinister little insects known as earwights are thought to have once been earwigs who fed on the decaying flesh of revenants or other matter suffused wi...9 months ago
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B5 Horror on the Hill - Finished! - After what feels like an inordinate amount of time, we finally finished Adventure *B5: Horror on the Hill.* We started this one back in the fall of 2024....
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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.1 year ago
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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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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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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...2 years 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...2 years ago
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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 ...3 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...3 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...4 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...4 years ago
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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...6 years ago
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balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke - balu8: Crime Convention by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke6 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...6 years ago
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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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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...7 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 Timm7 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...9 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...9 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...9 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...9 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...10 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...10 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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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.